Quotes About Travel

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more.

Today, I'll simply wander. Head off in one direction or another and keep walking. Until I feel like stopping.

I have a picture of the Pont Neuf on a wall in my apartment, but i know that Paris is really on the closet shelf, in the box next to the sleeping bag, with the rest of my diaries.

Getting there, that's what's important even if you can't get back.

There are days when I intentionally don't write. For instance, I never write when I'm traveling, because travel is a situation where I can learn more by looking and listening than by working.

klappt ihr Notizbuch zu und schaut aus dem runden Flugzeugfenster. Unter ihnen glitzert das weiche Abendlicht der untergehenden Sonne auf dem Atlantik. In wenigen Minuten werden sie in New York landen. Das hat der Pilot vorhin durchgesagt. Sprotte schnallt sich an und weckt den Siebzehnjährigen neben ihr. »Aufwachen, Fred, wir sind gleich da.«

If travel expands our experience and broadens our minds, the anticipation of travel helpfully narrows our reading list.

No family ever put an airport under its Christmas tree.

I always tell travel writing students to use these early hours to explore, because one's surroundings—the colorful drinks, the melodic sirens, the sweet-and-foul smells—will not be as clear or as sharp in a few days. At the start, everything stands out as if in high definition, especially, strangely, if you're groggy from jet lag or insomnia.

The old hunger for voyages fed at his heart....To go alone...into strange cities; to meet strange people and to pass again before they could know him; to wander, like his own legend, across the earth--it seemed to him there could be no better thing than that.

California, here I come.

All historical novels are science fiction since they are about time travel

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

Only it seems to me that once in your life before you die you ought to see a country where they don't talk in English and don't even want to.

At the doors of her Temples entered the Neophytes who afterward, as Hierophants, Adepts, and Masters, traveled to the four corners of the earth, carrying with them the precious knowledge which they were ready, anxious, and willing to pass on to those who were ready to receive the same. All students of the Occult recognize the debt that they owe to these venerable Masters of that ancient land.

Todos estamos en el Camino, y esta vía va siempre ascendiendo, con frecuentes sitios de reposo.

Orbán decides to visit his in-laws in Szolnok. I'd never been to Szolnok, so I tag along

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn't travel, I would still write.

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.

Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis.

A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea...Thus, when we allow ourselves to imagine as we once did, we know, with a sudden jarring clarity, that if we don't go right now, we're never going to do it. And we'll be haunted by our unrealized dreams and know that we have sinned against ourselves gravely.

Tofino Expeditions

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