Travel Quotes: Anne Morrow Lindbergh

One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. Anne Morrow Lindbergh

Up In The Air: Wednesday Quote

The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And
why shouldn't it be? —it is the same the angels breathe.

— Mark Twain,
"Roughing It"

You can download a copy from Project Guttenberg here

The Vagabondkids are off today flying to LAX on Singapore Airlines. (apologies to NWA your picture was better than SQ's.) We land in LA on the 7th, head to the hotel and will be at Disney on the 8th. I hope to squeeze in a post over the weekend, but in the meantime I have some posts scheduled for you, so do come back.

Travel Quote: Pico Iyer

Breakfast at the Westin Hotel residence in Kuala Lumpur while planning a day at Cosmo's World Amusement Park in Berjaya Times Square.

















So, as I sit at the Plant today meeting with co-workers slogging over files and drafting contracts, the Vagabond Kids and Vagabond Dad are off exploring the city of Kuala Lumpur. First stop was Beryl's Chocolates and much different from other reports, there is not a factory tour, simply a shop selling chocolates. So, quick review is probably give it a miss. The kids are next heading off to Cosmo's World at Berjaya Times Square, a review will follow soon.



But it is Wednesday and time for a quote. I am still finishing the Paul Theroux book, Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar but at this point in the book he is meeting with Pico Iyer in Japan.


So, today's quote comes from Pico Iyer, one of my favorite travel writers.

Yet for me the first great joy of traveling is simply the luxury of leaving all my beliefs and certainties at home, and seeing everything I thought I knew in a different light, and from a crooked angle. In that regard, even a Kentucky
Fried Chicken outlet (in Beijing) or a scratchy revival showing of "Wild
Orchids" (on the Champs-Elysees) can be both novelty and revelation: In China,
after all, people will pay a whole week's wages to eat with Colonel Sanders, and
in Paris, Mickey Rourke is regarded as the greatest actor since Jerry
Lewis.

From the Article on Salon.com "Why we travel" by Pico Iyer.


True-so-true. So, a parting shot for you today of the Petronas Towers. Back with more soon!

Travel Quotes:Paul Theroux

Starting this week, I am going to start posting my favorite travel quotes and a link to the book I got them from. This week is from my current book, Paul Theroux's Ghost Train to the Eastern Star.




This book is by far the most readable Theroux that I have read so far, while he is still judgemental and cranky while traveling, his honest opinons are going down in big giant chunks, so fast that I am going to need a new book before I to go back on the road next week.

"Travel means living among strangers, their characteristic stinks and sour
perfumes, eating their food, listening to their dramas, enduring their opinions, often with no language in common, being always on the move towards an uncertain destination, creating an itinerary that is continually shifting, sleeping alone, inventing the trip, cobbling together a set of habits in order to stay sane and rational, finding ways to fill the day and be enlightened, avoiding danger, keeping out of trouble, and, immersed in the autobiographical, for my journal, writing everything down in order to remember, reflecting on where I am and what I am doing."

And yet, we love it and I can't wait to start out again.