Not To be Forgotten - Richard Halliburton (1900 - 1939) - American - Traveller, Adventurer and Author...

A Traveller not forgotten.

Looking for a few books... by Halliburton - packed up somewhere... not unpacked yet... will i ever? 

There were travellers, adventurers and authors like Hemingway, "Paddy" Fermor, Thesieger, v. Blixen, Hunter, and Freuchen.

We shall not forget Richard Halliburton with his spirit and passion for travel, fearless and determined to live a life of adventure.  Born in 1900 in Brownsville, Tennessee. Lost at sea when he sailed a Chinese junk across the Pacific Ocean in 1939. Decided in his early youth to live a Travellers life.  He knew Journalist Lowell Thomas as we all know he made T.E. Lawrence world famous.
He swam the lenght of the Panama Canal.  He flew around the world in 1930 in an open cockpit biplane.  His travels took him around world...and of course there is more... 

Reading I recommend by Richard Halliburton:
The Royal Road to Romance (1925)
The Glorious Adventure (1927)
New Worlds to Conquer (1929)
The Flying Carpet (1932)
Seven League Boots (1935)

The Vagabond life is the logical life to lead if one seeks the intimate knowledge of the world we were seeking.

 Richard Halliburton - The Royal Road to Romance (1925)

Youth — nothing else worth having in the world...and I had youth, the transitory, the fugitive, now, completely and abundantly. Yet what was I going to do with it? Certainly not squander its gold on the commonplace quest for riches and respectability, and then secretly lament the price that had to be paid for these futile ideals. Let those who wish have their respectability — I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous and the romantic.

Richard Halliburton - The Royal Road to Romance (1925)

Letter to his father dated December 5, 1919;
When my time comes to die, I'll be able to die happy, for I will have done and seen and heard and experienced all the joy, pain and thrills — any emotion that any human ever had — and I'll be especially happy if I am spared a stupid, common death in bed.

Those who live in the even tenor of their way simply exist until death ends their monotonous tranquility. No, there's going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be.

Hunting and Gatherings for your next Voyage

 Hunting and Gatherings for your next Voyage

Hermès for your travel desk "Under Canvas"

From 1929 to the late 1950's -  Arcitect and Designer - Paul Dupre-Lafon collaborated with Hermès and produced many great, elegant and understated items.

Contemporary - Understated elegance by Hermès - Campaign desk - Sycamore and leather

Hermès - Folding chair

Hermès - Folding side table

Hermès - Folding foot stool - Pear wood and leather

Hermès - Portable lounge chair  -Teak and leather

 19th Century  Ivory smoking set

Weather conditions for today? Barometer in a Sterling silver case

Reading glasses in a shagreen case...

Bring something to read from your library - with those reading glasses - Well, perhaps from  ??? 1675

"Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time".

- E.P. Whipple

At breakfast

One of my Travel "moustache cups".. to use on those occasions and times i have a beard.

You say moustache cup ??? Well, it is a drinking cup with a moon-shaped opening so we can keep the moustache/beard dry.  Invented in the 1860s.

Under the tropical sun and midday - perhaps some fresh squeezed lemonade...

We bring our past with us ??? Do we not???

and it all fits in your old family leather trunks/cases...

Bon Voyage...Travellers

Early Morning Breakfast...

Not at the M... 

 Lobster tails on the grill for breakfast...

Remember...

"Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast".

-Oscar Wilde

The Legend and the Sea - Hemingway

Back from Egypt and now - Unpacking at a Travellers Nest...

(All photos by Tavarua)

Back from Egypt - Unpacking at a "Travellers Nest" well -  simplicity, simplicity, simplicity...

Has your  travels trained you well when it comes to pack your suitcases and steamertrunks???

Headdress from Turkmenistan - I  use them as a lampshades...

The past - inspiration for what to come...

Pipes, humidor and  more books...

From room to room - the floors are covered with rugs - I walk on a part of my past and travels...

"Tod"  - having breakfast...

 and then it is more to unpack...

Sister of Autumn...

Daughter of mother earth

Sisters of seasons

Sisters of life - I am your brother of early days of fall

Together we walk into the deep forest of life and wonder

Sister of  Spring and birth

Sister of Summer - you were our youth , dreams and laughter

Now you are both long gone to the memories of the past

You woke the spirits of dreams, curiosity and exploration at heart

Sister of Autumn 
 Sister of colors- the sun melting the frosty cold with its beams

So this early morning travels

Sister of Autumn - we now share thoughts and feelings of happiness of the remaining of days

Gone is the icy night 
Cold air - incense of frozen mist is this day

A crystallized midsummer haze

Sister of Autumn - we walk under the canopy of warmth and fire of ever changing colors

Sister of Autumn -  we now stand in the midst of the forest as summer is drifting back in her sleep

Our thoughts rises with the steams from your creeks, rivers and lakes

Frost on my collar - I take another step and travel into a new season in the fields and gardens of life

"Tavarua"

There are two lives - One we was given and one we make...

Artesia, NM

(All Photos by Tavarua)

 "A picture is a poem without words".
Horace