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Travel Quote: A big, bearded man … tells me the story of his life, which concludes with the line “I was too stressed out working at the Hilton, so now I just take the ferry back and forth.” Continue reading

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“[Another] family viewed maps as innocuous wall hangings … My parents saw maps as suggestions.” Continue reading

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King of the Urinals

I realized today that I am magic. When I walked out of the men’s room at the Atlanta Airport, the urinals flushed in unison as if to thank me for stopping by.
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Weekly Travel Quote

Weekly travel quote from Fountains of Wayne takes us to a hotel lobby. Continue reading

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Weekly Travel Quote

Travel quote from the Postal Service: I watch the patchwork farms’ slow fade into the ocean’s arms
And from here they can’t see me stare
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Travel Quote: “Coney Island is always an attraction, whether you come away disappointed, disillusioned, or like me, obsessed.”
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She wished him steaming trains that left from winter stations. Weekly travel quote Continue reading

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Perhaps it was the solitude, perhaps it was the views from my windows or the sound of the surf, but I slept for long hours every night and woke to wonder at the dazzling perfection of this quiet world. Continue reading

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Place is memory. All our lives tell us so. Why is it we remember forever not what we were wearing or doing or feeling, but where we were at the most crucial moments? There is a wider sense of place–planted in our memories by people we have never known or met. Continue reading

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“Water cities have a way of seducing us,though it’s always difficult to know why, and explanations vary with each city.” Continue reading

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