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A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of strugg...more

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A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.

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There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when he had followed his longing; but only a burning an...more

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The wedding was in Monterey, a sombre boding ceremony in a little Protestant chapel. The church had so often seen two ripe bodies die by the process o...more

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...many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased. I remember a man in Salinas who in his middle years traveled to Honolulu a...more

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What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.

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...people don’t take trips—trips take people.

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Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing.