The best way to open our Travel Blog I think is with a bit of "Robert Service " poetry. "The Land Beyond" Have ever you heard of the Land Beyond, That dreams at the gates of day? Alluring it lies at the skirts of the skies, And ever so far away; Alluring it calls: O ye the yoke that galls, And ye of the trail overfond, With saddle and pack, by paddle and track, Let's go to the Land of Beyond! Have ever you stood where the silences brood, And vast the horizons begin, At the dawn of the day to behold far away, The goal you would strive for and win? Yet ah! in the night when you gain to the height, With the vast pool of heaven star-spawned, Afar and agleam, like a
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