Quotes About Adventure

There are gators, thousands of them. " said Rashawn. " Then we better get out of here before we end up as a feast for gators." said Nicole. " What are going to do with him?" looking at the dead driver. " Let's get out of here and let him be the feast

climb high, sleep low

Years ago when I was still in the field we ad this technique for dealing with problems we weren't exactly sure how to solve. We called it S-W-A-G." "What's that stand for?" "Scientific-Wild-Ass-Guess..

Peak has to write in first people presents. He and Mommy are going to After Can Stand on a little vacation, just them, but they'll be back in ten days. We ordered Chinese food for dinner. I'm not eating the egg food young. Yuck." Rolf understood egg food young was egg fu yung. "After Can Stand?" "That's right. We looked at a map. It's right next to Pack Her Stand." Reading

How'd you get that scar? Attacked by an eagle in Afghanistan. I was kind of looking forward to that exchange.

Let's head out to the ruins." - Dan Cahill

Marty grinned as he backed toward the door. "Green eggs and mamba," he said, then ran.

He had eaten Kate's map so

guess all spies know how to hot-wire cars. For them the world was one huge,

Vagabonding involves taking an extended time-out from your normal life—six weeks, four months, two years—to travel the world on your own terms.

Vagabonding is about looking for adventure in normal life, and normal life within adventure. Vagabonding is an attitude—a friendly interest in people, places, and things that makes a person an explorer in the truest, most vivid sense of the word.

If in doubt about what to do in a place, just start walking through your new environment. Walk until your day becomes interesting—even if this means wandering out of town and strolling the countryside. Eventually you'll see a scene or meet a person that makes your walk worthwhile. If you get "lost" in the process, just take a bus or taxi to a local landmark and find your way back to your hotel from there.

vagabonding is simply a matter of making work serve your interests

To know the universe itself as a road, as many roads, as roads for traveling souls.

no combination of one-week or ten-day vacations will truly take you away from the life you lead at home.

Pro and con lists—one of my previous favorites—are just as bad. If it's important to you, and you want to do it eventually, just do it, and correct course along the way. Fortune favors the bold.

so that your travels are not an escape from your real life but a discovery of your real life.

We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis. —EDWARD ABBEY, DESERT SOLITAIRE

The secret of adventure, then, is not to carefully seek it out but to travel in such a way that it finds you.

Long-term travel isn't an act of rebellion against society; it's an act of common sense within society.

vagabonding is like a pilgrimage without a specific destination or goal—not a quest for answers so much as a celebration of the questions, an embrace of the ambiguous, and an openness to anything that comes your way.

And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.

The traveler was active, he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience," Daniel Boorstin opined in 1961. "The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him.

Thus, the question of how and when to start vagabonding is not really a question at all. Vagabonding starts now. Even if the practical reality of travel is still months or years away, vagabonding begins the moment you stop making excuses, start saving money, and begin to look at maps with the narcotic tingle of possibility.