As we prepare for this adventure, we admire those bold adventurers who have come before us and look to them as beautiful examples of what wandering souls can achieve.
What's the difference between exploring and being lost? The journey is the destination.
-Dan Eldon
This isn't a tale of heroics, nor is it merely some kind of cynical account; it isn't meant to be, at least. It's simply two lives running parallel for awhile, with common aspirations and similar dreams.
Wandering around our America has changed me more than I thought. I am not me any more. At least I'm not the same me I was.
Ernesto "Che" Guevara
You really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservatism, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
-Christopher McCandless
It should not be denied... that being footloose has always exhilarated us. It is associated in our minds with escape from history and oppression and law and irksome obligations, with absolute freedom...
-Wallace Stegner
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
-Paul Theroux
