I guess the lesson is you can’t go everywhere. You should still go everywhere you can.

The answer is neither job, nor paycheck; it is authentic, holistic work born from states of awareness and being. Through the coalescence of joy, wonder, enthusiasm, appreciation, experimentation, perpetual curiosity, exploring new avenues, welcoming surprise...

Those who receive the blessing are those who see beyond its disguise.

Shaggy existentialists in frayed sandals, dilettantes by the score, spies by the portfolio.

When you travel, buy a historical book about the place, read to increase your knowledge on the beautiful places of the world.

La gloire, c’est comme la gouache, ça prend très vite puis ça part à la première goutte de pluie.

I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself.

How does one travel around the world? How does one step out of a well-established life to follow the dream?” I’ve answered those questions. But now new ones emerge.

Fear not your flame as you flood your caverns with firelight.

The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes...

When you travel, appreciate the culture of the people in the land.

Deferring judgement to a later date resolves nothing and all you are left with is a box of jumbled slides and a collection of knick-knacks and odds and ends. Here a face. There a sunset.

In this way, writers are indeed, as Henry Miller suggested, traitors to the human race. We may turn a light on inequity, injustice, and oppression from time to time, but we regularly kill what we...

The urge to travel feels magnetic. Two of my favorite words are linked: departure time. And travel whets the emotions, turns upside down the memory bank, and the golden coins scatter.

No need to queue up; step forward and count yourself in.

Experiment with grounding yourself with who you are, not what you do.

When you take the right stairs you will arrive at the precise destination.

A dog…is a bond between strangers.

The backstreet cafe in Casablanca was for me a place of mystery, a place with a soul, a place with danger. There was a sense that the safety nets had been cut away, that each...

All anyone really needs to know about barbed wire is that it can tear the arse out of your trousers, give a cow a good fright, entangle a Yorkshire terrier for life, and is nasty...

Until that rainy Sunday at the movies 31 years ago, for me, companionship had been a mandate for life’s good times. After Orca, it became a choice. My trip to the theater helped me to...

Our lives follow the stories we tell ourselves.

…That’s the difference between backpackers and holiday makers. The former can’t help but invite hassle whilst the latter pay to escape it.

When you travel, take many photographs of the place to have a historical memories of the place.

Il n’est pire exil que celui du coeur

And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.

No matter. I was single, no children, a handful of plants and at 39, young enough to regroup. If I hit ground before I finished building my wings, I would not take anyone with me.

Whether by plane, bus or carpet, own the magic in your ride.

Travel is a joy, full of surprises and astonishing new experiences. Perhaps some of the most enjoyable times are those where one comes close to disaster; the risks add spice.

Keep taking new paths to expand your horizon.

A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.

It feels like flying and landing to all the continents of the world with the use of my imaginary paper that can floats in the air.

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery.

The treasured vistas of our solo journeys are not always about the landscape.

Be determined to live for your dreams.

too young to live, too old to die

A traveller moves among real people in their own milieu and learns from them, soaking up their wisdom and philosophy, their way of being in the world. A tourist simply hops from one tourist highpoint...

Sometimes there’s a tackiness about Route 66 that out-tacks any tackiness I’ve ever seen anywhere else. And the Meramec Caverns are the pinnacle of that tack.

My post-cruise sabbatical would spark the idea for my first book, Cheaper Than Therapy: How to Keep Life’s Small Problems from Becoming Big Ones – The Lesson of the Paper Clips. How? In my data...

Endings are the embryos of new beginnings.

Driving down deserted early morning roads. Round and round. Round downtown. Through naked streets. Lips pursed on two litre bottles of beer, but pursuing the lips of freedom’s night. Swapping cars. Winding up at karaoke...

You have to know where you are going to reach your destination.

Nous sommes tous des naufragés de l’ me vois-tu, la peinture n’est que le reflet de ce chagrin, antichambre de la grande joie à venir.”Nous sommes tous des naufragés de l’ me vois-tu, la peinture...

Sometimes a journey arises out of hope and instinct, the heady conviction, as your finger travels along the map: Yes, here and here … and here. These are the nerve-ends of the world …

If you want it badly enough, it’s yours.

Keep moving. Your next big thing may be just around the corner.

Blood-coloured bottlebrush trees and scarlet hibiscus looked too bright for this devastated world.

The most amazing journey on earth is the journey of oneself.

By seeing how small the world is, I realize how capable I am. I can conquer anything. Anywhere. Anyone.