If you want it badly enough, it’s yours.

Keep moving. Your next big thing may be just around the corner.

I travel light. But not at the same speed.

There were lots of things to stop and see – and then it was time to go, always time to go.

I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed in, and the only thing that believed in me.

Preparing for your journey in the most thorough way possible will not diminish your experiences abroad. It will enhance them.

Saying good-bye to a city is harder than breaking up with a lover. The grief and regret are more piercing because they are more complex and unmixed, changing from corner to corner, with each passing...

Those who walk the talk get the work.

Ya Allah, aku hendak datang memenuhi panggilanMu, mudahkanlah segala urusanku

When traveling in rural Africa, it’s important to not actually *go* to a hospital until the patient is on the brink of expiration, otherwise things are apt to get worse.

It’s bad enough I have to be trapped in a car with you children. You’ll do your best not to act like children.

But a wide sea voyage severs us at once. It makes us conscious of being cast loose from the secure anchorage of settled life, and sent adrift upon a doubtful world. It interposes a gulf,...

If traveling was free, you’d never see me again.

The gift of solo moments is that they are wholly ours. On or off the road, solo moments connect us inward to ourselves with heightened clarity and insight. They also direct our energies out into...

people actually grow up in New York.

Ce témoignage relate les pérégrinations d’un jeune Afghan à travers beaucoup de pays et plusieurs continents. A une époque où prendre l’avion était en soi une charmante aventure. Et où le commun des mortels en...

People around the world were moving from one place to another. No one was staying.

If Aphrodite chills at home in Cyprus for most of the year, then Fez must be the goddess’s playground.

With the smell so close, the ocean came into view only a few moments later, sometimes peeking between old brick buildings with bright blue eyes, other times peering for a lingering moment like long lost...

Sicily is paradise. I live in paradise. Now pass the pasta please.

Pertanyaan memang ditakdirkan untuk menjadi kawan setia bagi manusia, sejalan dengan sifat kita yang tak pernah puas.

As long as you’re breathing, it’s never too late to reconnect with a long-held love.

No map? No problem. Let commitment and determination lead the way.

I have slightly less than 60 miles to go, and I’m going slightly faster than 60 miles per hour. I should arrive in a bad mood.

Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.

A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.

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...

I have been traveling for decades, and I’ve finally reached a conclusion: I still have much to learn.

bucket list.

This is one corner… of one country, in one continent, on one planet that’s a corner of a galaxy that’s a corner of a universe that is forever growing and shrinking and creating and destroying,...

Science rock: The pursuit of science, lead us to the beautiful places of the world.

Mileage craziness is a serious condition that exists in many forms. It can hit unsuspecting travelers while driving cars, motorcycles, riding in planes, crossing the country on bicycles or on foot. The symptoms may lead...

…it was if another planet were calling. The call, embodied, issued in liquid syllables from the mouth of the Arab sailor who, on the prow of the Vestra each sun-up, looked toward the East and...

. . . it’s part of the adventure!

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?

For all the energy directed toward the stratagem of big city living, New Yorkers are never too distracted to respond to, and more often, proactively assist visitors. Tourists tracing the routes of subway maps with...

To be alive is to move around, to search for better places, to scavenge the planet looking for more hospitable islands.

The beauty of New York rests on a completely different base. It’s unintentional. It arose independent of human design, like a stalagmitic cavern. Forms which are in themselves quite ugly turn up fortuitously, without design,...

We travel with the same clan over and over again, from one life to the next, until some ultimate purpose is fulfilled and we no longer need to return.

To travel is to shop.

Perhaps farewells create new territories, or they send us back to the only territory that truly belongs to us, that of solitude.

Kami tidak mau terburu-buru untuk mencapai surga kami, karena bukankah segala sesuatu yang diraih dengan ketergesaan tidak akan bertahan lama?

If you’ve broken any promises you’ve made to yourself, now is the time to make up for it.

If it’s true we only live once, then raise your red velvet curtain every chance you get.

I’m about to cross a time zone, and I feel younger already. If I keep traveling west, maybe I can catch up to the love of my youth.

Night is my time…am not a vampire but i am a Night Rider….!

For Courtney’s whole life, seeing the world had only been a dream, but now, as Adrian Diamond’s daughter, it could be a reality.

Better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.

Solo” by contrast, is a willful decision to be the architect of our own experience.

No matter how many strikes are hurled at you, only you decide when you’re out.