Travel Quotes - Page 27

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

As you move through this life...you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life - and travel - leaves marks on you.

Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves - in finding themselves.

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.

Adventure Bay is a convenient and safe place for any number of ships to take in wood and water during the summer months: but in the winter, when the southerly winds are strong, the surf, on all parts of the shore, makes the landing exceedingly troublesome.

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.

Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.

Also we will be carrying food and clothes for the Expedition Two crew. And as well as spare parts for the EVA that will be conducted from the station in the following months.

Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.

What a great thing! To be a writer! Words are something you can carry in your head. You can really 'travel light.'

Italy hasn't had a government since Mussolini.

The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

Without language, one cannot talk to people and understand them; one cannot share their hopes and aspirations, grasp their history, appreciate their poetry, or savor their songs.

My dream is to walk around the world. A smallish backpack, all essentials neatly in place. A camera. A notebook. A traveling paint set. A hat. Good shoes. A nice pleated (green?) skirt for the occasional seaside hotel afternoon dance.

Problems call forth our courage and our wisdom; indeed, they create our courage and wisdom.

If you have enthusiasm, you have a very dynamic, effective companion to travel with you on the road to Somewhere.

They say no land remains to be discovered, no continent is left unexplored. But the whole world is out there, waiting, just waiting for me. I want to do things-- I want to walk the rain-soaked streets of London, and drink mint tea in Casablanca. I want to wander the wastelands of the Gobi desert and see a yak. I think my life's ambition is to see a yak. I want to bargain for trinkets in an Arab market in some distant, dusty land. There's so much. But, most of all, I want to do things that will mean something.

Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.

After a lifetime of world travel I've been fascinated that those in the third world don't have the same perception of reality that we do.

Travel, which was once either a necessity or an adventure, has become very largely a commodity, and from all sides we are persuaded into thinking that it is a social requirement, too.

A wise man travels to discover himself.

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

Even the elephant carries but a small trunk on his journeys. The perfection of traveling is to travel without baggage.

The ideal is to feel at home anywhere, everywhere.