Moon rise over Argentina

“At first I thought I saw the sun setting in the east; I knew where east was, because the sun was just over the horizon when we got there that morning. Then I realized that what I saw was a full moon rising just as the sun was going down. Each of them was standing on its edge, with the most wonderful light between them. It seemed as if you could touch it, as if there were palpable currents of light passing back and forth, or as if there were great taut skeins of light suspended between them.”

– Gilead

Inspiration for the name

To give credit where credit’s due, “From Sea to Sea” is drawn from Rudyard Kipling’s publication of 1889, which was a series of letters describing his travels which moved progressively farther east. Here are his opening words, and a poem to inspire restlessness:

From Sea to Sea

Of freedom and the necessity of using her. The motive and scheme that will come to nothing. A disquisition upon the otherness of things and the torments of the damned.

When all the world is young, lad

And all the trees are green,

And every goose a swan, lad,

And every lass a queen, —

Then  hey for boot and horse, lad,

And o’er the world away–

Young blood must have its course, lad,

And every dog its day.

Indeed!