Back On The Road To Key West Quotes

“Fear is a strange thing. There are several kinds, from mild trepidation and sweaty armpits, to shaky hands and stuttering, but the worst is the cold fear of uncertainty, the specter in the darkness — the one you can’t exactly see, the one that drives your imagination wild, crawls into your intestines, and digs at you with tiny, mean claws.”
― Michael Reisig, Back On The Road To Key West

“Seems to me it sailed out of Cartagena in one of the early 1700 fleets, but it was recorded as lost to piracy. Absolutely one of the significant lost treasures of that era.”
― Michael Reisig, Back On The Road To Key West

“Love is a lot like contracting rabies. Sometime after you’ve been bitten you know you’re getting crazy, but there’s nothing you can do about it.”
― Michael Reisig, Back On The Road To Key West

“No matter how diligent you are, you can only direct so much of your future. Just about the time you’re strolling down the street of life, hands in your pockets, a small smile twisting the edges of your mouth, somebody pushes a piano out of a sixth-story window.”
― Michael Reisig, Back On The Road To Key West

“Adventure doesn’t come to you. You have to chase it down. Are you placing enough interesting, freakish bets? Taking enough chances? Playing the long shots? — Tom Peters and Kansas Stamps    ”
― Michael Reisig, Back On The Road To Key West

“Marathon was a strange town, never quite recapturing the sleepy Keys essence it had in the sixties. It ended up more like a series of strip malls and restaurants interspaced with resorts trying way too hard to compete with their southern brethren. It could never quite capture the genuine allure or the delightful decadence of the big island at the end of the chain. But for now it was a good place for us to hide out and lay some plans. “What”
― Michael Reisig, Back On The Road To Key West

“The byproduct of the whole adventure thing is knowledge (and, of course, wonderful barroom stories). Great experiences are borne not from what happens to you, but from how you respond when they’re happening. If you’re paying attention, encapsulated in the event is learning, which enables you to limit your next battery of mistakes to something new. While”
― Michael Reisig, Back On The Road To Key West

“A few of these folks act contented, but most are just fearful of vision and chance. Some of us are searchers, and we need more. We want to find that place that warms the heart — that strikes such a note at the core of our being we simply stand there enthralled, soothed, and a voice inside says, I’m home. We want to choose the points for our joys and sorrows before we experience them.   Relaxed”
― Michael Reisig, Back On The Road To Key West

“I was also reminded that most people seem to carry an inherent affinity for a certain region, certainly not always where they’re born. Some deny that in themselves, simply locking to a spot like an oyster to a rock, never looking over the horizon, just accepting — refusing to dream. A few of these folks act contented, but most are just fearful of vision and chance. Some of us are searchers, and we need more. We want to find that place that warms the heart — that strikes such a note at the core of our being we simply stand there enthralled, soothed, and a voice inside says, I’m home. We want to choose the points for our joys and sorrows before we experience them.”
― Michael Reisig, Back On The Road To Key West