Cities were always like people, showing their varying personalities to the traveler. Depending on the city and on the traveler, there might begin a mutual love, or dislike, friendship, or enmity. Where one city will...

That’s because true travel, the kind with no predetermined end, is one of the most selfish endeavors we can possibly undertake-an act in which we focus solely on our own fulfillment, with little regard to...

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.

The trip doesn’t exist that can set you beyond the reach of cravings, fits of temper, or fears … so long as you carry the sources of your troubles about with you, those troubles will...

Is China a drug? Like any drug, it depends entirely on the user’s own state of mind. If we’re making metaphors, for old China hands I’d imagine their time here draws parallels with the soaring...

The biggest adjustment is the lifestyle and the travel. It’s not what we’re used to or what you expect at the major-league level. Especially for a manager who was in the minor leagues for a...

I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.”(Letter to John Banister, Jr., June 19, 1787)

Travelers prove their lack of education if they make fun of the customs and values of their hosts, and the qualities that do a person honour are many and varied.

With thousands of roads before us that lead nowhere, going in circles. There really are only two roads we will either travel, one going to heaven, or the other to hell.

One very good way to invite stares of disapproval in Japan is to walk and eat at the same time.

Yuvali struggled to put one foot in front of the other. The long leaves of a purple-flowered bush raked her forehead. The flower emerged from bulbous green tubes, unfolding toward the sun. The petals radiated...

I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.

Put down that map and get wonderfully lost.

When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their...

Italy and London are the only places where I don’t feel to exist on sufferance.

The world is full of wonderful things you haven’t seen yet. Don’t ever give up on the chance of seeing them.

Sometimes travel is merely an opportunity taken when you can.

Oh! That was poetry!” said Pippin. “Do you really mean to start before the break of day?

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.

How does one travel around the world? How does one step out of a well-established life to follow the dream?” I’ve answered those questions. But now new ones emerge.

Give full attention to life’s moments and the images you capture will be everlasting.

That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our own nowhere.

One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.

Perhaps the greatest charm of tramp-life is the absence of monotony. In Hobo Land the face of life is protean—an ever changing phantasmagoria, where the impossible happens and the unexpected jumps out of the bushes...

London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.

Maybe life is like a walking safari. If you venture out expecting lions and leopards all the time you’ll almost always never find them. Maybe the best things are the ones you never knew you...

We all travelled light, taking with us only what we considered to be the bare essentials of life. When we opened our luggage for Customs inspection, the contents of our bags were a fair indication...

Forbes did, in fact, break new ground for women…She was an irrepressible and independent traveler who took risky and difficult trips, braved the hostility of the colonial officials and bureaucrats of the British empire, and...

Focus on your destination but enjoy every sacred moments of the journey

When you follow the right steps you will never get lost.

When we originally started working with Tropical Travel they had an active client base of less that 1500. Since this time, they have been able to manage and expand their customer base to over 28,000...

If the landscape of human emotion were to exist in country, it would be in Italy.” ~Lisa Fantino/Amalfi Blue

I know I am planning to visit a “land” that is not entirely foreign, only foreign to me. As an adventurer, I am on a journey that I believe will last me my whole life....

People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way.

To know a person in his home is not to know him at all: to meet him on a country road with only his baggage is to at last contact the core, the inner cell...

I wouldn’t have travel plans. If this thing pans out, it may be practically impossible to go anywhere.

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...