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January 16, 2008

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Dear readers, thanks for stopping by: please go to my new website for more stories, enlightened quotes and inspirational vibes from the road least traveled.  The new travel blog I created allows me much more functionality and will be the final version of this blog.  The new look a feel is exactly what I have been hoping to create from day 1.  I would like to thank the many visitors who have passed by and made this first blog such a success.  I hope you enjoy the new look and feel.  Please feel free to pass this link along to your friends and add any comments you would like.  I always love to hear feedback from my readers.  In addition, if you would like any advice on travel tips, creating your own blog or social media marketing; I would love to hear from you.  Sincerely yours JMH

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Pura Vida

Opening Lyrics to the Movie The Beach

December 14, 2007

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There is a certain satisfaction in completing a good pack.  When everything is done and everything is ready: the journey begins.   That about sums up my morning today.  I am beginning a new journey towards the unknown, with no plans or schedule, no itinerary, or idea of what the future holds; I am completely free.

I thought I would leave you with a couple quotes from the two movies I decided to watch before my trip.  I hope you enjoy…. 

 Opening Lyrics to the Movie The Beach

” My name is Richard; so what else do you need to know?  Stuff about my family or where I am from? None of that matters.  Not once you have crossed the ocean and cut yourself lose; looking for something more beautiful; more exciting.  And yes I admit something more dangerous.  So after 18 hours in the back of an airplane; three dumb movies; two plastic meals; six beers and absolutely no sleep.  I finally touched down…”

“…So never refuse an invitation; never resist the unfamiliar; never fail to be polite; never over stay your welcome.  Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience: and if it hurts it’s probably worth it.” 

“and as for traveling alone; fuck it.  If that’s the way it has to be; then that’s the way it is.”

The movie Pointbreak

“I must be crazy.”

“but are you crazy enough”

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Ulysses By Alfred Lord Tennyson my favorite poem by Idream now Travel blog

December 10, 2007

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This is my favorite poem Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson.  A truly inspiring piece of literature that I love to share. This poem is Ulysses last speech to his Mariners inviting them to keep traveling towards the unknown horizon and continue living a life of adventure to the very end.  The finishing line “To Strive, To Seek, To Find, and not the yield” is where I take my own personal philosophy in life from. 

 To Strive for Love, To Seek Knowledge, To Find Happiness, and yield not to Fear.       JMH 

Ulysses By Alfred Lord Tennyson

“I cannot rest from travel; I will drink

Life to the lees. All times I have enjoyed

Greatly, have suffered greatly, both with those

That loved me, and alone…

I am become a name;

For always roaming with a hungry heart

Much have I seen and known – cities of men

And manners, climates, councils, governments…

I am a part of all that I have met;

Yet experience is an arch where through

Gleams that untraveled world, whose margin fades

Forever and forever when I move.

How dull it is to pause, to make an end,

To rust unburnished, not to shine in use!..

And this gray spirit yearning in desire

To follow knowledge like a sinking star

Beyond the utmost bound of human thought…

Come, my friends,

‘Tis not too late to seek a newer world.

For my purpose holds

To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths

Of all the western stars, until I die.

We are not now that strength which in old days

Moved earth and heaven; that which we are, we are;

One equal temper of heroic hearts,

Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will

To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.”

Ulysses

By  Alfred Lord Tennyson 

Unique Paulo Coelho Quotes

December 7, 2007

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 Unique Paulo Coelho Quotes that I have found over time….Enjoy!

“The glory of the world is transitory, and we should not measure our lives by it, but by the choice we make to follow our personal legend, to believe in our utopias and to fight for our dreams.  We are all protagonists of our own lives, and it is often the anonymous heroes who leave the deepest mark.”      Coelho     Acceptance speech delivered to the Brazilian academy of letters.

 ”The good fight is the one that we fight in the name of our dreams; it was brought from the battlefields into our very selves.”    Coelho   The Pilgrimage

 ”Ever since the time began, people have recognized their true love by the light in their eyes.”                            Coelho    Brida

“Do not try to explain feelings.  Live everything intensely and treasure what you feel as a gift from God.”         Coelho         Brida

 ”The world lies in the hands of those who have the courage to dream and who take risk of living out their dreams – each according to his or her own talent”                        Coelho    The Valkyries

 ”Love is looking at the same mountains from different angles.”                          Coelho     The Valkyries

“Life always waits for some crisis to occur before revealing itself at its most brilliant.”     Coelho       The Valkyries

If you have a past with which you feel dissatisfied, the forget it, now.  Imagine a new story for your life and believe in it.  Focus only on the moments when you achieved what you desired, and that strength will help you get what you want.”                              Coelho    The Fifth Mountain

 ”When we are high up, everything looks very small.  Our glories and our sadnesses cease to be important.  We have left whatever we won or lost down below.  From the top of a mountain you can see how large the world is and how wide the horizon.”                Coelho    The Fifth Mountain

“Every day, God gives us, as well as the sun, a moment when it is possible to change anything that is causing us unhappiness. The magic moment is the moment when a ‘yes’ or a ‘no’ can change our whole existence.  Every day, we try to pretend that we do not see that moment, this it does not exit, that today is the same as yesterday and that tomorrow will be the same too.  However, anyone who pays close attention to his day will discover the magic moment.  It might be hidden in the instant that we put the key in the door in the morning, in the moment of silence after supper, in the thousand and one things that appear to us to be the same.  This moment exists, a moment in which all the strenght of the stars flows through us and allows us to perform miracles.” Coelho           By the River Piedra I sat down and wept

“In his or her life, each person can take one of two attitudes: to build or to plant.  Builders may take years over their tasks, but one day they will finish what they are doing.  Then they will stop, hemmed in by their own walls.  Life becomes meaningless once the building is finished.  Those who plant suffer the storms and the seasons and rarely rest.  Unlike a building, a garden never stops growing.  And by its constant demands on the gardener’s attention, it makes the gardener’s life a great adventure.”  Coelho   Brida

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Enlightened Quotes

December 6, 2007

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Nothing is impossible in life.  I believe that if you want something with all your heart; and you have the courage to chase that dream to the end: victory will be yours.   I hope you enjoy these two following quotes…

Ask, and it shall be given you;

seek, and ye shall find;

knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

For every one that asketh, receiveth;

and he that seeketh, findeth;

and to him that knocketh it shall be opened. 

Mathew 7:7,8

“When you want something, all the universe conspires in helping you to acheive it”

Paulo Coelho    The Alchemist   p.23