My advice is to go warm. Don't be stupid like me and stay in a cold climate your entire life!
Best wishes for you and Ginny as you move on to your next adventure Eliot!
Steve Tapper
All the best to you and Ginny in your journey of life. May it be all that you hope and wish for.
From your friend in Calgary, Canada
May your journey be everything you hoped for and more! Enjoy Eliot!
eliot
Enjoy the journey!!!
I look forward to seeing what you come up with next. Have fun.
I guess there are many more locomotives to derail around the world. You just need to go find them.
Safe Travels!
More than the layout your experiences and the style in which you have shared them with us will be sorely missed.
Good luck and God bless, Be safe and enjoy your new venture.
Hi Eliot,
Sounds like an exciting adventure awaits you. I hope you check in here and let us know how you are doing. All the best
Sounds like an exciting adventure awaits you. I hope you check in here and let us know how you are doing. All the best
Good Luck to you in your endeavors. Here is one of my favorite poems.
This from Robert Service seems to fit.
There's A race of men that don't fit in,
A race that can't stay still;
So they break the hearts of kith and kin,
And they roam the world at will.
They range the field and they rove the flood,
And they climb the mountain's crest;
Theirs is the curse of the gypsy blood,
And they don't know how to rest.
If they just went straight they might go far,
They are strong and brave and true;
But they're always tired of the things that are,
And they want the strange and new.
They say: "Could I find my proper groove,
What a deep mark I would make!"
So they chop and change, and each fresh move
Is only a fresh mistake.
And each forgets, as he strips and runs
With a brilliant, fitful pace,
It's the steady, quiet, plodding ones
Who win in the lifelong race.
And each forgets that his youth has fled,
Forgets that his prime is past,
Till he stands one day, with a hope that's dead,
In the glare of the truth at last.
He has failed, he has failed; he has missed his chance;
He has just done things by half.
Life's been a jolly good joke on him,
And now is the time to laugh.
Ha, ha! He is one of the Legion Lost;
He was never meant to win;
He's a rolling stone, and it's bred in the bone;
He's a man who won't fit in.
Happy trails.
Way back in time I saw a special on Machu Picchu (spelling?) on public television, and in the show the host took a narrow gauge train at least part of the way up to MP. I have always wanted to do that. I have no clue if the railroad still exists.
While not as deep or intricate as the post two above this:
"Life is a series of hellos and goodbyes.
I'm afraid it's time for goodbye again."
-Billy Joel
Best of luck in all that you do.
You'll love Macchu Picchu. The train ride up from Cuzco is one of the most memorable train rides on the planet.
As a confirmed wanderer (85 countries, more or less), I share your love of seeing what's beyond the horizon. I highly recommend the works of Richard Halliburton, an adventurer and travel writer of the 1920's and 30's. Reading Halliburton as a kid is what started me on my own adventures. Halliburton was lost in a typhoon on a Chinese junk in the mid-30's. His last words to the outside world were reportedly were a radio message that read: "Having a wonderful time. Wish you were here - instead of me!"
Bon Voyage.
Scrapiron,
May the Supreme Architect guide and keep you safe on your journey, remember we are here and journey back thru some time.
PCRR/Dave
Well, you are really going to do it. You have been thinking about 2-rail for a long time. I'm sure the creative juices are now flowing. I am sorry that I wasn't able to come over to talk trains one more time before I moved to Florida. I always enjoyed your and Ginny's hospitality.
Doug
