“The road is always better than the inn.”  These words by the great Spanish writer, Cervantes, mean a way of living.  In younger days I often aimed too hard to reach some goal or finish some job.  “When  this is done,” I’d say,” I shall find real satisfaction and reward.”  But later I came to realize that each achievement, like each inn, is only a point along the road.  The real goodness of living comes with the journey itself, with the striving and desire to keep moving.

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Just add an “h” wen you want to see the store – Google for some reason is interfering with this photo?  Must be a socialists idiot.

 Old historic Hackberry General Store west of Seligmann and east of Kingman on historic route 66 in Arizona, USA.

Now I find that I can look back on my years with pleasure and, what is even more important to me , that I can still look to the future with hope and desire.  I have learned to take each inn along the way with a traveler’s stride – not as a stopping point, but a starting point for some new and better endeavor.

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