The Desire To Travel Is In the Blood of the Wandering Scotsman
I may be living in Barbados, which is over 3000 miles from my homeland of Scotland, but I still have a strong desire to travel and explore new lands. But due to work and the desire to build up a successful business, I will for the foreseeable future just have to dream about the many new places that I look forward to visiting.
Because I’m now living in the Caribbean region I plan on over the next few years visiting as many of the islands over here as I can, such as Dominica, St Lucia, Trinidad, Bahamas, Turks & Cacaos and many more.
Until I have the time to explore the rest of what the Caribbean has to offer I will have to content myself with inspirational travel quotes from people that truly understand the benefits and life enhancing experiences that are gained from traveling. I for one truly understand the importance of traveling and it is most certainly in my blood to go and experience new places, people and environments.
Here are some well known travel quotations that I find inspirational:
1. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” - Miriam Beard
2. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” - Helen Keller
3. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” - Henry Miller
4. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” - John Steinbeck
5. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” - James Michener
6. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and celebrate the journey.” - Fitzhugh Mullan
7. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” - Benjamin Disraeli
8. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” - Jawaharal Nehru
9. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” - Anatole France
10. “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussel
I know at some point in the future I will have my business at a level which will give me the time and income to travel when I desire too. The Wandering Scotsman will soon be back on his travels enjoying life to the max.
For some more inspirational quotations as according to the Wandering Scotsman, 10 Inspirational Travel Quotations’s To Inspire You.
The Barbados Blog Has At Last Got Some Sexyiness, Rihanna!
I was taking things easy in Barbados as I do from time to time, and thought to myself that The Barbados Blog was a dam good blog, but it needed spiced up a little bit. In other words it could do with a little bit of sexyiness to heat it up a wee bit.
Then it dawned on me, who is quite possible the most famous and biggest star that Barbados has ever produced, it can obviously only be Rihanna. This girl is known worldwide as a R&B singing sensation that has taken the world by storm. She seems to be a great ambassador for Barbados and is making people take notice of Barbados, who were previously not even aware that it even existed. She is not only a fantastically talented artist, but she is also a stunningly attractive and sexy looking lady.
In 2003, at the age of 15, Rihanna received her big break when one of her friends introduced her to music producer Evan Rogers, who was vacationing in Barbados with his wife. Rogers, along with his partner, Carl Sturken, helped Rihanna record material in the U.S. which was sent to various recording companies. One copy of Rihanna’s work was sent to Jay-Z, who eventually signed her to Def Jam Recordings.
A few facts about Rihanna:
Birth name: Robyn Rihanna Fenty
Born: February 20, 1988 (1988-02-20) (age 20)
Origin: Saint Michael, Barbados
Genre(s): Pop, R&B, reggae, dance-pop, electronica, electropop, dancehall
Occupation(s): Singer, model, fashion designer, music director
Official website: Rihanna
Watch and Listen to Rihanna perform “Disturbia”
10 Inspirational Travel Quotations’s To Inspire You
As the saying goes, “travel broadens our horizons” and I personally feel, that if you haven’t travelled you have truly missed out. Nothing quite beats the thrill of boarding a plane to jet off to a foreign land and the anticipation of the adventures that lie ahead.
I have put together a list of 10 travel quotations, which I find truly inspirational, about the virtues and pleasures of travel.
1) “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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
2) “The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page”. St Augustine
3) “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind”. Seneca
4) “I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few allies our wars have left us”. Lord Byron
5) “We travel just to travel”. Ernesto Che Guevara
6) “Not bound to swear allegiance to any master, wherever the wind takes me I travel as a visitor.
Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you”. Horace
7) “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled”. Mohammed
8)”For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler who is foreign”. Robert Louis Stevenson
9) “The wise man travels to discover himself”. James Russell Lowell
10) “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it “. John Steinbeck
As the Wise Man Once Said, “We Travel Just To Travel”
I have been asked the question many times by friends, family, and even complete strangers what made me leave Scotland to come and live in Barbados. The main reason I would say is my love of travelling and adventure. I love Scotland, which is the country of my birth and where I lived for most of my life. But as I approached the grand old age of 40, I felt that life was passing me by and I needed new experiences and fresh challenges, it is as simple as that.
I personally feel that everyone should engage in travelling to far away lands to experience different cultures, weather, languages, food, drink, and to just engage in life somewhere different from our normal comfort zones. I especially feel that it is something that not only will adults tremendously benefit from, but children will also greatly benefit from the joys and wonders, not only of travelling to foreign lands but actually living in a different country.
I suppose I was like most people that would dream about just giving everything up and heading off to another country to start a new life, it would just remain an ideal dream. I would always find excuses as to why I should stay in Scotland. Life sure was comfortable in Scotland, nice apartment, good car, reasonable well paid and secure job, with a good pension at the end of it. I maybe wasn’t rich but things were okay. But the lure of travelling and the excitement of the unknown became too much of a pull for my family and myself and here we are following our dreams in Barbados.
I maybe be approaching 40 years old, but it is now being said that 40 is the new 20 and who am I too disagree with that. I may not have as much money, a regular income or a fancy car as I once had, but I’m enjoying life and the new challenges and experiences of living life in my new home in Barbados.
I know some people would find it a complete nightmare to be periodically getting lost when I go out in the car or not quite knowing how to get somewhere, I find it shows that I’m still alive and I’m loving the challenges, which my new environment provides me with.
Now that Barbados is my home, the traveller in me is looking forward to going and exploring some of the many other wonderful Caribbean Islands. All I can say is, long may the adventures and travelling continue.
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