The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.  ~St. Augustine

All the birds have flown up and gone;
A lonely cloud floats leisurely by.
We never tire of looking at each other -
Only the mountain and I. 

The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

Why is it among the most

glacial mountain peaks

I find?

the greatest warmth

The mountains which surround my life,

White capped in snow's own veil,

Have seen environmental strife,

Survived the strongest gale.

                                                  

I see my path, but don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going

  is what inspires me to travel it.

The mountain held the town as in a shadow

I saw so much before I slept there once:

I noticed that I missed stars in the west,

Where its black body cut into sky.

 

We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. 

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.