Excerpt from Travels, Trips, and Trots: On and Off Duty From the Tropics to the Arctic Circle
Thanking all those who kindly reviewed my book, thereby contributing to its success, I am emboldened to launch forth a second edition. Travel is an education, and the love of it increases. Flying through the air is not travelling, and one great art of travel is to select interesting routes, and not to be hurried. Change, perpetual variety, is what people of active habits long for, and, I hope that many may be induced to leave sometimes the hackneyed and stereotyped paths and fashionable resorts, for the many beautiful regions comparatively unexplored. How many would be delighted with the eastern shore and islands of the Adriatic; how many visitors to Greece know the wonderful monasteries of Meteora or Megaspel?on, or even the vale of Tempe? Many hundreds of our countrymen disport themselves annually on the "Rivvyera," but how few visit the exquisite Riviera di Levante, with Rapallo, Santa Marguerita, Porto Fino, etc.
Ignorance causes a dread of leaving the beaten track, and sometimes over-solicitude about "Little Mary" destroys all love of adventure.
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