...all the disadvantages of good roads: high speed, and almost total lack of that inspiring factor in travel -- the welcoming hand of the interested stranger.
Robert Edison Fulton Jr.Tags: travel strangers roads traveling good-roads
What manner of people they were only books and other people could tell... and the tale was a long and gory one dating from the dim, conjectural dawn of history. But being human they were as apt to change as mother nature to remain constant.
Robert Edison Fulton Jr.Tags: people nature human-nature human changable constant
All of us,' he said, 'have hopes of being poet, artist, discoverer, philospoher, scientist; of possessing the attributes of all these simultaneously. Few are permitted to achieve any of them in daily life. But in travel we attain them all. Then we have our day of glory, when all our dreams come true, when we can be anything we like, as long as we like, and, when we are tired of it, pull up stakes and move on. Travel -- the solitude of the mountains, the emptiness of the desert, the delicacy of the minaret; eternal change, limitless contrast, unending variety.' (Eric Lang)
Robert Edison Fulton Jr.Tags: travel artist glory poet travels move-on traveling hopes scientist daily-life discovere eternal-change philopher what-we-want
No doubt you are wondering what you will find, out there.' The Commandant said it for me.
'Well, it would be useless for me to try and tell you. The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it...
Tags: story travel desert traveling out-there
In London it had seemed impossible to travel without the proper evening clothes. One could see an invitation arriving for an Embassy ball or something. But on the other side of Europe with the first faint tinges of faraway places becoming apparent and exciting, to say nothing of vanishing roads and extra weight, Embassy balls held less significance.
Robert Edison Fulton Jr.Tags: travel importance important traveling packing faraway-places
But wherever there is man, there must be some sort of route
Robert Edison Fulton Jr.Tags: man travel traveling route
I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb...
Robert Edison Fulton Jr.Tags: thinking travel roads india traveling easy-roads
...it was if another planet were calling. The call, embodied, issued in liquid syllables from the mouth of the Arab sailor who, on the prow of the Vestra each sun-up, looked toward the East and sang the Persian song:
Hearken unto dawn, oh, my soul...
Let good come unto the world.
Tags: soul travel good song dawn traveling call persian sun-up
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