The two events were probably unrelated, but both jolted Dave the way a sudden air pocket reminds nervous passengers that they’re soaring above the clouds in a pressurized metal tube.

People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.

Rest and repose are as much a part of life’s journeys as seeing all we came to see.

An unlimited supply of wonder and trust, bolsters life lived as a process of discovery.

Travel in the direction of what you resist. On the way, you will meet aversion of yourself who has been seeking you.

Sir Henry fixed him with a keen eye.’Odd name, Tom Skatt – eh?”Thats right”You don’t think we could be related?’Tom looked up at his great-great-great-uncle and smiled.’I don’t think so”No,’ grinned Sir Henry “no, of...

If you travel everywhere and find the same elements everywhere, somehow it reduces the value of the place (Curiosity, Tokyo, Japan)

Statuettes of drunken sailors, velvet pictures of island maidens, plastic seashell lamps made in Taiwan. What contempt the people who think up souvenirs have for other people.

My meal arrived. It was a bowl of tepid, green curried water with two spinach leaves floating in it. The waiter called it ‘vegetable soup’. I called it inedible slop.

Maybe one day I could fly all over the world and meet other interesting birds.

She had learned to live light because life itself could be heavy enough.

The Chinese say that there is no scenery in your home town. They’re right. Being in another place heightens the senses, allows you to see more, enjoy more, take delight in small things; it makes...

Roletári všetkých krajín spojte sa!

Where can one buy a lit of that *Right Stuff* bravado required to shrug off the fact that your airplane is now a convertible?

Like seasonless fowl we migrate…from East Coast to West Coastand back and forth again,for a job,for a friend,for a change,for a kick.

I’m sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from here and never see it again! I hate everything about it!””You will...

For a time, then, we stay. For a time. Till the changes.

You might want to sit in public squares and people watch for an hour in one place and a month in another. I can tell by the way you’re peeling that grapefruit. You want to...

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

There are those who travel and those who are going somewhere. They are different and yet they are the same. The success has this over his rivals: He knows where he is going.

You see, mzungus make these programmes because in their countries they know that everything will work correctly. And when they come to Uganda they still make their programmes but they forget that things don’t work...

While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine eye runneth down with water.

What I remembered most clearly about this Jinja road was that on portions of it, for reasons no one could explain, butterflies settled in long fluffy tracts. There might be eighty feet of road carpeted...

But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.

I ease into the idea of letting go of control and simply let life take the reins. And when I don’t hold it so tightly, it doesn’t thrash against me so wildly. It calms to...

Random acts of kindness show that even amidst the hustle and bustle, Paris inhabitants are more welcoming that their reputation gives them credit for.

Most of the time, beauty lies in the simplest of things.

it’s something rebellious about picking up and leaving buying a one way ticket and not knowing when you want to return.

I believe that life is all about perception and timing. That good things come to those who act and that life’s about more than collecting a paycheck. I believe that the only person you’re destined...

A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film...

The traveler has to knock at every alien door to come to his own, and he has to wonder through all the outer worlds to reach the innermost shrine at the end.

For me, a journey to Damascus is an amazing hunt from beginning to end, a slice through layers of history in search of treasure.

Away and away the aeroplane shot, till it was nothing but a bright spark; an aspiration; a concentration; a symbol (so it seemed to Mr. Bentley, vigorously rolling his strip of turf at Greenwich) of...

In real life, the big things and the little things are inextricably mixed up together, so in Libya at one moment, one worried because one’s native boots were full of holes, and at the next,...

I felt as though I owned the whole world. And little wonder, because at no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny , as...

Tell me, Blaise, are we very far from Montmartre?’WorriesForget your worriesAll the stations full of cracks tilted along the wayThe telegraph wires they hang fromThe grimacing poles that gesticulate and strangle themThe world stretches lengthens...

Scott was a self-aggrandising dick.

Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.

Tourists went on holidays while travellers did something else. They travelled.

As a romantic ideal, turbulent, impoverished India could still weave its spell, and the key to it all – the colours, the moods, the scents, the subtle, mysterious light, the poetry, the heightened expectations, the...

If I’m not on a cruise, I’m either thinking about my last one or planning my next!

The journey is the destination.

In the midst of this utopia, which only your fellow lone voyagers would perceive, you used to transgress society’s rules unknowingly, and no one would hold you accountable for it. You would mistakenly enter private...

My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.

What’s supposed to happen, at the end of a quest? Cheers and accolades, Josh knew; people throw their hats in the air, and you glow with pride as they lift you to their shoulders. What...

Even people whose lives have been made various by learning sometimes find it hard to keep a fast hold on their habitual views of life, on their faith in the Invisible – nay, on the...

We’re lucky to get to travel as much as we do. We’ve been blessed to have great weather so far and we have even played through some cold games over at Indiana State (University) where...

I knew I could always earn money from a job. What I didn’t know was could I extend the dream of writing beyond my trip?

Endings are the embryos of new beginnings.

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.