“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” ― Henry Miller

“You’re off to Great Places! Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting, So… get on your way!” Dr. Seuss, Oh, The Places You’ll Go! In honor of Theodor Seuss Geisel, born March 2, 1904.

“A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” ― Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson’s Essays

“We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.” T. S. Eliot

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes   Photo courtesy of Allie Design.

“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ― Marcel Proust I hope your New Year brings new eyes, new landscapes and new adventures!

“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

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. John Muir