- Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. Jack Kerouac
- The slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries. Rolf Potts (Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World)
- “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” ― Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
- “On this roadwhere nobody else travelsautumn nightfall.” ― Matsuo Bashō
- “I turn my face to the window as the train starts to move. Charles suggested I take the car, but I prefer this strange elevated route out of town, the rooftop tour of south London as the carriages rattle between spires and old smokestacks and the tips of poplars; the sudden glimpses into school playgrounds and street markets and quiet litter-strewn alleys, narrow avenues of blackened brick. Little by little the city falls away, like something giving up, and then the acoustics of the carriage change, and we’re out in the open: meadows riven with streams, the fast blue shadows of clouds on the hills.” ― Harriet Lane, Her
- The journey is my home. Muriel Rukeyser
- When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. Susan Heller
- “Life’s trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive” ― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
- Part 2. Rather, we’ll travel to find grounds and rooftops and tiny hidden parks, where we’ll sit and dismiss the passing time, spun in the city’s web, ‘til we’ve surrendered, content to be spent and consumed. Victoria Erickson
- Don’t listen to what they say, go see. Chinese proverb
- “Successes are those highlights of life we look back on with a smile. But it’s the day to day grind of getting them that defines the laugh lines etched until the end of time. Enjoy each moment along the way” ― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
- I could have gone on flying through space forever. Yuri Gagarin (First human to journey into outer space)
- “A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” ― George Augustus Moore, The Brook Kerith
- “When we embark on a hard adventure with our kids, we must make sure our kids know we believe in them. This not only helps them to believe in their own ability to conquer the challenge but also knits their hearts with ours as we rise to the challenge together.” ― Greta Eskridge, Adventuring Together: How to Create Connections and Make Lasting Memories with Your Kids
- The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust
- A great way to learn about your country is to leave it. Henry Rollins
- Not I, nor anyone else can travel that road for you. You must travel it by yourself. Walt Whitman
- “I love to travel to a peaceful and calm place because that’s where I hear the sound of silence.” ― Chetan M Kumbhar
- “Die wertvollste Reise ist die Reise zu unserem Selbst.” ― Nina Hrusa
- Curiosity about the extraordinary in the ordinary moves the heart of the traveler intent on seeing behind the veil of tourism. Phil Cousineau
- To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. Freya Stark (Game of Thrones
- “Oh! That was poetry!” said Pippin. “Do you really mean to start before the break of day?” ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
- “Very nice,” said Rick after a while. “Very nice,” he repeated, with more emphasis the second time. “What is?” I asked, turning to him, though I knew. “Everything,” he said. And it was true.” ― Cheryl Strayed, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail
- The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home. Rolf Potts
- Paris is always a good idea. Audrey Hepburn
- “Integrity is something we show, not proclaim.” ― Aaron Lauritsen, 100 Days Drive: The Great North American Road Trip
- “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,To gain all while you give,To roam the roads of lands remote,To travel is to live.” ― Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
- “The best traveler is one without a camera.” ― Kamand Kojouri
- “WHAT I HAVE LEARNED SO FAR Doctors told me I would die within six months. That was two years ago. I decided, in spite of the doctors’ opinions, that traveling around the world would be more fun than dancing with The Reaper. Tough times are the constant companion of a 70-year old with arthritis, degenerative spinal disease, and a liver cancer diagnosis—but so are blessings and miracles. This trip has, so far, brought me almost exactly half way around the world from where I started. It has been great fun, adventure, experience, and offered wonderful insights into different cultures. But it hasn’t taught me much about humanity that I didn’t already know. It has confirmed a lot that I already suspected. People everywhere and anywhere are a lot more similar than different. Most are trying to be decent and happy, but all have different definitions of what “decent” and “happy” mean. There are a small number of seriously self-centered jackasses, but even they are also just hunting happiness in their own warped fashion. The nice people can be awfully cruel at times. Cruel people are occasionally nice. No one gets out alive but most folks act as if death only happens to other people. There is very little real consciousness of mortality going on. Actually, there is precious little consciousness going on at all. Folks seem to do a lot of life habitually and without any deep awareness of their thoughts or actions. Very few realize how many choices they have. Many folks seem busier strangling life’s opportunities with irrelevant and often inaccurate historical misinformation than are actually taking advantage of those opportunities. They don’t realize that a lot of what is called tradition turns out to be no more than peer pressure from dead people, and that it lacks any valuable or even real substance. They seem swept away by the current of life, like a body trapped in the current of a wide river. They don’t realize that there are banks on both sides of any river that we can swim to, climb ashore, and find golden new possibilities waiting for us. *continued at fearlesspuppy.info” ― Doug Ten Rose
- To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive. Robert Louis Stevenson