Discovery Traveling Beyond the Familiar
For as long as I can remember, I have always wanted to travel. Growing up in a small Montana town, that didn’t happen very often. Until my 18th year, I had been to only four states, had not seen the ocean nor flown in a commercial airplane.
Today, I feel fortunate and blessed to have logged thousands of air miles, travelled to 38 of the 50 states in the USA, ten different countries, and three continents. So many possibilities left of new places to see and different cultures to experience!
If all went according to our plans, when you read this post, Ron and I will have just returned from a week in South Carolina. We chose this location because I had never been there before and had been told by several people that Charleston, S.C. is their favorite city in the world. Also, we will be staying near the ocean, which Ron and I both love to do.
Today, I’d like to share a few of Ron’s photos from various locations by the sea where we’ve had the privilege of visiting, plus some travel quotes I found from https://www.scti.co.nz/travel-advice/inspirational-travel-quotes. I hope you will enjoy.
The Mediterranean Sea near Tel Aviv, Israel
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”
― Helen Keller
Pacific Ocean, Kauai, Hawaii
“The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.”
― Wallace Stevens
Pacific Ocean, Newport Beach, California
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
― Gustav Flaubert
Outer Banks, North Carolina, on the Atlantic Ocean
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
― Anita Desai
Atlantic Ocean, Virginia Beach, Virginia
“To travel is to live.”
― Hans Christian Andersen
Morning meditation on the rugged Maine coastline, Atlantic Ocean
“Be still and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10
Boston Harbor, The Atlantic Ocean
“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.”
― Bill Bryson
California Dreamin’ on the Pacific Ocean
“Not all those who wander are lost.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien
St. Augustine, Florida, on the Atlantic Ocean
“So much of who we are, is where we have been.”
― William Langewiesche
New York Harbor eventually empties into the Atlantic Ocean
“Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”
― Ibn Battuta
Daytona Beach, Florida, on the Atlantic Ocean
“The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever.”
― Jacques Cousteau
Blessings on your journey wherever it takes you,
