Beautiful Birch Bay

Even at low tide, when it's a sunny day with all 10,781 feet of Mt. Baker gloriously visible...

On Wandering And Traveling

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
Mark Twain

A wise traveler never despises his own country.
Carlo Goldoni

Not all those who wander are lost.
J.R.R. Tolkien

Thursday, September 15, 2016