Nearly all the best things . . . have been unexpected, unplanned by me. ~ Carl Sandburg
The last gold rush began in 1896 when George Cormack went fishing for salmon but found gold nuggets instead. Or so the story goes.
Just like that prospector, you often come upon some of the best things when you’re looking for something else, especially while traveling.
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The desire to reach for the sky runs very deep in our human psyche. ~ César Pelli
I regard the Eiffel Tower with the same excitement as I once did the Statue of Liberty.
As I, maybe, still do.
You see, I spent half my life in New York City ~ 10 years of it on Staten Island. So I must have cruised by the Statue of Liberty hundreds if not thousands of times when taking the Staten Island Ferry to and from Manhattan.
Yet never once did the sight of the Lady with the Torch fail to trigger a Wow ~ will you look at that? response from me. Seeing her standing watch so proud and tall in New York Harbor has always been a thrill.…
