Quotes About Travel

In one case, a group of innocent American tourists was taken on a tour bus through a country the members later described as "either France or Sweden" and subjected to three days of looking at old, dirty buildings in cities where it was not possible to get a cheeseburger.

They feed you, like, eight times a day, which is why cruise people always look like hairless water buffalo wearing sneakers.

Fort Lauderdale is sometimes called The Venice of America by people who clearly have never been to Venice.

Did you see those airport security people? I think you could drive a tank past them, as long as it didn't contain any liquids.

Actually, the term drove is misleading when applied to travelling across the prairies; a better verb might be pointed, which is all one has to do when moving in a straight line with about ten thousand feet between vehicles.

Nicaragua sounded dangerous; she liked the word. Nicaragua! It sounded like some kind of spider. There it goes, under the table - Nicaragua!

There is travel and there are babies, he said, stepping out. Everything else is drudgery and death.

the observer is, more often than not, passive. writing chiefly about his or her surroundings, and the people he or she meets. The writer reacts, instead of acts. Well, i suppose they [travel writers] do act, in that they have to do the traveling, choose the destinations, and so forth, but again, largely they are observant cargo, being shuttled from place to place with notebook in hand.

Books to read Music to download Movies to see Gift ideas Web sites to explore Weekend trips to take Ideas—Misc. (meaning you don't know where else to put them!)

Why are trains so popular at Christmas? People get on to meet their country over the holidays.

It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.

Tazburg, Mise, Divine, South Ridge." He read the names off the

Pine was normally a light packer, a one-suitcase sort of girl. But for this trip, she had brought a second small suitcase. She set it on her bed and opened it. She looked down at the oddball assortment of items carefully packed inside

just been traveling all day to get to you.

These rich Americans often have more than one home. They travel between them and enjoy the fruits of their greed and exploitation of the poor.

In his previous career with the federal government he'd adopted false identities and traveled across the world. Fortunately, changing identities was stunningly easy to do in the computer age. A few clicks of the Dell, a server somewhere in India hummed, and from one's fancy laser printer out popped a new you with all the official bells, whistles and available credit.

Trains had a nostalgic magnetism that was undeniable, even for the many Americans who'd never even been on one.

She lightly punched him in the arm. "So, on to Williamsburg?" "On to Williamsburg. But I need to call them first.

He cracked a grin. "I'm only five miles from the stoplight.

Williston isn't that far from here," said Kelly.

It's not getting from A to B. It's not the beginning or the destination that counts. It's the ride in between.

You've been away from home too long if you can get lost on the way from the harbor to the palace.

mentre io ero giù al porto a persuadere l'Albatro che doveva navigare, e non volare.

Micronesia. "It was near Guam," Steve Blauner says. "A guy that sick to