Raymond S. Spears

“ When the urge to wander far comes, and one has only a week's vacation or perhaps two weeks, it seems almost useless to try to crowd into so short a space of time the experience, travel, adventure for which one longs. ”

“ Strange people live in the recesses of the Ramapo and Catskill Mountains in sight of New York City, and in the Adirondacks, the Green Mountains, the Alleghanies—the farthest lands of the continent have no more interesting conditions than within a day's automobile drive of Manhattan Island. ”

“ PEOPLE who keep their gaze too much on the horizon often miss the things they would like most to see close at hand. It is so in seeking adventure, in traveling, in thinking too much in terms of thousands of miles. ”