There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. --RLS
-About This Blog-
Hello, I'm Gretchen. Thanks for stopping by my travel blog. This was started in the summer of 2009 as a way to keep everyone informed as to what/how I was doing on a mission trip to Taiwan. Since I knew some more travel was in my future, I decided to keep it up and will update for those adventures as well as possibly some reflections and such. Feel free to look around and let me know what you think.
Let no debt remain outstanding, exept the continuing debt to love one another: love is the fulfillment of the law.
(Romans 13)
Fiction is history, human history, or it is nothing. But it is also more than that; it stands on firmer ground, being based on the reality of forms and the observation of social phenomena, whereas history is based on documents, and the reading of print and handwriting--on second-hand impression. Thus, fiction is nearer truth.
(Joseph Conrad)
Travel is the best way we have of rescuing the humanity of places, and saving them from abstraction and ideology.
(Pico Iyer, "Why We Travel")