Quotes About Exploration

How nice it would be, I thought, if someone reading the narrative of my African trip felt the same, that it was the next best thing to being there

I read about elsewheres, fantasizing about my freedom.

D. H. Lawrence, Malcolm Lowry, and Aldous Huxley—all visitors, inspired in their writing by their immersion in Oaxaca—would recognize

What I saw, what I experienced, the freedom of the trip, the people I met, the things I learned: my days were filled with road candy.

The greatest justification for travel is not self-improvement but rather performing a vanishing act, disappearing without a trace

Travel holds the magical possibility of reinvention: that you might find a place you love, to begin a new life and never go home.

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in

The idea for elephant-back safaris was initially that of the photographer, socialite, and Africa hand Peter Beard, who suggested to Moore in the 1980s that riding elephants through the bush was unprecedented and would be an incomparable safari.

Tourists don't know where they've been and Travelers don't know where they are going.

Tourists don't know where they've been. Travellers don't know where they're going.

and in a lifetime of travel had never felt more fully alive

This is a triumphant mood for a long trip, just slipping out and not telling anyone, and fairly sure that no one will notice I've gone.

But no sooner had I gotten behind the wheel than a feeling came over me that was like being caressed by a cosmic wind, reminding me of what travel at its best can do: I was set free.

Claudia Muzzi, of Italian ancestry, had traveled in Italy and indeed spoke Italian. But her most memorable experiences had been in the United States, specifically in Georgia. She planned to write about it later in the week.

Could be dangerous," Diego said

A train journey is travel; everything else—planes especially—is transfer, your journey beginning when the plane lands.—GRB

I turned seventy in the Kalahari Desert and defended myself against oafs in the stink and misery of northern Angola. All these trips, ten of them, became books.

We walk through ourselves," Stephen Dedalus says in Ulysses, summing up the travel experience, "meeting robbers, ghosts, giants, old men, young men, wives, widows, brothers-in-love. But always meeting ourselves.

Travel is not a vacation, and it is often the opposite of a rest.

If a train is large and comfortable you don't even need a destination; a corner seat is enough, and you can be one of those travelers who stay in motion, straddling the tracks, and never arrive or feel they ought to.

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But curious to see the fence, I drove to the Rio Grande Valley, south to Harlingen, over to McAllen, and down Twenty-Third Street to International Boulevard and the frontier at Hidalgo, where the thing was obvious, ugly, and unambiguous.

I asked them to amplify a bit.

Reading about a far-off place can be a satisfaction in itself, and you might be thankful you're reading about the bad trip without the dust in your nose and the sun burning your head, not having to endure the unrewarding nuisance and delay of the road. But reading can also be a powerful stimulus to travel.