Quebec City one last time

Today was a beautiful sunny day in Quebec City. The plan was to simply load our luggage into the car in preparation for tomorrow’s start homeward. It was a simple plan but the rest of the story comes under the heading “You Can’t Make This Stuff Up”

Our departure 19 days ago was from berth 22 and we parked the car nearby the port with only minor difficulties described earlier. We returned to the port but to berth 30. When I looked at the map as I planned the trip, it looked like it was a simple walk along the dock westward to rue Dalhousie followed by a 10 minute walk to the parking structure. The Port of Quebec had a different version.

The first issue was getting off the ship. In most of our ports there were 2 gangways for disembarkation but not today. Today about 2000 travellers had to exit single file through a single gangway. We managed to leave the ship about an hour after the gangway opened. We then traversed a serpentine walkway to the terminal exit. Walking to the west was not permitted. We had two choices. A shuttle to somewhere undetermined or a walking tour to the east to exit the terminal following a GPS track back to the west resulting in a 30 minute 6,000 plus step trip across the Quebec waterfront.

On our way out of the port at berth 30 we managed to find a king security person who confirmed that there was a parking lot immediately outside the terminal. It was not, however, clear how to access it. We could see only busses and taxis in the area and no private vehicles. When we found our car we were pleased that it started immediately but some settings such as temperature units needed to be reset. I set the GPS to the published address of the Terminal for berth 30 and we crossed our fingers. The route retraced our walking path right back to the terminal. Our cruise ID medallions were our ticket past port security and we parked within 50 metres of the ship.

We boarded the ship easily enough returned to our rooms and disembarked again with our two largest suitcases, happy again for wheels on suitcases. As I opened the trunk of the car we noticed that a spider had taken up residence and seemed displeased that we had destroyed his home. He skittered off while we packed our luggage away. The morning experience over, we rebounded the ship just in time for lunch. Hopefully our final disembarkation tomorrow morning will be uneventful.


Edith Wharton

One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Carl Sagan

I don’t know where I am going, but I’m on my way.

A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.

Mary Ritter Beard

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Anthony Bourdain

It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.

Shirley MacLaine

The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Samuel Johnson

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, see them as they are.

Rick Steves

Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate souvenir is a broader perspective.

Paul Theroux

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.

George Carlin

Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas and take your next trip in kilometers.

Mark Twain

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Susan Sontag

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

Aldous Huxle

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Michael Palin

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.

Bill Bryson

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.

Matthew Karsten

Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.

Ray Bradbury

See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream.

Mark Twain

One must travel to learn.

Emile Zola

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Augustine of Hippo

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving

Anita Desai

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow- mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.

Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

Lao Tzu

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

Marcel Proust

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

G.K. Chesterton

The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.

Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson’s Essays

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Gustave Flaubert

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Mary Anne Radmacher

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

…there ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.

Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Paul Theroux

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Lin Yutang

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Horace, The Odes of Horace

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

Roberto Bolaño, 2666

Every hundred feet the world changes.

Erma Bombeck

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

Roseanne Barr

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.”

Winna Efendi, The Journeys

Most of the time, beauty lies in the simplest of things.

Paolo Coehlo

This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.

Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.

Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.

James Russell Lowell

A wise man travels to discover himself.

Ivan Doig, This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind

There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.

Maya Angelou, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Anthony T.Hincks

I’m here, and now, so are you.

Maarten Schafer, Around The World in 80 Brands

Quite some years ago, I started traveling the planet. I thought this would teach me something about the world we live in. I was wrong… It taught me something about myself. It changed me. And nothing will ever again be black-and-white again.

Jane Wilson- Howarth

A traveller with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation.

M.B. Dallocchio, The Desert Warrior

Travel can sometimes push us to lose ourselves and find ourselves at once. The shedding of old prejudices, dead skin, and the opening of one’s eyes is far better than what any mainstream news outlet could ever tell you.

Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy

I may be lost, but I’m traveling the right way.

Barnaby Allen, Pacific Viking

A port arrival makes you feel so free …To realize what it is to be a free man, with a world before him.

Rachel Wolchin

If we were meant to stay in one place, we would have roots instead of feet.

Anonymous

Travel with the wit of an adult, and the wonder of a child.

Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battutah

Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is never too late to take another voyage.

Marty Rubin

The secret to being a good traveler is liking a place before you get there.

Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps

There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.

Pat Conroy

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

Pico Iyer

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry

There are several ways toreact to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina’s first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you’ve misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.

Jawaharlal Nehru

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

There’s a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we’ve left it.

Josh Gates, Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter

Travel does not exist without home….If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.

Paul Theroux, The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.

Thornton Wilder, Our Town

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don’t talk in English and don’t even want to.

Erol Ozan

You can’t understand a city without using its public transportation system.

Clifton Fadiman

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Jennifer Lee

Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

Hans Christian Andersen

To Travel is to Live.

Wallace Stevens

The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.

T.S. Eliot

The journey not the arrival matters.

Randy Komisar

And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want Lawrence Block on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

Henry Miller

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

James Michener

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

Thomas Fuller

Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.

Martin Buber

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

Lawrence Block

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

Andre Gide

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Mark Twain

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

Chief Seattle

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

Henry Rollins

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

Herman Melville

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Eugene Fodor

You don’t have to be rich to travel well.

Eric Weiner

Conventional wisdom tells us… we take our baggage with us. I’m not so sure. Travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home. Sometimes we do leave our baggage behind, or, even better, it’s misrouted to Cleveland and is never heard from again.

Mark Jenkins

Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self- determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. Theworld the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and- white.

Arthur Frommer

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.

John A. Shedd

A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are build for.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Not all those who wander are lost.

Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, ‘As pretty as an airport.

Saguenay again

It is a cold, rainy day in La Baie today but we are back on Eastern Time. This is the final port before Quebec City and the start of our return home. I had expected to see more colour after 16 days but not much has changed. Here are a few photos for comparison.

This will probably be the final post of this trip. We expect to be home by Friday and back to a regular routine again by Monday. Thanks to all who followed along and to those who contributed comments. We have often told fellow travellers that we were members of the SKI club, meaning Spending Kids Inheritance.Yesterday we found people who were members of the KING club, meaning Kids Inheritance Nearly Gone.


Edith Wharton

One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Carl Sagan

I don’t know where I am going, but I’m on my way.

A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.

Mary Ritter Beard

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Anthony Bourdain

It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.

Shirley MacLaine

The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Samuel Johnson

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, see them as they are.

Rick Steves

Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate souvenir is a broader perspective.

Paul Theroux

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.

George Carlin

Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas and take your next trip in kilometers.

Mark Twain

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Susan Sontag

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

Aldous Huxle

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Michael Palin

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.

Bill Bryson

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.

Matthew Karsten

Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.

Ray Bradbury

See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream.

Mark Twain

One must travel to learn.

Emile Zola

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Augustine of Hippo

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving

Anita Desai

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow- mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.

Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

Lao Tzu

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

Marcel Proust

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

G.K. Chesterton

The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.

Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson’s Essays

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Gustave Flaubert

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Mary Anne Radmacher

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

…there ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.

Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Paul Theroux

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Lin Yutang

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Horace, The Odes of Horace

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

Roberto Bolaño, 2666

Every hundred feet the world changes.

Erma Bombeck

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

Roseanne Barr

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.”

Winna Efendi, The Journeys

Most of the time, beauty lies in the simplest of things.

Paolo Coehlo

This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.

Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.

Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.

James Russell Lowell

A wise man travels to discover himself.

Ivan Doig, This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind

There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.

Maya Angelou, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Anthony T.Hincks

I’m here, and now, so are you.

Maarten Schafer, Around The World in 80 Brands

Quite some years ago, I started traveling the planet. I thought this would teach me something about the world we live in. I was wrong… It taught me something about myself. It changed me. And nothing will ever again be black-and-white again.

Jane Wilson- Howarth

A traveller with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation.

M.B. Dallocchio, The Desert Warrior

Travel can sometimes push us to lose ourselves and find ourselves at once. The shedding of old prejudices, dead skin, and the opening of one’s eyes is far better than what any mainstream news outlet could ever tell you.

Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy

I may be lost, but I’m traveling the right way.

Barnaby Allen, Pacific Viking

A port arrival makes you feel so free …To realize what it is to be a free man, with a world before him.

Rachel Wolchin

If we were meant to stay in one place, we would have roots instead of feet.

Anonymous

Travel with the wit of an adult, and the wonder of a child.

Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battutah

Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is never too late to take another voyage.

Marty Rubin

The secret to being a good traveler is liking a place before you get there.

Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps

There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.

Pat Conroy

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

Pico Iyer

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry

There are several ways toreact to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina’s first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you’ve misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.

Jawaharlal Nehru

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

There’s a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we’ve left it.

Josh Gates, Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter

Travel does not exist without home….If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.

Paul Theroux, The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.

Thornton Wilder, Our Town

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don’t talk in English and don’t even want to.

Erol Ozan

You can’t understand a city without using its public transportation system.

Clifton Fadiman

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Jennifer Lee

Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

Hans Christian Andersen

To Travel is to Live.

Wallace Stevens

The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.

T.S. Eliot

The journey not the arrival matters.

Randy Komisar

And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want Lawrence Block on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

Henry Miller

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

James Michener

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

Thomas Fuller

Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.

Martin Buber

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

Lawrence Block

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

Andre Gide

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Mark Twain

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

Chief Seattle

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

Henry Rollins

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

Herman Melville

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Eugene Fodor

You don’t have to be rich to travel well.

Eric Weiner

Conventional wisdom tells us… we take our baggage with us. I’m not so sure. Travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home. Sometimes we do leave our baggage behind, or, even better, it’s misrouted to Cleveland and is never heard from again.

Mark Jenkins

Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self- determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. Theworld the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and- white.

Arthur Frommer

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.

John A. Shedd

A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are build for.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Not all those who wander are lost.

Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, ‘As pretty as an airport.

Boston Turnaround

No, you haven’t missed a post. Sydney, Halifax, St John to Boston and barely a leaf changed colour. Those who came specifically to find fall colours must be terribly disappointed. One can’t rush mother nature. Having visited most places in the region on previous trips we have not repeated tours.

Our stop in St John should have been good for tours of the bay since a low tide coincided with our arrival and we remained long enough to see a full change. Even at our berth in St John the ship must have risen at least 20 feet over the tide cycle.

This morning Boston is bleak. Fog shrouds the city such that only the profiles of tall buildings defines the horizon. The rain is falling sometimes harder than others. In the open areas staff are busy mopping up rain water or pushing it toward drains.

We will need to visit US Immigration at some point today but on the basis of announcements we have heard the process is running about two hours behind schedule. Meanwhile room stewards on five decks are busy recycling cabins to receive passengers boarding. Until every arriving passenger and crew has been processed through US officials no-one will be boarding. Turnaround days are always interesting.

I will post a few more photos and hope to share some colour change with you on the return trip.


Edith Wharton

One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Carl Sagan

I don’t know where I am going, but I’m on my way.

A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.

Mary Ritter Beard

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Anthony Bourdain

It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.

Shirley MacLaine

The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Samuel Johnson

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, see them as they are.

Rick Steves

Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate souvenir is a broader perspective.

Paul Theroux

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.

George Carlin

Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas and take your next trip in kilometers.

Mark Twain

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Susan Sontag

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

Aldous Huxle

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Michael Palin

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.

Bill Bryson

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.

Matthew Karsten

Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.

Ray Bradbury

See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream.

Mark Twain

One must travel to learn.

Emile Zola

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Augustine of Hippo

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving

Anita Desai

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow- mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.

Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

Lao Tzu

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

Marcel Proust

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

G.K. Chesterton

The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.

Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson’s Essays

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Gustave Flaubert

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Mary Anne Radmacher

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

…there ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.

Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Paul Theroux

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Lin Yutang

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Horace, The Odes of Horace

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

Roberto Bolaño, 2666

Every hundred feet the world changes.

Erma Bombeck

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

Roseanne Barr

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.”

Winna Efendi, The Journeys

Most of the time, beauty lies in the simplest of things.

Paolo Coehlo

This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.

Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.

Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.

James Russell Lowell

A wise man travels to discover himself.

Ivan Doig, This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind

There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.

Maya Angelou, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Anthony T.Hincks

I’m here, and now, so are you.

Maarten Schafer, Around The World in 80 Brands

Quite some years ago, I started traveling the planet. I thought this would teach me something about the world we live in. I was wrong… It taught me something about myself. It changed me. And nothing will ever again be black-and-white again.

Jane Wilson- Howarth

A traveller with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation.

M.B. Dallocchio, The Desert Warrior

Travel can sometimes push us to lose ourselves and find ourselves at once. The shedding of old prejudices, dead skin, and the opening of one’s eyes is far better than what any mainstream news outlet could ever tell you.

Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy

I may be lost, but I’m traveling the right way.

Barnaby Allen, Pacific Viking

A port arrival makes you feel so free …To realize what it is to be a free man, with a world before him.

Rachel Wolchin

If we were meant to stay in one place, we would have roots instead of feet.

Anonymous

Travel with the wit of an adult, and the wonder of a child.

Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battutah

Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is never too late to take another voyage.

Marty Rubin

The secret to being a good traveler is liking a place before you get there.

Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps

There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.

Pat Conroy

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

Pico Iyer

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry

There are several ways toreact to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina’s first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you’ve misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.

Jawaharlal Nehru

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

There’s a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we’ve left it.

Josh Gates, Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter

Travel does not exist without home….If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.

Paul Theroux, The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.

Thornton Wilder, Our Town

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don’t talk in English and don’t even want to.

Erol Ozan

You can’t understand a city without using its public transportation system.

Clifton Fadiman

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Jennifer Lee

Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

Hans Christian Andersen

To Travel is to Live.

Wallace Stevens

The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.

T.S. Eliot

The journey not the arrival matters.

Randy Komisar

And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want Lawrence Block on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

Henry Miller

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

James Michener

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

Thomas Fuller

Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.

Martin Buber

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

Lawrence Block

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

Andre Gide

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Mark Twain

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

Chief Seattle

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

Henry Rollins

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

Herman Melville

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Eugene Fodor

You don’t have to be rich to travel well.

Eric Weiner

Conventional wisdom tells us… we take our baggage with us. I’m not so sure. Travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home. Sometimes we do leave our baggage behind, or, even better, it’s misrouted to Cleveland and is never heard from again.

Mark Jenkins

Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self- determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. Theworld the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and- white.

Arthur Frommer

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.

John A. Shedd

A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are build for.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Not all those who wander are lost.

Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, ‘As pretty as an airport.

Edmunston, first stop in the Maritimes

We started the day too early. Somehow the first day of travel is more tiring than it should be so we fell asleep too early and Gail was awake before 5 AM which meant I would be awakened not long after. That made it easy to get to the 6:30 breakfast. After a refuelling stop we were on Highway 20 by 7:15. Highway 20 does not have the same kind of service centres as on Ontario 401 but the services were regular and well advertised. Today we shared the driving whereas yesterday I did it all.

After we passed Montreal traffic eased and once passed Quebec City, or Levis, the scenery became more interesting. There were farms and forests and eventually we could see mountainous terrain across the St Lawrence which was occasionally in sight. Gail took her second shift in the driver’s seat as we approached Rivière-du-Loup and I navigated the transfer to Quebec highway 85. Almost as soon as we started south on 85 things became strange and we found ourselves navigating country roads which seemed to take us further from Highway 85. I had some awareness of a construction project on 85 but was unable to find any information about detours before we left home. While Gail drove I began consulting both Apple maps and Google maps only to discover that their detour routes were not identical. When we finally reached Highway 85 again both Apple and Google located us in the middle of nowhere since the newly constructed highway was not up to date for either system. My solution was simple, follow that truck. That seemed to work. At our last rest stop before Edmunston we found a Quebec Information Centre where the attendant was only too pleased to show me how to avoid all the construction. The secret, he said, was to aim for Pohénégamook, Quebec then take Highway 289 north to Highway 20. We shall try that on our return trip.

I’m adding a few more photos today which can be viewed in the sidebar or in the East Coast and Maritime Cruise 2024 Photo Gallery. We will undoubtedly find a few more photo opportunities in days to come.


Edith Wharton

One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Carl Sagan

I don’t know where I am going, but I’m on my way.

A.A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh

As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.

Mary Ritter Beard

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

Anthony Bourdain

It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.

Shirley MacLaine

The more I traveled, the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.

Samuel Johnson

The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, see them as they are.

Rick Steves

Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate souvenir is a broader perspective.

Paul Theroux

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.

George Carlin

Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas and take your next trip in kilometers.

Mark Twain

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.

Robert Louis Stevenson

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.

Susan Sontag

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.

Aldous Huxle

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

Michael Palin

Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.

Bill Bryson

I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before.

Matthew Karsten

Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.

Ray Bradbury

See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream.

Mark Twain

One must travel to learn.

Emile Zola

Nothing develops intelligence like travel.

Augustine of Hippo

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving

Anita Desai

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.

Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow- mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.

Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

Lao Tzu

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.

Ursula K. Le Guin, The Left Hand of Darkness

It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.

Marcel Proust

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Jalaluddin Mevlana Rumi

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

G.K. Chesterton

The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.

Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

All that is gold does not glitter, Not all those who wander are lost.

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson’s Essays

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Gustave Flaubert

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Mary Anne Radmacher

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.

David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

…there ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.

Gustave Flaubert, Flaubert in Egypt: A Sensibility on Tour

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.

Joe Abercrombie, Last Argument of Kings

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

Paul Theroux

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Lin Yutang

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.

Horace, The Odes of Horace

Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.
(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)

Roberto Bolaño, 2666

Every hundred feet the world changes.

Erma Bombeck

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

Roseanne Barr

Men read maps better than women because only men can understand the concept of an inch equaling a hundred miles.

J.A. Redmerski, The Edge of Never

I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.”

Winna Efendi, The Journeys

Most of the time, beauty lies in the simplest of things.

Paolo Coehlo

This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.

Vera Nazarian, The Perpetual Calendar of Inspiration

Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.

Terry Pratchett, The Light Fantastic

You haven’t really been anywhere until you’ve got back home.

James Russell Lowell

A wise man travels to discover himself.

Ivan Doig, This House of Sky: Landscapes of a Western Mind

There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.

Maya Angelou, Wouldn’t Take Nothing for My Journey Now

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.

Anthony T.Hincks

I’m here, and now, so are you.

Maarten Schafer, Around The World in 80 Brands

Quite some years ago, I started traveling the planet. I thought this would teach me something about the world we live in. I was wrong… It taught me something about myself. It changed me. And nothing will ever again be black-and-white again.

Jane Wilson- Howarth

A traveller with an open mind grows richer with each journey, with each encounter, with each conversation.

M.B. Dallocchio, The Desert Warrior

Travel can sometimes push us to lose ourselves and find ourselves at once. The shedding of old prejudices, dead skin, and the opening of one’s eyes is far better than what any mainstream news outlet could ever tell you.

Melody Lee, Moon Gypsy

I may be lost, but I’m traveling the right way.

Barnaby Allen, Pacific Viking

A port arrival makes you feel so free …To realize what it is to be a free man, with a world before him.

Rachel Wolchin

If we were meant to stay in one place, we would have roots instead of feet.

Anonymous

Travel with the wit of an adult, and the wonder of a child.

Ibn Battuta, The Travels of Ibn Battutah

Traveling leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

Lailah Gifty Akita

It is never too late to take another voyage.

Marty Rubin

The secret to being a good traveler is liking a place before you get there.

Charlotte Eriksson, Empty Roads & Broken Bottles; in search for The Great Perhaps

There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I’m born to leave.

Pat Conroy

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

Pico Iyer

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. We travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

Audrey Niffenegger, Her Fearful Symmetry

There are several ways toreact to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina’s first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you’ve misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world.

Jawaharlal Nehru

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin

There’s a part of me that thinks perhaps we go on existing in a place even after we’ve left it.

Josh Gates, Destination Truth: Memoirs of a Monster Hunter

Travel does not exist without home….If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.

Paul Theroux, The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.

Thornton Wilder, Our Town

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don’t talk in English and don’t even want to.

Erol Ozan

You can’t understand a city without using its public transportation system.

Clifton Fadiman

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Jennifer Lee

Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

Hans Christian Andersen

To Travel is to Live.

Wallace Stevens

The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.

T.S. Eliot

The journey not the arrival matters.

Randy Komisar

And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want Lawrence Block on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.

Henry Miller

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.

James Michener

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

Thomas Fuller

Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.

Martin Buber

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

Lawrence Block

Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.

Andre Gide

Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.

Mark Twain

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

Chief Seattle

Take only memories, leave only footprints.

Henry Rollins

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.

Herman Melville

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Eugene Fodor

You don’t have to be rich to travel well.

Eric Weiner

Conventional wisdom tells us… we take our baggage with us. I’m not so sure. Travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home. Sometimes we do leave our baggage behind, or, even better, it’s misrouted to Cleveland and is never heard from again.

Mark Jenkins

Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self- determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. Theworld the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and- white.

Arthur Frommer

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.

John A. Shedd

A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are build for.

J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

Not all those who wander are lost.

Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul

It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, ‘As pretty as an airport.