Quotes About Travel

So I'm more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. It's weird being here. It feels like I'm standing next to my real life.

You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Wherever you go, man-made things are man-made, but you've got to get out and see God's beauty of the world.

The airplane has had a big impact on my life.

I, unfortunately, take the subway a lot. It's not my preference, but it is my lot in life.

I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.

Airplane Law, The: When the plane you are on is late, the plane you want to transfer to is on time.

I think of myself as an explorer who has spent his life on a long voyage of discovery.

You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.

My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

I only travel to good material, a good director and a good company. I won't work in another country for a year any longer, because I have a lovely wife and I adore her and I can't bear to be away from her.

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

I really do believe that all of you are at the beginning of a wonderful journey. As you start traveling down that road of life, remember this: There are never enough comfort stops. The places you're going to are never on the map. And once you get that map out, you won't be able to re-fold it no matter how smart you are. So forget the map, roll down the windows, and whenever you can pull over and have picnic with a pig. And if you can help it never fly as cargo.

Things look different from the seat of a bike carrying a sleeping bag with a cold beer tucked inside.

Killer on the road / His brain is squirming like a toad.

But there's a world of difference between knowing a type and knowing a person. When you've traveled all over the planet, as I have, and communicate with people from other cultures, you come to understand that, ultimately, very few human beings conform to the stereotypes imposed upon them. And, for the most part, we all want the same things out of life.

My siamese twins moved to England so the other one could drive.

As we journey into our future, we begin to understand our past in ways that help us travel today.

Unless you go before you go, you'll need to go while you're going.

Follow the suggestion of Dr. Caroline Bauer and post a reminder sign by your door: "Don't Forget Your Flood Book." Analogous to emergency rations in case of natural disasters, "flood" books should be taken along in the car or even stored like spares in the trunk. A few chapters from these books can be squeezed into traffic jams on the way to the beach or long waits at the doctor's office.

Pack your bags, we're going on a guilt trip!

The one thing you shouldn't do is try to tell a cab driver how to get somewhere.