Living on the edge – that’s what I feel like when I don’t know what my bowels are going to do next.

History presents a record of follies and errors fondly cherished, and reluctantly abandoned.

There is always some truth to fiction.

Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!

Putting the dream in motion involved significant personal downsizing, moving three times to trim housing expenses and continuing to freelance. I sold one piece to The New York Times Magazine, many more to The Courant,...

Till your inner garden and your outer landscape will flourish

May find the right road to travel on.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one’s head dangling over the end of a bed was the best way to achieve this....

All night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us...

Diving in IS testing the water.

The alchemy of diamonds from the rough is to mine every moment.

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 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.

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.

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.

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...

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.

…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

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.

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.

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.

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...

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.