This is a roadside attraction,’ said Wednesday. ‘One of the finest. Which means it is a place of power.

These Aussie girls are free to set their own courses in the world, to meander and experiment. Their travels are not bumps along the road – they are life itself. See the world and then...

Ever since childhood, when I lived within earshot of the Boston and Maine, I have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it. Those whistles sing bewitchment: railways are irresistible...

Now, bring me that horizon.

Come to think of it, maybe God is a He after all, because only a cruel force would create something this beautiful and make it inaccessible to most people.

Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.

I’d see the arrow. I’d think about attitude and perception. Maybe the green arrow on the ceiling is to Muslims as the KJV in the Motel 6 nightstand is to Christians.

Whenever he was en route from one place to another, he was able to look at his life with a little more objectivity than usual. it was often on trpis that he thought most clearly,...

I quickly became aware that the phrase “it can only get better” could very quickly turn into “it could always be worse,” because it was.

If you cannot find peace where you stand you shall not find it where you land.

believe me when i say this.when you lovesomeone.you can travel the worldin their laugh.

The idea of my heart dancing with delight was far too good to pass up.

But to lose oneself in a city—as one loses oneself in a forest—that calls for quite a different schooling.” To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed...

He blushed to see other Frenchmen overcome with joy whenever they met a compatriot abroad. The would fall on each other, cluster in a raucous group, and pass whole evenings complaining about the barbarity of...

Sometimes a bus is your bus, and sometimes it ain’t, and it’s important that you can tell the difference.

It’s not how far you’ve come that matters. It’s where you’ve come from.

When you wake up and find yourself living someplace where there is nobody you love and trust, no community, it is time to leave town – to pack up and go (you can even go...

If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work...

With the earth firmly beneath our feet, we can approach what attracts us, and withdraw from what unnerves us. If there is real danger, we can run. Mobility means security, both physically and emotionally. Flying...

Je pense, donc je suis…Descartes

Papriekot latviešu cilvēks nekad neatteiksies, bet iestājies citāds – ceļošanas laikmets. Latvietis ceļo, un ceļo ne pa jokam! Cilvēks, kas neceļo, varbūt ne tik daudz citiem, kā pats sev liekas tāds kā nepilnīgs, atpalicis. Ja...

There are countries of the world, and regions of one’s own mind, where it is unwise to travel.

La prima [canzone]tradotta in italiano con il titolo “Lo Straniero” rappresenta in fondo la condizione di tutti quelli che hanno la passione per le lingue. Siamo sempre stranieri, all’estero come nel nostro paese, figli di...

A traveler’s most interesting meals tend to happen by surprise.

… I left Caen, where I was living, to go on a geological excursion under the auspices of the School of Mines. The incidents of the travel made me forget my mathematical work. Having reached...

He who travels much has this advantage over others – that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given...

A wise man travels to discover himself.

Much of what we acquire in life isn’t worth dragging to the next leg of ourjourney. Travel light. You will be better equipped to travel far.

Go for it. It will make a great story.

Nothing is lost in a stumble, only in the refusal to get up.

But it wasn’t till he’d been there nearly two weeks that one morning Paris and its people suddenly became more than a background for his vacation. He was sitting in a café, out on the...

All that old road of the past unreeling dizzily as if the cup of life had been overturned and everything gone mad. My eyes ached in nightmare day (235).

The drive to Black Rock City from San Francisco leads through the Nevada flatlands, past the jittering neon sadness of Reno.

Few of us could speak the other’s language, but all of us had by now discovered the lodge’s unique ‘outside toilet’…which transcended all national barriers. The lodge owner wouldn’t let you use it unless you...

I travel light. But not at the same speed.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

When I’m all grown up, come what may,I’ll build a boat to carry me away

But the beauty is in the walking — we are betrayed by destinations.

My need to parent is so much bigger, sometimes, than my children’s need for parenting.

Every body has a unique path to travel.

Success is finding your own path in life.

She got on a plane to see a client in California and somewhere over Colorado, the pilot somehow missed the sky.

Well, I like to know where I’m going before I try to get there. It’s a mistake to try to execute a plan before you’ve thought of one, in my experience.

That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like water, the world ripples across you and for a...

Celebrities are like infants. Neither can wipe their own ass.

My grandfather says that’s what books are for,” Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. “To travel without moving an inch.

As night falls silently all around,She carefully turns the last page.

For their holidays: the rich’s kids travel the world; the poor’s kids roam around their grandparents’ yard.

I sometimes rented a car and drove from event to event in Europe; a road trip was a great escape from the day-to-day anxieties of playing, and it kept me from getting too lost in...

The best thing about flying first class….was that you could be as nutty as a fruitcake and were still treated like the Queen of Sheba.