Second to the right, and straight on till morning.
Source: Peter Pan (1911)
Topic
Travel in this collection is less about destinations than about what the journey reveals. Hemingway's never-go-with-anyone-you-don't-love is the starting condition: travel strips away the social conventions that make ordinary incompatibility bearable, and only genuine affection survives. Stevenson on traveling-for-travel's-sake is the Romantic position: movement is valuable in itself, not only as a means to arrival. Beecher on judging people by the distance they have traveled from their starting point is travel as biography: the relevant metric is not where you are but how far you have come. Hazlitt on knowing a road by having traveled it is the epistemological claim: experiential knowledge is irreplaceable by description. The anonymous who-travels-for-love-finds-a-thousand-miles-not-longer-than-one gives love the same function Hemingway assigns it: the right company eliminates distance. Hazlitt on the wise traveler never despising his own country is the corrective to the traveler's usual error: the experience of elsewhere should produce appreciation rather than contempt for home.
Second to the right, and straight on till morning.
Tell me, Muse, of that man, so ready at need, who wandered far and wide.
Many were the men whose towns he saw and whose mind he learnt.
Any land is your country where you can live happy.
The everlasting lure of round-the-corner, how fascinating it is.
I should like to go by the Seine to Honfleur.