Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting friends in cafes . . . all these things are part of never-ending travel practice, not unlike doing scales on a piano, shooting free-throws, or meditating.

Inspiration comes and goes, creativity is the result of practice.

Pilgrimage is a powerful metaphor for any journey with the purpose of finding something that matters deeply to the traveler.

The mythic is everywhere.

The pilgrim is a poetic traveler, one who believes that there is poetry on the road, at the heart of everything.

True myths, ancient and modern, stop time because they emerge from somewhere beyond time.

We travel as seekers after answers we cannot find at home