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

Friday, January 12

Big Piney, WY (again)

Well, I'm home now. I wish I had some deep and insightful understanding of life, the world, or the last three months, I don't. At least not yet. I think I need to get some distance from it all before I can see it in any sort of objective light.

In the meantime enjoy the video below. It's a compilation of my favorite photos from the trip put to music. Stay tuned for a final entry in a week or two.

4 Comments:

Anonymous said...: Perfect Ryan. Beautiful, sad, and fulfilling all in one. Perfect song. Makes me miss you. Love, Lisa; 5:40 PM
Anonymous said...: Question: Who took the photo's of you posing as an unobservant strong, silent, silhouette of a cowboy?

They look fabulously classic and romantic...until I picture you setting the timer, telling Karl-slash-Mr. Miyagi to keep an eye on the camera, and then running for your life to get into the natural pose of the nonchalant nomadic cowboy.; 12:22 AM
Ryan said...: To anonymous: some people do things, others just criticize people who do things.; 11:51 AM
Anonymous said...: Good stuff, Shorty!! Wish I could have hit a few spots with you! Scott N.; 8:58 PM