We all look back at some time or other and wonder why we didn’t listen to our instincts. Why did we hestiate? Why did we lose our dreams?

Damoder climbed slowly to his feet. ‘Buy lot!’ he wheedled, ‘I am poor man. I sell you cheap. I am bank-Rupert! Apparently the only things that could save him from bank-rupertcy were our dollars.

Everywhere I go, I’m second to arrive. My reputation precedes me, and sometimes it skips out on the bill.

Travel, leave everything, copy the birds. The home is one of civilization’s sadnesses.

Living on the edge – that’s what I feel like when I don’t know what my bowels are going to do next.

Foolish acts and bold adventures almost always appear, especially in the beginning, to be the absolute same thing.

If travel has momentum and wants to stay in motion, as I mentioned earlier, then adventure has the gravitational pull of a black hole. The more you do it, the more you find a way...

May you find a new path in your travel.

Life’s journey on earth is the only sacred travel.

So when people asked me why I was moving away from the city of my dreams, I asked them why I wouldn’t. It’s not about greener pastures. It’s never been about that. All it’s ever...

He might never hear of them again in his life. Or there again, he might. That was the joy of travelling. Anything could happen

A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.

If you ever find yourself on a path that just doesn’t feel safe anymore, you have every right to stop the car. Get out – change your shoes and start walking.

Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.

After a day on Mykines, I changed my mind about life not going on. A sort of life was going on, beating with a reasonalbe version of a pulse, but that life consisted for the...

I nearer than I was yesterday and further than I am today, tomorrow I’ll be square one.

No one ever seems to wonder what happens if it turns out we hate living on a planet? What if the sky’s too big? What if the air stinks? What if we go hungry?’‘And what...

The value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home — and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than...

At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.

I wanted a life of adventure. I wanted to travel. I wanted to work my way up to being Somebody. I wanted to leave a mark on the Earth and be remembered.

When standing in the middle of the marvelous mountains and deep forests, in the earthy smell of all beginnings and endings, I often find myself asking what I have if all my possessions were taken...

You meet a new person, you go with him and suddenly you get a whole new city…you go down new streets, you see houses you never saw before, pass places you didn’t even know were...

The journey not the arrival matters.

…it was if another planet were calling. The call, embodied, issued in liquid syllables from the mouth of the Arab sailor who, on the prow of the Vestra each sun-up, looked toward the East and...

A little imagination goes a long way in Fes.

For me, writing stories set, well, wherever they’re best set, is a form of cultural curiosity that is uniquely Scottish – we’re famous for travelling in search of adventure.

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.

What was reckless, I decided, was the way people were writing off huge swaths of the world as unsafe, unstable, unfriendly, when all they needed to do was go and see for themselves

I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as...

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could...

When life gives you twists and turns, Chique Yourself Up in Italy!

One week after New Year’s Day in 2006, I was on a flight to Aceh…As we walked down the steps on to the tarmac, the air felt humid and tropical, familiar and almost Balinese. It...

…there ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.

Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband’s voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up...

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near…

Let me put it thus: that from the height of Weissenstein I saw, as it were, my religion. I mean, humility, the fear of death, the terror of height and of distance, the glory of...

The time is short and the hills is dark and I’s got miles to go before I sleeps. Is is no easy road.

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.