Quotes About Adventure

I love traveling, because you're escaping into life instead of hiding from it.

strive to be comfortable in chaos and complexity. Be as a shaman who walks in many worlds.

We are our own terra incognita, the country on maps where dragons lurk.

In late June they arrived in Independence, Missouri, on a stretch of the Missouri River known for its "jumping-off places" — settlements where emigrants met traveling companions or killed time until their parties arrived, before heading west.

in early 1854 Lt. Amiel Weeks Whipple was sent to map a route from the Mississippi River to the Pacific Ocean. Whipple was a thirty-seven-year-old West Point graduate from Massachusetts, known for his competence and conscientiousness

Traveling with more than a hundred men, from engineers, cartographers, and geologists to astronomers, meteorologists, and botanists, as well as soldiers and guides, Whipple trudged through present-day Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico, into what would become Arizona, on a path that vaguely foreshadowed today's Route 66. The group was guided along the way by Indians — Creeks, Shawnees, and Zunis. But it was the Mohaves who would lead Whipple on the final leg of the journey.2 On

Espaniole instructed Topeka to travel with Olive, either to ease her journey, to collect her ransom, or both, along with Francisco's brother, two cousins, and Musk Melon, who lived near Olive.

friend. Then he had an idea...

It's not that you have to achieve anything, it's that you have to get away from where you are.

Curiouser and curiouser, as Alice in Wonderland would say…

O-kay. Kind of freaky. I'm now standing in an actual tomb, in pitch darkness, with only a vampire to keep me company. Last week if you'd sworn on a stack of Bibles that I'd be okay with all of this, I wouldn't have believed you.

Did he just say stormsharks? My inner nerd is elated. Can anything I will ever hear from now until the end of time sound cooler than stormsharks?

I need to get onto Aza's ship. I know where it's going. I think I know, even though all I really know, all I've really known since I was five, is that Aza is my universe.

Carpe omnia," I say. Not carpe diem. Not Seize the Day. No, this says Seize Everything. I'll

Carpe omnia," I say. Not carpe diem. Not Seize the Day. No, this says Seize Everything.

I think about curses and pirates. Skeletons guarding booby-trapped hideaways.

But there was no version of my life in which I wasn't getting my ass to Svalbard.

Are you afraid of dying, Ferris?' 'I'm afraid of not living.

Aren't you afraid of dying, Ferris?' 'I'm afraid of not living.

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men.

As Steve Jobs pointed out, life can either be limiting, safe, and secure or it can be wide open, creative, and sometimes scary.

I never did get to brush my teeth this morning, I haven't been able to brush my hair, and I can't unzip my wet suit because I'm only wearing a bikini." Sam laughed. "That's what you get for boarding vessels scantily clad in the middle of the night." He grinned. "I don't suppose it was enough to prevent you from doing it again." "No." She grinned back at him. "I don't suppose it was.

say, every journey begins with a single step.

Lucy shivered and went on again. 'This is an adventure,' she thought. 'You can't have an adventure if you stop in the middle.