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I had been afraid of the primitive, had wanted it broken gently, but here it came on us in a breath, as we stumbled up through the dung and the cramped and stinking huts to...

There comes a moment in all travel when you know that you have really started. It may be weeks before you start or weeks after you have started; it is a spiritual emotion, a turning...

But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one, for his domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.

It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.

somewhere along the dust-chocked Guatemalan road between…and …was where I confirmed that I preferred traveling around the slow, bone-rattling way: by bus,with ordinary people. The bus we were riding in had been repainted in bright...

Be courageous: be still.

When life hands you lemons, why stop at lemonade? Create an entire product line.

Ma il coraggio era anche quello. Era la consapevolezza che l’insuccesso fosse comunque il frutto di un tentativo. Che talvolta è meglio perdersi sulla strada di un viaggio impossibile che non partire mai.

C’è sempre qualcosa di più, un po’ più in là… non finisce mai.

Too often when we say we feel joyful, we’re really feeling manic. There is a frenetic nature to our joy, a whiff of panic; we’re afraid the moment might end abruptly. But then there are...

Money can take you many places, but imagination can take you anywhere.

We can change in one day. We can fall in love in one day. Anything can happen in one day.

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth. Then I ask myself the same question.

The longer I travel and the more people I meet, the more apparent it becomes that certain people will come and go in your life in order to fill a need. Not as a messiah,...

When I travel, I get lovesick. Well, they call it chlamydia.

When you travel observe the beauty of the place.

In your travel, learn the brief history of the place visited. History is rich knowledge.

It is a long distance that the seismic waves have to travel before they reach Mexico City, … and that reduces the amplitude of the waves. It is very much reduced at this distance.

You don’t even know where I’m going.””I don’t care. I’d like to go anywhere.

It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever.

I cannot write about Venice; I can only write about me, and the sleeping parts of myself that Venice has shocked into wakefulness.

Contentment can only be found in not envying others or comparing yourself to them but in being satisfied with what you have.

I would love you all the day, every night we would kiss and play, if with me you’d fondly stray, over the hills and far away.

There is always some truth to fiction.

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.

The past is buried deep within the ground in Rabat, although the ancient walls in the old city are still standing, painted in electrifying variations of royal blue that make the winding roads look like...

From all that I saw,and everywhere I wandered,I learned that time cannot be spent,It only can be squandered.

When you travel by train, you have only to purchase the ticket, enter the proper train and take a seat, leaving the rest to the engine. Why should you carry the bed and trunk on...

After Supper the Master dismissed all except Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha the Monk. He took them out with him and said, “Look at that wonderful moolight. It makes me long for the time...

In Paris, everything was fixable for the right price.

Let those who wish have their respectability- I wanted freedom, freedom to indulge in whatever caprice struck my fancy, freedom to search in the farthermost corners of the earth for the beautiful, the joyous, and...

Memory is each man’s own last measure, and for some, the only achievement.

There’s nothing like a pack of mules to give one a sense of entourage.

It seemed to me that these months of watching and listening, second-guessing words and phrases, seeking so much that was new, had somehow changed me.

I don’t want to go to Peru.”How do you know? You’ve never been there.”I’ve never been to hell either and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to go there.

Die Nacht, die Stimmung auf dem Schiff und wieder dieses völlige Losgelöstsein von der gewöhnlichen Welt hatten mir jenes rauschhafte Freiheitsgefühl erweckt, das meine Droge ist.

The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.

Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn’t a country; it’s a near-death experience.

With no other choices open to us, we’d turned our gaze seaward. The oceans were our America: they reached farther than any prairie, untamed as on the first day of creation. Nobody owned them.

A five-hour flight works out to three days and nights on land, by rail, from sea to shining sea. You can chalk off the hours on the back of the seat ahead. But seventy-some hours...

Looking back I can see that there have been no breaks from one departure to the next; I start planning again before we’ve even arrived back home.

Leaving home’s a cinch. It’s the staying, once you’ve found it, that takes courage.

Every man needs his Siren To check his courage and strength When he hears her song In his travels through the unknown.

I have no nostalgia for the patriarchy, please believe me. But what I have come to realize is that, when that patriarchic system was (rightfully) dismantled, it was not necessarily replaced by another form of...

what if the room gets cold?

What I’ve learned from 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...

I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out...

Why is it that when Robert Redford-cum-Denys Finch Hatton flies away in the golden glow out of Africa, he is pursuing his destiny? And when I walk away I’m just a chick who’s scared of...