Wanderlust Wednesday As you’re reading this post, my friend Stacey and I are hiking the 26-mile Inca Trail through the Andes to get to Machu Picchu! So, today’s quotes are a bit of motivation for us, but also motivation for you guys. Although I haven’t seen them first hand yet, I know that this is a site that is not going to disappoint me! “Few romances can ever surpass that of the granite citadel on top of the beetling precipices of Machu Picchu, the crown of Inca Land.” -Hiram Bingham- “For the first time since dropping out of graduate school, I remembered an unpleasant weekend spent struggling to comprehend the philosopher Immanuel Kant’s explanation of the difference between calling something beautiful and calling it sublime. Nowadays, we throw around the word ‘sublime’ to describe gooey desserts or overpriced handbags. In Kant’s epistemology it meant something limitless, and aesthetically pleasing entity so huge that it made the perceiver’s head hurt. Machu Picchu isn’t just beautiful, it’s sublime.” -Mark Adams, Turn Right at Machu Picchu– “Of course, tourists traveling in their comfortable rail coaches could only glean the vaguest idea of the conditions in which the Indians live, from the fast glimpses they catch as they speed past our train, which has […]