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a girl endures four months of traveling, studying, and exploring through italy and the rest of europe. but this is just the middle of her story.

Thursday, October 1, 2009

just found this.

Happy travels to me!

Posted by Laura at 2:56 PM

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Laura: I am a recent graduate of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign majoring in marketing and international business. I am currently in Denver, CO climbing mountains and fighting off wild animals. In my spare time, I also hold a marketing internship there.

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vienna, austria.

"our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else." -lawrence block

rome, italy.

"once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey." -pat conroy

brussels, belgium.

"all journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware." -martin buber

amsterdam, the netherlands.

"travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones." -anne sophie swetchine

madrid, spain.

"like all great travelers, i have seen more than i remember, and remember more than i have seen." -benjamin disraeli

capri, italy.

"we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment." -hilaire belloc

florence, italy.

"to travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries." -aldous huxley

cinque terre, italy.

"i met a lot of people in europe. i even encountered myself." -james baldwin

positano, italy.

“not all those who wander are lost.” -j. r. r. tolkien

munich, germany. (oktoberfest)

“what you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. when you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. people don’t have your past to hold against you. no yesterdays on the road.” -william least heat moon

lake como, italy.

"the whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land." -g. k. chesterton

versailles, france.

"if you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home." -james michener

lucca, italy.

"half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness." -ray bradbury

sorrento, italy.

“a journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” -tim cahill

barcelona, spain.

“no one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” -lin yutang

paris, france.

“all travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” -samuel johnson

pompeii, italy.

“a journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” -lao tzu

milan, italy.

“twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. so throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. catch the trade winds in your sails. explore. dream. discover.” -mark twain

venice, italy.

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