About Me
- The Thumbnail Traveler
- Welcome to the online blog for traveler/writer/photographer Steven Barber. Come in. Relax. Take off your shoes and socks -- or any other article of clothing, this is the internet. Have a look around. I hope to intrigue, amuse, entertain, and maybe provoke you just a little. I love to find adventure. All I need is a change of clothes, my Nikon, an open mind and a strong cup of coffee.
Showing posts with label Sunday Quote. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Sunday Quote. Show all posts
Sunday, April 15, 2018
Sunday, January 14, 2018
Weekly Quote
(Apologies to anyone who read the last post and wondered why I thought the "Reine" river - a misspelling of the German river - ran through Paris. Obviously a typo, it should've been Seine. Corrected.)
This week's quote is from actor/explorer Brian Blessed
Sunday, May 14, 2017
Sunday, May 7, 2017
Sunday, April 30, 2017
Sunday, March 26, 2017
THE (LATE) SUNDAY QUOTE
I feel so very much like the White Rabbit today. I'm late, I'm late...for a very important date.
So, a very funny Quote for this Sunday, turning our attention from
Travel advice to very sage "party" advice.
“I like to have a martini,
Two at the very most.
After three I'm under the table,
after four I'm under my host.”
-Dorothy Parker
Drink wisely.
And in honor of the White Rabbit reference above, a martini from London. The OXO Brasserie.
Belvedere vodka.
Sunday, March 19, 2017
THE SUNDAY QUOTE: THE GOOD LIFE
A toast: To the Good Life.
Both the aspirational. And the inspirational.
"Let life be an adventure. Live your life to the fullest, unfettered by fear of the ghosts and goblins of what might occur. Calamity and death happens as well to those who hide from life as to those who squeeze every drop of zest from it" - Jonathan Lockwood Huie
Cheers.
Sunday, February 26, 2017
Sunday, January 29, 2017
Sunday, January 22, 2017
THE SUNDAY QUOTE
This is, perhaps, a bit self-indulgent, but this quote is my own. It serves me well.
The quote came to me while I was on the road through a particularly flat post-volcanic section of Idaho. In the distance I could see mountains rising from the flatness, and it occurred to me that I'm always driven by what is up ahead, in the distance. It's where my travels take me and it's where I want to go.
The photograph is of the main road through Joshua Tree National Park.
Sunday, January 15, 2017
Sunday, January 8, 2017
Sunday, December 18, 2016
Sunday, December 11, 2016
Sunday, December 4, 2016
Sunday, November 27, 2016
Sunday, November 20, 2016
Sunday, November 13, 2016
SPECIAL SUNDAY QUOTE: SHOOTING THE WILDLIFE
“I was born and raised in East Africa, and when I turned fifteen, my parents arranged for me to go on a hunt, which was a rite of passage for young men in Kenya in that era. I tracked, shot and killed an elephant. From the moment I watched the most magnificent beast I’d ever laid eyes on fall, I was heartsick and made a vow to myself: to only shoot with a camera, not with a gun."
- Geoffrey Kent, co-founder, Abercrombie and Kent
Hunting is a pastime that I will admit to being completely beyond my understanding. So up front you may consider that point of view when approaching this image and Geoffrey Kent's quote up top. I make no claim to knowing why someone would choose to kill an animal save as food on the table. (Though, frankly, if I'm ever in a situation in which I'm the selected entree for that animal, my opinion will rapidly evolve towards enlightened self-preservation...)
But until that day I'd far prefer to shoot an animal with my Nikon and leave the beast for someone else to enjoy.
Sunday, November 6, 2016
Sunday, October 30, 2016
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