Quotes About Travel

I counted off seventy-two seconds, which represents a mile at fifty miles an hour.

He dropped by the office, to pay for another night's stay. He always rented rooms one night at a time, even when he knew he was going to hang out in a place longer. It was a reassuring habit. A comforting ritual, intended to confirm his absolute freedom to move on.

NOI BAI AIRPORT outside Hanoi and Hickam Field outside Honolulu share exactly the same latitude, so the U.S. Air Force Starlifter flew neither north nor south. It

steady sixty. A mile a minute. Hypnotic. Power line poles flashed

Route 66. She headed north and east on it. Reacher started singing to himself, about getting his kicks. Then he stopped. Berenson

through his side window, down the length of the

women passengers

which leads to the Bronx. You can get to Yankee Stadium that way, although other routes are better.

There were gas pumps. There

He won't come here. We'll have to go to San Francisco." "Like it's still 1967." "What?" Reacher said, "Nothing.

I chose white underwear and khaki socks and then stopped in the toiletries section and found a kind of half-sized travel toothbrush. I liked it. The business end was nested in a clear plastic case, and it pulled out and reversed and clipped back in, to make it full-length and ready to use. It was obviously designed for a pocket. It would be easy to carry and the bristle part would stay clean. A very neat idea.

Then he filled them with coffee from a flask.

that. There were some turns left and right, and there were some small stands of trees here and there, and there were

Norwich to Ipswich in Suffolk

miles away, but it was the first stop. There

On the way, I shared the backseat of Feyerabend's little sports car with the inflatable raft he kept there in case an 8-point earthquake came while he was on the Bay Bridge.

I felt laden. Air itself has weight and mass, and Kansas had the most air of anywhere I'd ever been.

Mediterranean.

Paleolithic humans migrated often, and, like my teenagers, they followed the food.

Unfortunately, in 1861, when he was forty, Buckle caught typhus while traveling in Damascus. Offered the services of a local physician, he refused because the man was French, and so he died.

watched the flash of guardrails, saw

At seven p.m., hope is sparked again when some new chirpy airline employee announces that a new plane without that nasty mechanical problem - the aviation of the clap - will arrive around 9 o'clock. Apparently, the old plane would now be used as a decoy plane so that when a plane wasn't available it could be loaded with passengers who could sit there thinking that they would be leaving in fifteen minutes.

My bookstore obsession grew to the point where I'd search for new shops during family trips, as though that were the reason for our travel.

Please, Ma'am, is this New Zealand or Australia?—and she tried to curtsey