inspiration

"the world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked
it will have no choice
it will roll in ecstasy at your feet"
--kafka

"our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again,
we had longer ways to go.
but no matter, the road is life"
-kerouac

"for my part, i travel not to go anywhere,
but to go.
i travel for travel's sake.
the great affair is to move"
-robert louis stevenson

"two roads diverged in a wood
and i--
i took the one less traveled by"
-robert frost

"not all those who travel are lost"
-j.r.r. tolkien

"adventure is a path.
real adventure –
self-determined,
self-motivated,
often risky –
forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.
the world the way it is, not the way you imagine it.
your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness.
in this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind –
and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both.
this will change you. nothing will ever again be
black-and-white"
-mark jenkins

i need to get back on the road. siempre adelante.