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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, considering well what they say,
Pausing, searching, receiving, contemplating, Gently, but with undeniable will
divesting myself of the holds that would hold me.
— Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road"
Travel keeps my synapses crackling, it is accelerated living. Change strikes away comfort zones. It strips away the arrogance of comfortable routines and brings humility. Remember when you were a kid and your favorite thing was to go "exploring"? For me it was the woods and railroad tracks near my house. Every day we were going to go a little bit further and surely see a hobo or discover a famous fossil or maybe even see an Indian teepee! This excitement of adventure and discovery has always been my inspiration for travel. Travelling anywhere breaks you out of your routine and refreshes you but travelling off the beaten path and immersing yourself in a different culture forces you to put aside your assumptions about other people thereby allowing you to know the person you are destined to live with forever--yourself!
Be
patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions
themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign
tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you
would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live
the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live
along some distant day into the answer.
-Ranier Maria Rilke
To see more travel photos click here.
To see EURO backpacking trip click here.
Halloween in Beckov, Slovakia.
Family Genealogy Pages: Captain Joshua Pike, Union Captain in the Civil War, from Kansas
John Ford, Sr., veteran of the American Revolution. And his 21 Confederate grandsons!
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