When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

Whenever I travel to the South, the first thing I do is visit the best barbecue place between the airport and my hotel. An hour or two later I visit the best barbecue place between...

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.

Most folks in Skaneateles don’t get to stay for free in multimillion-dollar vacation estates; don’t get to travel free on planes paid for by the taxpayers,

The sacrifices of time and money that Chinese friends will make for one another often go far beyond what is expected or accepted in Western society.

Hoping to apply what few marketable skills I’d acquired in school, I used my undergraduate’s Hebrew to check into options in Israel. I was eager to travel, open to adventure, but as a non-Jew, I...

The kind of travel I do is a reaction to that. Instead of going to meet gorillas or Bhutan, I prefer to go [my own way] and do things the wealthy wouldn’t dare to do.

I thought that I must always search for the remarkable combinations, add unknowns, mix things that were clearly marked with things beyond marking. I would leave the simulated test and enter into forbidden territory. I...

Selection of the staff travel system was crucial since it would be one of the few applications to be used by every single employee of the airline around the globe. We are impressed with the...

[As a very young man, I thought] of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen.

Tak jak przed telewizorem umiera wiara w drugiego człowieka, tak w podróży ta wiara powraca. Podróżowanie zwraca nam życie. Zabiera nas do istoty rzeczy, zabiera nas w przeszłość, do czasów, gdy to nie współzawodnictwo rządziło...

How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

…Don’t insult readers by questioning the extent of their imaginations. Most need only to be nudged to solve a good mystery.

No, there’s going to be no even tenor with me. The more uneven it is the happier I shall be. And when my time comes to die, I’ll be able to die happy, for I...

When you’re traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

As anyone who’s ever taken an Ethiopian bus knows, there is an unwritten rule that the windows must remain firmly closed.

Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country – a very different world – and historical readers want to see, smell and touch what it...

Looking back on the travel industry since 9/11 and to see where we are now and what we’re poised to do, it’s a very good feeling.

Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the market, go for a haircut. You pick up a thread...

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting...

[Traveling] makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe. You would think the millions of people...

There’s something in the act of setting out that renews me, that fills me with a feeling of possibility. On the road, I’m forced to rely on instinct and intuition, on the kindness of strangers,...

If real, regular, normal, boring life, (when you’re at home every day, seeing the same people, doing the same things) is like sitting at home on the floor surrounded by toys… traveling feels to me...

Khi mỗi chuyến đi là một sự trở về với nội t m, một sự nhận biết mình và con đường nối với thế giới. Tình cảm thế gian ở đ u cũng như nhau...

It’s hard to be less than happy when you can be happy with less.

I travel, always arriving in the same place.

Traveling-to-a-place energy and living-in-a-place energy are two fundamentally different energies

[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own...

What I’ve learned in my travels is that people are more alike than they are different. Yes, I may have a different home or lifestyle than a mom living in Shanghai, but deep down we...

At night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look out over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of...

Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.

What would happen if, once back home, I stayed open to possibilities rather than attach to specific outcomes? What if I dreaded no potential storms? Ruminated over no past transgression? I knew how. For decades...

Increase the number of adventures you act on and you’ll lighten the weight of regret.

We would oppose the turning of the planet and refuse the setting of the sun.

I thought the French were supposed to be so polite,” said Harriet indignantly.Maybe it can’t be proven statistically, but it’s a safe bet that any given American on his or her first trip to France...

We are homeless enough in this world under the best of circumstances without going to any special effort to test our capacity to be more so.

Kissimmee has the best name, other than Hugsburg and Fornicatesville.

With languages, you can move from one social situation to another. With languages, you are at home anywhere.

I lick each envelope I mail, so I can taste the closure and anticipation of travel. If they tasted like ice cream, they’d match the love letters inside.

There are three trips you take to India: the one you think you’re going to have – that you plan for; the one you actually have; and the one you live through once you go...

Nights are long when it’s cold and you’re waiting for a train.

Jeg kommer ned i min kuffert efter kognak og hælder i et ølglas, jeg speider omkring mig, og da jeg finder mig alene rænder jeg i fåret flere gode slurker. Jeg stræver længe med dette...

Love people, not places. Places don’t miss you when you’re gone.

When you focus on your travel path, you will observe a divine power, guiding every step of the journey.

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.

We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the...

Where you come from does matter — but not nearly as much as where you are headed.

The gentle reader will never, never know what a consummate ass he can become until he goes abroad. I speak now, of course, in the supposition that the gentle reader has not been abroad, and...

Voy a hacer un rompeolascon mi alegria pequena. No quiero que sepa el mar que por mi pecho van penas.

As we lifted off, China growing ever more distant from the window-seat, the endless ocean opening up before us, I was torn between the excitement of something new and leaving that which I’d grown to...