"My destination is wherever I am"

Nowadays, I am never happier than in those early hours of a fresh day when I head out somewhere new, not knowing where I shall sleep on that coming night. It's exciting. It's serendipity, just wandering about to see what there is to see, to hear what there is to hear, to smell and taste what there is to smell and taste. To collect all kinds of regional arcana and trivia. To meet people I've never known. And to safely ignore whatever I want. My destination is wherever I am.

-US 1: America's Original Main Street

Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip

One of the books I've been reading to inspire me. It's about Dr. Horatio Nelson Jackson, who because of a $50 bet, traveled from San Francisco to New York in 1903. He was the first person to complete a cross country trip, ever. In an old 20 horsepower Winton. It covers the trip and all of its trial and tribulations through personal photos, letters to his wife, and eyewitness recall. Good read, and it has a connected PBS documentary with it, that I just received for Christmas but haven't had a chance (yet) to watch. Check it out: http://www.pbs.org/horatio/