Wanderlust Cafe

The song reached out to her, and she risked the disapproval of her fellow travelers by delaying long enough to learn its name from the shopkeeper.  And so she carried the music home, where she could replay it at any time. From thousands of miles away, she closes her eyes and returns to the caravanserai [...]

“On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d’abord et longtemps, tout rivage” (“One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore”) – Andre Gide, Les faux-monnayeurs [The Counterfeiters] (1925) A  favorite saying, which re-surfaced for no apparent reason the other [...]

Buenos Aires nights. She is there. Dancing. Laughing. Yet I’m not. Why not? – Lou Ann Granger Perhaps I am a bit jealous. Others are visiting Buenos Aires on a steamy summer night. Why am I not there, too? I realize I could be if I wanted to be. There is a longing, but no [...]

Uncover what you long for, and you will discover who you are. – Phil Cousineau, The Art of Pilgimage I don’t know where the wanderlust comes from, just that it has always been part of me.  I believe it comes from the ancestors, who traveled great distances searching for ‘home’.  I search for my own [...]