Quotes About Expedition

An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible.

Lewis and Clarke. Why hadn't she said

It is the going out from oneself that is love and not the accident of its return. It is the expedition, whether it fail or succeed.

I love visiting new places but am not overly fond of the travel to get to them.

I love the traveling, of course. Not the flying, but the actual traveling.

People love watching crazy expeditions

Thirty-six years later the Dutchman Abel Tasman was sent to look for the fabled South Land and managed to sail 2,000 miles along the underside of Australia without detecting that a substantial land mass lay just over the left-hand horizon.

Two days ago I gathered together supplies for the journey: food, blankets, a small saucepan in which to heat water and some rags.

Previous experience had taught me that any expedition marches on its stomach.

Running an expedition can bring out the worst in a man. It can make you a power-crazed monster.

If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866.

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

I have weighed all the dogs and have come to the conclusion that we can feed them on each other and keep going for about fifty days, having, in addition to this, dog provisions for about thirty days, we ought to be able to travel with dogs for eighty days, and in that time it seems to me we should have arrived somewhere.

Journey before destination you bastard.

Take it all in. Remember everything. " I assumed reporters and biographers would want lots of specific information when they wrote about the Great Expedition. The details would make good reading. The hot sun beating on our heads, the leaky boat, the lack of good supplies. The setup was perfect. Dad always said you couldn't do a job correctly without the proper tools. Well, I was going to do it with a whole boatload of improper equipment. He would be doubly amazed.

The dullest soul cannot go upon such an expedition without some of the spirit of adventure; as if he had stolen the boat of Charon and gone down the Styx on a midnight expedition into the realms of Pluto.

Un soldado entusiasta que tomó parte en la expedición puso en verso su visión de la promesa de gloria para España: Españoles, españoles, ¡Que todos os han temor!

I've been to the Titanic in a yellow submarine and the North Pole in a Russian nuclear ice breaker.

I just travel the world with my backpack and my cameras and a bunch of Clif bars.

Before the BBC, I joined the Navy in order to travel.

I spent about a year traveling overland from Egypt through Sudan and Ethiopia, and eventually into East Africa.

We're like a travelling circus... We're always on the go.

I get more tired by travelling than anything.