Travel Quote of the Day

Lost in the past two years' assignments here is the "road" half of the blog; quite fully atrophied by circumstance. Here's a wonderful offering to momentarily revive the wanderlust part, taken from a must read piece by Tom Swick

Soak this in:

How else to explain the decline of the travel book in the age of globalization? True, there has been a concurrent rise in travel blogs, but these seem to be, for the most part, cyberspace’s version of the vacation slides people used to inflict on friends.

Ah. Yes. My own little boring slide show for you, the handful of readers. That's a delicious little self-schadenfreud.

To read the entire piece, jump here. It was found off the RSS feed of Arts and Letters which is a fantastic sorbet to the usual grind of the prespiring arts.

And now, back to the strum-und-drang of current media.