A challenge that tested Tom to his limit but in return gave him more than he could ever have imagined.

Every Englishman abroad, until it is proved to the contrary, likes to consider himself a traveller and not a tourist.

Those who walk the talk get the work.

Some-times it’s very good to break the rules and do what you want and supposed not to do. It gives a new mould to life. New place, music, new weather and on a very right...

We’d never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the surrounding vegetation – foliage so dense the trees lost track of whose leaves were whose – was...

…setiap kita punya keinginan, apa pun itu. Karena mimpi inilah yang membuat kita punya harapan. Dan segala keinginan dan mimpi mampu kita wujudkan. Tinggal bagaimana usaha dan kerja keras kita untuk meraih cita dan asa...

You wind back the clock several decades when you visit a Lonely Place; and when you touch down, you half expect a cabin attendant to announce, “We have now landed in Lonely Place’s Down-at-Heels Airport,...

Finally, after a glance at Notre Dame and a brisk trot through the Louvre, we sat down at a cafe on the Place de l’Opera and watched the people. They were amazing — never had...

The gift of solo moments is that they are wholly ours. On or off the road, solo moments connect us inward to ourselves with heightened clarity and insight. They also direct our energies out into...

people actually grow up in New York.

We only live once, so why not do something different?

Dare to travel on new paths.

After all, one travels in order for things to happen and change; otherwise you might as well stay at home.

I went to Africa to work. Finding myself and falling in love were not items on the agenda. Those were the stuff of daydreams, borne of long, icy Canadian winters. At age 30, I felt...

As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to reconnect with a long-held love.

No map? No problem. Let commitment and determination lead the way.

Take a great adventure to a place, learn the rich history and make your own observation about the place.

As we travel to new places we gain new perspectives and renew our thinking.

People add color to their story because they think it happened in black and white.

Sicily is paradise. I live in paradise. Now pass the pasta please.

Embrace those parts of yourself that you’ve skillfully avoided until now. That’s your true adventure.

bucket list.

We wandered in a frenzy and a dream (301).

When you follow the right steps you will never get lost.

Kadang kita menemukan teman, sahabat, saudara di tempat yang tidak kita duga. Dan mungkin juga cinta. Tapi yang paling menyenangkan dalam sebuah perjalanan adalah menemukan itu semua, termasuk cinta. Apa pun bentuknya.

…Bhutan all but bases its identity upon its loneliness, and its refusal to b assimilated into India, or Tibet, or Nepal. Vietnam, at present, is a pretty girl with her face pressed up against the...

Pici passi. Un viagio in bici xe fato de pici passeti. I pici passi te permeti, co te entri int’un paeseto, de entrarghe veramente, de sentirlo tuo, de respirar a pieni polmoni la sua atmosfera,...

I knew I could always earn money from a job. What I didn’t know was could I extend the dream of writing beyond my trip?

For all the energy directed toward the stratagem of big city living, New Yorkers are never too distracted to respond to, and more often, proactively assist visitors. Tourists tracing the routes of subway maps with...

…because life is too exciting not to share.

Find your path in life and travel on it.

Tout les jours you are coming some fresh game or other on me, mais vous ne pouvez pas play this savon dodge on me twice!

Travel has a way of making the world a much smaller place.

If you’ve broken any promises you’ve made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it.

If it’s true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get.

Focus on your destination but enjoy every sacred moments of the journey

Look beyond now.The road ahead offers a good voyage.

…what I’m getting at is like the distinction between tourist and a traveler. The tourist experience is superficial and glancing. The traveler develops a deeper connection with her surroundings. She is more invested in them...

Hunters will tell you that a moose is a wily and ferocious forest creature. Nonsense. A moose is a cow drawn by a three-year-old.

Solo” by contrast, is a willful decision to be the architect of our own experience.

No matter how many strikes are hurled at you, only you decide when you’re out.

All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad. My eyes ached in nightmare day (235).

Learning voyage, the greatest adventure.

Saya awam soal mendaki gunung, tapi itu bukan berarti tidak bisa dilakukan.

As Thoreau famously sead, it doesn’t matter where or how far you go – the farther commonly the worse – the important thing is how alive you are. Writing of every kind is a way...

If asked which words one associated with the Sahara, only the most dedicated surrealist might be expected to offer “whale”.

How do you keep from getting lonely? Don’t you feel self-conscious eating out alone?” After the first 30 emails like these I thought, There’s a book here. It would be eight years before I published...

By necessity, we are direct and swift in speech and movement. This is the true dynamic that underlies our apocryphal rudeness. Also true: we do not make eye contact. Neither do we encourage it. Consider...

Life vicariously through yourself.

Define your path and travel on this path.