People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

In an age of guidebooks, websites, and radio waves, discovery has nearly become a lost feeling. If anything, it is now a matter of expectations to surpass—rarely a matter of unexpected wonderment. It is unusual...

Ar daug žmonių mes mylime iš tikrųjų? Turėtum žinoti, juk esi daug keliavęs?- Tik vieną kitą…

Somewhere nere Ogallala, about six hours into that majestic, maddening prairie, I realize that half an hour has passed since I’ve seen a vehicle in either direction.Oh, I think, as I finally see a pair...

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

Modern traveling is not traveling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

I have travel to the places I have been because, I had a vivid imagination of the places.

The most amazing journey on earth is the journey of oneself.

When you travel, there really are no mistakes–just learning opportunities.

While National Geographic magazine had given me a taste of the world, the three-dimensional details of this moment – the tickle of the rain drops, the suck sound of my feet in the mud, the...

Time travels the fastest when it is alone.

I have everything covered.

Mexico, as it was in the 1970s—and isn’t now—was my Paris. With Mexicans, Europeans, and Americans I celebrated life and the journey, which took on qualities of a pilgrimage in which every moment was a...

We’ve grown accustomed to living smaller and more simply.

Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

Why do we feel sorry for people who can’t travel? Because, unable to expand externally, they are not able to expand internally either, they can’t multiply and so they are deprived of the possibility of...

It is a bitter-sweet thing, knowing two cultures. Once you leave your birthplace nothing is ever the same.

88.People wonder why so many writers come to live in Paris. I’ve been living ten years in Paris and the answer seems simple to me: because it’s the best place to pick ideas. Just like...

By seeing how small the world is, I realize how capable I am. I can conquer anything. Anywhere. Anyone.

Perhaps everyone loved someone; I didn’t now, I couldn’t give much thought to love; in order to travel far you had to be detached, and I had the long road back to the campus before...

Don’t push me, I’m hormonal.”I’m not really a lousy detective, just rough around the edges.

There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.

Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again-the catkins on the willows, the lapping of the water, the leafy patterns of the shadows across the path. And then myself, walking...

That year, when the trees burned the fire of late summer into their leaves and the ground mist was a ghost of the river, long and wet and cold, the aunt looked from her windows...

When you’re in another country, remember to do as the locals do, since it is your ways that may seem strange of offensive to them.

But that’s the wonderful thing about foreign travel, suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most basic sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross...

The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

Every night we stopped in a cabin where wood had been stacked, matches left, and canned goods laid out for the chance traveler. All the unknown host received in return was a scribbled note giving...

Home at that moment was a starless night, a steady wind, not a human to be seen.

The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star...

Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but...

may came home with a smooth round stoneas small as a world and as large as alone.

the sense of a small courageous community barely existing above the desert of trees, hemmed in by a sun too fierce to work under and a darkness filled with evil spirits – love was an...

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...

Durch die Eisenbahn wird Raum getötet, und es bleibt nur noch die Zeit übrig.

David Attenborough has said that Bali is the most beautiful place in the world, but he must have been there longer than we were, and seen different bits, because most of what we saw in...

Venice appeared to me as in a recurring dream, a place once visited and now fixed in memory like images on a photographer’s plates so that my return was akin to turning the leaves of...

Like flowers blooming through cement,we, too, can grow beyond our cracks.

If you built the box, you can also break it down.

They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.

There was nothing to talk about anymore. The only thing to do was go.

A vida é igual em toda a parte e o que é necessário é a gente ser a gente.

I don’t know what I’m doing, or where I’m going, but I do know that I want to do whatever it is and get there soon.

You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can’t work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.

There’s got to be some advantages. It’s our floor, we know it, we don’t have the travel. But playing West Side is a war. They’re well-coached and they’re talented. What little adversity we have is...

A good story makes a journey go by more quickly. A really good story makes you forget you are even on a journey.

The problem is, these days you have to listen to too many parts of your body. Sometimes I go with my gut feeling, some say go with what your heart says – it’s only a...

We speed through the streets past modern buildings and ancient architecture. Gazing through the taxi window Rome becomes a wet painting someone has wiped a hand across.