Quotes About Adventure

It was the simplest crossing I'd ever made in a long career of crossing borders

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, maintaining the delusion that it is travel. This is the equivalent of being measured like a projectile and being shot out of a cannon, and that's how most of us feel in such a state, like a human cannonball, dazed and confused, in the company of other cannonballs.

Paul Theroux

I was now deeper into Mexico than I had driven so far.

How nice it would be, I thought, if someone reading the narrative of my African trip felt the same, that it was the next best thing to being there

I read about elsewheres, fantasizing about my freedom.

What I saw, what I experienced, the freedom of the trip, the people I met, the things I learned: my days were filled with road candy.

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace

Travel holds the magical possibility of reinvention: that you might find a place you love, to begin a new life and never go home.

The idea for elephant-back safaris was initially that of the photographer, socialite, and Africa hand Peter Beard, who suggested to Moore in the 1980s that riding elephants through the bush was unprecedented and would be an incomparable safari.

Tourists don't know where they've been and Travelers don't know where they are going.

I decided to go because I had a free year.

Tourists don't know where they've been. Travellers don't know where they're going.

and in a lifetime of travel had never felt more fully alive

This is a triumphant mood for a long trip, just slipping out and not telling anyone, and fairly sure that no one will notice I've gone.

But no sooner had I gotten behind the wheel than a feeling came over me that was like being caressed by a cosmic wind, reminding me of what travel at its best can do: I was set free.

Could be dangerous," Diego said

A train journey is travel; everything else—planes especially—is transfer, your journey beginning when the plane lands.—GRB

I turned seventy in the Kalahari Desert and defended myself against oafs in the stink and misery of northern Angola. All these trips, ten of them, became books.

We walk through ourselves," Stephen Dedalus says in Ulysses, summing up the travel experience, "meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

Just curiosity," I said. When he made a disapproving squint, I added, "Don't you go over now and then?" "Never been there," he said. "It's ten feet away!" "I'm staying here," he said, his squint now suggesting that I should be doing the same.

Days you spend on the water are not deducted from your life," he said, and laughed. "Surfing keeps you from growing old.

Travel is not a vacation, and it is often the opposite of a rest.

the helpful 2012 guide Don't Go There. It's Not Safe. You'll Die, and Other More Rational Advice for Overlanding Mexico and Central America.