Quotes About Travel

We seized the opportunity to take a grown-ups-only hiking trip in Acadia National Park.

The poop became a poop mountain; the pee became a pee ocean. And then somehow a Poop and Pee Airline was invented to fly travelers to Poop Mountain and Pee Ocean, although the code name for the airline was Dolphin Airlines, to keep the unsuspecting from being tipped off.

Some of the world's richest and most famous people flew on the Graf Zeppelin and the Hindenburg,

and they could tack, that is, shift their course to take advantage of the wind

ships had to be sufficiently small and light to negotiate the narrow waterway to the Atlantic.

quietly made his way to San Antonio. He was joined there in the dark water lapping at the ship's hull by Juan de Cartagena

fifty leagues past the cape, they explored a large bay and came upon a caravan of men and camels.

would be coming along with them in one of the ships.

the Atlantic to the Pacific.

Elizabeth crossed the Sargasso Sea without incident

explore its murky and seductive reaches. Santiago spent two days sailing upstream

and free-flowing account in the tradition of other popular travel works of the day;

Heaving long passed the point of no return to South America

From the time we left that bay until the present day, we sailed fourteen thousand four hundred and sixty leagues"—nearly sixty thousand miles—"and furthermore completed the circumnavigation of the world from east to west.

Although this was his first visit to Brazil, Magellan was familiar with the brilliantly evocative descriptions

the land written by Amerigo Vespucci after his visit in 1502.

than at Port Saint Julian, and Serrano decided to linger for six days to fish and hunt for sea elephants.

By October 20, 1517, he had arrived in Seville

A round-trip to the far side of the world lasted seven years or longer

Magellan had every intention of visiting Serrão in the island paradise

God willing, I will soon be seeing you, whether by way of Portugal or Castile

he would complete the trip in a year or less and return with fresher, more potent spices.

By March 6, 1521, the fleet reached the island of Guam

the exhausted crew finally reached the broad expanse of the river.