“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

As a tour director, my “pot of gold” are the friendships made along the way. When I see tour guest transform from being a bunch of strangers on day one, to being a bunch of new friends hugging and planning the next adventure together by the end of the tour, I know that they have truely traveled.

- Reggie Laroche

I like this one from John Muir:

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

John Muir, 1913

I found this on a web-site of a botanical garden somewhere in the North West / Vancouver; forgot which one.

regards ~ Amido.

“Most Men Lead Lives of Quiet Desperation” – Thoreau

Many people are quietly unhappy

“If it is not my time, nothing can hurt me; If it is my time, nothing can save me – Old Arab Proverb.

We must live our lives fully

Mike Wilkins

Gentlemen,

Saw this on a tombstone outside of the Winchester Cathedral in London:

“Here lies a Hampshire Grenadier Who caught his death Drinking cold small beer  A good soldier is ne’er forgot  Whether he dieth by musket Or by pot.”

Translation: take it easy on the booze!

Best,

Tom

Here are a couple of keeper quotes:

“It?s hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.” ——————————-Adlai Stevenson——————————————–

“Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers.” —–Gen. Colin Powell

–Trip Jones

A retired Saskatchewan (flat, flat) wheat farmer had moved to British Columbia to near to his children. Someone asked him what he thought of the mountains.

After some reflection he replied, “They’re alright I guess, but they sure do block the view.”

I am fond of this quote to remind me and others each person has a special perspective on life.

All the best,

Paul

Thank you-great question at the perect time-

“God,grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change , the courage to change the things I can and the wisdom to know the difference”".

and -” You must do the thing you think you cannot do” Eleanore Roosevelt

Martina Koeckritz in Santa Maria Inn

“In France there is a certain ART OF LIVING that has nothing to do with money. Life is geared toward the senses.” Off to France soon.

Kimberly

The obvious and classic come to mind:

Ralph Waldo Emerson: “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”

St. Augustine: “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

Others I like:

James Michener: “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” (Amen! Something that might be preached to some of our pax.) This goes hand in hand with the following:

(Can’t remember who said it) “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.”

Ken Thompson

Hi Ted and Randy,

In response to your question of the week, I am trying to attach “If” by Rudyard Kipling,

Invictus is also inspirational. You two seem to live by these principles.

Jim Chomica

If

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too; If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or, being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or, being hated, don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;

If you can dream – and not make dreams your master; If you can think – and not make thoughts your aim; If you can meet with triumph and disaster And treat those two imposters just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools, Or watch the things you gave your life to broken, And stoop and build ‘em up with wornout tools;

If you can make one heap of all your winnings And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss, And lose, and start again at your beginnings And never breath a word about your loss; If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, And so hold on when there is nothing in you Except the Will which says to them: “Hold on”;

If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue, Or walk with kings – nor lose the common touch; If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you; If all men count with you, but none too much; If you can fill the unforgiving minute With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run - Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And – which is more – you’ll be a Man my son!