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dayName = new Array ("Sunday", "Monday", "Tuesday", "Wednesday", "Thursday", "Friday", "Saturday")
monName = new Array ("JANUARY", "FEBRUARY", "MARCH", "APRIL", "MAY", "JUNE", "JULY", "AUGUST", "SEPTEMBER", "OCTOBER", "NOVEMBER", "DECEMBER")
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Jan = new Array
Jan[1] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/chair.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Now progress takes away what forever took to find.\" <br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>Sitting in my chair facing an empty hillside, and a future, that is now covered by a subdivision full of houses in Salem, Oregon.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/01/16/thirsty-thursday-volume-x-growing-up-will-i-be-like-the-salmon/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[2] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/joshua_tree.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.\"<br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>I drove to Joshua Tree on purpose...to be an actor.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/02/19/destination-joshua-tree-california/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[3] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-ios.jpg'></div> <p><b>They call it paradise<br> I don't know why <br> You call someplace paradise,<br> Kiss it goodbye <br> -The Eagles</b> </p> <p><em>As I gazed at the beauty of Ios, this Greek island, I imagined what it looked like before the tourists came.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/27/the-secret-beach/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[4] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/skydive.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.\" <br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>Standing up to live sometimes involves taking a leap of faith.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/12/31/jumping-into-a-new-year/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[5] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/pink_palace_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>To see a world in a grain of sand<br>And a heaven in a wild flower,<br>Hold infinity in the palm of your hand<br>And eternity in an hour. <br>-William Blake</b> </p> <p><em>How often have you had the opportunity to be on a tropical island and just relax and let your mind wander?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/22/here-and-forever/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[6] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/hawaii_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Live every day like it's your last because someday you'll be right. \" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes that is a tough motto by which to live.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/07/28/adjustments-and-blending-in/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[7] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/valley_of_fire.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,<br>Old time is still a-flying;<br>And this same flower that smiles today<br>Tomorrow will be dying. <br>-Robert Herrick</b> </p> <p><em>I never knew how much I could fall in love with a desert.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/09/15/the-moonlight-sonata-of-the-past/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[8] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/sunset-cliffs.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.\" <br>-Alan Watts</b> </p> <p><em>Sunset Cliffs, in San Diego, a place where I'd often write and think.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/10/27/wont-try-to-fix-you/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[9] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-max-jen-arron.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.\"<br>-Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>I have been all around the world and I can honestly say that the most amazing thing I have ever experienced is being in the same room when my nephew was born.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/12/19/thirsty-thursday-volume-viii-the-cycle/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[10] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/salem-road.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.\"<br>-Milton Berle</b> </p> <p><em>The road, long and windy or straight and narrow, only determines how you get there. It's up to you to decide where you go.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/06/08/some-people-know/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[11] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/copenhagen_embassy.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.\" <br>-Harriet Beecher Stowe</b> </p> <p><em>A visit to the American Embassy in Copenhagen a few days after September 11th, 2001.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/09/12/thirsty-thursday-volume-i-one-year-later/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[12] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/forest-park.jpg'></div> <p><b>I shall be telling this with a sigh<br>Somewhere ages and ages hence:<br>Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--<br>I took the one less traveled by,<br>And that has made all the difference.<br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>Walking through the woods of Forest Park, I am reminded of the paths that led me home...and the difference it made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/12/25/walking-down-the-road/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[13] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/barcelona-girls.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.\"<br> -Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>You never know where you'll end up unless you just go. In this case an unpleasant situation on a train led to a brilliant sunset and new friends.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/24/thirsty-thursday-volume-iv-a-train-to-spain-part-two-the-secret-and-the-wish/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[14] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/train-to-barcelona.jpg'></div> <p><b>I may take a holiday in Spain<br>Leave my wings behind me<br>Drink my worries down the drain<br>And fly away to somewhere new<br> -Counting Crows</b> </p> <p><em>In situations where things may not seem to be going well, your mind, at least, will allow you to dream.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/10/thirsty-thursday-volume-iii-a-train-to-spain-part-one-sliding-doors/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[15] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/murren.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what they had to teach; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.\"<br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>I found myself in Murren, a tiny Swiss village in the Alps, where I took in the fresh air to cleanse a foggy mind, then sat on a bench and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/10/25/the-rambler/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[16] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-me-zakopane.jpg'></div> <p><b>For long you live and high you fly<br>And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry<br>And all that you touch and all that you see<br>Is all your life will ever be<br>-Pink Floyd</b> </p> <p><em>While traveling, my two college roommates and I experienced things we never thought we'd ever experience.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/06/06/a-late-night-walk/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[17] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/australia_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"It is not what you accomplish in this life that matters...it is what you overcome.\" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Whether overcoming fears or accomplishing dreams, the important thing is that you are striving to improve your life.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/20/thirsty-thursday-volume-xviii-two-sundays/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[18] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-nick-cabo.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Take only memories, leave only footprints.\"<br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes it is necessary to simply be a tourist, like my friend and I in Mexico.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/27/thirsty-thursday-volume-xiii-mexican-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[19] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/cliffs_of_moher.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gravedigger, when you dig my grave<br> Could you make it shallow<br> so that I can feel the rain?<br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>If it was you sitting on the precipice of these majestic cliffs in Ireland, what would be going through your mind? How far down is the North Atlantic? How far over can I lean? How long will I live?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/11/10/upon-finding-out-a-loved-one-has-died/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[20] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/king_apt_balcony.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.\"<br>-Lee Iacocca</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes, waiting is all you can do. Other times, it's not.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/24/and-the-days-go-by/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[21] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/mekong.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.\" <br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>My intention is to inspire others by sharing the experiences I've had, like floating down the Mekong River in Vietnam.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/18/apocalypse-then/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[22] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/swedish_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>If you wait for me<br> Then I'll come for you<br> Although I've traveled far<br> I always hold a place for you in my heart<br>-Tracy Chapman</b> </p> <p><em>Love, like this sunset in Sweden, is often brief, but always beautiful.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/13/thirsty-thursday-volume-xii-the-tree-and-its-branches/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[23] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/otay-lake.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.\" <br>-John Le Carre</b> </p> <p><em>Reasons are not something that can be sought, they are realized in retrospect.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/05/22/for-a-reason/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[24] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/interlaken_woods.jpg'></div> <p><b>The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,<br>But I have promises to keep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep. <br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>I took a walk that led to the woods in the base of the Swiss Alps where I thought and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/11/03/the-hills-are-alive/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[25] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/smoke_sun.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.\" <br>-Joan Crawford</b> </p> <p><em>With the sun enshrouded by smoke, we left with our belongings, hoping our house would still be standing when we returned.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/27/the-approaching-storm/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[26] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/leaving_sd.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.\"<br>-George Moore</b> </p> <p><em>Deciding to move back home to Oregon proved to be one of the best decisions I've ever made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/02/leaving-home-heading-home/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[27] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/quito_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.\" <br>-G.K. Chesterton</b> </p> <p><em>Standing above the city as I wandered through the mountains of Quito, Ecuador.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/07/29/south-american-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[28] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/santorini_wall.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Life is like a circle, and someday if we travel in opposite directions on the circle we will meet again.\" <br>-Todd L. Bradbury</b> </p> <p><em>Life, along with love, is a funny thing. Be prepared for everything and expectant of nothing.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/05/15/the-gift/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[29] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/lake_murray.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.\"<br>-Vernon Law</b> </p> <p><em>And the results to those tests may take years to find out.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/12/11/thirsty-thursday-volume-xxi-tantamount/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[30] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/ko_samui_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. \" <br>-Mark Twain</b> </p> <p><em>Though I've paid a tremendous price, both figuratively and literally, I would not exchange any of the travels I've done.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/06/the-breeze/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jan[31] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/andy-laura.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.\" <br>-A.A. Milne</b> </p> <p><em>My best friend, Andy, and his best friend, Laura at a wedding a few years prior to theirs.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/01/04/my-toast-to-andy-and-his-wife-laura/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"

Feb = new Array
Feb[1] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/chair.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Now progress takes away what forever took to find.\" <br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>Sitting in my chair facing an empty hillside, and a future, that is now covered by a subdivision full of houses in Salem, Oregon.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/01/16/thirsty-thursday-volume-x-growing-up-will-i-be-like-the-salmon/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[2] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/joshua_tree.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.\"<br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>I drove to Joshua Tree on purpose...to be an actor.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/02/19/destination-joshua-tree-california/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[3] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-ios.jpg'></div> <p><b>They call it paradise<br> I don't know why <br> You call someplace paradise,<br> Kiss it goodbye <br> -The Eagles</b> </p> <p><em>As I gazed at the beauty of Ios, this Greek island, I imagined what it looked like before the tourists came.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/27/the-secret-beach/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[4] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/skydive.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.\" <br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>Standing up to live sometimes involves taking a leap of faith.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/12/31/jumping-into-a-new-year/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[5] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/pink_palace_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>To see a world in a grain of sand<br>And a heaven in a wild flower,<br>Hold infinity in the palm of your hand<br>And eternity in an hour. <br>-William Blake</b> </p> <p><em>How often have you had the opportunity to be on a tropical island and just relax and let your mind wander?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/22/here-and-forever/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[6] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/hawaii_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Live every day like it's your last because someday you'll be right. \" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes that is a tough motto by which to live.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/07/28/adjustments-and-blending-in/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[7] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/valley_of_fire.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,<br>Old time is still a-flying;<br>And this same flower that smiles today<br>Tomorrow will be dying. <br>-Robert Herrick</b> </p> <p><em>I never knew how much I could fall in love with a desert.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/09/15/the-moonlight-sonata-of-the-past/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[8] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/sunset-cliffs.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.\" <br>-Alan Watts</b> </p> <p><em>Sunset Cliffs, in San Diego, a place where I'd often write and think.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/10/27/wont-try-to-fix-you/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[9] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-max-jen-arron.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.\"<br>-Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>I have been all around the world and I can honestly say that the most amazing thing I have ever experienced is being in the same room when my nephew was born.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/12/19/thirsty-thursday-volume-viii-the-cycle/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[10] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/salem-road.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.\"<br>-Milton Berle</b> </p> <p><em>The road, long and windy or straight and narrow, only determines how you get there. It's up to you to decide where you go.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/06/08/some-people-know/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[11] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/copenhagen_embassy.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.\" <br>-Harriet Beecher Stowe</b> </p> <p><em>A visit to the American Embassy in Copenhagen a few days after September 11th, 2001.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/09/12/thirsty-thursday-volume-i-one-year-later/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[12] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/forest-park.jpg'></div> <p><b>I shall be telling this with a sigh<br>Somewhere ages and ages hence:<br>Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--<br>I took the one less traveled by,<br>And that has made all the difference.<br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>Walking through the woods of Forest Park, I am reminded of the paths that led me home...and the difference it made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/12/25/walking-down-the-road/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[13] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/barcelona-girls.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.\"<br> -Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>You never know where you'll end up unless you just go. In this case an unpleasant situation on a train led to a brilliant sunset and new friends.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/24/thirsty-thursday-volume-iv-a-train-to-spain-part-two-the-secret-and-the-wish/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[14] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/train-to-barcelona.jpg'></div> <p><b>I may take a holiday in Spain<br>Leave my wings behind me<br>Drink my worries down the drain<br>And fly away to somewhere new<br> -Counting Crows</b> </p> <p><em>In situations where things may not seem to be going well, your mind, at least, will allow you to dream.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/10/thirsty-thursday-volume-iii-a-train-to-spain-part-one-sliding-doors/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[15] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/murren.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what they had to teach; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.\"<br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>I found myself in Murren, a tiny Swiss village in the Alps, where I took in the fresh air to cleanse a foggy mind, then sat on a bench and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/10/25/the-rambler/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[16] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-me-zakopane.jpg'></div> <p><b>For long you live and high you fly<br>And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry<br>And all that you touch and all that you see<br>Is all your life will ever be<br>-Pink Floyd</b> </p> <p><em>While traveling, my two college roommates and I experienced things we never thought we'd ever experience.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/06/06/a-late-night-walk/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[17] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/australia_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"It is not what you accomplish in this life that matters...it is what you overcome.\" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Whether overcoming fears or accomplishing dreams, the important thing is that you are striving to improve your life.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/20/thirsty-thursday-volume-xviii-two-sundays/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[18] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-nick-cabo.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Take only memories, leave only footprints.\"<br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes it is necessary to simply be a tourist, like my friend and I in Mexico.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/27/thirsty-thursday-volume-xiii-mexican-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[19] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/cliffs_of_moher.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gravedigger, when you dig my grave<br> Could you make it shallow<br> so that I can feel the rain?<br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>If it was you sitting on the precipice of these majestic cliffs in Ireland, what would be going through your mind? How far down is the North Atlantic? How far over can I lean? How long will I live?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/11/10/upon-finding-out-a-loved-one-has-died/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[20] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/king_apt_balcony.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.\"<br>-Lee Iacocca</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes, waiting is all you can do. Other times, it's not.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/24/and-the-days-go-by/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[21] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/mekong.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.\" <br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>My intention is to inspire others by sharing the experiences I've had, like floating down the Mekong River in Vietnam.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/18/apocalypse-then/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[22] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/swedish_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>If you wait for me<br> Then I'll come for you<br> Although I've traveled far<br> I always hold a place for you in my heart<br>-Tracy Chapman</b> </p> <p><em>Love, like this sunset in Sweden, is often brief, but always beautiful.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/13/thirsty-thursday-volume-xii-the-tree-and-its-branches/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[23] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/otay-lake.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.\" <br>-John Le Carre</b> </p> <p><em>Reasons are not something that can be sought, they are realized in retrospect.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/05/22/for-a-reason/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[24] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/interlaken_woods.jpg'></div> <p><b>The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,<br>But I have promises to keep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep. <br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>I took a walk that led to the woods in the base of the Swiss Alps where I thought and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/11/03/the-hills-are-alive/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[25] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/smoke_sun.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.\" <br>-Joan Crawford</b> </p> <p><em>With the sun enshrouded by smoke, we left with our belongings, hoping our house would still be standing when we returned.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/27/the-approaching-storm/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[26] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/leaving_sd.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.\"<br>-George Moore</b> </p> <p><em>Deciding to move back home to Oregon proved to be one of the best decisions I've ever made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/02/leaving-home-heading-home/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[27] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/quito_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.\" <br>-G.K. Chesterton</b> </p> <p><em>Standing above the city as I wandered through the mountains of Quito, Ecuador.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/07/29/south-american-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[28] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/santorini_wall.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Life is like a circle, and someday if we travel in opposite directions on the circle we will meet again.\" <br>-Todd L. Bradbury</b> </p> <p><em>Life, along with love, is a funny thing. Be prepared for everything and expectant of nothing.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/05/15/the-gift/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Feb[29] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/lake_murray.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.\"<br>-Vernon Law</b> </p> <p><em>And the results to those tests may take years to find out.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/12/11/thirsty-thursday-volume-xxi-tantamount/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"

Mar = new Array
Mar[1] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/chair.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Now progress takes away what forever took to find.\" <br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>Sitting in my chair facing an empty hillside, and a future, that is now covered by a subdivision full of houses in Salem, Oregon.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/01/16/thirsty-thursday-volume-x-growing-up-will-i-be-like-the-salmon/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[2] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/joshua_tree.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.\"<br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>I drove to Joshua Tree on purpose...to be an actor.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/02/19/destination-joshua-tree-california/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[3] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-ios.jpg'></div> <p><b>They call it paradise<br> I don't know why <br> You call someplace paradise,<br> Kiss it goodbye <br> -The Eagles</b> </p> <p><em>As I gazed at the beauty of Ios, this Greek island, I imagined what it looked like before the tourists came.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/27/the-secret-beach/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[4] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/skydive.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.\" <br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>Standing up to live sometimes involves taking a leap of faith.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/12/31/jumping-into-a-new-year/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[5] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/pink_palace_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>To see a world in a grain of sand<br>And a heaven in a wild flower,<br>Hold infinity in the palm of your hand<br>And eternity in an hour. <br>-William Blake</b> </p> <p><em>How often have you had the opportunity to be on a tropical island and just relax and let your mind wander?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/22/here-and-forever/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[6] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/hawaii_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Live every day like it's your last because someday you'll be right. \" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes that is a tough motto by which to live.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/07/28/adjustments-and-blending-in/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[7] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/valley_of_fire.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,<br>Old time is still a-flying;<br>And this same flower that smiles today<br>Tomorrow will be dying. <br>-Robert Herrick</b> </p> <p><em>I never knew how much I could fall in love with a desert.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/09/15/the-moonlight-sonata-of-the-past/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[8] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/sunset-cliffs.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.\" <br>-Alan Watts</b> </p> <p><em>Sunset Cliffs, in San Diego, a place where I'd often write and think.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/10/27/wont-try-to-fix-you/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[9] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-max-jen-arron.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.\"<br>-Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>I have been all around the world and I can honestly say that the most amazing thing I have ever experienced is being in the same room when my nephew was born.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/12/19/thirsty-thursday-volume-viii-the-cycle/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[10] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/salem-road.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.\"<br>-Milton Berle</b> </p> <p><em>The road, long and windy or straight and narrow, only determines how you get there. It's up to you to decide where you go.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/06/08/some-people-know/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[11] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/copenhagen_embassy.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.\" <br>-Harriet Beecher Stowe</b> </p> <p><em>A visit to the American Embassy in Copenhagen a few days after September 11th, 2001.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/09/12/thirsty-thursday-volume-i-one-year-later/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[12] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/forest-park.jpg'></div> <p><b>I shall be telling this with a sigh<br>Somewhere ages and ages hence:<br>Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--<br>I took the one less traveled by,<br>And that has made all the difference.<br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>Walking through the woods of Forest Park, I am reminded of the paths that led me home...and the difference it made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/12/25/walking-down-the-road/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[13] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/barcelona-girls.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.\"<br> -Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>You never know where you'll end up unless you just go. In this case an unpleasant situation on a train led to a brilliant sunset and new friends.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/24/thirsty-thursday-volume-iv-a-train-to-spain-part-two-the-secret-and-the-wish/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[14] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/train-to-barcelona.jpg'></div> <p><b>I may take a holiday in Spain<br>Leave my wings behind me<br>Drink my worries down the drain<br>And fly away to somewhere new<br> -Counting Crows</b> </p> <p><em>In situations where things may not seem to be going well, your mind, at least, will allow you to dream.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/10/thirsty-thursday-volume-iii-a-train-to-spain-part-one-sliding-doors/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[15] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/murren.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what they had to teach; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.\"<br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>I found myself in Murren, a tiny Swiss village in the Alps, where I took in the fresh air to cleanse a foggy mind, then sat on a bench and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/10/25/the-rambler/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[16] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-me-zakopane.jpg'></div> <p><b>For long you live and high you fly<br>And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry<br>And all that you touch and all that you see<br>Is all your life will ever be<br>-Pink Floyd</b> </p> <p><em>While traveling, my two college roommates and I experienced things we never thought we'd ever experience.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/06/06/a-late-night-walk/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[17] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/australia_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"It is not what you accomplish in this life that matters...it is what you overcome.\" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Whether overcoming fears or accomplishing dreams, the important thing is that you are striving to improve your life.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/20/thirsty-thursday-volume-xviii-two-sundays/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[18] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-nick-cabo.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Take only memories, leave only footprints.\"<br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes it is necessary to simply be a tourist, like my friend and I in Mexico.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/27/thirsty-thursday-volume-xiii-mexican-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[19] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/cliffs_of_moher.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gravedigger, when you dig my grave<br> Could you make it shallow<br> so that I can feel the rain?<br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>If it was you sitting on the precipice of these majestic cliffs in Ireland, what would be going through your mind? How far down is the North Atlantic? How far over can I lean? How long will I live?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/11/10/upon-finding-out-a-loved-one-has-died/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[20] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/king_apt_balcony.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.\"<br>-Lee Iacocca</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes, waiting is all you can do. Other times, it's not.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/24/and-the-days-go-by/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[21] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/mekong.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.\" <br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>My intention is to inspire others by sharing the experiences I've had, like floating down the Mekong River in Vietnam.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/18/apocalypse-then/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[22] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/swedish_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>If you wait for me<br> Then I'll come for you<br> Although I've traveled far<br> I always hold a place for you in my heart<br>-Tracy Chapman</b> </p> <p><em>Love, like this sunset in Sweden, is often brief, but always beautiful.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/13/thirsty-thursday-volume-xii-the-tree-and-its-branches/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[23] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/otay-lake.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.\" <br>-John Le Carre</b> </p> <p><em>Reasons are not something that can be sought, they are realized in retrospect.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/05/22/for-a-reason/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[24] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/interlaken_woods.jpg'></div> <p><b>The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,<br>But I have promises to keep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep. <br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>I took a walk that led to the woods in the base of the Swiss Alps where I thought and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/11/03/the-hills-are-alive/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[25] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/smoke_sun.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.\" <br>-Joan Crawford</b> </p> <p><em>With the sun enshrouded by smoke, we left with our belongings, hoping our house would still be standing when we returned.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/27/the-approaching-storm/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[26] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/leaving_sd.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.\"<br>-George Moore</b> </p> <p><em>Deciding to move back home to Oregon proved to be one of the best decisions I've ever made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/02/leaving-home-heading-home/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[27] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/quito_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.\" <br>-G.K. Chesterton</b> </p> <p><em>Standing above the city as I wandered through the mountains of Quito, Ecuador.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/07/29/south-american-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[28] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/santorini_wall.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Life is like a circle, and someday if we travel in opposite directions on the circle we will meet again.\" <br>-Todd L. Bradbury</b> </p> <p><em>Life, along with love, is a funny thing. Be prepared for everything and expectant of nothing.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/05/15/the-gift/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[29] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/lake_murray.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.\"<br>-Vernon Law</b> </p> <p><em>And the results to those tests may take years to find out.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/12/11/thirsty-thursday-volume-xxi-tantamount/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[30] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/ko_samui_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. \" <br>-Mark Twain</b> </p> <p><em>Though I've paid a tremendous price, both figuratively and literally, I would not exchange any of the travels I've done.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/06/the-breeze/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Mar[31] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/andy-laura.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.\" <br>-A.A. Milne</b> </p> <p><em>My best friend, Andy, and his best friend, Laura at a wedding a few years prior to theirs.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/01/04/my-toast-to-andy-and-his-wife-laura/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"

Apr = new Array
Apr[1] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/chair.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Now progress takes away what forever took to find.\" <br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>Sitting in my chair facing an empty hillside, and a future, that is now covered by a subdivision full of houses in Salem, Oregon.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/01/16/thirsty-thursday-volume-x-growing-up-will-i-be-like-the-salmon/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[2] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/joshua_tree.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.\"<br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>I drove to Joshua Tree on purpose...to be an actor.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/02/19/destination-joshua-tree-california/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[3] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-ios.jpg'></div> <p><b>They call it paradise<br> I don't know why <br> You call someplace paradise,<br> Kiss it goodbye <br> -The Eagles</b> </p> <p><em>As I gazed at the beauty of Ios, this Greek island, I imagined what it looked like before the tourists came.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/27/the-secret-beach/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[4] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/skydive.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.\" <br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>Standing up to live sometimes involves taking a leap of faith.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/12/31/jumping-into-a-new-year/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[5] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/pink_palace_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>To see a world in a grain of sand<br>And a heaven in a wild flower,<br>Hold infinity in the palm of your hand<br>And eternity in an hour. <br>-William Blake</b> </p> <p><em>How often have you had the opportunity to be on a tropical island and just relax and let your mind wander?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/22/here-and-forever/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[6] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/hawaii_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Live every day like it's your last because someday you'll be right. \" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes that is a tough motto by which to live.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/07/28/adjustments-and-blending-in/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[7] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/valley_of_fire.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,<br>Old time is still a-flying;<br>And this same flower that smiles today<br>Tomorrow will be dying. <br>-Robert Herrick</b> </p> <p><em>I never knew how much I could fall in love with a desert.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/09/15/the-moonlight-sonata-of-the-past/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[8] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/sunset-cliffs.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.\" <br>-Alan Watts</b> </p> <p><em>Sunset Cliffs, in San Diego, a place where I'd often write and think.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/10/27/wont-try-to-fix-you/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[9] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-max-jen-arron.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.\"<br>-Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>I have been all around the world and I can honestly say that the most amazing thing I have ever experienced is being in the same room when my nephew was born.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/12/19/thirsty-thursday-volume-viii-the-cycle/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[10] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/salem-road.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.\"<br>-Milton Berle</b> </p> <p><em>The road, long and windy or straight and narrow, only determines how you get there. It's up to you to decide where you go.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/06/08/some-people-know/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[11] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/copenhagen_embassy.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.\" <br>-Harriet Beecher Stowe</b> </p> <p><em>A visit to the American Embassy in Copenhagen a few days after September 11th, 2001.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/09/12/thirsty-thursday-volume-i-one-year-later/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[12] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/forest-park.jpg'></div> <p><b>I shall be telling this with a sigh<br>Somewhere ages and ages hence:<br>Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--<br>I took the one less traveled by,<br>And that has made all the difference.<br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>Walking through the woods of Forest Park, I am reminded of the paths that led me home...and the difference it made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/12/25/walking-down-the-road/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[13] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/barcelona-girls.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.\"<br> -Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>You never know where you'll end up unless you just go. In this case an unpleasant situation on a train led to a brilliant sunset and new friends.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/24/thirsty-thursday-volume-iv-a-train-to-spain-part-two-the-secret-and-the-wish/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[14] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/train-to-barcelona.jpg'></div> <p><b>I may take a holiday in Spain<br>Leave my wings behind me<br>Drink my worries down the drain<br>And fly away to somewhere new<br> -Counting Crows</b> </p> <p><em>In situations where things may not seem to be going well, your mind, at least, will allow you to dream.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/10/thirsty-thursday-volume-iii-a-train-to-spain-part-one-sliding-doors/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[15] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/murren.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what they had to teach; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.\"<br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>I found myself in Murren, a tiny Swiss village in the Alps, where I took in the fresh air to cleanse a foggy mind, then sat on a bench and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/10/25/the-rambler/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[16] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-me-zakopane.jpg'></div> <p><b>For long you live and high you fly<br>And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry<br>And all that you touch and all that you see<br>Is all your life will ever be<br>-Pink Floyd</b> </p> <p><em>While traveling, my two college roommates and I experienced things we never thought we'd ever experience.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/06/06/a-late-night-walk/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[17] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/australia_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"It is not what you accomplish in this life that matters...it is what you overcome.\" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Whether overcoming fears or accomplishing dreams, the important thing is that you are striving to improve your life.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/20/thirsty-thursday-volume-xviii-two-sundays/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[18] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-nick-cabo.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Take only memories, leave only footprints.\"<br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes it is necessary to simply be a tourist, like my friend and I in Mexico.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/27/thirsty-thursday-volume-xiii-mexican-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[19] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/cliffs_of_moher.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gravedigger, when you dig my grave<br> Could you make it shallow<br> so that I can feel the rain?<br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>If it was you sitting on the precipice of these majestic cliffs in Ireland, what would be going through your mind? How far down is the North Atlantic? How far over can I lean? How long will I live?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/11/10/upon-finding-out-a-loved-one-has-died/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[20] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/king_apt_balcony.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.\"<br>-Lee Iacocca</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes, waiting is all you can do. Other times, it's not.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/24/and-the-days-go-by/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[21] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/mekong.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.\" <br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>My intention is to inspire others by sharing the experiences I've had, like floating down the Mekong River in Vietnam.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/18/apocalypse-then/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[22] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/swedish_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>If you wait for me<br> Then I'll come for you<br> Although I've traveled far<br> I always hold a place for you in my heart<br>-Tracy Chapman</b> </p> <p><em>Love, like this sunset in Sweden, is often brief, but always beautiful.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/13/thirsty-thursday-volume-xii-the-tree-and-its-branches/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[23] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/otay-lake.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.\" <br>-John Le Carre</b> </p> <p><em>Reasons are not something that can be sought, they are realized in retrospect.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/05/22/for-a-reason/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[24] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/interlaken_woods.jpg'></div> <p><b>The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,<br>But I have promises to keep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep. <br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>I took a walk that led to the woods in the base of the Swiss Alps where I thought and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/11/03/the-hills-are-alive/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[25] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/smoke_sun.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.\" <br>-Joan Crawford</b> </p> <p><em>With the sun enshrouded by smoke, we left with our belongings, hoping our house would still be standing when we returned.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/27/the-approaching-storm/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[26] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/leaving_sd.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.\"<br>-George Moore</b> </p> <p><em>Deciding to move back home to Oregon proved to be one of the best decisions I've ever made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/02/leaving-home-heading-home/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[27] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/quito_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.\" <br>-G.K. Chesterton</b> </p> <p><em>Standing above the city as I wandered through the mountains of Quito, Ecuador.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/07/29/south-american-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[28] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/santorini_wall.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Life is like a circle, and someday if we travel in opposite directions on the circle we will meet again.\" <br>-Todd L. Bradbury</b> </p> <p><em>Life, along with love, is a funny thing. Be prepared for everything and expectant of nothing.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/05/15/the-gift/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[29] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/lake_murray.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.\"<br>-Vernon Law</b> </p> <p><em>And the results to those tests may take years to find out.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/12/11/thirsty-thursday-volume-xxi-tantamount/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Apr[30] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/ko_samui_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. \" <br>-Mark Twain</b> </p> <p><em>Though I've paid a tremendous price, both figuratively and literally, I would not exchange any of the travels I've done.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/06/the-breeze/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"

May = new Array
May[1] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/chair.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Now progress takes away what forever took to find.\" <br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>Sitting in my chair facing an empty hillside, and a future, that is now covered by a subdivision full of houses in Salem, Oregon.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/01/16/thirsty-thursday-volume-x-growing-up-will-i-be-like-the-salmon/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[2] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/joshua_tree.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.\"<br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>I drove to Joshua Tree on purpose...to be an actor.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/02/19/destination-joshua-tree-california/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[3] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-ios.jpg'></div> <p><b>They call it paradise<br> I don't know why <br> You call someplace paradise,<br> Kiss it goodbye <br> -The Eagles</b> </p> <p><em>As I gazed at the beauty of Ios, this Greek island, I imagined what it looked like before the tourists came.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/27/the-secret-beach/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[4] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/skydive.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.\" <br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>Standing up to live sometimes involves taking a leap of faith.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/12/31/jumping-into-a-new-year/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[5] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/pink_palace_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>To see a world in a grain of sand<br>And a heaven in a wild flower,<br>Hold infinity in the palm of your hand<br>And eternity in an hour. <br>-William Blake</b> </p> <p><em>How often have you had the opportunity to be on a tropical island and just relax and let your mind wander?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/22/here-and-forever/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[6] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/hawaii_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Live every day like it's your last because someday you'll be right. \" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes that is a tough motto by which to live.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/07/28/adjustments-and-blending-in/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[7] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/valley_of_fire.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,<br>Old time is still a-flying;<br>And this same flower that smiles today<br>Tomorrow will be dying. <br>-Robert Herrick</b> </p> <p><em>I never knew how much I could fall in love with a desert.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/09/15/the-moonlight-sonata-of-the-past/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[8] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/sunset-cliffs.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.\" <br>-Alan Watts</b> </p> <p><em>Sunset Cliffs, in San Diego, a place where I'd often write and think.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/10/27/wont-try-to-fix-you/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[9] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-max-jen-arron.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.\"<br>-Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>I have been all around the world and I can honestly say that the most amazing thing I have ever experienced is being in the same room when my nephew was born.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/12/19/thirsty-thursday-volume-viii-the-cycle/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[10] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/salem-road.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.\"<br>-Milton Berle</b> </p> <p><em>The road, long and windy or straight and narrow, only determines how you get there. It's up to you to decide where you go.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/06/08/some-people-know/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[11] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/copenhagen_embassy.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.\" <br>-Harriet Beecher Stowe</b> </p> <p><em>A visit to the American Embassy in Copenhagen a few days after September 11th, 2001.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/09/12/thirsty-thursday-volume-i-one-year-later/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[12] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/forest-park.jpg'></div> <p><b>I shall be telling this with a sigh<br>Somewhere ages and ages hence:<br>Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--<br>I took the one less traveled by,<br>And that has made all the difference.<br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>Walking through the woods of Forest Park, I am reminded of the paths that led me home...and the difference it made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/12/25/walking-down-the-road/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[13] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/barcelona-girls.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.\"<br> -Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>You never know where you'll end up unless you just go. In this case an unpleasant situation on a train led to a brilliant sunset and new friends.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/24/thirsty-thursday-volume-iv-a-train-to-spain-part-two-the-secret-and-the-wish/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[14] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/train-to-barcelona.jpg'></div> <p><b>I may take a holiday in Spain<br>Leave my wings behind me<br>Drink my worries down the drain<br>And fly away to somewhere new<br> -Counting Crows</b> </p> <p><em>In situations where things may not seem to be going well, your mind, at least, will allow you to dream.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/10/thirsty-thursday-volume-iii-a-train-to-spain-part-one-sliding-doors/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[15] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/murren.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what they had to teach; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.\"<br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>I found myself in Murren, a tiny Swiss village in the Alps, where I took in the fresh air to cleanse a foggy mind, then sat on a bench and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/10/25/the-rambler/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[16] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-me-zakopane.jpg'></div> <p><b>For long you live and high you fly<br>And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry<br>And all that you touch and all that you see<br>Is all your life will ever be<br>-Pink Floyd</b> </p> <p><em>While traveling, my two college roommates and I experienced things we never thought we'd ever experience.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/06/06/a-late-night-walk/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[17] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/australia_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"It is not what you accomplish in this life that matters...it is what you overcome.\" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Whether overcoming fears or accomplishing dreams, the important thing is that you are striving to improve your life.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/20/thirsty-thursday-volume-xviii-two-sundays/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[18] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-nick-cabo.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Take only memories, leave only footprints.\"<br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes it is necessary to simply be a tourist, like my friend and I in Mexico.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/27/thirsty-thursday-volume-xiii-mexican-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[19] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/cliffs_of_moher.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gravedigger, when you dig my grave<br> Could you make it shallow<br> so that I can feel the rain?<br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>If it was you sitting on the precipice of these majestic cliffs in Ireland, what would be going through your mind? How far down is the North Atlantic? How far over can I lean? How long will I live?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/11/10/upon-finding-out-a-loved-one-has-died/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[20] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/king_apt_balcony.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.\"<br>-Lee Iacocca</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes, waiting is all you can do. Other times, it's not.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/24/and-the-days-go-by/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[21] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/mekong.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.\" <br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>My intention is to inspire others by sharing the experiences I've had, like floating down the Mekong River in Vietnam.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/18/apocalypse-then/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[22] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/swedish_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>If you wait for me<br> Then I'll come for you<br> Although I've traveled far<br> I always hold a place for you in my heart<br>-Tracy Chapman</b> </p> <p><em>Love, like this sunset in Sweden, is often brief, but always beautiful.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/13/thirsty-thursday-volume-xii-the-tree-and-its-branches/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[23] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/otay-lake.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.\" <br>-John Le Carre</b> </p> <p><em>Reasons are not something that can be sought, they are realized in retrospect.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/05/22/for-a-reason/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[24] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/interlaken_woods.jpg'></div> <p><b>The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,<br>But I have promises to keep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep. <br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>I took a walk that led to the woods in the base of the Swiss Alps where I thought and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/11/03/the-hills-are-alive/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[25] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/smoke_sun.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.\" <br>-Joan Crawford</b> </p> <p><em>With the sun enshrouded by smoke, we left with our belongings, hoping our house would still be standing when we returned.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/27/the-approaching-storm/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[26] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/leaving_sd.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.\"<br>-George Moore</b> </p> <p><em>Deciding to move back home to Oregon proved to be one of the best decisions I've ever made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/02/leaving-home-heading-home/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[27] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/quito_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.\" <br>-G.K. Chesterton</b> </p> <p><em>Standing above the city as I wandered through the mountains of Quito, Ecuador.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/07/29/south-american-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[28] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/santorini_wall.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Life is like a circle, and someday if we travel in opposite directions on the circle we will meet again.\" <br>-Todd L. Bradbury</b> </p> <p><em>Life, along with love, is a funny thing. Be prepared for everything and expectant of nothing.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/05/15/the-gift/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[29] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/lake_murray.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.\"<br>-Vernon Law</b> </p> <p><em>And the results to those tests may take years to find out.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/12/11/thirsty-thursday-volume-xxi-tantamount/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[30] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/ko_samui_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. \" <br>-Mark Twain</b> </p> <p><em>Though I've paid a tremendous price, both figuratively and literally, I would not exchange any of the travels I've done.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/06/the-breeze/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
May[31] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/andy-laura.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.\" <br>-A.A. Milne</b> </p> <p><em>My best friend, Andy, and his best friend, Laura at a wedding a few years prior to theirs.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/01/04/my-toast-to-andy-and-his-wife-laura/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"

Jun = new Array
Jun[1] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/chair.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Now progress takes away what forever took to find.\" <br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>Sitting in my chair facing an empty hillside, and a future, that is now covered by a subdivision full of houses in Salem, Oregon.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/01/16/thirsty-thursday-volume-x-growing-up-will-i-be-like-the-salmon/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[2] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/joshua_tree.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.\"<br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>I drove to Joshua Tree on purpose...to be an actor.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/02/19/destination-joshua-tree-california/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[3] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-ios.jpg'></div> <p><b>They call it paradise<br> I don't know why <br> You call someplace paradise,<br> Kiss it goodbye <br> -The Eagles</b> </p> <p><em>As I gazed at the beauty of Ios, this Greek island, I imagined what it looked like before the tourists came.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/27/the-secret-beach/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[4] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/skydive.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.\" <br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>Standing up to live sometimes involves taking a leap of faith.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/12/31/jumping-into-a-new-year/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[5] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/pink_palace_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>To see a world in a grain of sand<br>And a heaven in a wild flower,<br>Hold infinity in the palm of your hand<br>And eternity in an hour. <br>-William Blake</b> </p> <p><em>How often have you had the opportunity to be on a tropical island and just relax and let your mind wander?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/22/here-and-forever/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[6] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/hawaii_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Live every day like it's your last because someday you'll be right. \" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes that is a tough motto by which to live.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/07/28/adjustments-and-blending-in/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[7] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/valley_of_fire.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,<br>Old time is still a-flying;<br>And this same flower that smiles today<br>Tomorrow will be dying. <br>-Robert Herrick</b> </p> <p><em>I never knew how much I could fall in love with a desert.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/09/15/the-moonlight-sonata-of-the-past/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[8] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/sunset-cliffs.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.\" <br>-Alan Watts</b> </p> <p><em>Sunset Cliffs, in San Diego, a place where I'd often write and think.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/10/27/wont-try-to-fix-you/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[9] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-max-jen-arron.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.\"<br>-Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>I have been all around the world and I can honestly say that the most amazing thing I have ever experienced is being in the same room when my nephew was born.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/12/19/thirsty-thursday-volume-viii-the-cycle/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[10] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/salem-road.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.\"<br>-Milton Berle</b> </p> <p><em>The road, long and windy or straight and narrow, only determines how you get there. It's up to you to decide where you go.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/06/08/some-people-know/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[11] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/copenhagen_embassy.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.\" <br>-Harriet Beecher Stowe</b> </p> <p><em>A visit to the American Embassy in Copenhagen a few days after September 11th, 2001.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/09/12/thirsty-thursday-volume-i-one-year-later/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[12] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/forest-park.jpg'></div> <p><b>I shall be telling this with a sigh<br>Somewhere ages and ages hence:<br>Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--<br>I took the one less traveled by,<br>And that has made all the difference.<br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>Walking through the woods of Forest Park, I am reminded of the paths that led me home...and the difference it made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/12/25/walking-down-the-road/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[13] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/barcelona-girls.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.\"<br> -Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>You never know where you'll end up unless you just go. In this case an unpleasant situation on a train led to a brilliant sunset and new friends.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/24/thirsty-thursday-volume-iv-a-train-to-spain-part-two-the-secret-and-the-wish/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[14] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/train-to-barcelona.jpg'></div> <p><b>I may take a holiday in Spain<br>Leave my wings behind me<br>Drink my worries down the drain<br>And fly away to somewhere new<br> -Counting Crows</b> </p> <p><em>In situations where things may not seem to be going well, your mind, at least, will allow you to dream.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/10/thirsty-thursday-volume-iii-a-train-to-spain-part-one-sliding-doors/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[15] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/murren.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what they had to teach; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.\"<br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>I found myself in Murren, a tiny Swiss village in the Alps, where I took in the fresh air to cleanse a foggy mind, then sat on a bench and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/10/25/the-rambler/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[16] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-me-zakopane.jpg'></div> <p><b>For long you live and high you fly<br>And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry<br>And all that you touch and all that you see<br>Is all your life will ever be<br>-Pink Floyd</b> </p> <p><em>While traveling, my two college roommates and I experienced things we never thought we'd ever experience.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/06/06/a-late-night-walk/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[17] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/australia_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"It is not what you accomplish in this life that matters...it is what you overcome.\" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Whether overcoming fears or accomplishing dreams, the important thing is that you are striving to improve your life.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/20/thirsty-thursday-volume-xviii-two-sundays/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[18] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-nick-cabo.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Take only memories, leave only footprints.\"<br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes it is necessary to simply be a tourist, like my friend and I in Mexico.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/27/thirsty-thursday-volume-xiii-mexican-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[19] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/cliffs_of_moher.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gravedigger, when you dig my grave<br> Could you make it shallow<br> so that I can feel the rain?<br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>If it was you sitting on the precipice of these majestic cliffs in Ireland, what would be going through your mind? How far down is the North Atlantic? How far over can I lean? How long will I live?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/11/10/upon-finding-out-a-loved-one-has-died/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[20] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/king_apt_balcony.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.\"<br>-Lee Iacocca</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes, waiting is all you can do. Other times, it's not.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/24/and-the-days-go-by/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[21] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/mekong.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.\" <br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>My intention is to inspire others by sharing the experiences I've had, like floating down the Mekong River in Vietnam.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/18/apocalypse-then/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[22] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/swedish_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>If you wait for me<br> Then I'll come for you<br> Although I've traveled far<br> I always hold a place for you in my heart<br>-Tracy Chapman</b> </p> <p><em>Love, like this sunset in Sweden, is often brief, but always beautiful.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/13/thirsty-thursday-volume-xii-the-tree-and-its-branches/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[23] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/otay-lake.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.\" <br>-John Le Carre</b> </p> <p><em>Reasons are not something that can be sought, they are realized in retrospect.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/05/22/for-a-reason/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[24] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/interlaken_woods.jpg'></div> <p><b>The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,<br>But I have promises to keep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep. <br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>I took a walk that led to the woods in the base of the Swiss Alps where I thought and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/11/03/the-hills-are-alive/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[25] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/smoke_sun.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.\" <br>-Joan Crawford</b> </p> <p><em>With the sun enshrouded by smoke, we left with our belongings, hoping our house would still be standing when we returned.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/27/the-approaching-storm/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[26] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/leaving_sd.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.\"<br>-George Moore</b> </p> <p><em>Deciding to move back home to Oregon proved to be one of the best decisions I've ever made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/02/leaving-home-heading-home/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[27] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/quito_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.\" <br>-G.K. Chesterton</b> </p> <p><em>Standing above the city as I wandered through the mountains of Quito, Ecuador.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/07/29/south-american-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[28] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/santorini_wall.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Life is like a circle, and someday if we travel in opposite directions on the circle we will meet again.\" <br>-Todd L. Bradbury</b> </p> <p><em>Life, along with love, is a funny thing. Be prepared for everything and expectant of nothing.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/05/15/the-gift/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[29] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/lake_murray.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.\"<br>-Vernon Law</b> </p> <p><em>And the results to those tests may take years to find out.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/12/11/thirsty-thursday-volume-xxi-tantamount/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jun[30] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/ko_samui_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. \" <br>-Mark Twain</b> </p> <p><em>Though I've paid a tremendous price, both figuratively and literally, I would not exchange any of the travels I've done.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/06/the-breeze/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"

Jul = new Array
Jul[1] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/chair.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Now progress takes away what forever took to find.\" <br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>Sitting in my chair facing an empty hillside, and a future, that is now covered by a subdivision full of houses in Salem, Oregon.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/01/16/thirsty-thursday-volume-x-growing-up-will-i-be-like-the-salmon/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[2] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/joshua_tree.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.\"<br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>I drove to Joshua Tree on purpose...to be an actor.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/02/19/destination-joshua-tree-california/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[3] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-ios.jpg'></div> <p><b>They call it paradise<br> I don't know why <br> You call someplace paradise,<br> Kiss it goodbye <br> -The Eagles</b> </p> <p><em>As I gazed at the beauty of Ios, this Greek island, I imagined what it looked like before the tourists came.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/27/the-secret-beach/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[4] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/skydive.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.\" <br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>Standing up to live sometimes involves taking a leap of faith.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/12/31/jumping-into-a-new-year/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[5] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/pink_palace_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>To see a world in a grain of sand<br>And a heaven in a wild flower,<br>Hold infinity in the palm of your hand<br>And eternity in an hour. <br>-William Blake</b> </p> <p><em>How often have you had the opportunity to be on a tropical island and just relax and let your mind wander?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/22/here-and-forever/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[6] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/hawaii_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Live every day like it's your last because someday you'll be right. \" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes that is a tough motto by which to live.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/07/28/adjustments-and-blending-in/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[7] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/valley_of_fire.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,<br>Old time is still a-flying;<br>And this same flower that smiles today<br>Tomorrow will be dying. <br>-Robert Herrick</b> </p> <p><em>I never knew how much I could fall in love with a desert.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/09/15/the-moonlight-sonata-of-the-past/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[8] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/sunset-cliffs.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.\" <br>-Alan Watts</b> </p> <p><em>Sunset Cliffs, in San Diego, a place where I'd often write and think.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/10/27/wont-try-to-fix-you/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[9] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-max-jen-arron.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.\"<br>-Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>I have been all around the world and I can honestly say that the most amazing thing I have ever experienced is being in the same room when my nephew was born.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/12/19/thirsty-thursday-volume-viii-the-cycle/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[10] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/salem-road.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.\"<br>-Milton Berle</b> </p> <p><em>The road, long and windy or straight and narrow, only determines how you get there. It's up to you to decide where you go.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/06/08/some-people-know/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[11] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/copenhagen_embassy.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.\" <br>-Harriet Beecher Stowe</b> </p> <p><em>A visit to the American Embassy in Copenhagen a few days after September 11th, 2001.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/09/12/thirsty-thursday-volume-i-one-year-later/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[12] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/forest-park.jpg'></div> <p><b>I shall be telling this with a sigh<br>Somewhere ages and ages hence:<br>Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--<br>I took the one less traveled by,<br>And that has made all the difference.<br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>Walking through the woods of Forest Park, I am reminded of the paths that led me home...and the difference it made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/12/25/walking-down-the-road/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[13] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/barcelona-girls.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.\"<br> -Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>You never know where you'll end up unless you just go. In this case an unpleasant situation on a train led to a brilliant sunset and new friends.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/24/thirsty-thursday-volume-iv-a-train-to-spain-part-two-the-secret-and-the-wish/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[14] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/train-to-barcelona.jpg'></div> <p><b>I may take a holiday in Spain<br>Leave my wings behind me<br>Drink my worries down the drain<br>And fly away to somewhere new<br> -Counting Crows</b> </p> <p><em>In situations where things may not seem to be going well, your mind, at least, will allow you to dream.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/10/thirsty-thursday-volume-iii-a-train-to-spain-part-one-sliding-doors/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[15] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/murren.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what they had to teach; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.\"<br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>I found myself in Murren, a tiny Swiss village in the Alps, where I took in the fresh air to cleanse a foggy mind, then sat on a bench and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/10/25/the-rambler/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[16] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-me-zakopane.jpg'></div> <p><b>For long you live and high you fly<br>And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry<br>And all that you touch and all that you see<br>Is all your life will ever be<br>-Pink Floyd</b> </p> <p><em>While traveling, my two college roommates and I experienced things we never thought we'd ever experience.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/06/06/a-late-night-walk/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[17] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/australia_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"It is not what you accomplish in this life that matters...it is what you overcome.\" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Whether overcoming fears or accomplishing dreams, the important thing is that you are striving to improve your life.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/20/thirsty-thursday-volume-xviii-two-sundays/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[18] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-nick-cabo.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Take only memories, leave only footprints.\"<br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes it is necessary to simply be a tourist, like my friend and I in Mexico.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/27/thirsty-thursday-volume-xiii-mexican-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[19] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/cliffs_of_moher.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gravedigger, when you dig my grave<br> Could you make it shallow<br> so that I can feel the rain?<br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>If it was you sitting on the precipice of these majestic cliffs in Ireland, what would be going through your mind? How far down is the North Atlantic? How far over can I lean? How long will I live?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/11/10/upon-finding-out-a-loved-one-has-died/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[20] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/king_apt_balcony.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.\"<br>-Lee Iacocca</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes, waiting is all you can do. Other times, it's not.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/24/and-the-days-go-by/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[21] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/mekong.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.\" <br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>My intention is to inspire others by sharing the experiences I've had, like floating down the Mekong River in Vietnam.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/18/apocalypse-then/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[22] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/swedish_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>If you wait for me<br> Then I'll come for you<br> Although I've traveled far<br> I always hold a place for you in my heart<br>-Tracy Chapman</b> </p> <p><em>Love, like this sunset in Sweden, is often brief, but always beautiful.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/13/thirsty-thursday-volume-xii-the-tree-and-its-branches/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[23] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/otay-lake.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.\" <br>-John Le Carre</b> </p> <p><em>Reasons are not something that can be sought, they are realized in retrospect.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/05/22/for-a-reason/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[24] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/interlaken_woods.jpg'></div> <p><b>The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,<br>But I have promises to keep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep. <br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>I took a walk that led to the woods in the base of the Swiss Alps where I thought and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/11/03/the-hills-are-alive/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[25] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/smoke_sun.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.\" <br>-Joan Crawford</b> </p> <p><em>With the sun enshrouded by smoke, we left with our belongings, hoping our house would still be standing when we returned.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/27/the-approaching-storm/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[26] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/leaving_sd.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.\"<br>-George Moore</b> </p> <p><em>Deciding to move back home to Oregon proved to be one of the best decisions I've ever made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/02/leaving-home-heading-home/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[27] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/quito_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.\" <br>-G.K. Chesterton</b> </p> <p><em>Standing above the city as I wandered through the mountains of Quito, Ecuador.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/07/29/south-american-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[28] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/santorini_wall.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Life is like a circle, and someday if we travel in opposite directions on the circle we will meet again.\" <br>-Todd L. Bradbury</b> </p> <p><em>Life, along with love, is a funny thing. Be prepared for everything and expectant of nothing.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/05/15/the-gift/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[29] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/lake_murray.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.\"<br>-Vernon Law</b> </p> <p><em>And the results to those tests may take years to find out.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/12/11/thirsty-thursday-volume-xxi-tantamount/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[30] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/ko_samui_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. \" <br>-Mark Twain</b> </p> <p><em>Though I've paid a tremendous price, both figuratively and literally, I would not exchange any of the travels I've done.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/06/the-breeze/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Jul[31] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/andy-laura.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.\" <br>-A.A. Milne</b> </p> <p><em>My best friend, Andy, and his best friend, Laura at a wedding a few years prior to theirs.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/01/04/my-toast-to-andy-and-his-wife-laura/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"

Aug = new Array
Aug[1] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/chair.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Now progress takes away what forever took to find.\" <br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>Sitting in my chair facing an empty hillside, and a future, that is now covered by a subdivision full of houses in Salem, Oregon.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/01/16/thirsty-thursday-volume-x-growing-up-will-i-be-like-the-salmon/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[2] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/joshua_tree.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.\"<br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>I drove to Joshua Tree on purpose...to be an actor.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/02/19/destination-joshua-tree-california/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[3] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-ios.jpg'></div> <p><b>They call it paradise<br> I don't know why <br> You call someplace paradise,<br> Kiss it goodbye <br> -The Eagles</b> </p> <p><em>As I gazed at the beauty of Ios, this Greek island, I imagined what it looked like before the tourists came.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/27/the-secret-beach/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[4] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/skydive.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.\" <br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>Standing up to live sometimes involves taking a leap of faith.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/12/31/jumping-into-a-new-year/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[5] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/pink_palace_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>To see a world in a grain of sand<br>And a heaven in a wild flower,<br>Hold infinity in the palm of your hand<br>And eternity in an hour. <br>-William Blake</b> </p> <p><em>How often have you had the opportunity to be on a tropical island and just relax and let your mind wander?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/22/here-and-forever/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[6] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/hawaii_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Live every day like it's your last because someday you'll be right. \" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes that is a tough motto by which to live.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/07/28/adjustments-and-blending-in/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[7] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/valley_of_fire.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,<br>Old time is still a-flying;<br>And this same flower that smiles today<br>Tomorrow will be dying. <br>-Robert Herrick</b> </p> <p><em>I never knew how much I could fall in love with a desert.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/09/15/the-moonlight-sonata-of-the-past/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[8] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/sunset-cliffs.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.\" <br>-Alan Watts</b> </p> <p><em>Sunset Cliffs, in San Diego, a place where I'd often write and think.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/10/27/wont-try-to-fix-you/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[9] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-max-jen-arron.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.\"<br>-Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>I have been all around the world and I can honestly say that the most amazing thing I have ever experienced is being in the same room when my nephew was born.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/12/19/thirsty-thursday-volume-viii-the-cycle/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[10] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/salem-road.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.\"<br>-Milton Berle</b> </p> <p><em>The road, long and windy or straight and narrow, only determines how you get there. It's up to you to decide where you go.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/06/08/some-people-know/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[11] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/copenhagen_embassy.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.\" <br>-Harriet Beecher Stowe</b> </p> <p><em>A visit to the American Embassy in Copenhagen a few days after September 11th, 2001.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/09/12/thirsty-thursday-volume-i-one-year-later/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[12] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/forest-park.jpg'></div> <p><b>I shall be telling this with a sigh<br>Somewhere ages and ages hence:<br>Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--<br>I took the one less traveled by,<br>And that has made all the difference.<br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>Walking through the woods of Forest Park, I am reminded of the paths that led me home...and the difference it made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/12/25/walking-down-the-road/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[13] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/barcelona-girls.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.\"<br> -Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>You never know where you'll end up unless you just go. In this case an unpleasant situation on a train led to a brilliant sunset and new friends.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/24/thirsty-thursday-volume-iv-a-train-to-spain-part-two-the-secret-and-the-wish/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[14] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/train-to-barcelona.jpg'></div> <p><b>I may take a holiday in Spain<br>Leave my wings behind me<br>Drink my worries down the drain<br>And fly away to somewhere new<br> -Counting Crows</b> </p> <p><em>In situations where things may not seem to be going well, your mind, at least, will allow you to dream.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/10/thirsty-thursday-volume-iii-a-train-to-spain-part-one-sliding-doors/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[15] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/murren.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what they had to teach; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.\"<br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>I found myself in Murren, a tiny Swiss village in the Alps, where I took in the fresh air to cleanse a foggy mind, then sat on a bench and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/10/25/the-rambler/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[16] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-me-zakopane.jpg'></div> <p><b>For long you live and high you fly<br>And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry<br>And all that you touch and all that you see<br>Is all your life will ever be<br>-Pink Floyd</b> </p> <p><em>While traveling, my two college roommates and I experienced things we never thought we'd ever experience.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/06/06/a-late-night-walk/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[17] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/australia_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"It is not what you accomplish in this life that matters...it is what you overcome.\" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Whether overcoming fears or accomplishing dreams, the important thing is that you are striving to improve your life.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/20/thirsty-thursday-volume-xviii-two-sundays/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[18] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-nick-cabo.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Take only memories, leave only footprints.\"<br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes it is necessary to simply be a tourist, like my friend and I in Mexico.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/27/thirsty-thursday-volume-xiii-mexican-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[19] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/cliffs_of_moher.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gravedigger, when you dig my grave<br> Could you make it shallow<br> so that I can feel the rain?<br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>If it was you sitting on the precipice of these majestic cliffs in Ireland, what would be going through your mind? How far down is the North Atlantic? How far over can I lean? How long will I live?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/11/10/upon-finding-out-a-loved-one-has-died/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[20] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/king_apt_balcony.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.\"<br>-Lee Iacocca</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes, waiting is all you can do. Other times, it's not.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/24/and-the-days-go-by/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[21] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/mekong.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.\" <br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>My intention is to inspire others by sharing the experiences I've had, like floating down the Mekong River in Vietnam.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/18/apocalypse-then/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[22] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/swedish_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>If you wait for me<br> Then I'll come for you<br> Although I've traveled far<br> I always hold a place for you in my heart<br>-Tracy Chapman</b> </p> <p><em>Love, like this sunset in Sweden, is often brief, but always beautiful.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/13/thirsty-thursday-volume-xii-the-tree-and-its-branches/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[23] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/otay-lake.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.\" <br>-John Le Carre</b> </p> <p><em>Reasons are not something that can be sought, they are realized in retrospect.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/05/22/for-a-reason/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[24] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/interlaken_woods.jpg'></div> <p><b>The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,<br>But I have promises to keep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep. <br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>I took a walk that led to the woods in the base of the Swiss Alps where I thought and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/11/03/the-hills-are-alive/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[25] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/smoke_sun.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.\" <br>-Joan Crawford</b> </p> <p><em>With the sun enshrouded by smoke, we left with our belongings, hoping our house would still be standing when we returned.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/27/the-approaching-storm/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[26] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/leaving_sd.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.\"<br>-George Moore</b> </p> <p><em>Deciding to move back home to Oregon proved to be one of the best decisions I've ever made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/02/leaving-home-heading-home/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[27] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/quito_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.\" <br>-G.K. Chesterton</b> </p> <p><em>Standing above the city as I wandered through the mountains of Quito, Ecuador.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/07/29/south-american-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[28] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/santorini_wall.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Life is like a circle, and someday if we travel in opposite directions on the circle we will meet again.\" <br>-Todd L. Bradbury</b> </p> <p><em>Life, along with love, is a funny thing. Be prepared for everything and expectant of nothing.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/05/15/the-gift/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[29] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/lake_murray.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.\"<br>-Vernon Law</b> </p> <p><em>And the results to those tests may take years to find out.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/12/11/thirsty-thursday-volume-xxi-tantamount/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[30] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/ko_samui_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. \" <br>-Mark Twain</b> </p> <p><em>Though I've paid a tremendous price, both figuratively and literally, I would not exchange any of the travels I've done.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/06/the-breeze/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Aug[31] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/andy-laura.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.\" <br>-A.A. Milne</b> </p> <p><em>My best friend, Andy, and his best friend, Laura at a wedding a few years prior to theirs.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/01/04/my-toast-to-andy-and-his-wife-laura/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"

Sep = new Array
Sep[1] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/chair.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Now progress takes away what forever took to find.\" <br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>Sitting in my chair facing an empty hillside, and a future, that is now covered by a subdivision full of houses in Salem, Oregon.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/01/16/thirsty-thursday-volume-x-growing-up-will-i-be-like-the-salmon/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[2] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/joshua_tree.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.\"<br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>I drove to Joshua Tree on purpose...to be an actor.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/02/19/destination-joshua-tree-california/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[3] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-ios.jpg'></div> <p><b>They call it paradise<br> I don't know why <br> You call someplace paradise,<br> Kiss it goodbye <br> -The Eagles</b> </p> <p><em>As I gazed at the beauty of Ios, this Greek island, I imagined what it looked like before the tourists came.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/27/the-secret-beach/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[4] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/skydive.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.\" <br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>Standing up to live sometimes involves taking a leap of faith.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/12/31/jumping-into-a-new-year/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[5] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/pink_palace_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>To see a world in a grain of sand<br>And a heaven in a wild flower,<br>Hold infinity in the palm of your hand<br>And eternity in an hour. <br>-William Blake</b> </p> <p><em>How often have you had the opportunity to be on a tropical island and just relax and let your mind wander?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/22/here-and-forever/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[6] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/hawaii_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Live every day like it's your last because someday you'll be right. \" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes that is a tough motto by which to live.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/07/28/adjustments-and-blending-in/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[7] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/valley_of_fire.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,<br>Old time is still a-flying;<br>And this same flower that smiles today<br>Tomorrow will be dying. <br>-Robert Herrick</b> </p> <p><em>I never knew how much I could fall in love with a desert.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/09/15/the-moonlight-sonata-of-the-past/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[8] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/sunset-cliffs.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.\" <br>-Alan Watts</b> </p> <p><em>Sunset Cliffs, in San Diego, a place where I'd often write and think.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/10/27/wont-try-to-fix-you/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[9] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-max-jen-arron.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.\"<br>-Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>I have been all around the world and I can honestly say that the most amazing thing I have ever experienced is being in the same room when my nephew was born.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/12/19/thirsty-thursday-volume-viii-the-cycle/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[10] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/salem-road.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.\"<br>-Milton Berle</b> </p> <p><em>The road, long and windy or straight and narrow, only determines how you get there. It's up to you to decide where you go.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/06/08/some-people-know/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[11] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/copenhagen_embassy.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.\" <br>-Harriet Beecher Stowe</b> </p> <p><em>A visit to the American Embassy in Copenhagen a few days after September 11th, 2001.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/09/12/thirsty-thursday-volume-i-one-year-later/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[12] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/forest-park.jpg'></div> <p><b>I shall be telling this with a sigh<br>Somewhere ages and ages hence:<br>Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--<br>I took the one less traveled by,<br>And that has made all the difference.<br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>Walking through the woods of Forest Park, I am reminded of the paths that led me home...and the difference it made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/12/25/walking-down-the-road/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[13] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/barcelona-girls.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.\"<br> -Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>You never know where you'll end up unless you just go. In this case an unpleasant situation on a train led to a brilliant sunset and new friends.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/24/thirsty-thursday-volume-iv-a-train-to-spain-part-two-the-secret-and-the-wish/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[14] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/train-to-barcelona.jpg'></div> <p><b>I may take a holiday in Spain<br>Leave my wings behind me<br>Drink my worries down the drain<br>And fly away to somewhere new<br> -Counting Crows</b> </p> <p><em>In situations where things may not seem to be going well, your mind, at least, will allow you to dream.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/10/thirsty-thursday-volume-iii-a-train-to-spain-part-one-sliding-doors/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[15] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/murren.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what they had to teach; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.\"<br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>I found myself in Murren, a tiny Swiss village in the Alps, where I took in the fresh air to cleanse a foggy mind, then sat on a bench and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/10/25/the-rambler/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[16] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-me-zakopane.jpg'></div> <p><b>For long you live and high you fly<br>And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry<br>And all that you touch and all that you see<br>Is all your life will ever be<br>-Pink Floyd</b> </p> <p><em>While traveling, my two college roommates and I experienced things we never thought we'd ever experience.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/06/06/a-late-night-walk/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[17] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/australia_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"It is not what you accomplish in this life that matters...it is what you overcome.\" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Whether overcoming fears or accomplishing dreams, the important thing is that you are striving to improve your life.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/20/thirsty-thursday-volume-xviii-two-sundays/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[18] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-nick-cabo.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Take only memories, leave only footprints.\"<br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes it is necessary to simply be a tourist, like my friend and I in Mexico.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/27/thirsty-thursday-volume-xiii-mexican-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[19] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/cliffs_of_moher.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gravedigger, when you dig my grave<br> Could you make it shallow<br> so that I can feel the rain?<br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>If it was you sitting on the precipice of these majestic cliffs in Ireland, what would be going through your mind? How far down is the North Atlantic? How far over can I lean? How long will I live?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/11/10/upon-finding-out-a-loved-one-has-died/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[20] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/king_apt_balcony.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.\"<br>-Lee Iacocca</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes, waiting is all you can do. Other times, it's not.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/24/and-the-days-go-by/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[21] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/mekong.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.\" <br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>My intention is to inspire others by sharing the experiences I've had, like floating down the Mekong River in Vietnam.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/18/apocalypse-then/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[22] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/swedish_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>If you wait for me<br> Then I'll come for you<br> Although I've traveled far<br> I always hold a place for you in my heart<br>-Tracy Chapman</b> </p> <p><em>Love, like this sunset in Sweden, is often brief, but always beautiful.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/13/thirsty-thursday-volume-xii-the-tree-and-its-branches/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[23] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/otay-lake.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.\" <br>-John Le Carre</b> </p> <p><em>Reasons are not something that can be sought, they are realized in retrospect.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/05/22/for-a-reason/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[24] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/interlaken_woods.jpg'></div> <p><b>The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,<br>But I have promises to keep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep. <br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>I took a walk that led to the woods in the base of the Swiss Alps where I thought and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/11/03/the-hills-are-alive/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[25] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/smoke_sun.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.\" <br>-Joan Crawford</b> </p> <p><em>With the sun enshrouded by smoke, we left with our belongings, hoping our house would still be standing when we returned.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/27/the-approaching-storm/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[26] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/leaving_sd.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.\"<br>-George Moore</b> </p> <p><em>Deciding to move back home to Oregon proved to be one of the best decisions I've ever made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/02/leaving-home-heading-home/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[27] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/quito_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.\" <br>-G.K. Chesterton</b> </p> <p><em>Standing above the city as I wandered through the mountains of Quito, Ecuador.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/07/29/south-american-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[28] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/santorini_wall.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Life is like a circle, and someday if we travel in opposite directions on the circle we will meet again.\" <br>-Todd L. Bradbury</b> </p> <p><em>Life, along with love, is a funny thing. Be prepared for everything and expectant of nothing.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/05/15/the-gift/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[29] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/lake_murray.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.\"<br>-Vernon Law</b> </p> <p><em>And the results to those tests may take years to find out.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/12/11/thirsty-thursday-volume-xxi-tantamount/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Sep[30] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/ko_samui_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. \" <br>-Mark Twain</b> </p> <p><em>Though I've paid a tremendous price, both figuratively and literally, I would not exchange any of the travels I've done.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/06/the-breeze/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"

Oct = new Array
Oct[1] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/chair.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Now progress takes away what forever took to find.\" <br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>Sitting in my chair facing an empty hillside, and a future, that is now covered by a subdivision full of houses in Salem, Oregon.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/01/16/thirsty-thursday-volume-x-growing-up-will-i-be-like-the-salmon/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[2] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/joshua_tree.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.\"<br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>I drove to Joshua Tree on purpose...to be an actor.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/02/19/destination-joshua-tree-california/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[3] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-ios.jpg'></div> <p><b>They call it paradise<br> I don't know why <br> You call someplace paradise,<br> Kiss it goodbye <br> -The Eagles</b> </p> <p><em>As I gazed at the beauty of Ios, this Greek island, I imagined what it looked like before the tourists came.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/27/the-secret-beach/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[4] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/skydive.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.\" <br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>Standing up to live sometimes involves taking a leap of faith.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/12/31/jumping-into-a-new-year/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[5] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/pink_palace_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>To see a world in a grain of sand<br>And a heaven in a wild flower,<br>Hold infinity in the palm of your hand<br>And eternity in an hour. <br>-William Blake</b> </p> <p><em>How often have you had the opportunity to be on a tropical island and just relax and let your mind wander?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/22/here-and-forever/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[6] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/hawaii_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Live every day like it's your last because someday you'll be right. \" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes that is a tough motto by which to live.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/07/28/adjustments-and-blending-in/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[7] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/valley_of_fire.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,<br>Old time is still a-flying;<br>And this same flower that smiles today<br>Tomorrow will be dying. <br>-Robert Herrick</b> </p> <p><em>I never knew how much I could fall in love with a desert.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/09/15/the-moonlight-sonata-of-the-past/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[8] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/sunset-cliffs.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.\" <br>-Alan Watts</b> </p> <p><em>Sunset Cliffs, in San Diego, a place where I'd often write and think.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/10/27/wont-try-to-fix-you/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[9] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-max-jen-arron.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.\"<br>-Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>I have been all around the world and I can honestly say that the most amazing thing I have ever experienced is being in the same room when my nephew was born.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/12/19/thirsty-thursday-volume-viii-the-cycle/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[10] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/salem-road.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.\"<br>-Milton Berle</b> </p> <p><em>The road, long and windy or straight and narrow, only determines how you get there. It's up to you to decide where you go.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/06/08/some-people-know/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[11] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/copenhagen_embassy.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.\" <br>-Harriet Beecher Stowe</b> </p> <p><em>A visit to the American Embassy in Copenhagen a few days after September 11th, 2001.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/09/12/thirsty-thursday-volume-i-one-year-later/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[12] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/forest-park.jpg'></div> <p><b>I shall be telling this with a sigh<br>Somewhere ages and ages hence:<br>Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--<br>I took the one less traveled by,<br>And that has made all the difference.<br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>Walking through the woods of Forest Park, I am reminded of the paths that led me home...and the difference it made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/12/25/walking-down-the-road/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[13] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/barcelona-girls.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.\"<br> -Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>You never know where you'll end up unless you just go. In this case an unpleasant situation on a train led to a brilliant sunset and new friends.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/24/thirsty-thursday-volume-iv-a-train-to-spain-part-two-the-secret-and-the-wish/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[14] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/train-to-barcelona.jpg'></div> <p><b>I may take a holiday in Spain<br>Leave my wings behind me<br>Drink my worries down the drain<br>And fly away to somewhere new<br> -Counting Crows</b> </p> <p><em>In situations where things may not seem to be going well, your mind, at least, will allow you to dream.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/10/thirsty-thursday-volume-iii-a-train-to-spain-part-one-sliding-doors/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[15] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/murren.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what they had to teach; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.\"<br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>I found myself in Murren, a tiny Swiss village in the Alps, where I took in the fresh air to cleanse a foggy mind, then sat on a bench and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/10/25/the-rambler/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[16] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-me-zakopane.jpg'></div> <p><b>For long you live and high you fly<br>And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry<br>And all that you touch and all that you see<br>Is all your life will ever be<br>-Pink Floyd</b> </p> <p><em>While traveling, my two college roommates and I experienced things we never thought we'd ever experience.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/06/06/a-late-night-walk/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[17] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/australia_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"It is not what you accomplish in this life that matters...it is what you overcome.\" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Whether overcoming fears or accomplishing dreams, the important thing is that you are striving to improve your life.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/20/thirsty-thursday-volume-xviii-two-sundays/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[18] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-nick-cabo.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Take only memories, leave only footprints.\"<br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes it is necessary to simply be a tourist, like my friend and I in Mexico.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/27/thirsty-thursday-volume-xiii-mexican-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[19] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/cliffs_of_moher.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gravedigger, when you dig my grave<br> Could you make it shallow<br> so that I can feel the rain?<br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>If it was you sitting on the precipice of these majestic cliffs in Ireland, what would be going through your mind? How far down is the North Atlantic? How far over can I lean? How long will I live?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/11/10/upon-finding-out-a-loved-one-has-died/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[20] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/king_apt_balcony.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.\"<br>-Lee Iacocca</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes, waiting is all you can do. Other times, it's not.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/24/and-the-days-go-by/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[21] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/mekong.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.\" <br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>My intention is to inspire others by sharing the experiences I've had, like floating down the Mekong River in Vietnam.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/18/apocalypse-then/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[22] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/swedish_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>If you wait for me<br> Then I'll come for you<br> Although I've traveled far<br> I always hold a place for you in my heart<br>-Tracy Chapman</b> </p> <p><em>Love, like this sunset in Sweden, is often brief, but always beautiful.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/13/thirsty-thursday-volume-xii-the-tree-and-its-branches/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[23] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/otay-lake.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.\" <br>-John Le Carre</b> </p> <p><em>Reasons are not something that can be sought, they are realized in retrospect.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/05/22/for-a-reason/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[24] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/interlaken_woods.jpg'></div> <p><b>The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,<br>But I have promises to keep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep. <br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>I took a walk that led to the woods in the base of the Swiss Alps where I thought and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/11/03/the-hills-are-alive/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[25] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/smoke_sun.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.\" <br>-Joan Crawford</b> </p> <p><em>With the sun enshrouded by smoke, we left with our belongings, hoping our house would still be standing when we returned.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/27/the-approaching-storm/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[26] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/leaving_sd.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.\"<br>-George Moore</b> </p> <p><em>Deciding to move back home to Oregon proved to be one of the best decisions I've ever made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/02/leaving-home-heading-home/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[27] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/quito_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.\" <br>-G.K. Chesterton</b> </p> <p><em>Standing above the city as I wandered through the mountains of Quito, Ecuador.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/07/29/south-american-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[28] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/santorini_wall.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Life is like a circle, and someday if we travel in opposite directions on the circle we will meet again.\" <br>-Todd L. Bradbury</b> </p> <p><em>Life, along with love, is a funny thing. Be prepared for everything and expectant of nothing.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/05/15/the-gift/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[29] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/lake_murray.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.\"<br>-Vernon Law</b> </p> <p><em>And the results to those tests may take years to find out.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/12/11/thirsty-thursday-volume-xxi-tantamount/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[30] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/ko_samui_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. \" <br>-Mark Twain</b> </p> <p><em>Though I've paid a tremendous price, both figuratively and literally, I would not exchange any of the travels I've done.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/06/the-breeze/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Oct[31] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/andy-laura.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.\" <br>-A.A. Milne</b> </p> <p><em>My best friend, Andy, and his best friend, Laura at a wedding a few years prior to theirs.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/01/04/my-toast-to-andy-and-his-wife-laura/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"

Nov = new Array
Nov[1] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/chair.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Now progress takes away what forever took to find.\" <br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>Sitting in my chair facing an empty hillside, and a future, that is now covered by a subdivision full of houses in Salem, Oregon.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/01/16/thirsty-thursday-volume-x-growing-up-will-i-be-like-the-salmon/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[2] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/joshua_tree.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.\"<br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>I drove to Joshua Tree on purpose...to be an actor.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/02/19/destination-joshua-tree-california/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[3] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-ios.jpg'></div> <p><b>They call it paradise<br> I don't know why <br> You call someplace paradise,<br> Kiss it goodbye <br> -The Eagles</b> </p> <p><em>As I gazed at the beauty of Ios, this Greek island, I imagined what it looked like before the tourists came.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/27/the-secret-beach/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[4] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/skydive.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.\" <br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>Standing up to live sometimes involves taking a leap of faith.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/12/31/jumping-into-a-new-year/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[5] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/pink_palace_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>To see a world in a grain of sand<br>And a heaven in a wild flower,<br>Hold infinity in the palm of your hand<br>And eternity in an hour. <br>-William Blake</b> </p> <p><em>How often have you had the opportunity to be on a tropical island and just relax and let your mind wander?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/22/here-and-forever/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[6] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/hawaii_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Live every day like it's your last because someday you'll be right. \" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes that is a tough motto by which to live.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/07/28/adjustments-and-blending-in/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[7] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/valley_of_fire.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,<br>Old time is still a-flying;<br>And this same flower that smiles today<br>Tomorrow will be dying. <br>-Robert Herrick</b> </p> <p><em>I never knew how much I could fall in love with a desert.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/09/15/the-moonlight-sonata-of-the-past/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[8] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/sunset-cliffs.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.\" <br>-Alan Watts</b> </p> <p><em>Sunset Cliffs, in San Diego, a place where I'd often write and think.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/10/27/wont-try-to-fix-you/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[9] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-max-jen-arron.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.\"<br>-Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>I have been all around the world and I can honestly say that the most amazing thing I have ever experienced is being in the same room when my nephew was born.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/12/19/thirsty-thursday-volume-viii-the-cycle/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[10] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/salem-road.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.\"<br>-Milton Berle</b> </p> <p><em>The road, long and windy or straight and narrow, only determines how you get there. It's up to you to decide where you go.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/06/08/some-people-know/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[11] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/copenhagen_embassy.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.\" <br>-Harriet Beecher Stowe</b> </p> <p><em>A visit to the American Embassy in Copenhagen a few days after September 11th, 2001.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/09/12/thirsty-thursday-volume-i-one-year-later/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[12] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/forest-park.jpg'></div> <p><b>I shall be telling this with a sigh<br>Somewhere ages and ages hence:<br>Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--<br>I took the one less traveled by,<br>And that has made all the difference.<br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>Walking through the woods of Forest Park, I am reminded of the paths that led me home...and the difference it made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/12/25/walking-down-the-road/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[13] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/barcelona-girls.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.\"<br> -Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>You never know where you'll end up unless you just go. In this case an unpleasant situation on a train led to a brilliant sunset and new friends.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/24/thirsty-thursday-volume-iv-a-train-to-spain-part-two-the-secret-and-the-wish/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[14] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/train-to-barcelona.jpg'></div> <p><b>I may take a holiday in Spain<br>Leave my wings behind me<br>Drink my worries down the drain<br>And fly away to somewhere new<br> -Counting Crows</b> </p> <p><em>In situations where things may not seem to be going well, your mind, at least, will allow you to dream.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/10/thirsty-thursday-volume-iii-a-train-to-spain-part-one-sliding-doors/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[15] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/murren.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what they had to teach; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.\"<br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>I found myself in Murren, a tiny Swiss village in the Alps, where I took in the fresh air to cleanse a foggy mind, then sat on a bench and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/10/25/the-rambler/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[16] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-me-zakopane.jpg'></div> <p><b>For long you live and high you fly<br>And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry<br>And all that you touch and all that you see<br>Is all your life will ever be<br>-Pink Floyd</b> </p> <p><em>While traveling, my two college roommates and I experienced things we never thought we'd ever experience.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/06/06/a-late-night-walk/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[17] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/australia_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"It is not what you accomplish in this life that matters...it is what you overcome.\" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Whether overcoming fears or accomplishing dreams, the important thing is that you are striving to improve your life.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/20/thirsty-thursday-volume-xviii-two-sundays/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[18] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-nick-cabo.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Take only memories, leave only footprints.\"<br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes it is necessary to simply be a tourist, like my friend and I in Mexico.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/27/thirsty-thursday-volume-xiii-mexican-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[19] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/cliffs_of_moher.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gravedigger, when you dig my grave<br> Could you make it shallow<br> so that I can feel the rain?<br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>If it was you sitting on the precipice of these majestic cliffs in Ireland, what would be going through your mind? How far down is the North Atlantic? How far over can I lean? How long will I live?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/11/10/upon-finding-out-a-loved-one-has-died/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[20] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/king_apt_balcony.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.\"<br>-Lee Iacocca</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes, waiting is all you can do. Other times, it's not.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/24/and-the-days-go-by/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[21] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/mekong.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.\" <br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>My intention is to inspire others by sharing the experiences I've had, like floating down the Mekong River in Vietnam.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/18/apocalypse-then/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[22] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/swedish_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>If you wait for me<br> Then I'll come for you<br> Although I've traveled far<br> I always hold a place for you in my heart<br>-Tracy Chapman</b> </p> <p><em>Love, like this sunset in Sweden, is often brief, but always beautiful.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/13/thirsty-thursday-volume-xii-the-tree-and-its-branches/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[23] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/otay-lake.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.\" <br>-John Le Carre</b> </p> <p><em>Reasons are not something that can be sought, they are realized in retrospect.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/05/22/for-a-reason/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[24] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/interlaken_woods.jpg'></div> <p><b>The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,<br>But I have promises to keep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep. <br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>I took a walk that led to the woods in the base of the Swiss Alps where I thought and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/11/03/the-hills-are-alive/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[25] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/smoke_sun.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.\" <br>-Joan Crawford</b> </p> <p><em>With the sun enshrouded by smoke, we left with our belongings, hoping our house would still be standing when we returned.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/27/the-approaching-storm/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[26] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/leaving_sd.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.\"<br>-George Moore</b> </p> <p><em>Deciding to move back home to Oregon proved to be one of the best decisions I've ever made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/02/leaving-home-heading-home/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[27] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/quito_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.\" <br>-G.K. Chesterton</b> </p> <p><em>Standing above the city as I wandered through the mountains of Quito, Ecuador.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/07/29/south-american-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[28] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/santorini_wall.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Life is like a circle, and someday if we travel in opposite directions on the circle we will meet again.\" <br>-Todd L. Bradbury</b> </p> <p><em>Life, along with love, is a funny thing. Be prepared for everything and expectant of nothing.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/05/15/the-gift/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[29] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/lake_murray.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.\"<br>-Vernon Law</b> </p> <p><em>And the results to those tests may take years to find out.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/12/11/thirsty-thursday-volume-xxi-tantamount/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Nov[30] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/ko_samui_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. \" <br>-Mark Twain</b> </p> <p><em>Though I've paid a tremendous price, both figuratively and literally, I would not exchange any of the travels I've done.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/06/the-breeze/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"

Dec = new Array
Dec[1] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/chair.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Now progress takes away what forever took to find.\" <br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>Sitting in my chair facing an empty hillside, and a future, that is now covered by a subdivision full of houses in Salem, Oregon.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/01/16/thirsty-thursday-volume-x-growing-up-will-i-be-like-the-salmon/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[2] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/joshua_tree.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.\"<br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>I drove to Joshua Tree on purpose...to be an actor.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/02/19/destination-joshua-tree-california/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[3] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-ios.jpg'></div> <p><b>They call it paradise<br> I don't know why <br> You call someplace paradise,<br> Kiss it goodbye <br> -The Eagles</b> </p> <p><em>As I gazed at the beauty of Ios, this Greek island, I imagined what it looked like before the tourists came.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/27/the-secret-beach/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[4] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/skydive.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live.\" <br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>Standing up to live sometimes involves taking a leap of faith.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/12/31/jumping-into-a-new-year/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[5] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/pink_palace_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>To see a world in a grain of sand<br>And a heaven in a wild flower,<br>Hold infinity in the palm of your hand<br>And eternity in an hour. <br>-William Blake</b> </p> <p><em>How often have you had the opportunity to be on a tropical island and just relax and let your mind wander?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/07/22/here-and-forever/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[6] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/hawaii_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Live every day like it's your last because someday you'll be right. \" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes that is a tough motto by which to live.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/07/28/adjustments-and-blending-in/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[7] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/valley_of_fire.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gather ye rosebuds while ye may,<br>Old time is still a-flying;<br>And this same flower that smiles today<br>Tomorrow will be dying. <br>-Robert Herrick</b> </p> <p><em>I never knew how much I could fall in love with a desert.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/09/15/the-moonlight-sonata-of-the-past/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[8] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/sunset-cliffs.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to command.\" <br>-Alan Watts</b> </p> <p><em>Sunset Cliffs, in San Diego, a place where I'd often write and think.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2005/10/27/wont-try-to-fix-you/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[9] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-max-jen-arron.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"To laugh often and much; To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children; To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends; To appreciate beauty, to find the best in others; To leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch, or a redeemed social condition; To know that even one life has breathed easier because you have lived. This is to have succeeded.\"<br>-Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>I have been all around the world and I can honestly say that the most amazing thing I have ever experienced is being in the same room when my nephew was born.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/12/19/thirsty-thursday-volume-viii-the-cycle/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[10] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/salem-road.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.\"<br>-Milton Berle</b> </p> <p><em>The road, long and windy or straight and narrow, only determines how you get there. It's up to you to decide where you go.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/06/08/some-people-know/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[11] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/copenhagen_embassy.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.\" <br>-Harriet Beecher Stowe</b> </p> <p><em>A visit to the American Embassy in Copenhagen a few days after September 11th, 2001.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/09/12/thirsty-thursday-volume-i-one-year-later/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[12] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/forest-park.jpg'></div> <p><b>I shall be telling this with a sigh<br>Somewhere ages and ages hence:<br>Two roads diverged in a wood, and I--<br>I took the one less traveled by,<br>And that has made all the difference.<br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>Walking through the woods of Forest Park, I am reminded of the paths that led me home...and the difference it made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/12/25/walking-down-the-road/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[13] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/barcelona-girls.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.\"<br> -Ralph Waldo Emerson</b> </p> <p><em>You never know where you'll end up unless you just go. In this case an unpleasant situation on a train led to a brilliant sunset and new friends.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/24/thirsty-thursday-volume-iv-a-train-to-spain-part-two-the-secret-and-the-wish/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[14] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/train-to-barcelona.jpg'></div> <p><b>I may take a holiday in Spain<br>Leave my wings behind me<br>Drink my worries down the drain<br>And fly away to somewhere new<br> -Counting Crows</b> </p> <p><em>In situations where things may not seem to be going well, your mind, at least, will allow you to dream.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/10/10/thirsty-thursday-volume-iii-a-train-to-spain-part-one-sliding-doors/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[15] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/murren.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what they had to teach; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.\"<br>-Henry David Thoreau</b> </p> <p><em>I found myself in Murren, a tiny Swiss village in the Alps, where I took in the fresh air to cleanse a foggy mind, then sat on a bench and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/10/25/the-rambler/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[16] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/brad-nick-me-zakopane.jpg'></div> <p><b>For long you live and high you fly<br>And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry<br>And all that you touch and all that you see<br>Is all your life will ever be<br>-Pink Floyd</b> </p> <p><em>While traveling, my two college roommates and I experienced things we never thought we'd ever experience.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/06/06/a-late-night-walk/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[17] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/australia_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"It is not what you accomplish in this life that matters...it is what you overcome.\" <br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Whether overcoming fears or accomplishing dreams, the important thing is that you are striving to improve your life.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/20/thirsty-thursday-volume-xviii-two-sundays/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[18] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/me-nick-cabo.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Take only memories, leave only footprints.\"<br>-Unknown</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes it is necessary to simply be a tourist, like my friend and I in Mexico.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/27/thirsty-thursday-volume-xiii-mexican-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[19] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/cliffs_of_moher.jpg'></div> <p><b>Gravedigger, when you dig my grave<br> Could you make it shallow<br> so that I can feel the rain?<br>-Dave Matthews</b> </p> <p><em>If it was you sitting on the precipice of these majestic cliffs in Ireland, what would be going through your mind? How far down is the North Atlantic? How far over can I lean? How long will I live?</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/11/10/upon-finding-out-a-loved-one-has-died/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[20] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/king_apt_balcony.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The trick is to make sure you don't die waiting for prosperity to come.\"<br>-Lee Iacocca</b> </p> <p><em>Sometimes, waiting is all you can do. Other times, it's not.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/24/and-the-days-go-by/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[21] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/mekong.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is not what happens to a man. It is what a man does with what happens to him.\" <br>-Aldous Huxley</b> </p> <p><em>My intention is to inspire others by sharing the experiences I've had, like floating down the Mekong River in Vietnam.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/18/apocalypse-then/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[22] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/swedish_sunset.jpg'></div> <p><b>If you wait for me<br> Then I'll come for you<br> Although I've traveled far<br> I always hold a place for you in my heart<br>-Tracy Chapman</b> </p> <p><em>Love, like this sunset in Sweden, is often brief, but always beautiful.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/02/13/thirsty-thursday-volume-xii-the-tree-and-its-branches/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[23] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/otay-lake.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Sometimes we do a thing in order to find out the reason for it. Sometimes our actions are questions not answers.\" <br>-John Le Carre</b> </p> <p><em>Reasons are not something that can be sought, they are realized in retrospect.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/05/22/for-a-reason/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[24] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/interlaken_woods.jpg'></div> <p><b>The woods are lovely, dark, and deep,<br>But I have promises to keep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep,<br>And miles to go before I sleep. <br>-Robert Frost</b> </p> <p><em>I took a walk that led to the woods in the base of the Swiss Alps where I thought and wrote.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/11/03/the-hills-are-alive/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[25] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/smoke_sun.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell.\" <br>-Joan Crawford</b> </p> <p><em>With the sun enshrouded by smoke, we left with our belongings, hoping our house would still be standing when we returned.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/02/27/the-approaching-storm/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[26] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/leaving_sd.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.\"<br>-George Moore</b> </p> <p><em>Deciding to move back home to Oregon proved to be one of the best decisions I've ever made.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2006/08/02/leaving-home-heading-home/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[27] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/quito_view.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.\" <br>-G.K. Chesterton</b> </p> <p><em>Standing above the city as I wandered through the mountains of Quito, Ecuador.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2002/07/29/south-american-thoughts/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[28] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/santorini_wall.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Life is like a circle, and someday if we travel in opposite directions on the circle we will meet again.\" <br>-Todd L. Bradbury</b> </p> <p><em>Life, along with love, is a funny thing. Be prepared for everything and expectant of nothing.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2001/05/15/the-gift/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[29] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/lake_murray.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.\"<br>-Vernon Law</b> </p> <p><em>And the results to those tests may take years to find out.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/12/11/thirsty-thursday-volume-xxi-tantamount/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[30] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/ko_samui_beach.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. \" <br>-Mark Twain</b> </p> <p><em>Though I've paid a tremendous price, both figuratively and literally, I would not exchange any of the travels I've done.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2004/06/06/the-breeze/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
Dec[31] = "<div align=center><img src='../img/qotd/andy-laura.jpg'></div> <p><b>\"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day, so I never have to live without you.\" <br>-A.A. Milne</b> </p> <p><em>My best friend, Andy, and his best friend, Laura at a wedding a few years prior to theirs.</em></p><p><a href='http://vicariousvagabond.com/writing/2003/01/04/my-toast-to-andy-and-his-wife-laura/'>Today's Featured Writing &#187;</a></p>"
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