Coby and Alita, the Wander With Me globetrotting duo, transmitted another dispatch from their South American adventures. While cajoling their trusted Land Cruiser along dirt thoroughfares and trekking through Columbian mountains, Colby and Alita focused on the simple joys of the traveler. Active Junky’s paired their photographs with quotes from literature’s most adventurous, bizarre and well-traveled authors.
"Sooner or later you must move down an unknown road that leads beyond the range of the imagination, and the only certainty is that the trip has to be made." - Bruce Catton
“True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils.” - Balthasar Gracian
“If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world.” - J.R.R. Tolkien
"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity." - John Muir
“I never found a companion that was so companionable as solitude.” - Henry David Thoreau
"Keep close to Nature's heart... and break clear away, once in awhile, and climb a mountain or spend a week in the woods. Wash your spirit clean." - John Muir
"If you're lonely when you're alone, you're in bad company." - Jean-Paul Sartre
"Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn." - John Muir
“When you go to the mountains, you see them and you admire them. In a sense, they give you a challenge, and you try to express that challenge by climbing them.” - Sir Edmund Hillary
"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies." - Aristotle
"Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better." - Albert Einstein
"We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend." - Robert Louis Stevenson
"I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The woods do that to you, they always look familiar, long lost, like the face of a long-dead relative, like an old dream, like a piece of forgotten song drifting across the water, most of all like golden eternities of past childhood or past manhood and all the living and the dying and the heartbreak that went on a million years ago and the clouds as they pass overhead seem to testify (by their own lonesome familiarity) to this feeling." - Jack Kerouac
"He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature." - Socrates