"Sometime in your life you will go on a journey. It is the journey to find yourself."  Katherine Sharp

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You must do the thing which you cannot do."  Eleanor Roosevelt

"Travel not only stirs the blood...it also gives birth to the spirit." Alexandra David-Neel, French explorer, writer 1868-1969

"To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."  Freya Stark

"No woman should say, 'I am but a woman!' But a woman! What more can you ask to be?"  Maria Mitchell, astronomer 1818-1910

"I knew that my path lay ahead, that there was no turning aback now." Martha Black was an independent 32-year-old when she joined the Klondike Gold Rush in 1898. Like other stampeders, she endured the grueling Chilkoot Trail, traveled by boat down the notorious Yukon River, and worked placer gold claims while living in a primitive log cabin. Eventually she became a successful businesswoman owning a mining camp and managing a sawmill.  At the age of 70, she was elected to the Canadian Parliament.