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What stays with you are the colors. They pop, they leap right out at you. The sun doesn't burn your eyes anymore, and the rain is not quite over you yet. Down on River Street, everything's deceivingly calm. Ready for the twilight to follow. (at Bohemian Rocks on the River)

Too cold, too long, too many people, still fun and impressive. (at The National Mall)

Feeling smarter already. (at Johns Hopkins University)

"Over reed, over rush, under branch, over root, and over dim fields, and through rustling grasses that murmur and nod as the young elves pass. Over the old hills and far away, where the harps of the elven folk softly play.." (at Rock City Lookout Mountain Tenn.)

"My day has been ruff. "

It takes a special person to make the very simple things correctly. I eat french, therefore I am? It's not just a piece of pastry though, it's a piece of heaven. The simplest of life's pleasures. Just pull up a chair at the local french joint, grab a tasty sparkling beverage, and eat a fresh fruit tart, or a peaches and cream scone. Really eat them. And you just may find you not only love breakfast again, but ultimately the simple things in life. (at Uppercrust)

"If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody." -Anthony Bourdain (at Beihai Park)

"One does not need to have any formal knowledge of music - nor, indeed, to be particularly ‘musical’ - to enjoy music and to respond to it at the deepest levels. Music is part of being human, and there is no human culture in which it is not highly developed and esteemed.” ~Oliver Sacks

It’s an irritating reality that many places and destinations defy description. The Summer Palace, for instance, seems to demand silence, like an affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you can't find the right words, trying vainly to put together a narrative, an explanation, a way to write where you have been and what happened. But in the end, you’re just happy you were there, with your eyes wide open, and that you lived long enough to see it. #summerpalace #beijing #china #tbt (at Summer Palace)

#beijing #china #tbt #summerpalace