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When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch.
(A projected journey spawns advisers in schools.)
“If anywhere in your travels you come on a man with guts, mark the place. I want to go to see him. I haven’t seen anything but cowardice and expediency. This used to be a nation of giants. Where have they gone?
The vainest, most slap-happy and irreverent of men, in the presence of redwoods, goes under a spell of wonder and respect.

