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!...

Prođimo redom sve vrste zadovoljstava što ih takvo putovanje pruža. Putuješ li sa ženom?- Da.- Znači, jedno zadovoljstvo manje.Ostaju: krajobrazí, kazališta, muzeji i obiteljski posjeti.

The serious reader in the age of technology is a rebel by definition: a protester without a placard, a Luddite without hammer or bludgeon. She reads on planes to picket the antiseptic nature of modern...

Mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.

Within forty minutes, the voice inside my head was screaming, WHAT HAVE I GOTTEN MYSELF INTO? I tried to ignore it, to hum as I hiked, though humming proved too difficult to do while also...

Call it walking meditation or a neighborhood stroll; by whatever namesuits you, rediscover the art of meandering.

Fear not your flame as you flood your caverns with firelight.

The South Pacific is memorable because when you are in the islands you simply cannot ignore nature. You cannot avoid looking up at the stars, large as apples on a new tree. You cannot deafen...

because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars…

One of the great joys of traveling through Italy is discovering firsthand that it is, indeed, a dream destination.

The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.

We only live once, so why not do something different?

Bury me where I die.

You can’t control the past, but you can control where you go next.

Great places, great memories.

Far too many people on the spectrum spend most of their days with people who carry around memories of, and are often too overwhelmed by incidents of, prior misinterpretation. This is no fun. In travel...

When you travel, buy a historical book about the place, read to increase your knowledge on the beautiful places of the world.

Personally I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know anybody, don’t know my way around and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake...

Dr. Perry will travel to Pyongyang along with ambassador Wendy Sherman and a small delegation during the period from May 25 to May 28, … While there, he will explore and assess in person the...

It’s a pretty good little old place after all, and I have little time for the gloomers who are eternally shrieking that this old mud ball is rolling to the bow wows. I am satisfied...

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.

What was reckless, I decided, was the way people were writing off huge swaths of the world as unsafe, unstable, unfriendly, when all they needed to do was go and see for themselves

I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to go by, a previous user had not so much suffered from incontinence as...

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

Books are not about passing time. They’re about other lives. Other worlds. Far from wanting time to pass, one just wishes one had more of it. If one wanted to pass the time one could...

When life gives you twists and turns, Chique Yourself Up in Italy!

One week after New Year’s Day in 2006, I was on a flight to Aceh…As we walked down the steps on to the tarmac, the air felt humid and tropical, familiar and almost Balinese. It...

…there ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.

Until-as often happened during those first months travel, whenever I would feel such happiness-my guilt alarm went off. I heard my ex-husband’s voice speaking disdainfully in my ear: So this is what you gave up...