Category Archives: Travel “I’ve learned that everyone wants to live on top of the mountain, but all the happiness and growth occurs while you’re climbing it.” – Unknown I guess I have been climbing a bit of my own mountain lately. That could be one reason that I haven’t been posting as much lately. Only so many precious...  “Fresh beauty opens one’s eyes wherever it is really seen, but the very abundance and completeness of the common beauty that besets our steps prevents its being absorbed and appreciated. It is a good thing, therefore, to make short excursions now and then to the bottom of the sea among dulse and coral, or up...  “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux On another episode of “Bumbling thru Europe”, I found myself in yet another area of London that I didn’t even know existed. Cool how that happens! Sometimes it’s best to just toss the map in the backpack and wander about....  “We will open the book. Its pages are blank. We are going to put words on them ourselves. The book is called Opportunity and its first chapter is New Year’s Day.” – Edith Lovejoy Pierce Alright 2011……you’ve overstayed your welcome and its time we say goodbye. Its time to bring in a new fresh year,...  Taken along a really cool hike just outside of Zermatt that I was able to get to thanks to one of those incredible Swiss engineering marvels…the cogwheel train. How cool is this concept? Take the early train all the way up the mountain to one of Europe’s highest rail stations, and hike downhill…..all the way... 
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