Quotes About Travel

We'll cross into Chavez County in about two miles.

Vonn Dubose may have ice water in his veins, but Claudia McDover did not. Her insatiable appetite for cash was finally fading. She had enough. She and Phyllis could travel the world in style and laugh about the Indians.

When she was denied entry at Inverness, she lodged for the night in the town

For example, more baggage animals were needed because Mary's bed often arrived late at its destination.

Sixty miles was pushing it, but feasible in good weather.

So, in what we considered the true spirit of freedom and the timeless nature of our travel plans, a few months after the sacrifice of Dave's airline ticket, the three of us ceremoniously burnt our watches, too.

It's the compass; not just the little head ruling the big head, though that's part of it. It's the natural instinct of following your heart, your eyes, to move from place to place, country to country, and do what you feel inside, to find out what you feel inside. How can you find yourself if you stay in your country of birth? It's important, vital, to stand aside and take a look from a different angle, to look with a fresh pair of eyes.

Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someone else's version of themselves—to anyone else's version! Every country knows more about America than Americans know about themselves! And Americans know absolutely nothing about any other country!

Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world!

Mother and Egg would meet us in Vienna the next day; Sorrow would fly with them.

Clothes, whips, reading material," the customs officer had summarized, in Spanish and English, to the young American. "Just the bare essentials!" Edward Bonshaw

Tell your mom he said, 'Sibelius.' It's all he thinks about. I mean going there," she added.

He's from Finland," Alice explained. "That means your father has gone to Helsinki, Jack.

His exposure to storytelling, through Charles Dickens and Charlotte Bronte, had ill prepared him for characters who came from and traveled nowhere -- or for stories that made no sense.

You just go up the Hudson," I told him. "Sure, man," he said. "Up the what?

no planning, Graff--that's the first thing. No mapping it out, no dates to get anywhere, no dates to get back. Just think of things! Think of mountains, say, or think of beaches. Think of rich widows and farm girls! Then just point to where you feel they'll be, and pick the roads the same way too--pick them for the curves and hills. That's the second thing--to pick roads that the beast will love.

Then the snowshoer explained how he never drove anywhere in the beetle without what he called an emergency novel. If I drive off the road and am lying upside down in a ditch, unable to move my legs or get out of the car, I want to have something good to read. ? John Irving, The Last Chairlift

Bromley Mountain. It was close to

Starships are fun to fly around in, but they're no place to entertain.

The stars look very cold about the sky, and I have many miles on foot to fare.

A man travelling on a train - like you or I - to Scotland, had two or two bad eggs in his pocket - and you know - no one would sit by him.

Turn left at Greenland....

If you want summer in San Francisco, plan your vacation for the fall.

The opening lines of Jerome K. Jerome's Three Men In A Boat are: 'There were four of us.