It is my hope that this book will help to demystify the origins of travel writing and show that when thousands of travelers follow a guidebook word-for-word, recommendation-for-recommendation, it not only harms contemporary international travel...

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...

You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.

My love for peanut butter is so deep that I can’t look at a jar without devouring it!

When you’re (traveling) with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart, because...

Man, you should write a book.’‘I know. You couldn’t make this stuff up, could you?

Ako sam htio da ljudi poštuju moju različitost, onda sam morao krenuti od sebe samog i poštivati njihovu.

All this hurrying from place to place won’t bring you any relief, for you’re traveling in the company of your own emotions, followed by your troubles all the way.

There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.

Suddenly I came out of my thoughts to notice everything around me again-the catkins on the willows, the lapping of the water, the leafy patterns of the shadows across the path. And then myself, walking...

That year, when the trees burned the fire of late summer into their leaves and the ground mist was a ghost of the river, long and wet and cold, the aunt looked from her windows...

When you’re in another country, remember to do as the locals do, since it is your ways that may seem strange of offensive to them.

There is no happiness for him who does not travel, Rohita!Thus we have heard. Living in the society of men, the best man becomes a sinner… therefore, wander!… The fortune of him who is sitting,...

He who would travel happily must travel light

The road never ends … only our vision does.

Why travel? To be changed, and to be changed again and again.

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.