Quotes About Adventure

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it. Those whistles sing bewitchment: railways are irresistible bazaars... Anything is possible on a train...

Solitary people make the best travellers

I wanted something altogether wilder, the clumsier romance of strangeness.

I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.

So far I had been travelling alone with my handbook and my Western Railway timetable: I was happiest finding my own way and did not require a liaison man. It had been my intention to stay on the train, without bothering about arriving anywhere: sight-seeing was a way of passing the time, but, as I had concluded in Istanbul, it was an activity very largely based on imaginative invention, like rehearsing your own play in stage sets from which all the actors had fled.

Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel narrative was the story of There and Back.

The Swahili word safari means journey, it has nothing to do with animals, someone 'on safari' is just away and unobtainable and out of touch.

To travel unconnected, away from anyone's gaze or reach, is bliss

All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting.

The dubious achievement in travel these days is enduring the persistent nuisance of a succession of airports in order to arrive at a distant place for a brief interlude of the exotic

Time is a factor in travel, one of the most crucial.

To travel unconnected, away from anyone's gaze or reach, is a bliss.

A viagem é muito mais recompensadora quando deixa de ter que ver com a nossa chegada a um destino e se torna indistinguível de vivermos a nossa vida.

I wanted to find a new self in a distant place, and new things to care about.

In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.

You travel all over, the woman said. Do you write about your travels? I said, Yes, I did. Articles. Books. Whatever. You must write Paul Theroux-type travel books, she said. I said, Exactly, and told her why.

On that trip it was my good fortune to be wrong; being mistaken is the essence of the traveler's tale.

I decided that travel was flight and pursuit in equal parts

All solitary travel offers a sort of special license allowing you to be anyone you want to be

And yet on that bench at Jacobacci, I was glad I had left everyone else behind. Although this was a town with a main street and a railway station, and people with dogs and electric lights it was near enough to the end of the earth to give me the impression that I was a solitary explorer in a strange land. That illusion (which was an illusion in the South Pole and at the headwaters of the Nile) was enough of a satisfaction to me to make me want to go forward.

Nothing is more satisfying in travel than to land in a place and assume an occupation, even a temporary one, as a teacher.

Texas A&M International

What I find is that you can do almost anything or go almost anywhere if you're not in a hurry.