Shoe Pen Lens

“Hiking is a bit like life: The journey only requires you to put one foot in front of the other…again and again and again. And if you allow yourself the opportunity to be present throughout the entirety of the trek, you will witness beauty every step of the way, not just at the summit”

“Anyone telling about his travels must be a liar . . . for if a traveler doesn’t visit his narrative with the spirit and techniques of fiction, no one will want to hear it.”

“The only things I own which are still worth what they have cost me are my travel memories…the mind-pictures of places which I have been hoarding like a miser.”