...who can say where a voyage starts - not the the actual passage but the dream of a journey and its urge to find a way?

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

Adventure is putting one's ignorance into motion.

At the beginning we learn to travel, then we travel to learn.

I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know.

With a nearly desperate sense of isolation and a growing suspicion that I lived in an alien land, I took to the road in search of places where change did not mean ruin and where time and men and deeds connected.

Historical awareness is a kind of resurrection.