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Quotes ~ Photos ~ Snow ~ Gig Harbor, WA ~ Feb 2021

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Snow provokes responses that reach right back to childhood ~ Andy Goldsworthy

The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? ~ J. B. Priestley

Winter is a season of recovery and preparation ~ Paul Theroux

Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face ~ Victor Hugo

O, wind, if winter comes, can spring be far behind? ~ Percy Bysshe Shelley

In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer ~ Albert Camus

Armchair Traveler ~ Book: Secret Journeys of a Lifetime

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The sub-title of this fabulous National Geographic book is “500 of the World’s Best Hidden Travel Gems.” The book does not disappoint ~ there are indeed numerous travel gems.

Magnificent photos will captivate the armchair traveler’s interest as well as information about the sites including when to go, how to find it, planning and websites. It is a treasure trove of places near and far, ranging from the “Frank” (Idaho) to the Wrangell-Kluane Wilderness (Alaska-Canada) to La Bagatelle (Paris) to Kerinci Seblat (Sumatra) to Galle Fort (Sri Lanka). Every continent is well represented.

On chilly, rainy days in the Pacific Northwest, this is a favorite book to browse. In addition to the photos and intriguing descriptions, there are marvelous off-beat “top 10” lists, including Odd Museums, Ghost Towns, Perfect Beaches, Ferry Journeys, Backwaters and Roman Sites.

In addition to looking at photos or reading about favorite places, it’s enjoyable to look at mementoes of your travels. Or asking friends about their mementoes – share your love of travel with others. Even if you currently cannot travel to a place you dream of, keep imagining.

Be an armchair traveler ~ learn about your favorite places: perhaps a language or cooking class, a history book or a good novel set in that county or city. You might well learn far more than tourists who travel but never become a traveler.

Most important, have fun and be creative as you “journey” to a favorite spot … even if for now, it is a dream.

Savor your journeys, near or far, real or imagined

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. Henry Miller

Once you have travelled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. Pat Conroy

The journey not the arrival matters. T.S. Eliot

Photos ~ Beautiful January Day ~ Gig Harbor, WA ~ Jan 2021

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Perhaps we will by lucky and spring will come early. As weather in western WA is always unpredictable, clear days are treasured, no matter what time of year. On a clear day, majestic Mt Rainier is clearly visible from the harbor.

Armchair Traveler ~ Paris

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Time to “travel” to one of my favorite places ~ Paris. I have visited several times and have many great memories, including enjoying a delicious pain au raisin early in the morning walking through a small park, walking along the Seine (browsing the book stalls), exploring the Louvre and Musee Marmottan and dining at special restaurants, one with a terrific view of Notre Dame.

As an armchair traveler, I start by browsing through favorite guide books, re-living treasured walks (Paris is for walking and exploring), while listening to Frank Sinatra’s “I Love Paris.”

Favorite movies set in Paris include “Midnight in Paris” and “Charade” ( I have to buy a new copy of “Charade” as I watched it so often my copy no longer plays).

Enjoy some of my favorite sites below. Of course, as an armchair traveler, your web browsing can be enhanced by a fabulous glass of French wine accompanied by delectable French cheese…..or pain au chocolat or …

Paris ~ Official website of the Convention and Visitors Bureau

Jardin des Tuileries – Paris tourist office (parisinfo.com)

The Louvre in Paris

https://www.louvre.fr/en/visites-en-ligne#tabs

Musée Marmottan Monet is located at 2, rue Louis Boilly in the 16th arrondissement of Paris and features over three hundred Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings by Claude Monet, including his 1872 Impression, Sunrise. It is the largest collection of his works.

Claude Monet — Musée Marmottan Monet

I took a train from Paris to the beautiful Chateau de Fontainebleau (easy to navigate the train) …

Château de Fontainebleau Official Site Home Page (chateaudefontainebleau.fr)

To quote a favorite author: “If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast.” Ernest Hemingway

As an armchair traveler, you can begin to get a feel for this wondrous city … captivating any time of the year … make plans to visit (or re-visit) … and for now, indulge your senses in things French.

Savor your journeys… real, imagined or virtual, near or far

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things ~ Henry Miller

Quotes to Ponder ~ Photos (San Juan Islands, 2019) ~ Jan 2021

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A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled ~ Sir Barnett Cocks

The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas as in escaping from old ones ~ John Maynard Keynes

Think of yourself as dead. You have lived your life. Now, take what’s left and live it properly ~ Marcus Aurelius

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common ~ John Locke

A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds ~ Mark Twain

Photos ~ Beautiful Winter Day ~ Gig Harbor WA and nearby Banner Forest Heritage Park ~ Dec 2020

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I took a walk in the woods and came out taller than the trees ~ Henry David Thoreau

Forests are like churches, hallowed places. There’s a stillness about them, a sort of reverence ~ Sabrina Elkins

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better ~ Albert Einstein

And into the forest I go to lose my mind and find my soul ~ John Muir

In a forest of a hundred thousand trees, no two leaves are alike. And no two journeys along the same path are alike ~ Paulo Coelho

More Cat Quotes ~ Photos ~ Dec 2020

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You can keep a dog; but it is the cat who keeps people, because cats find humans useful domestic animals ~ George Mikes

Dogs come when they’re called. Cats take a message and get back to you ~ Mary Bly

For a man to truly understand rejection, he must first be ignored by a cat ~ Anonymous

Meow is like aloha – it can mean anything ~ Hank Ketchum

There are many intelligent species in the universe. They are all owned by cats ~ Anonymous

More Favorite Quotes ~ Journeys ~ Photos ~ Dec 2020

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It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end ~ Ursula K LeGuin

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes ~ Marcel Proust

There is only one journey. Going inside yourself ~ Rainer Maria Rilke

Direct your eye right inward, and you’ll find a thousand regions in your mind, yet undiscovered. Travel them and be expert in home-cosmography ~ Henry David Thoreau

When you come to a fork in the road, take it ~ Yogi Berra

He who would learn to fly one day must first learn to stand and walk and run and climb and dance; one cannot fly into flying ~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Photos ~ November Draws to its Finale ~ Gig Harbor, WA ~ Nov 2020

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I have come to regard November as the older, harder man’s October. I appreciate the early darkness and cooler temperatures. It puts my mind in a different place than October. It is a month for a quieter, slightly more subdued celebration of summer’s death as winter tightens its grip ~ Henry Rollins

Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils ~ Cyril Connolly

This is the month of nuts and nutty thoughts,—that November whose name sounds so bleak and cheerless. Perhaps its harvest of thought is worth more than all the other crops of the year ~ Henry David Thoreau

In November, the smell of food is different. It is an orange smell. A squash and pumpkin smell. It tastes like cinnamon and can fill up a house in the morning, can pull everyone from bed in a fog. Food is better in November than any other time of the year ~ Cynthia Rylant