An extremely thoughtful friend gave me a book before I left the states and I could not be more thankful. The book is “The Best Women’s Travel Writing 2011" and it is WONDERFUL and I highly suggest it for travelers, especially women travelers. I’ve been savoring it like it was my last piece of birthday cake or sip of champagne, but I fear I will finish it soon. Nonetheless, these are a few of the most poignant quotes that really stuck out to me. I hope that this post will be an ongoing one and as new quotes come into my life I will post them here as well.
I hope you enjoy these as much as I do.
~It’s not easy to embark on a life of travel, much less continue once you’ve begun.
~It seems like life here is defined by such awkward linguistic exchanges; too often I find myself lurching from one confusing situation to the next with a single thought running through my head; I have NO fucking idea what this person is talking about.
~This is what it’s like to be an active participant in my own life, I thought-I remembered.
~Living here has been the most challenging, most rewarding endeavor of my life. Never again will I let complacency and security prevent me from living my dreams.
~Travel is about being brave I reminded myself.
~Compassion is sometimes all you can hope for.
~[This] is not the sort of thing I’d likely do at home, but this is travel; a trusting, outstretched hand, an invitation to glimpse beneath the slippery surface of first impressions and second guesses- a chance for deeper understanding.
~Only in Spain I think... where there aren’t as many lawyers.
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