Romance      Alaska is the last place in the United States I wanted to live.      No, wait, read that the other way around.       I had lived in the four corners of this country; I grew up in Southern California, summered in Manhattan and Portland and spent over a year in New Orleans. I felt that [...]

That Sensation      I left San Francisco on May 3rd, 2001, heading north. A familiar feeling arose in my gut, a simple and powerful sensation. The feeling of movement, freedom. As the bridge opened up, and the tarmac sped past under the wheels of my motorcycle, I looked up –north- toward somewhere new.      The first time [...]

This quote is from the book ‘To The Holy Shrines’ by Sir Richard Burton, published in 1853. Restlessness The thorough-bred wanderers idiosyncracy I presume to be a composition of what phrenologists call ‘inhabitiveness’ and ‘locality’ equally and largely developed. After a long and toilsome march, weary of the way, he drops into the nearest place [...]