Sun and wind and beat of sea,Great lands stretching endlessly…Where be bonds to bind the free?All the world was made for me!

A (wo)men travels the world over in search of wht (s)he needs and returns home to find it

We finished our last ball game with Iowa and were on an off-week and then we had to travel a significant distance to get to Hawaii. So we prepared for a certain number of days,...

The desert doesn’t care who you are, and neither does anyone or anything who lives in it.

It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn’t here.

There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.

Twelve thousand miles of it, to the other side of the world. And whether they came home again or not, they would belong neither here, nor there, for they would have lived on two continents...

It’s daunting to find the language so foreign, so distant, but also so thrilling. One is absolved of responsibility when the language is incomprehensible.

No day should be without romance

My post-cruise sabbatical would spark the idea for my first book, Cheaper Than Therapy: How to Keep Life’s Small Problems from Becoming Big Ones – The Lesson of the Paper Clips. How? In my data...

Those who receive the blessing are those who see beyond its disguise.

The beckoning counts, not the clicking latch behind you

If you think it’s bad now, my friend, wait till we reach a town!’ He shook his head and brushed at his tattered, dirty shirtsleeve. ‘Do try to remember we’re visitors-and not welcome ones-if you...

English has so many words that do not exist in Sharchhop, but they are mostly nouns, mostly things: machine, airplane, wristwatch. Sharchhop, on the other hand, reveals a culture of material economy but abundant, intricate...

I want to go to Martha’s Vineyard. I have an aunt named Martha. And an uncle by that name. Neither one is related to me.

…That’s the difference between backpackers and holiday makers. The former can’t help but invite hassle whilst the latter pay to escape it.

My hotel room has a great view. The view is right in front of the TV.

To travel hopefully is better than to arrive

I had a desire to see something besides my own shores, if only to be content to return to them someday. If I wish to live in my native land and love her, it should...

Quite possibly there’s nothing as fine as a big freight train starting across country in early summer, Hardesty thought. That’s when you learn that the tragedy of plants is that they have roots.

My life on earth is personal journey.

… de jongen soo verbaast gaauw tegen de stijlte weer op liep, schreeuwende luijtkeels de schuijt vergaat og was ik bij mijn moeder op het landt, van hem een openhartige confessie, door hem geroepen en...

Born at Letterman Army Hospital. I never actually lived in San Francisco. It’s not my home town, but then, I don’t have one. I’m a nomad…a gypsy…an Army Brat. Put me on an airplane, send...

There I was, poised on the edge of the high diving board of life, and the pool kept moving around.

Empathy comes from the Greek empatheia – em (into) and pathos (feeling) – a penetration, a kind of travel. It suggests you enter another person’s pain as you’d enter another country, through immigration and customs,...

Consulting maps can diminish the wanderlust that they awaken,as the act of looking at them can replace the act of travel. But looking at maps is much more than an act of aesthetic replacement. Anyone...

Beware the crazy traveller! Mind expansion can be contagious…

I believe the experiences reported in this book are reproducible by anyone who wishes to try. I went to Africa. You can go to Africa. You may have trouble arranging the time or the money,...

Man’s primary purpose is not to be happy but to continue to live, to continue to travel – happily or unhappily – on the path of life!

Someone who seems doddery is perhaps not doddery at all but only an older person absorbed in squinting concentration, as though on an ultimate trip, memorizing a scene, grateful for being alive to see it.

All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.

More than anything, this place feels familiar. I bury my hands in the hot sand and think about the embodiment of memory or, more specifically, our natural ability to carry the past in our bodies...

For West is where we all plan to go some day. It is where you go when the land gives out and the old-field pines encroach. It is where you go when you get the...

Je parle français.” Indira gave me a weird look. Or a look that said I was weird. Whichever. The point is, I don’t really speak French, but it’s a useful phrase for confusing people you...

My spirit has pass’d in compassion and determination around the whole earth.I have look’d for equals and lovers an found them ready for me in all lands,I think some divine rapport has equalized me with...

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak...

You wanted to see the world. And yet, all I want is to see you.

On a harsh expedition, there’s no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.

No matter how deeply you come to know a place, you can keep coming back to know it more.

First of all, I think that stinks, the schedule. That they (Nevada and Utah State) are travel partners stinks. They (the WAC) knew they were two of the best teams in the league.

I tell ya! The road to success is an endless battle for you and me.

I had finally become aware of how much I was capable of, how little I had to lose, and how deep into Douglas’s soft sand I had sunk. Magellan’s letters, which Douglas had recited, had...

It is part of wisdom never to revisit a wilderness, for the more golden the lily, the more certain that someone has gilded it.

Across galaxies of time and spaceTravelling just to see your faceLost amidst the countless starsTo bring me back to where you are.

I travel because life is short, and I will not wait for fear of death or sanctuary to become a prison of my own making.

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.

I write to get ideas out of my head

You should visit the Palatine. It’s at the top of that hill . . .””I know where the Palatine is, Dexter, I was visiting Rome before you were born.””Yes, who was emperor back then?

There was a great scene over some violets. They picked violets and filled all the vases in the room of these very Miss Alans who have failed to come to Cissie Villa. Poor little ladies!...