Most of the time when people say that, it’s because they are regretting some past action. Maybe they went right when they should have went left. Maybe they left a secure job for a higher paying job and then got fired. Today I can honestly say that I’m glad I made the [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 20, 2008
So I have two sewing machines. (Well actually, one is a sewing machine and the other is a serger.) This summer I was planning on buying a coverstitch machine. There’s only one problem: I rarely sew. In the last year, I’ve probably only sewn 1 thing — a pair of pajama pants for [...]
Continue reading...Friday, June 20, 2008
But why, oh why, do the wrong people travel, when the right people stay at home? Noel Coward *I like this one*
Continue reading...Wednesday, June 18, 2008
One of the gladdest moments of human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of habit, the leaden weight of routine, the cloak of many cares and the slavery of home, man feels once more happy. Sir Richard Burton
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 17, 2008
That’s the number of days we have to get out of this apartment. Let me rephrase, that’s the number of days we have to finish separating our clothes, pack up the van full of the stuff we’re keeping, load the RV, get rid of the beds, dressers, tables, and desks, find a vacuum (because [...]
Continue reading...Tuesday, June 17, 2008
…travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. Miriam Beard
Continue reading...Monday, June 16, 2008
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. St. Augustine
Continue reading...Sunday, June 15, 2008
I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost eveything. To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in [...]
Continue reading...Sunday, June 15, 2008
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. -Mark Twain
Continue reading...
Saturday, June 21, 2008
0 Comments