Quotes About Adventure

Follow your heart, trust your instincts, and above all else, have fun!

The real trick is you have to forge your way straight ahead through the trees where there is no path.

After that she'd have to go elsewhere anyway for breadth of experience. A different part of the world where she would develop expertise in more than frostbite, and lost toes, and idiots frozen to their fishing poles. But Rue, followed by Ben, followed by Rigel and Orion, had put a stop to that plan too; children being the enemies of plans and anything new besides themselves.

Our road trip makes me see that needing help doesn't mean there aren't other places to get it besides home, other people who can provide it besides family, that having limits doesn't mean I cannot—must not, maybe—bewitch and bewilder, range far and wander wide and wild. For home is like black holes—no matter how small, no matter how humble, they capture everything in range and trap it inside. The only way to escape their draw is to be far enough away.

I walked barefoot — the only way to walk on a muddy road.

They say in old stories that you can't discover new lands without losing sight of the shore for a long time.

Byrd at the South Pole

We are crayons and lunchboxes and swinging so high our sneakers punch holes in the clouds.

What a maddening life it is, to be committed to a way of living while also remaining open to all possibilities.

Windsurfing, the sound of the word contains all the mystery of a solitary buoy in the fog, echoing across the water at the end of the day.

The feeling of freedom and scent of sea air are intoxicating. As the wind picks up, I gain speed, holding on to life with a capital L

I took up windsurfing to explore my own courage.

I was fifteen when I first met Sherlock Holmes, fifteen years old with my nose in a book as I walked the Sussex Downs, and nearly stepped on him. In my defense I must say it was an engrossing book, and it was very rare to come across another person in that particular part of the world in that war year of 1915.

Most intelligent men and women like to go forth into the world and stalk their own prey, choose their own mirrors of dysfunction . . . .

Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.

I've nursed a lifelong love affair with movement, straying ever farther from those I love most. But somewhere along the way, it dawned on me that I was always traveling with family - because the act of travel, to the extent that it separates us from our relatives, also extends, manifests, multiplies, and completes family.

Making the journal equal to the journey is simply a matter of shifting your intention: you're no longer traveling and keeping a log on the side, but embarking with a dual purpose.

In fact, there's nothing like travel to swing wide all the artistic channels,

Outings are so much more fun when we can savor them through the children's eyes.

the trip itself may have so far gone smoothly,

And there we were in the Croc Pools: a herd of elephants, two crocodiles, a dog, and a sweaty group of men united by the most basic instinct of all—

But sometimes you have to go for it in life. If you just sit around thinking, then nothing ever happens. And with that I was seized by a moment of clarity.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

I am going where turtles win I am going where conmen puke and die Down the sad esplanades of the official world.