Sorta Songlines

I love you baby, but you gotta understand

When the Lord made me

He made a Ramblin' Man.

Some folks might say that I'm no good

That I wouldn't settle down if I could

But when that open road starts to callin' me

There's somethin' o'er the hill that I gotta see

Sometimes it's hard but you gotta understand

When the Lord made me, He made a Ramblin' Man.

~ Hank Williams Sr.

Does the road wind up-hill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day's journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. - Christina Rossetti

When you have completed 95 percent of your journey, you are only halfway there. - Japanese proverb

There is no happiness for the man who does not travel. Living in the society of men, the best man becomes a sinner. Therefore, wander. - Aitareya Brahmana

O Public Road You express me better than I can express myself. You shall be more to me than my poem. - Walt Whitman

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them determined by the will-whatever we may think. - Lawrence Durrell

A child on a farm sees a plane fly by overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home. - Carl Burns

Some days, all travelling is, is staring out a bug-smeared, rain-soaked windshield at the back of a semi. - Ryan Short

When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. - Susan Heller

Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. - Anatole France

It's a dangerous business, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to. - J.R.R. Tolkien

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

When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. - William Least Heat Moon

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. - Lao Tzu

Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone. - The Dhammapada

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move. - Robert Louis Stevenson

Sunday, October 15

Chicago, IL

This is just sort of a midnight update. I woke up in Minnesota (as you probably know if you've been keeping up) and am now in Indiana, some days just feel like big mile days. Mainly I just wanted to post this picture of me in downtown Chicago. I sat for about 35 minutes just to pay an 80 cent toll on I-90, after that kind of delay I almost would have felt better paying 6 bucks, 80 cents was just sort of anti-climatic.

Also, I disabled the feature requiring you to be Blogger members in order to post comments, so now any of you can voice a word or two at your whim. I didn't even know it was requiring that (thanks MC), sorry.

Well, I better get back on the road, I want to be past Toledo long before sunrise, that is not a pretty city in daylight.

2 Comments:

Anonymous said...: Hi Ryan. Chicago looks fantastic! Hope Toledo wasn't too much of a let down. Take it easy! ~ Amy; 8:51 PM
Anonymous said...: Are you stopping to smell the roses or was that not the intent? You better come see me... I'm getting old and fat.
Ender; 8:59 PM