The Nice Thing About Strangers
Creative Non-Fiction Short Stories. :) Travel, Oldsters, Love, and Compassion.
The Urge to Be Someplace Else
“When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked.”
–John Steinbeck. Travels with Charley.
(If you want a book that will make you desire to go, go, go–this is the one.)
The Nice Thing About Strangers 
I found that age just made me more eager to go places!
This is exactly what I needed to read. Thanks!
Hooray! You’re reading it! I came across a Word document in which I had saved 3-4 pages of quotes from this book back in 2012. I thought about sending them to you in the hopes you’d do a post just like this one.
And then BOOM…here you are. 🙂
I assure you senility won’t do it either… 🙂
Hehe, Maureen. I suppose it can’t be stopped! It’s a force! 🙂
Paige
Some of us never get rid the of urge to travel, me I didn’t have it till 2010 now I love to travel
Love it. There is absolutely nothing like travel for feeding a stagnant soul.
Duncan,
Of course, it leads to even more hunger, more restlessness–like reading a beautiful book makes one want to hide away and keep reading. 🙂
Paige
Wonderful reference and wonderful book recommendation. Have a great week.
I just finished it this week, and I found I’d really been savoring it. I was so disappointed to get to the end. I had to turn off the little note in my kindle that told me how far it was until the end of the book. 🙂
Paige
A beautiful piece of writing. Makes me want to travel more.