“It’s ok if you travel alone sometimes. You are brave enough.” -Unknown- *** “Travel is at its best a solitary enterprise: to see, to examine, to assess, you have to be alone and unencumbered. Other people can mislead you; they crowd your meandering impressions with their own; if they are companionable they obstruct your view, and if they are boring they corrupt the silence with non-sequiturs, shattering your concentration with ‘Oh look it’s raining’ and ‘You see a lot of trees here’. It’s hard to see clearly or to think straight in the company of other people. What is required is the lucidity of loneliness to capture the vision which, however banal, seems in your private mood to be special and worthy of interest.” -Paul Theroux- *** “To have never taken a solitary road trip across country? I mean everybody’s got to take a road trip, at least once in their lives. Just you and some music.” -Elizabethtown- *** “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” -Ernest Hemmingway *** “Travel only with thy equals or with thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” -Dhammapada . All of these people and these quotes put a lot […]