" A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a deliverance, and life on the open road is the essence of freedom. To have the courage to smash the chains with which modern life has weighted us (under the pretext that it was offering us more liberty), then to take up the symbolic stick and bundle and get out. —ISABELLE EBERHARDT, EXPLORER "

― Jen Kirkman , I Know What I'm Doing and Other Lies I Tell Myself: Dispatches from a Life Under Construction