| p>I'm a Stranger Here Myself | | | | down dappled country lanes, etc. - which also offers |
| "Success is the quality of your journey." An | | | | the very real possibility of getting soaked in a |
| observation from some much wiser than I. (Or, | | | | summer shower on said country lanes. The result - |
| perhaps just a better translator of fortune cookie | | | | depending on what you do with the experience can |
| epigrams? )While that's an admirable wish (and aren't | | | | mean making new friends. The kind with a roof over |
| they the best kind?) Our journeys must often play | | | | the heads! |
| second fiddle to the everpresent hydra of time and | | | | Travel Options |
| money. Our attempts to juggle these "reality | | | | Travelling the French Country backroads by bicycle |
| ballons" has a label. "Life." And so, we simply do the | | | | gives me a much more(ahem) "profund" experience |
| best we can. | | | | because i'm moving slower and getting closer to |
| Been There/Done That (I think?) | | | | what's real than folks zooming by in the latest metal |
| Of course they're always be the "doing-Europe-in-two | | | | 'n glass gas guzzler. If your chariot of choice is, say, a |
| -weeks crowd. Responsible for that old joke where | | | | donkey - your experience will be even deeper. But, |
| the European asks the tourist how he enjoyed his | | | | obviously, not as deep as the one walkers will enjoy. |
| vacation. The reply - "Dunno. Haven't got the pictures | | | | The Bottom Line |
| back yet." Obviously a "pre-digital" ha-ha. But, you | | | | Ultimately, at the end of the day, when push comes |
| get my drift dear reader. Do you not? | | | | to shove, when the rubber meets the road, when all |
| An Acid Head Clues Us In | | | | things are considered, in the final analysis, after the |
| The quality of our journeys is not how far we go | | | | fat lady has sung - your mode of transport is as |
| and how much we see, but how we go far. And | | | | irrelevant as the folks who use hackneyed |
| how much we experience. Aldous Huxley said it best: | | | | expressions when summing up their ever so precious |
| "Experience is not what happens to us. It's what we | | | | "thoughts." Regardless of which choice works for you |
| do with what happens to us." Wise words indeed. | | | | - the most essential piece of baggage is a mental |
| That can apply to any situation. | | | | suitcase full of "How you go Far." |
| I Do it My Way | | | | THROW ME A BONE HERE PEOPLE! |
| How you go far, bien sur, is a personal preference. | | | | What are ya thinkin''? |
| Mine being, as you well know, the bicycle. Gliding | | | | |