“Everything I pick up seems to lure me away. Everything I do in my daily
life begins to feel like striking wet matches. The need to travel is a
mysterious force. A desire to 'go' runs through me equally with an
intense desire to 'stay' at home. An equal and opposite thermodynamic
principle. When I travel, I think of home and what it means. At home I'm
dreaming of catching trains at night in the gray light of Old Europe,
or pushing open shutters to see Florence awaken. The balance just
slightly tips in the direction of the airport.”
-Frances Mayes, A year in the World: Journeys of a Passionate Traveller
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