I want to turn my life into sad adventure and myths.
Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.
It will no longer be necessary to leave one's own home in order to find work in the surrounding districts, which means spending week after week away from home, for no matter how restless a fellow migh...
If somebody tells you there's a rule, break it.
It's time to change my life and see the world
There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still;So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will.They range the field and rove the flood, And they climb t...
Bury me where I die.
All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost.
I'm sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from here and never see it again! I hate everything about it!You will hate the next place, too, I said. Wh...
Let there be room left in your heart for the unimaginable ~ serendipity has a way of showing itself just when you feel like giving up.
Didn't know where I was going. Didn't care where I ended up. I knew I'd be okay though.
He pointed out to him the bearings of the coast, explained to him the variations of the compass, and taught him to read in that vast book opened over our heads which they call heaven, and where God wr...
Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.
And you must not worry about me. You must follow your dreams. You have your life ahead of you. I am just a wanderer passing by.
After two stories, I blew out my light. The night was clear. My ceiling was the sky and an eyelash of the moon. By shifting from side to side, I made my hammock swing me into sleep.
Drifting across the vast space, silent except for wind and footsteps, I felt uncluttered and unhurried for the first time in a while, already on desert time.
Luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you notice nothing. Luxury spoils and infantilizes you and prevents you from knowing the world. That is it...
It was a place as blank as a sheet of paper. It was the place I had always been looking for... Flat expanses would call to me... These are the places where the desert is most itself: stark, open, free...
I get butterflies every time I wander beautiful places I've never been.
The fear of rape puts many women in their place - indoors, intimidated, dependent yet again on material barriers and protectors... I was advised to stay indoors at night, to wear baggy clothes, to cov...