Best American Travel Writing 2020 Quotes

“Maybe—like what the guard said at the gate of the Sun Street—I should not pry open the bleeding wounds of the past. Maybe I should just try to keep my good old memories.”
― Jason Wilson, The Best American Travel Writing 2020

“Will I be able to spare my heart while dissecting memories of the past?”
― Jason Wilson, The Best American Travel Writing 2020

“get very drunk. This is what refreshes him, participating in the illusion of another life, which is the same thing that we’re always seeking when we travel: to get outside of ourselves and imagine new possibilities, however unlikely or unreal they are. Iceland remains ideal for this purpose. “It’s what fantasies are made of,” Hansson says. “This untamed wild, this alien landscape, this vastness.”
― Jason Wilson, The Best American Travel Writing 2020