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Escape like the squirrels

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Brave New Traveler ran a list of the "50 Most Inspiring Travel Quotes of all time. I decided to pluck the ones most pertinent for a solo travel Web site. All two of them. 

#18 – To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. – Freya Stark 

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

Many of the other 48 entries strike a chord. I’ll leave you with one more.

#17 – When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in. – D.H. Lawrence

Photo: Ellen Perlman. New Zealand.

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4 responses to “Escape like the squirrels”

  1. Lou Avatar
    Lou

    A man’s mind grows narrow in a narrow place.
    – Samuel Johnson

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  2. Ellen Avatar
    Ellen

    I love these. Thanks for another one. I almost have trouble reading them in a long list. Each is to be savored, don’t you think?

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  3. dan Avatar
    dan

    Maybe not on the list but …
    The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off. Henry David Thoreau – Walden

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  4. boldlygosolo Avatar
    boldlygosolo

    No, this saying wasn’t on the list, so thanks. I like it because that’s what I’m always telling people about solo travel.
    It’s often hard to find friends to travel with, who want to do what you want to do at the same time you want to do it.
    But that shouldn’t keep you at home. Because as Thoreau says, it could be a long time before you go…

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