Quotes About Adventure

taking several short trips in a year is likely to give you more peak experiences—and grateful memories—than one long but unremarkable vacation.

BURNING MAN WAS not on my radar. Taking drugs twenty-four hours a day with thousands of people in the windblown desert a hundred miles outside of Reno, Nevada, was not on my bucket list, more like my fuck-it list.

He filled the camp with fellow ecstasy fanatics, free spirits, and babes. There was more than enough sensuality to be had, but three guys in their sixties traveling with the wives of their close friends was like traveling with private detectives.

Burning Man was a mash-up of Star Wars and Apocalypse Now and Disneyland and the Las Vegas Strip.

There are many reasons to avoid taking risks. Friendship is not among them.

Osaan jo itse lukea / siis kirjoja on oltava. - Myssy-Kasperi matkustaa (Kasper Mütze darf verreisen)

and went on to colonize the next island again. It was a hitherto unprecedented

When the parachute opens, it's this incredible feeling... You float slowly towards solid ground. And when you land, it's like you're someone brand new. You're pure. I'm convinced it's like confession for the Catholics. You should all give it a try.

If you were to roam the world from the arctic goldfields of Kotzebue Sound to the pearl-fisheries of Thursday Island,' wrote Lowell Thomas when he visited the region in the 1920s, 'you could find no men more worthy of the title "desperado" than the Pushtuns who live among these jagged, saw-tooth mountains of the Afghan frontier.' Elliot, Jason. Unexpected Light (p. 56). Pan Macmillan UK. Kindle Edition.

The genre is called travel writing for a reason: it involves a traveler. Mostly, the traveler in good travel writing is not a local and doesn't pretend to be.

An honest, engaging traveler inspires us to make our own journeys and helps us to see and understand new (to us) places. Good travel writing is about human connection.

I will never say no to viewing my friends' vacation photos, primarily because one of our tacit promises when we travel is that we'll bring back a good story—of our heightened state of living and the exaggerated adventures that befell us—and hope to let others live vicariously through it.

If you enjoyed laughing in the face of death, you might like to have a crack at High Saffron. One hundred merits, and all you have to do is take a look.' 'I understand there's a one hundred percent fatality rate?' 'True. But up until the moment of death there was a one hundred percent survival rate. Really, I shouldn't let anything as meaningless as statistics put you off.

Books - Snell smiled - are a kind of magic.

To fail spectacularly is a loser's paradise.

Are all our dates going to be like that? said Perkins. I hope not, I replied with a smile, but it was quite fun, wasn't it? I mean, it's not like we were killed or eaten or anything, right? If your idea of a good date is not being killed and eaten, you'll never be disappointed.

Don't underestimate mediocrity... Lasting happiness, I've found, only really favors the unadventurous.

You a brave person?' 'I don't know.' 'You'll find out soon enough.

Rabbits never drove fast. They like to enjoy the view, didn't much care for speed and besides, it was wasteful of fuel. If you want to get somewhere a long way away, just leave early. Days, if that's required. Or, as Samuel C. Rabbit had it: 'nhffnfhfiifhfnnffhrhrfhrf' or 'to travel joyously is better than to arrive.

What do I do? Asked the princess. You keep your head down. She looked at me petulantly. Like hell I will. If we're going to die, I'm going down fighting, even if I'm terrible with a weapon. Fair enough, I said, handing her a cutlass. She swished it around. Pointy end toward the bad guy, right? Right.

Said by Maltcassion the Dragon: Humans, he scoffed. Always so inquiring about stuff. Never satisfied with the status quo. It will be your downfall, but oddly enough, it´s also one of your more endearing features. Do we have any otheres? Oy yes, plenty.

We remember David and Catriona Balfour as friends, colleagues, worthy members of our calling, protagonists in Kidnapped and Catriona and for all the booksploring they did— especially finding a way into Barchester, for which we will always be grateful.

You intend to go . . . supersonic?' 'Trust us,' said Owen with a smile, 'it's faintly possible that we know what we're doing.

Curiosity is a descending stair…that leads to only who-knows-where.