I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose.
--Opening lines of 'Song of the Open Road,' from the epic anthology Leaves of Grass, by Walt Whitman.
(Context: Committed to reciting these lines whenever I take the first step of a new adventure, I found they popped into my head as my partner and I prepare to board a train today for Darjeeling and then on to our Himalaya trekking adventure in Sikkim. Back in a few weeks.)
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