Quotes About Travel

Once that day a chime sounded and the video told us of congestion two hundred kilometers ahead, near Chicago.

America is my country, and Paris is my home town.

He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage – that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present.

Chi ha viaggiato, gode questo vantaggio, che le rimembranze che le sue sensazioni gli destano, sono spessissimo di cose lontane, e però tanto più vaghe, suscettibili di fare illusione, e poetiche.

It's pronounced wee but spelled O-U-I. It's all you'll want to say when you're sitting at one of the thousands of little cafes that line the streets and you're looking at a menu full of foods you just want to eat for days. And then you wake up early, and the sun is rising in shades of pink over the white buildings as you make your way through the sleepy streets until you're upon the fresh markets!

Chissà se la luna di Kiev è bella come la luna di Roma, chissà se è la stessa o soltanto sua sorella… "Ma son sempre quella! – la luna protesta – non sono mica un berretto da notte sulla tua testa! Viaggiando quassù faccio lume a tutti quanti, dall'India al Perù, dal Tevere al Mar Morto, e i miei raggi viaggiano senza passaporto".

The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed.

desk simply to say: "Would you be willing to be parachuted into Greece next week?"' Woodhouse thought about it for a moment. 'There seemed no reason to say No, so I said Yes.'5 He reasoned that it would be a good opportunity to practise his Greek.

To leave Venice felt as foreign as flying to the stars.

I usually just have one cat. It is difficult, but I have my one cat that he'll travel with me if it's appropriate, if I'm not going overseas.

Rest and repose are as much a part of life's journeys as seeing all we came to see.

Wandering is not limited to geography. Also an altered state of consciousness, it allows a disembodied self to drift on currents of collective awareness with minimal attachment to the physical world. This state of wander tapped imaginative faculties that opened me to a freedom of being only previously experienced through travel.

During those days of whirling about the globe, I had an epiphany: travel was the only area of my life where I had no expectations. I anticipated nothing while fully engaging each moment. What bred adventure, surprise and deep experience was not knowing, surrendering to now and letting go of control.

Then I'd go home, return to a pattern of worry, unable to tap the surrender core to travel's inspiration. What was different?

If "Been there, done that" isn't your mantra,then make haste down your "bucket list.

Ten years ago I wondered, "How does one travel around the world? How does one step out of a well-established life to follow the dream?" I've answered those questions. But now new ones emerge.

Because travel was an area of my life where I felt most vital, I wanted to continue to invest in that, too. I had quit a full time job, drained my retirement account to invest in a long-held dream, and used the realization of that dream to enter a void with no guarantees. I didn't want financial struggle to be the sole outgrowth of the risks I had taken. More than money, I had put my belief systems on the line.

Everyone wants a long journey, kid. That's all. Next!

Ponzi had been in Brazil, and then Argentina, where he bought a boardinghouse populated by prostitutes, along with a hot dog stand. He had hoped it would be the start of a national chain.

If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.

It's also not unknown for junior co-pilots of prime low fares carriers to sleep overnight in cars between duties.

the FAA, has a list of zones or states which are "unapproved." Airlines from those areas or states are forbidden from entering US airspace but, incredibly, the FAA will not specify the airlines, which is not much use to you, the fare-paying passenger, as you plan your travel abroad. The European agency, however, regularly updates the list and tells you outright the names of the companies they say are not up to standard.

children not allocated their own seat do not appear in listed victim numbers in airline crash statistics.

A hundred years ago, it could take you the better part of a year to get from New York to California; whereas today, because of equipment problems at O'Hare, you can't get there at all." Dave Barry