Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice

I dread the beginning of her new life more than words can tell, but I see some hope for her if she travels – none if she remains at home.

I am crazy messed guy lovng me wont be easy but it will surely be a great ride

Always stay sharp on railways and cruise ships for transit has a way of making everything clear.

clankety-clank” of the train adds a very soothing accompaniment. So soothing, indeed, that at any moment I can close my eyes and pass into a pleasant state of sleep.

The assholes who said France was beautiful.

We may travel the world over to find a good spot,But if we are blind to search within, we find it not.

There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina’s first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you’ve misplaced yourself to...

I want to urge you very strongly to travel as much as you can, and to evolve yourself as an internationalist. It’s as important a part of your education as a radical as the reading...

When you traveled with company, the country would shrink away; your companion would become the subject of your voyage as much as the country itself. As for group travel, the country would end up being...

As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn’t even known I was tense. A few moments passed and once again the cycling fan laced in with the clanging...

Like most arts, the link between the mind and the pen can chain you like an enslaved workaholic. Even on an intended vacation you suddenly have this killer urge to record whatever the vacation may...

Travel wasn’t fun if you didn’t get to see or do what you wanted; it was merely a different type of work, in a different place.

Just because I am paranoid does not mean that someone is not out to get me

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...

Our lives follow the stories we tell ourselves.

What a strange revelation of self-esteem it is when people only love those who think and feel as they do – an extension of themselves, in fact! Even Christianity does not cure us, since one...

There is more time than there is expanse of the world and so any voyage at last will end.

What I love is how seamless everything is. You walk throw a forest and come out in a village; and there’s no difference, no division. You aren’t in nature one minute and in civilization the...

Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

The problem with the 11:11 Phenomenon is getting anybody interested in it that hasn’t experienced it themselves. Other phenomena, such as U.F.Os or crop circles, are able to be seen. We can debate them. But...

Here, why don’t I carry that for you?” I was in stupid love.

Distance is the journey. Displacement is the result.

All times are determined by God.

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...

We need movement, activity, as much as air and water.

When you travel, appreciate the culture of the people in the land.

If you find holes in my book that you could drive a car through, do not be too sure they were not left there for that express purpose.

Slowly, all the days became Saturdays, full of more sunlight than I could remember seeing in a long time.

I was scripting for a series on the Arts programme which was shown very late on a Sunday evening, and I was sent off to get the low down on several up and coming musicians...

I never felt so fervently thankful, so soothed, so tranquil, so filled with a blessed peace, as I did yesterday when I learned that Michael Angelo was dead.

The places we visited were always richer and always more intricate than one could imagine. I loved to find out about the world, the good and the bad, in this way. For me, observing things...

It was as if we’d only been gone the weekend. Or had we been gone a lifetime. Part of that was because when you’ve lived in Alaska, living in other places seems easier, less challenging,...

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

Waking up in India is like waking up to life itself.

How you live your life is up to you. You have to go out and grab the world by the horns. Rope it before it ties you down and decides for you.

The map? I will first make it.

…books were better than travel.

I,” along with everything you ever learned, is absolutely no use at all in the face of those new challenges, and you begin to realize that buried deep in your unconscious mind there is someone...

I was seeing the world, and it turned out to be a lonely place.

Have concern about where you’re from, where you live, and where you may travel. The village is global.

I would like travelers, especially American travelers, to travel in a way that broadens their perspective, because I think Americans tend to be some of the most ethnocentric people on the planet. It’s not just...

As a travel writer I’ve specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader’s hair stick on end.

There were mountains; there were valleys; there were streams. She climbed the mountains; roamed the valleys; sat on the banks of streams…..when, from the mountain-top, she beheld, far off, across the Sea of Marmara the...

The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.

Some people read for instruction, which is praiseworthy, and some for pleasure, which is innocent, but not a few read from habit, and I suppose that is neither innocent nor praiseworthy. Of that lamentable company...

It was as if I was right there with Magellan, following every curve of his pen as he wrote down his words to his beloved ones confiding his secret. I had become the ink, and...

I want my heart to be the thin place. I don’t want to board a plane to feel the kiss of heaven. I want to carry it with me wherever I go. I want my...

Preparing for your journey in the most thorough way possible will not diminish your experiences abroad. It will enhance them.

I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.