On the Road

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again;
we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
- Jack Kerouac

 

Tanzania

Roads are a record of those who have gone before.
-  Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

 

Umbria, Italy

The road is home.
-  Unknown

 

India

 

India

The way was long and weary,
But gallantly they strode …
Along the heavy road.
- George Robert Sims

 

Kesennuma, Japan

 

Omo Valley, Ethiopia

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.
– Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

 

Tanzania

Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you.
You must travel it by yourself.
It is not far. It is within reach.
Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know.
Perhaps it is everywhere – on water and land.
- Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

 

Kyoto, Japan

The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.
-  Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking

 

Fiji

If one were given a single window from which to look upon the changing

Eastern world, it should face, I think, the road.
– Freya Stark, East Is West

 

Karelia, Russia

The Road goes ever on and on
Down from the door where it began.
Now far ahead the Road has gone,
And I must follow, if I can,
Pursuing it with eager feet,
Until it joins some larger way
Where many paths and errands meet.
And whither then? I cannot say”
-  J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

 

Omo Valley, Ethiopia

 

Russia

 

Ethiopia

 

Mali

To finish the moment, to find the journey’s end in every step of the road,
to live the greatest number of good hours, is wisdom.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

Xiahe, Tibet

 

Afghanistan

 

Herat, Afghanistan

Some roads aren’t meant to be travelled alone.
- Proverb

N e w s   a n d   I n f o r m a t i o n
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