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"So, while we're sitting here on this luxury yacht enjoying our bread and water, why doesn't someone tell me the plan?"

"After all, that's all a man really needs: a big city full of sin and sleaze, and a chance."

"Getting through life without a lot of money, possessions, and/or friends is admirable, especially if it is by choice."

"Some days you live in pajamas, and your hair kind-of has that Albert Einstein look."

"Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience."

"There is no such thing as a good call at 7 AM. It's been my experience that all calls between the hours of 11 PM and 9 AM are disaster calls."

"A person who is in a constant rat race seldom has time to think whether or not he is living his life properly."

"Beware the hobby that eats."
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"Adventure, opportunity and reward extend beyond our field of vision, and are made known to us only when we test our wings."

"The gift of solo moments is that they are wholly ours. On or off the road, solo moments connect us inward to ourselves with heightened clarity and insight. They also direct our energies out into the world, magnetizing us to new people and experiences we may not have encountered under any other circumstance."

"Those who receive the blessing are those who see beyond its disguise."

"In these pages, traveling "solo does not necessarily mean "alone. The absence of other people often suggests regretful isolation. "Solo by contrast, is a willful decision to be the architect of our own experience."

"If you built the box, you can also break it down."

"Cultivate the art of maximizing serendipitous opportunities."

"The cruise was the conduit for what would become my third book. While I was traveling and writing for ctnow.com, women across the United States and from the Caribbean emailed not to ask about my geographic journey but my existential one. "How do you find the courage to travel on your own? they wondered. "How do you keep from getting lonely? Don't you feel self-conscious eating out alone? After the first 30 emails like these I thought, There's a book here. It would be eight years before I published Postcards and Pearls: Life Lessons from Solo Moments on the Road. But the inspiration for publication came during the cruise."
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