Travel Quotes: May 2020

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"What is life? If I am to know tomorrow, I travel. So that my tomorrow, Is a new Tomorrow" 

- Timothy Tan, author of this blog - tankstraveltales

Stained glass artwork on a window pane, Tallinn, Estonia (2018)

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