"Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.."
—Adam Hochschild

"Travel is one way of lengthening life, at least in appearance."
—Benjamin Franklin

"Time and Ed wait for no man"
—Mr. Ed

Between a Rock... August 2, 2003 Keetmanshoop, Keetmanshoop, Namibia

When I was putting all my money into my trip account rather than buying myself, say, clothes or cable or beer, these quotes about travel occasionally reminded me what it's all for.

I don't wanna get all Successories on you, but these quotes kinda speak to me. Yes, there is a lot of them.

The journey is difficult, immerse. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn... all that we hunger to know.
—Loren Eiseley

Doubt is an uncomfortable condition, but certainty is a ridiuclous one.
— Voltaire

Look with favor upon a bold beginning
—Virgil, 30 B.C.

Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life
—Seneca, 1st Century A.D.

I persist on praising not the life I lead, but that which I ought to lead. I
follow it at a mighty distance, crawling
—Seneca, 1st Century A.D.

Scratch a traveler and you'll find a masochist underneath.
— Beppe Severgnini in Ciao, America

It's late, the road is long. Yes, it is time.
— Bilbo Baggins

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.
—Henry David Thoreau

Work is hard. Distractions are plentiful. And time is short.
—Adam Hochschild, New York Times, 1985

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
—Hellen Keller

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for things we did not do that is inconsolable.
—Sydney J. Harris

And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.
—T.S. Eliot, Little Gidding

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.
—Mark Twain

It is extreme evil to depart from the company of the living before you die.
—Seneca, 1st Century AD

If I had my life to live over I'd like to make more mistakes next time. I'd relax. I would limber up. I would be sillier than I have been this trip. I would take fewer things seriously.
I would take more chances. I would climb more mountains and swim more rivers. I would eat more ice cream and less beans. I would perhaps have more actual trouble, but I'd have fewer imaginary ones.
You see, I'm one of those people who live sensibly and sanely hour after hour, day after day. Oh, I've had my moments, and if I had to do it over again, I'd have more of them. In fact, I'd try to have nothing else. Just moments, one after another, instead of living so many years ahead of each day.
I've been one of those persons who never goes anywhere without a thermometer, a hot water bottle, a raincoat, and a parachute. If I had to do it again, I would travel lighter than I have.
If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and stay that way later in the fall. I would go to more dances. I would ride more merry-go-rounds. I'd pick more daisies.
—Nadine Stair

Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me, leading wherever I choose.
• • •
From this hour, freedom!
From this hour I ordain myself loos'd of limits and imaginary lines,
Going where I list, my own master, total and absolute,
Listening to others, and considering well what they say,
Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating,
Gently, but with undeniable will, divesting myself of the hold that would hold me.
—Walt Whitman, Song of the Open Road