“Sometimes, to cede control to fate, I realized, is to assume more control than ever before. I wasn’t just traveling anymore. I was traveling outside the formula. I might as well have been floating through space, trailing my hand in… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“Perhaps there’s no better act of simplification than climbing a mountain. For an afternoon, a day, or a week, it’s a way of reducing… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share
“... But these skeptics are only selectively skeptical. They think themselves enlightened for resisting all this new proof and remaining steadfast in mistrusting anything… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share
“I learned such a glimpse cannot be gotten with half-hearted journeys and soft endeavors. Nor could I hope for such a glimpse merely by… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share
“I felt a strange twinge of anger looking at the stars. It was as if I’d just learned of an inheritance that had been… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share
“I could sense the slightest abridgment of my freedom like a princess who can feel the impression of a pea under forty featherbeds. I… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share
“Like us, many students had spent their years in college thinking they’d get that well-paying, planet-saving job, even if they’d heard horror stories from… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share
“I am a member of the “career-less generation.” Or the “screwed generation.” Unlike previous generations, the members of my generation won’t get jobs and… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share
“Sometimes, to cede control to fate, I realized, is to assume more control than ever before. I wasn’t just traveling anymore. I was traveling… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share
“We have trains to hop, voyages to embark on, and rides to hitch. And then there’s the great American wild—vanishing but still there—ready to… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share
“On this voyage, I couldn't help but think we need need. We need to be forced to go outside. We need to be forced… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share
“Be a devotee in the Church of the Consumer and you’ll forever live in fear of the capricious God of Style. Freedom, though, is… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share
“It was strange how it was always the poor who picked us up [hitchhiking]...They dwelled beneath poverty lines and were undereducated, but they were...more… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share
“We can only miss what we once possessed. We can only feel wronged when we realize something has been stolen from us. We can’t… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share
“My SOUTH sign stopped working on an entrance ramp in a sleepy farm town called Kittitas in the state of Washington. A man who… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share
“only feel wronged when we realize something has been stolen from us. We can’t miss the million-strong flocks of passenger pigeons that once blackened… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share
