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Category Archives: Quotes
Weekly Travel Quote
Today’s travel quote is from James Hilton’s Lost Horizon Continue reading
Weekly Travel Quote
Jennifer Finney Boylan speaks of far away in the weekly travel quote. Continue reading
Weekly Travel Quote
Travel quote: Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. Continue reading
In flight emergency: no more pretzels
Houston Chronicle quotes Matthew Stone from Global Postmark about Continental airlines removing free pretzels from domestic flights. Continue reading
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Weekly Travel Quote
“We find the joy of the journey is equally divided between anticipating and remembering.” Weekly travel quote. Continue reading
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Weekly Travel Quote
Patricia Storace considers paradise in this week’s travel quote. Continue reading
Weekly Travel Quote
“I like thinking that perhaps this is how we should always travel, without foresight or answers, adventitiously, with faith as our compass.” Continue reading
Weekly Travel Quote
Guy de Maupassant speaks of Venice in today’s travel quote. Continue reading
Weekly Travel Quote
In today’s travel quote, Adam Gopnik describes the two types of travelers. Continue reading
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The Ugly American in Italy, ca. 1950
This passage is taken from the 1955 travel book American In Italy, which I have previously reviewed. It could have been written yesterday: I first heard of the two women from St. Louis from a bellboy who told me they had hung their laundry on the chandelier. When the manager discovered it had washed off the decorations he tried to make them pay.
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