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[In Bermuda]: Take any road you please...it curves always, which is a continual promise, whereas straight roads reveal everything at a glance and kill interest.
- "Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion"

Your road is everything that a road ought to be . . . and yet you will not stay in it half a mile, for the reason that little, seductive, mysterious roads are always branching out from it on either hand, and as these curve sharply also and hide what is beyond, you cannot resist the temptation to desert your own chosen road and explore them.
- "Some Rambling Notes of an Idle Excursion"


AI image created by Barbara Schmidt

Clemens by the road
Clemens at Tuxedo Park, New York.
Photo courtesy of Dave Thomson


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