Like seasonless fowl we migrate…from East Coast to West Coastand back and forth again,for a job,for a friend,for a change,for a kick.

I’m sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from here and never see it again! I hate everything about it!””You will...

For a time, then, we stay. For a time. Till the changes.

You might want to sit in public squares and people watch for an hour in one place and a month in another. I can tell by the way you’re peeling that grapefruit. You want to...

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

In those years before mobile phones, email and Skype, travelers depended on the rudimentary communications system known as the postcard. Other methods–the long-distance phone call, the telegram–were marked “For Emergency Use Only.” So my parents...

For a long time I had wanted to take leave of Planet Tourism, to find one of those places that occasionally turn up in the middle pages of newspapers in far-flung cities, in which–we are...

New skin, a new land! And a land of liberty, if that is possible! I chose the geology of a land that was new to me, and that was young, virgin, and without drama, that...

Every journey is personal. Every journey is spiritual. You can’t compare them, can’t replace, can’t repeat. You can bring back the memories but they only bring tears to your eyes.

For some reason, we see long-term travel to faraway lands as a recurring dream or an exotic temptation, but not something that applies to the here and now. Instead – out of our insane duty...

old” normal at least. You have to invent the new normal.I knew that I needed to take an honest appraisal of my life. Were my problems really bigger than me? Of course not. That’s why...

I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?

I relinquished myself to existence pure and simple, thinking absolutely nothing—as if my mind were merely an echo chamber for the music, as if it contained only ether or at most a vaguely pleasant odor...

Let’s go together and go to different places and see different things. It’ll be fun!- Gon Freaks

Travel while you’re young and able. Don’t worry about the money, just make it work. Experience is far more valuable than money will ever be.

I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb…

He that travels much knows much

La strada non presaDue strade divergevano in un bosco d’autunnoe dispiaciuto di non poterle percorrere entrambe,essendo un solo viaggiatore, a lungo indugiaifissandone una, più lontano che potevofin dove si perdeva tra i cespugli.Poi presi l’altra,...

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, in dimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That...

I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to–and that is what adventures are all about.

Tell me, Blaise, are we very far from Montmartre?’WorriesForget your worriesAll the stations full of cracks tilted along the wayThe telegraph wires they hang fromThe grimacing poles that gesticulate and strangle themThe world stretches lengthens...

Scott was a self-aggrandising dick.

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

As a romantic ideal, turbulent, impoverished India could still weave its spell, and the key to it all – the colours, the moods, the scents, the subtle, mysterious light, the poetry, the heightened expectations, the...

If I’m not on a cruise, I’m either thinking about my last one or planning my next!

The journey is the destination.

In the midst of this utopia, which only your fellow lone voyagers would perceive, you used to transgress society’s rules unknowingly, and no one would hold you accountable for it. You would mistakenly enter private...

My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.

What’s supposed to happen, at the end of a quest? Cheers and accolades, Josh knew; people throw their hats in the air, and you glow with pride as they lift you to their shoulders. What...

Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of life, on their faith in the Invisible – nay, on the...

We’re lucky to get to travel as much as we do. We’ve been blessed to have great weather so far and we have even played through some cold games over at Indiana State (University) where...

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?

Endings are the embryos of new beginnings.

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life

Everything will be alright in the end so if it is not alright it is not the end.

I went to visit my grandma. I meant to stay for two days, but ended up staying two months. (So I overslept a little).

Driving down deserted early morning roads. Round and round. Round downtown. Through naked streets. Lips pursed on two litre bottles of beer, but pursuing the lips of freedom’s night. Swapping cars. Winding up at karaoke...

No matter how far you travel, you can never get away from yourself. It’s like your shadow. It follows you everywhere. -Komura

As long as you pay for the travel, the hotel accommodations, the train or plane ticket or whatever it might be before December 31, you will be able to take on this year’s taxes, a...

i had a dream when i was 22 that someday i would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till i came to one of the poles of the...

In the cramped confines of the toilet I had trouble getting out of my wet trousers, which clung to my legs like a drowning man. The new ones were quite complicated too in that they...

To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it’s an end in itself.

I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.

You can leave Hong Kong, but it will never leave you.

For the rest of my life, Zanzibar will be the Swahili word for rain. The rain would drizzle, spit, mist, downpour, shower, torrent, gust, deluge and blast. At one point it hit the ground so...

Have you ever stood under a star… and felt the earth move under your feet?” – The Judas Syndrome

There were lots of things to stop and see – and then it was time to go, always time to go.