Voyager

Senepol and Brahman cattle

Red Hook Bay,

Magens Bay, Sapphire Beach, and Coki Point

(St. Croix and St. John

Amalie, a maze of alleys and narrow one-way streets built by the Danes for donkeys and pedestrians before Denmark sold the Virgins to the Americans in 1917,

Florida Everglades and Keys

They are not who we were or want to be; they are who we become

One goes like a bee to a blossom, as if drawn by some powerful image of prelapsarian beauty and innocence, where life as one has grown used to it at home—polluted and corrupt and cold and erotically constricted and dark—has somehow been kept from the garden.

One rarely goes there solely to satisfy one’s curiosity

Robinson Crusoe or Errol Flynn or Robert Vesco