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In an age of guidebooks, websites, and radio waves, discovery has nearly become a lost feeling. If anything, it is now a matter of expectations to surpass—rarely a matter of unexpected wonderment. It is unusual to find a situation that appears without word, or a place that was not known to be on the road.
— David Levithan, Are We There Yet?
I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see.
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
At times, it almost felt like I was destined to take the trip, like all the people I met had somehow been waiting for me
— Nicholas Sparks, The Choice
Driving down deserted early morning roads. Round and round. Round downtown. Through naked streets. Lips pursed on two litre bottles of beer, but pursuing the lips of freedom's night. Swapping cars. Winding up at karaoke bars or Bolsi- the best place in town. For the food. For the folk. For the service. For the crema de papaya. And for that late night dawn's whiskey coffee.
— Harry Whitewolf, Route Number 11: Argentina, Angels & Alcohol
The problem with the 11:11 Phenomenon is getting anybody interested in it that hasn't experienced it themselves. Other phenomena, such as U.F.Os or crop circles, are able to be seen. We can debate them. But seeing and being guided by 11:11 is hard to convey to those uninitiated in its ways.
— Harry Whitewolf, Route Number 11: Argentina, Angels & Alcohol
We may travel the world over to find a good spot,But if we are blind to search within, we find it not.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, The Tao of Physical and Spiritual
When you travel, buy a historical book about the place, read to increase your knowledge on the beautiful places of the world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita, The Wings of Hope: Survivor
The places we visited were always richer and always more intricate than one could imagine. I loved to find out about the world, the good and the bad, in this way. For me, observing things with my own eyes was the only way. My wanderlust was also a wonderlust.
— Luke F.D. Marsden, Wondering, the Way is Made: A South American Odyssey
If a picture is worth a thousand words, why did God invent captions?
— David Mellonie, Land Mines and Ladyboys: Flirting with Danger in Thailand and Cambodia
There is a difference between arrival and entrance. Arrival is physical and happens all at once. The train pulls in, the plan touches down, you get out of the taxi with all your luggage. You can arrive a place and never really enter it; you get there, look around, take a few pictures, make a few notes, send postcards home. When you travel like this, you think you know where you are, but, in fact, you have never left home. Entering takes longer. You cross over, slowly, in bits and pieces. […] It is like awakening slowly, over a period of weeks. And then one morning, you open your eyes and you are finally here, really and truly here. You are just beginning to know where you are.
— Jamie Zeppa
Meeting new people is just remembering faces of God we've forgotten.
— Harry Whitewolf, Route Number 11: Argentina, Angels & Alcohol
I love how the landscape gives the impression of vast space and intimacy at the same time: the thin brown line of a path wandering up an immense green mountainside, a plush hanging valley tucked between two steep hillsides, a village of three houses surrounded by dark forest, paddy fields flowing around an outcrop of rock, a white temple gleaming on a shadowy ridge. The human habitations nestle into the landscape; nothing is cut or cleared beyond what is requires. Nothing is bigger than necessary. Every sign of human settlement repeat the mantra of contentment: “This is just enough.
— Jamie Zeppa
Walk your own path and be yourself
— Joanne Nussbaum, Mongolia Monologues: One Woman's Quest to Experience, Learn and Grow...
Beware the crazy traveller! Mind expansion can be contagious...
— Nicole Leigh West, The Gypsy Trail
The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.
— Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
The colour of fear is never dark or black; it has the colour of thunderbolt; usually white, but can appear in different hues depending on how the fear travels through to get inside your heart
— Munia Khan
When you're traveling you need to take care of yourself to get by, you have to keep an eye on yourself and your place in the world. It means concentrating on yourself, thinking about yourself and looking after yourself. So when you travel all you really encounter is yourself, as if that were the whole point of it. When you're at home you simply are, you don't have to struggle with anything or achieve anything. You don't have to worry about the railways connections, and timetables, you don't need to experience any thrills or disappointments. You can put yourself to one side - and that's when you see the most.
— Olga Tokarczuk
THE rule for travelling abroad is to take our common sense with us, and leave our prejudices behind us. The object of travelling is to see and learn; but such is our impatience of ignorance, or the jealousy of our self-love, that we generally set up a certain preconception beforehand (in self-defence, or as a barrier against the lessons of experience,) and are surprised at or quarrel with all that does not conform to it. Let us think what we please of what we really find, but pr
— William Hazlitt
Time has become a melding of minutes and months and the feeling of seasons. […] Leon says it is the Bhutan Time Warp and I know what he means. Time does not hurl itself forward at breakneck speed here. Change happens very slowly. A grandmother and her granddaughter wear the same kind of clothes, they do the same work, they know the same songs. The granddaughter does not find her grandmother an embarrassing, boring relic.
— Jamie Zeppa, Beyond the Sky and the Earth: A Journey into Bhutan
Whatever yerz’re lookin’ for, I hope yerz find it. Yerz moight’ve never lost it!
— Luke F.D. Marsden, Wondering, the Way is Made: A South American Odyssey
English has so many words that do not exist in Sharchhop, but they are mostly nouns, mostly things: machine, airplane, wristwatch. Sharchhop, on the other hand, reveals a culture of material economy but abundant, intricate familial ties and social relations. People cannot afford to make a distinction between need and desire, but they have separate words for older brother, younger sister, father’s brother’s sons, mother’s sister’s daughters. And there are 2 sets of words: a common set for everyday use and an honorific one to show respect. There are three words for gift: a gift given to a person higher in rank, a gift to someone lower, and a gift between equals.
— Jamie Zeppa
The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.
— Daniel Pinchbeck
What I love is how seamless everything is. You walk throw a forest and come out in a village; and there’s no difference, no division. You aren’t in nature one minute and in civilization the next. The houses are made out of mud and stone and wood, drawn from the land around. Nothing stands out, nothing jars.
— Jamie Zeppa
I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends. I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness . . .
— Carew Papritz, The Legacy Letters: his Wife, his Children, his Final Gift
Let the sea breeze blow your hair, let the sunset bring tranquility to your heart, let the distant places you travel allow you to explore yourself.
— Somya Kedia
To travel is to be alive, but to get somewhere is to be dead.
— Alan W. Watts
Familiarity, globalisation, cheap travel, mere weariness had diluted our sense of foreign-ness.
— David Nicholls, Us
Traveling equals having experiences which translate into more opportunities for exposing incorrect ideas about life.
— John duover, Rites
There are different paths to your destination. Choose your own path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Slow down, take time, allow yourself to be wildly diverted from your plan. People are the soul of the place; don't forget to meet them and enjoy their company as you explore a place.
— David duChemin, Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision
It was one of those situations I often find myself in while traveling. Something's said by a stranger I've been randomly thrown into contact with, and I want to say, "Listen. I'm with you on most of this, but before we continue, I need to know who you voted for in the last election.
— David Sedaris, Let's Explore Diabetes with Owls
So many roads to choose, so many wrong choices to make.
— Kenyon Ledford
I am enduring temporary sufferings to fulfill my dearest dreams.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Let me put it thus: that from the height of Weissenstein I saw, as it were, my religion. I mean, humility, the fear of death, the terror of height and of distance, the glory of God, the infinite potentiality of reception whence springs that divine thirst of the soul; my aspiration also towards completion, and my confidence in the dual destiny.
— Hilaire Belloc
Define your path and travel on this path.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Leor smiled. “Merci, Monsieur Rusé.”	“De rien.” Jean replied, and then he checked his watch. “Our flight will be leaving soon. Are you ready for that adventure? Can you brave the terrors of second class?”	Leor laughed. “It depends if I get the window seat.
— Zechariah Barrett, Beyond Chivalry
History is rich knowledge. In your travel, learn brief history of the place visited.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
It is better to travel than to arrive. Better, by far, to find your own way than to have someone else choose it for you -- don't you think?
— Lesley Howarth, MapHead: No.2
History is rich knowledge, In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. .
— Lailah Gifty Akita
He might never hear of them again in his life. Or there again, he might. That was the joy of travelling. Anything could happen
— Lesley Howarth, MapHead: No.2
In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. History is rich knowledge.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Few of us could speak the other's language, but all of us had by now discovered the lodge's unique 'outside toilet'…which transcended all national barriers. The lodge owner wouldn't let you use it unless you promised to lock yourself in with a special key. Everybody thought this odd, but they understood his concern once inside. The loo was just two parallel blocks of wood laid either side of a big hole in the floor. You went in, squatted down on the blocks, felt the gust of chill air wafting up your nether regions, looked through legs, and watched the bottom fall out of your world for a sheer drop of two thousand feet! The reason for locking the door was obvious. Any unwitting interloper who swung it inwards when you were squatting over that hole was certain to knock you off your perch and straight down it. And that would be a one-way trip to oblivion. With your trousers round your ankles
— Frank Kusy, Kevin and I in India
Some flowers need flames to find their way into this world.
— Cindy Campopiano, Other
Here's what I love about travel: strangers get a chance to amaze you. Sometimes a single day can bring a blooming surprise, a simple kindness that opens a chink in the brittle shell of your heart and makes you a different person when you go to sleep--more tender, less jaded--than you were when you woke up.
— Tanya Shaffer
Here's what I love about travel: strangers get a chance to amaze you. Sometimes a single day can bring a blooming surprise, a simple kindness that opens a chink in the brittle shell of your heart and makes you a different person when you go to sleep--more tender less jaded--than you were when you woke up.
— Tanya Shaffer
When sharing your news, you might come across some disgruntled parent-folk. You know, the kind who snort and say ruefully, "If there's anyplace you want to travel to, go now." Don't let them squelch your joy, dear K: these are the kind of people who never went anywhere before they had babies either.
— Beth Ann Fennelly, Great with Child: Letters to a Young Mother
The Cubist paintings in the Centre Pompidou in Paris were strange but amazing. The big fat magical cat said they made her eyes hurt.
— Jim  Shanahan, My big fat magical cat goes to France
For a time, then, we stay. For a time. Till the changes.
— Joanne Harris, Chocolat
Consulting maps can diminish the wanderlust that they awaken,as the act of looking at them can replace the act of travel. But looking at maps is much more than an act of aesthetic replacement. Anyone who opens an atlas wants everything at once, without limits--the whole world. This longing will always be great, far greater than any satisfaction to be had by attaining what is desired. Give me an atlas over a guidebook any day. There is no more poetic book in the world.
— Judith Schalansky, Atlas of Remote Islands
Maybe this was why Owen had been so desperate to travel, why she'd longed for it herself without ever really knowing why. It wasn't just that you got to be somewhere else entirely. It was that you got to be someone else entirely, too.
— Jennifer E. Smith, The Geography of You and Me
...the longer she had lived away, the more she realized that nowhere became home… though everywhere had.
— Susan Ornbratt, The Particular Appeal of Gillian Pugsley
Not to find one’s way in a city may well be uninteresting and banal. It requires ignorance—nothing more," says the twentieth-century philosopher-essayist Walter Benjamin. “But to lose oneself in a city—as one loses oneself in a forest—that calls for quite a different schooling.” To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery. And one does not get lost but loses oneself, with the implication that it is a conscious choice, a chosen surrender, a psychic state achievable through geography.
— Rebecca Solnit, A Field Guide to Getting Lost
As a romantic ideal, turbulent, impoverished India could still weave its spell, and the key to it all - the colours, the moods, the scents, the subtle, mysterious light, the poetry, the heightened expectations, the kind of beauty that made your heart miss a beat - well, that remained the monsoon.
— Alexander Frater, Chasing the Monsoon
I have no churlish objection to the circumnavigation of the globe, for the purposes of art, of study, and benevolence, so that the man is first domesticated, or does not go abroad with the hope of finding somewhat greater than he knows. He who travels to be amused, or to get somewhat which he does not carry, travels away from himself, and grows old even in youth among old things
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance
For are we not, all of us, wand'rers and strangers; and do we not, all of us, travel in danger or voyage uncharted seas?
— Joan W. Blos, A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl's Journal, 1830-32
A difficult journey is spiritual rewarding.There is a more dependence on God, His supernatural power, grace and divine favour long the travel.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
Dare to seize all the opportunities on your paths.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I don't really like surprises. Not big ones anyway. Just having a pack of Revels holds enough of a surprise for me.
— Karl Pilkington, An Idiot Abroad: The Travel Diaries of Karl Pilkington
As long as you know 'to let' means to rent and not a place to pee, you’re all set to travel in the UK. The lifts and the boots and everything else don’t really matter.
— Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season
Make sure your not followed! Don’t go anywhere
— Benny Bellamacina, Philosophical Uplifting Quotes and Poems
I’m not a foreigner because I haven’t been praying to return safely home, I haven’t wasted my time imagining my house, my desk, my side of the bed. I am not a foreigner because we are all travelling, we are all full of the same questions, the same tiredness, the same fears, the same selfishness and the same generosity. I am not a foreigner because, when I asked, I received. When I knocked, the door opened. When I looked, I found.
Travel opens us up, exposes us to new people and places. New thoughts, new ways of being and a larger feeling of connection. And, the best part is, that it makes us appreciate our home that much more.
— Erin Kouvas
The Delta agent saw my itinerary and said, 'You’re flying to Jakarta via Atlanta, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur? You must have really pissed off your travel agent.
— Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season
There comes a moment in all travel when you know that you have really started. It may be weeks before you start or weeks after you have started; it is a spiritual emotion, a turning towards the future with an eager heart...
— H.V. Morton, In Search Of England
I said, “Je parle français.” Indira gave me a weird look. Or a look that said I was weird. Whichever. The point is, I don’t really speak French, but it’s a useful phrase for confusing people you don’t wish to speak with. However, it’s apparently more useful in Europe, where no one enjoys speaking to the French.
— Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season
Everywhere you travel to, be fully there.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
If you think it's bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!' He shook his head and brushed at his tattered, dirty shirtsleeve. 'Do try to remember we're visitors-and not welcome ones-if you should feel moved to reason with anyone.
— David Weber, Oath of Swords
Damoder climbed slowly to his feet. 'Buy lot!' he wheedled, 'I am poor man. I sell you cheap. I am bank-Rupert! Apparently the only things that could save him from bank-rupertcy were our dollars.
— Frank Kusy, Rupee Millionaires
He was lonely. I could see that. He was working his butt off-and mine, too-in the hope that a million rupees might sort out his sex life. I prayed to Buddha he would be successful. If he didn't get some action soon, I doubted I would, either.
— Frank Kusy, Rupee Millionaires
Science rock: The pursuit of science, lead us to the beautiful places of the world.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
I went to Africa to work. Finding myself and falling in love were not items on the agenda. Those were the stuff of daydreams, borne of long, icy Canadian winters. At age 30, I felt I already knew my priorities, talents and limitations. The year in Africa forced me to question all of these assumptions.
— Jacqueline L. Scott
The night skyline was stunning. I could see the Monas and Istiqlal Mosque bathed in brilliant white lights and a dozen other places of cultural and historical significance. It’s an amazing, beautiful world we live in … despite Uncle Google’s abysmal view of American schools, the security checkpoints and vehicle inspections that seem to be everywhere, and the need to be vigilant because of the things we do to each other.
— Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season
I’d see the arrow. I’d think about attitude and perception. Maybe the green arrow on the ceiling is to Muslims as the KJV in the Motel 6 nightstand is to Christians.
— Tucker Elliot, The Rainy Season
Find your path in life and travel on it.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.
— Pico Iyer
Unlike Muir and Thoreau, McCandless went into the wilderness not primarily to ponder nature or the world at large but, rather, to explore the inner country of his own soul.
— Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild
The road never ends ... only our vision does.
— Amit Reddy, Who Stole My India?
I’d learned so much from traveling to familiar places that I figured I’d learn twice as much by going to a place I knew nothing about.
— Gerry Abbey, Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise
I've never understood people who just go out for one drink. Once I have one drink, I want all the drinks.
— Vicki Lesage, Confessions of a Paris Party Girl
Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.
— Paul Theroux, Fresh Air Fiend: Travel Writings
The South Pacific is memorable because when you are in the islands you simply cannot ignore nature. You cannot avoid looking up at the stars, large as apples on a new tree. You cannot deafen your ear to the thunder of the surf. The bright sands, the screaming birds, and the wild winds are always with you.
— James A. Michener, Return to Paradise
At times, working in big cities far from nature, I have been sick with nesomania, and I think the reason is this: On the islands one has both the time and the inclination to communicate with the stars and the trees and the waves drifting ashore, one lives more intensely.
— James A. Michener, World Is My Home
You can't ever get too much of Paris.
— Vicki Lesage, Confessions of a Paris Party Girl
Random acts of kindness show that even amidst the hustle and bustle, Paris inhabitants are more welcoming that their reputation gives them credit for.
— Vicki Lesage, Confessions of a Paris Party Girl
I was supposed to stay for 3 months. But I think I always knew I would stay a little longer, despite the crazy Frenchies. Or maybe because of them.
— Vicki Lesage, Confessions of a Paris Party Girl
The South Pacific is not a paradise, in the sense that Eden wasn't either. There are always apples and snakes. But it is a wonderful place to live. The green vales of Tahiti, the hills of Guadalcanal, the towering peaks about Wau, and the noonday brilliance of Rabaul have enchanted many white travelers who have stayed on for many years and built happy lives. Often on a cool night when the beer was plentiful and the stories alluring, we have envied the men and women of the South Pacific
— James A. Michener, Return to Paradise
It was one of those striking moments in life where you find familiarity in the inexplicable.
— Gerry Abbey
What did I learn in my travels? In whatever foreign country I visited I met dreamers who longed to reach America and its promise of an enriched life so I knew we had a country rich in opportunity, but I also met those brilliant Jews already in America who had been denied that promise.
— James A. Michener, World Is My Home
As we lifted off, China growing ever more distant from the window-seat, the endless ocean opening up before us, I was torn between the excitement of something new and leaving that which I'd grown to love. In that moment, I understood we may never come back; that we were floating there suspended between two worlds, above the world. There was no logic in where we would go from here, nor any limitation. We had each other, and we knew now of what adaptation we were capable. Their faces flashed through my mind, and I wondered if we'd ever find a country like that again, or if we'd ever be as open with new friends, knowing now what it was like to leave them. Like a first love lost. I hoped we'd have the courage to love Germany so that the day we'd leave our hearts would also break. For what is life except that kind of attachment? And isn't it true that one can live in a place all their life, surrounded by comfort and familiarity, and never feel this longing? As the last view of China slipped off the horizon, I promised myself that I would always dare to love, squeezing Patrick's hand, and seeing that in our love for each other, we'd always have the strength to let go.
— Megan Rich, Six Years of A Floating Life: A Memoir
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— DiDi Hendley, Whirlwind Love Libby's Journey
With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home.
— James A. Michener, World Is My Home
Animals travel on all fours. Mankind on two. Motorcycling is not a means of transport but an ideology, a nomadic way of life.
— Amit Reddy, Who Stole My India?
And so we went. And so it went. And, slowly, I began to learn: speaking in the same language does not equal communication, especially when there is a cultural divide.
— Gerry Abbey, Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise
I looked out again at the rising moon and I let the weight of my day, my week, lift away with the rushing wind as I was blown into the depths of myself.
— Gerry Abbey, Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise
Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!
— Gerry Abbey, Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise
My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.
— Gerry Abbey, Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise
There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.
— Gerry Abbey, Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise
Every body has a unique path to travel.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn’t even known I was tense. A few moments passed and once again the cycling fan laced in with the clanging chains and mixed with the rumbling mower and the buzzing insects.
— Gerry Abbey, Cheers, Beers, and Eastern Promise
I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed in, and the only thing that believed in me.
— Roman Payne
Empathy comes from the Greek empatheia - em (into) and pathos (feeling) - a penetration, a kind of travel. It suggests you enter another person's pain as you'd enter another country, through immigration and customs, border crossing by way of query: What grows where you are? What are the laws? What animals graze there?
— Leslie Jamison, The Empathy Exams: Essays
From all that I saw,and everywhere I wandered,I learned that time cannot be spent,It only can be squandered.
— Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
It is good to collect things, but it is better to go on walks.
— Anatole France
To those who are struggling. To talk about a struggle, you're likely to forget about it. To be shown a struggle, you're likely not to forget it. But, to live through a struggle, you'll understand it.
— Valerie Owens, America Huh I'm Going Home
I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.
— Alberto Caeiro, The Collected Poems of Alberto Caeiro
For this I weep all my daysand throughout my lifetime grievethat I swam from my own landsand came from familiar lands    towards these strange doors    to these foreign gates.
— Elias Lönnrot, The Kalevala
London was one of the worst places to have a bad day and one of the best places to have a good day
— Mhairi McFarlane, Here's Looking at You
Travel is fatal to narrowmindedness, prejudice and bigotry.
— Mark Twain
Travel is rebellion in its purest form. - we follow our heart- we free ourselves of labels- we lose control willingly- we trade a role for reality- we love the unfamiliar- we trust strangers- we own only what we can carry- we search for better questions, not answers- we truly graduate- we, sometimes, choose never to come back.
— Anonymous
No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
— Aphra Behn, The Rover
My meal arrived. It was a bowl of tepid, green curried water with two spinach leaves floating in it. The waiter called it 'vegetable soup'. I called it inedible slop.
— Frank Kusy, Kevin and I in India
Put down that map and get wonderfully lost.
— Anonymous
I pity snails, and all that carry their homes on their backs.
— J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
...I fear their false urgency, their call to speed, their insistence that travel is less important than arrival...
— Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust: A History of Walking
As well as writing, 2004 saw my first attempt at wine making: the elixir of life. Unfortunately, my effort tasted more like the elixir of death.
— Craig Briggs, Journey to a Dream
If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn't feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car. Get out - change your shoes and start walking.
— Jennifer Elisabeth
But what I do know is this: you got to find your own places. The places you get, girl, the ones that stick in your heart. And if you’re lucky, you find people to share them with.
— Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove
So we navigate mostly by dead reckoning, and deduction from what clues we find. I keep a compass in one pocket for overcast days when the sun doesn't show directions and have the map mounted in a special carrier on top of the gas tank where I can keep track of miles from the last junction and know what to look for. With those tools and a lack of pressure to 'get somewhere' it works out fine and we just about have America all to ourselves.
— Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
It was as if I was right there with Magellan, following every curve of his pen as he wrote down his words to his beloved ones confiding his secret. I had become the ink, and the tip was tattooing my path. I was going to follow his dream, but still, I wished I knew why” – Celma Ribeiro
— Celma Ribeiro, The Thief of Secrets
If you don't know your history, you don't know what you are talking about!
— Barbara Ann Mojica, Little Miss History Travel Series
I was seeing the world, and it turned out to be a lonely place.
— Tyler Mcmahon, How the Mistakes Were Made
Life is not being sure what will come next or how it will come. We guess at everything we do. We take leap after leap in the dark and that's the joy of living and the beauty of faith. When we grow tired, when we sit still, that's when we begin to die.... One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
— Angela Elwell Hunt, The Golden Cross
I'll pretty much try any cheese, but I have found that I prefer young goats and old cows. I don't like gray areas.
— Nichole Robertson, The Paris Journal: Book One
Separating fact and fiction in Inca history is impossible, because virtually all the sources available are Spanish accounts of stories that had already been vetted by the Inca emperors to highlight their own heroic roles. Imagine a history of modern Iraq written by Dick Cheney and based on authorized biographies of Sadam Hussein published in Arabic, and you'll get some idea of what historians face.
— Mark Adams, Turn Right at Machu Picchu: Rediscovering the Lost City One Step at a Time
The sun was beginning to set and the water was sparkling in the low light as the onshore breeze that had built up through the heat of the day rippled across the reflective surface, breaking it into a million diamonds of yellow-white light.
— Emma Bamford, Casting Off: How a City Girl Found Happiness on the High Seas
Each time I say good-bye to a place I like, I feel like I am leaving a part of me behind. I guess whether we choose to travel as much as Marco Polo did or stay in the same spot from cradle to grave, life is a sequence of births and deaths. Moments are born and moments die. For new experiences to come to light, old ones need to wither away.
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
Reading is poor man's way of travelling not just around the world but into the minds of people.
— Anonymous
You must remember that there was virtually no air travel in the early 1930s. Africa was two weeks away from England by boat and it took you about five weeks to get to China. These were distant and magic lands and nobody went to them just for a holiday. You went there to work. Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours and nothing is fabulous anymore.
— Roald Dahl, Boy: Tales of Childhood
You are too timid for me. You care too much about what other people think. But you know what? Because you are so desperate to win the approval of others, you'll never get rid of their criticisms, no matter how hard you try. You say you want to travel the path, but you don't want to sacrifice anything to that end. Money, fame, power, lavishness, or carnal pleasure - whatever it is that one holds most dear in life, one should dispose of that first.
— Elif Shafak, The Forty Rules of Love
If you find holes in my book that you could drive a car through, do not be too sure they were not left there for that express purpose.
— Mary Austin, The Land of Journeys' Ending
No matter how deeply you come to know a place, you can keep coming back to know it more.
— Rebecca Solnit, Unfathomable City: A New Orleans Atlas
Leaving home's a cinch. It's the staying, once you've found it, that takes courage.
— Catherine Watson
Half a capital and half a country town, the whole city leads a double existence; it has long trances of the one and flashes of the other; like the king of the Black Isles, it is half alive and half a monumental marble.
— Robert Louis Stevenson, Edinburgh: Picturesque Notes
Why be seduced by something as small as a front door in another country? Why fall in love with a place because it has trams and its people seldom have curtains in their homes? However absurd the intense reactions provoked by such small (and mute) foreign elements may seem, the pattern is at least familiar from our personal lives. There, too, we may find ourselves anchoring emotions of love on the way a person butters his or her bread, or recoiling at his or her taste in shoes. To condemn ourselves for these minute concerns is to ignore how rich in meaning details may be.
— Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel
Perhaps the greatest charm of tramp-life is the absence of monotony. In Hobo Land the face of life is protean—an ever changing phantasmagoria, where the impossible happens and the unexpected jumps out of the bushes at every turn of the road. The hobo never knows what is going to happen the next moment; hence, he lives only in the present moment. He has learned the futility of telic endeavor, and knows the delight of drifting along with the whimsicalities of Chance
— Jack London, The Road by Jack London, Fiction, Action & Adventure
After a lifetime of soft, easy living in the West, one's buttocks take an awful hammering out here. Backpacking around India is just one long round of sitting on bone-hard, chafing, bruising and generally uncomfortable seats-whether in buses our trains, or restaurants or cinemas. There is no such thing as a padded seat in the whole country.
— Frank Kusy, Kevin and I in India
We might laugh at the notion of plastic tea sets in the jungle, but it is a time-honored ritual for Western travelers to collect preindustrial artifacts to use as home decorations...Possession of primitive artifacts suggests worldly knowledge, just as in the highland communities of Borneo an electronic wristwatch that plays "Happy Birthday" is the mark of a great traveler. Funny thing how travel can narrow the mind.
— Eric Hansen, Stranger in the Forest: On Foot Across Borneo
In Paris, the dance was everything. The dance of romance was what a man could remember in his old age. Didn’t all young Americans come to Europe in search of that kind of romance?
— Peggy Kopman-Owens, A SUMMER ABROAD Mrs Duchensey's First Real Mystery
Traveling is all very well if you can get home at night. I would be willing to go around the world if I could be back in time to light the candles and set the table for dinner.” ♥ Gladys Taber.
— Gladys Taber
Yellowstone, of all the national parks, is the wildest and most universal in its appeal... Daily new, always strange, ever full of change, it is Nature's wonder park. It is the most human and the most popular of all parks. -Yellowstone Park for Your Vacation (circa 1920s)
— Susan Rugh, Family Vacation
When standing in the middle of the marvelous mountains and deep forests, in the earthy smell of all beginnings and endings, I often find myself asking what I have if all my possessions were taken away. Without money, car, house; or power and fame, if there are any, who am I? In that very moment, being away from the external voices and left alone in nature, I find my answer.
— Zi Nguyen, Get Lost. Be Found.
Well, I like to know where I'm going before I try to get there. It's a mistake to try to execute a plan before you've thought of one, in my experience.
— Max Barry, Lexicon
You might want to sit in public squares and people watch for an hour in one place and a month in another. I can tell by the way you're peeling that grapefruit. You want to get lost. Somewhere where they have ordinary life you can join in. Slip right in there and have a bowl of soup in the clothes you have on now. Go hear a concert you read about stapled to a telephone pole. There are lots of places like that in the world.
— Kathleen Winter, Annabel
Let our road be long, let it be very long, let it be very very long and in fact let our road be infinite! Travel means flow, flow means life!
— Mehmet Murat ildan
Very nice," said Rick after a while. "Very nice," he repeated, with more emphasis the second time. "What is?" I asked, turning to him, though I knew. "Everything," he said. And it was true.
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
I wanted to find my voice, so I sat in silence.I wanted joy, so I cried my heart open.I wanted wisdom, so I capered in bodacious foolishness.I wanted freedom, so I felt my bonds.
— Catherine Scott, Divine Ordinariness
Man, you should write a book.’‘I know. You couldn’t make this stuff up, could you?
— Stephanie   Wood, Room 101
To do is to be – AristotleTo be or not to be – ShakespeareTo be is to do – Jean-Paul SartreDo be do be do – Frank Sinatra
— Alannah Foley
It is the right of a traveller to vent their frustration at every minor inconvenience by writing of it to their friends.
— Susanna Clarke, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell
Life is about the adventures you take and the memories you make. So travel often and live life with open eyes and an open heart.
— Katie Grissom
But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one, for his domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.
— Isabelle Eberhardt, The Oblivion Seekers
Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.
— Susan Magsamen, The 10 Best of Everything Families: An Ultimate Guide for Travelers
What a strange revelation of self-esteem it is when people only love those who think and feel as they do - an extension of themselves, in fact! Even Christianity does not cure us, since one cannot feel right without assuming that the rest must be wrong. Personally I would rather feel wrong with everybody else than right all by myself: I like people different, and agree with the man who said that the worst of the human race is the number of duplicates.
— Freya Stark, Baghdad Sketches
There’s something profoundly intense and intoxicating about friendship found en route. It’s the bond that arises from being thrust into uncomfortable circumstances, and the vulnerability of trusting others to navigate those situations. It’s the exhilaration of meeting someone when we are our most alive selves, breathing new air, high on life-altering moments. It’s the discovery of the commonality of the world’s people and the attendant rejection of prejudices. It’s the humbling experience of being suspicious of a stranger who then extends a great kindness. It’s the astonishment of learning from those we set out to teach. It’s the intimacy of sharing small spaces, the recognition of a kindred spirit across the globe.It’s the travel relationship, and it can only call itself family.
— Lavinia Spalding, The Best Women's Travel Writing, Volume 8: True Stories from Around the World
I stood in the library admiring the huge book collection. There was something inherently calming about being surrounded by books, even their smell and texture was comforting.
— Saffron Mello Castro, A Thousand Miles from Nowhere: A Hippy Trip of Discovery
How can we ever understand what we are and where we belong in the universe if we haven't experienced anything outside of our own nation, culture, or history?
— Bruce Poon Tip, Looptail: How One Company Changed the World by Reinventing Business
These hotels are not consoling places. Far from it. Any number of people had hung up their hats on those pegs. Even the flies, if you thought of it, had settled on other people’s noses. As for the cleanliness which hit him in the face, it wasn’t cleanliness, so much as bareness, frigidity; a thing that had to be.
— Virginia Woolf, Mrs. Dalloway
There were lots of things to stop and see - and then it was time to go, always time to go.
— Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slaughterhouse-Five
The best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask.-Rick Ridgeway
— Susan Magsamen, The 10 Best of Everything Families: An Ultimate Guide for Travelers
What is more melancholy and more profound than to see a thousand objects for the first and the last time? To travel is to be born and to die at every instant...
— Victor Hugo, Les Misérables
With thousands of roads before us that lead nowhere, going in circles. There really are only two roads we will either travel, one going to heaven, or the other to hell.
— Anthony Liccione
Preparing for your journey in the most thorough way possible will not diminish your experiences abroad. It will enhance them.
— Bailey Richert, Prepare, Travel, Return: A Beginner's Guide to Globetrotting
Maybe life is like a walking safari. If you venture out expecting lions and leopards all the time you’ll almost always never find them. Maybe the best things are the ones you never knew you wanted to see. The ones that, scary as they may seem, were just the things you needed to unleash reality. I’d selfishly written my story before even reaching Africa. I’d romanticized scenarios, fabricated settings, invented fantastical dialogue, and almost overlooked the lesson I’d been sent to learn – to live life on foot and not in my head, with fearlessness, presence, without expectation, and above all, with gratitude.
— Jill Paris, Life Is Like A Walking Safari
They are the largest collection of freshwater lakes in the world. They border eight U.S. states and the Canadian Providence of Ontario and at time have supplied water to one-third of Canadians and one-seventh of Americans. They're vaster than the entire New England region and define beachfront to many people who have never seen an ocean.
— Susan Magsamen, The 10 Best of Everything Families: An Ultimate Guide for Travelers
Visiting new places andmeeting interesting people – even if "What remained after paying the rent for the Tel Aviv flat, which I shared with a roommate, and the tuition at university was close to nothing – it was the experiences that mattered.
— Daniela I. Norris, On Dragonfly Wings: A Skeptic's Journey to Mediumship
Visiting new places and meeting interesting people – even if "What remained after paying the rent for the Tel Aviv flat, which I shared with a roommate, and the tuition at university was close to nothing – it was the experiences that mattered.
— Daniela I. Norris, On Dragonfly Wings: A Skeptic's Journey to Mediumship
The melancholy comes over me, the dismal misery of not knowing where I am, or perhaps losing any sense of who I am, as if the mist is bringing about an evaporation of identity, all the certainties of the self leaching away into the cloud.
— Simon Armitage, Walking Home: A Poet's Journey
Prose fills a space, like a liquid poured in from the top, but poetry occupies it, arrays itself in formation, sets up camp and refuses to budge.
— Simon Armitage, Walking Home: A Poet's Journey
Why do we feel sorry for people who can't travel? Because, unable to expand externally, they are not able to expand internally either, they can't multiply and so they are deprived of the possibility of undertaking expansive excursions in themselves and discovering who and what else they could have become.
— Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.
— Harun Yahya
Every journey has its own traveler. Every dream has its own dreamer. We are all belonged to a specific journey and dream. Some people are currently looking for it, some people are just figuring it out, some people are still lost, and to some they have finally found it.
— Diana Rose Morcilla
Sooner or later, everybody dreams of other worlds.
— J. Aleksandr Wootton, Her Unwelcome Inheritance
Just imagine if you took all the money you've spent on these things and traveled around the world with it, instead, or bought books and read them. Think about how much you would know about life.
— Eustace Conway
I quickly became aware that the phrase "it can only get better" could very quickly turn into "it could always be worse," because it was.
— Savannah Grace, I Grew My Boobs in China
Home is where the backpack is
— Savannah Grace
And now it was official: I loved REI more than I loved the people behind Snapple lemonade.
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
If you cannot find peace where you stand you shall not find it where you land.
— T.F. Hodge, From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
The time is short and the hills is dark and I's got miles to go before I sleeps. Is is no easy road.
— Ian McDonald, Planesrunner
The road was wet with rain, black and shiny like oilskin. The reflection of the street lamps wallowed like yellow jelly-fish. A bus was approaching - a bus to Piccadilly, a bus to the never-never land - a bus to death or glory.I found neither. I found something which haunts me still.The great bus swayed as it sped. The black street gleamed. Through the window a hundred faces fluttered by as though the leaves of a dark book were being flicked over. And I sat there, with a sixpenny ticket in my hand. What was I doing! Where was I going?("Same Time, Same Place")
— Mervyn Peake, Weird Shadows From Beyond: An Anthology Of Strange Stories
I was 8,569 miles away, 37 butt-numbing hours of travel across seven time zones in the last two days, or was it three? Amelia Earhart, eat your heart out.
— Kristine K. Stevens, If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It Isn't Big Enough: A Solo Journey Around the World
People dream. They talk about escaping from it all. Their friends and family diligently listen and politely ignore it when the ruminations fade into oblivion. So quite a few eyebrows went up when I made this trip a reality.
— Kristine K. Stevens, If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It Isn't Big Enough: A Solo Journey Around the World
For the rest of my life, Zanzibar will be the Swahili word for rain. The rain would drizzle, spit, mist, downpour, shower, torrent, gust, deluge and blast. At one point it hit the ground so hard it created a haze as it bounced back up two feet and fell a second time.
— Kristine K. Stevens, If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It Isn't Big Enough: A Solo Journey Around the World
Slowly, all the days became Saturdays, full of more sunlight than I could remember seeing in a long time.
— Kristine K. Stevens, If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It Isn't Big Enough: A Solo Journey Around the World
Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking.
— Martha Barron Barrett, Slow Travel
Living in another culture, not just visiting it, has reshaped our view of the world.
— Nancy Petralia, Not in a Tuscan Villa: During a Year in Italy, a New Jersey Couple Discovers the True Dolce Vita When They Trade Rose-colored Glasses for 3Ds
We might give her presents, tell some tales, but would she ever be able to really understand what the journey had been like for us?
— Sara Sheridan, The Secret Mandarin
It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me.
— Sara Sheridan, The Secret Mandarin
When we saw a destitute-looking man trying to sell worn flip-flops, I vowed never to complain about a job again. When I considered the steady paycheck and quality of life it provided, my past gripes - primarily boring meetings, back-biting office politics and pantyhose - were just whining.
— Kristine K. Stevens, If Your Dream Doesn't Scare You, It Isn't Big Enough: A Solo Journey Around the World