How can Alaska reclaim its legacy of freedom? What is freedom?
How can we respond to its high rates of violence and dysfunction? How can we encourage younger and older people to stay?
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”
Mark Twain
“Though you may travel the world to find the beautiful, you must have it within you or you will find it not.” Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Two roads diverged in a woods, and I –, I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” Robert Frost
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” Paul Theroux
“To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world." Freya Stark