Thank YOU Bloggers

A L O H A

Friends!

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Palm Shadow Path

“There are no foreign lands.

It is the traveler only who is foreign.”

Robert Louis Stevenson

Pink Pleasure

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again;

we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.”

Jack Kerouac

What's Over the Next Hill?

Ted Trimmer Photo

“A journey is like marriage.

The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

John Steinbeck

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel

until he comes home

and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” –

Lin Yutang

Mahalo, Danke, Merci, Salamat, Kahmsamneda, Arrigato. . .

Thank YOU, Bloggers

for taking my far-seeking mind

winging around this world

to land in your own distinct neighborhoods.

You show me real life

that tourists never meet.

For I live in the Shangri la

of Hawaii's magic realm:

Waikiki,

and fear that-

should I leave-

some rift in reality,

terrorism,

financial collapse,

could prevent my homecoming;

So I remain here.

And should the cleft

of sky & sea

heal over,

I'll be safely here:

Sealed in Island intimacy.

So

Thanks EACH of You

for showing me

a world apart

of hearts

that are close.

A L O H A, Cloudia