The 50 Most Inspiring Travel Quotes Of All Time
Feet in the sand1. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
2. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
3. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
4. “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
5. “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell
6. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac
7. “He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb
8. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes
9. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
10. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
11. “Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley
12. “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson
13. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
14. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
15. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
16″A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi
17. “When we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. But things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. Cool, unlying life will rush in.” – D. H. Lawrence
18. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
19. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
20. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard
Na Pali Coast21. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
22. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru
23. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
24. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
25. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
26. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost
27. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
28. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner
29. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
30. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
31. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot
32. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
33. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
34. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
35. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
36. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
37. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou
38. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew
39. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe”……Anatole France
40. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
41. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon
42. “I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” – Lillian Smith
43. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
44. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – Freya Stark
45. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling
46. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux
47. “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G. K. Chesterton
48. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman
49. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni
50. “Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” – Mark Jenkins
Friday, July 29, 2011
Sunday, July 24, 2011
San Simeon Pier
I am hiding from you...
San Simeon PierWednesday, July 6, 2011
Thursday, June 23, 2011
Saturday, June 18, 2011
Sunday, June 12, 2011
Distorted Travelers
taken in a mirror at the Prague Castle, I love the mirror, it made us look so thin..
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Lessons Learned in Europe
1. Always have change to pay for bathrooms (pay to pee is all over Europe)
2. Always have comfortable shoes.
3. Europeans have not learned that smoking will kill them. No such thing as a non-smoking section. Even non-smoking hotels allow them to stand and smoke at the front door.
4. Bring you own washcloth, they are not provided in Europe.
5. Ask first if the person you are asking directions from speaks English... saves time.
6. Polish beer is the best.
7. Austrians do not know what a queue is and do not know how to load an airplane.
8. Older Europeans do not necessarily speak English, most young ones do.
9. Try to learn please and thank you in their language, for the best first impressions.
10. Most city transportation is easy to understand. Even if you do not speak the language, just find the direction you wish to go and hop on.
11. Never miss a local European Bakery.
12. Get food (snacks ) and water in a supermarket, you will pay half the price.
2. Always have comfortable shoes.
3. Europeans have not learned that smoking will kill them. No such thing as a non-smoking section. Even non-smoking hotels allow them to stand and smoke at the front door.
4. Bring you own washcloth, they are not provided in Europe.
5. Ask first if the person you are asking directions from speaks English... saves time.
6. Polish beer is the best.
7. Austrians do not know what a queue is and do not know how to load an airplane.
8. Older Europeans do not necessarily speak English, most young ones do.
9. Try to learn please and thank you in their language, for the best first impressions.
10. Most city transportation is easy to understand. Even if you do not speak the language, just find the direction you wish to go and hop on.
11. Never miss a local European Bakery.
12. Get food (snacks ) and water in a supermarket, you will pay half the price.
Wednesday, May 25, 2011
Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Monday, May 23, 2011
Dragon of Krakow
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| This Dragon's bones are found in the Wawel Castle and are believed to protect the city of Krakow, this is why the city was never bombed in WWII. |
Sunday, May 22, 2011
Saturday, May 21, 2011
The Polish army came to welcome us to Krakow!
Yes it was a grand welcome. We did not understand anything but our thought were goods. Parade followed by unaudible garble and high praise of some kind.
We must polish our polish.
Thursday, May 19, 2011
Wawel Castle
This is the Church and the Castle where Pope John Paul II came from he was Polish and started here. This castle even has a dragon lare and a legend
more Vienna, Austria NacheMarket
real dragon fruit at the Nache Market in Vienna
Larry getting ready to walk across the Danube
St Mary's church in Downtown Krakow, Poland
Larry's new girl friend, love the outfit.
The sun was making the best shadows last night in the downtown Krakow, Poland
Wednesday, May 18, 2011
Leaving Vienna today on way to Krakow Poland. Danka Austria!
Will fly intstead of long rail journey. DeHaviland Dash8 turboprop instead of 7 hr rail. Looking forward to Krakow and Poland. We are staying at at Novotel Hotel.
Weather in 70's thru to Poland. Lots of pics and some video.
Reflection from Parlament signage of Vienna.
Reflection from Parlament signage of Vienna.
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
Shoenbrunn Palace
Wednesday, May 11, 2011
Portugal, Sintra and Cascias
packed full, on top of that it had no air or very little. It was 82 degrees today and slightly
uncomfortable. Note to self, next time book a tour through another agent. No more ship tours.
We went to Sintra thinking we were going to the Unesco site, well we did not, just the town, it
was crouded but nice, reminded me of Italy. Second stop was Ciasis and a nice beach town. We
found a shady place and had a drink. We got back to the ship with 30 minutes to share before
leaving. Tomorrow is Cadiz, Espania...
Monday, May 9, 2011
pictures of Porto Delgado, Azores
Today we went to Porto Delgrado, Portugual We really liked the town, mosiac sidewalks and streets
made the island very picturesque. We stopped had a beer and enjoyed the beautiful 65 degree weather,
it was perfect. Found free internet, but had trouble with the blog being in the wrong language. We
will work on that tomorrow or when we reach Lisbon. Uploaded some pictures from the ship to Facebook
which was in English.
Saturday, April 30, 2011
Made it to Florida
Made it to Florida, wow what a bumpy ride, I almost lost it on the first flight to Houston. Slept some but had a teenage wiggle worm that kept bumping me the whole flight next to me and behind me. Did I mention they were not chaperoned... Here in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and on the ship tomorrow.
Thursday, April 28, 2011
Tuesday, April 19, 2011
Our Transatlantic Cruise To Europe
| Date | Port/City | Activity | Description | |
| Sun, May 01 | ||||
| Fort Lauderdale, Florida | Depart 4:30 PM | |||
| Mon, May 02 | ||||
| At Sea | ||||
| Tue, May 03 | ||||
| At Sea | ||||
| Wed, May 04 | ||||
| At Sea | ||||
| Thu, May 05 | ||||
| At Sea | ||||
| Fri, May 06 | ||||
| At Sea | ||||
| Sat, May 07 | ||||
| At Sea | ||||
| Sun, May 08 | ||||
| Ponta Delgada, Azores | Docked | Arrive 8:00 AM | Depart 4:00 PM | |
| Mon, May 09 | ||||
| At Sea | ||||
| Tue, May 10 | ||||
| Lisbon, Portugal | Docked | Arrive 11:00 AM | Depart 7:00 PM | |
| Wed, May 11 | ||||
| Seville (Cadiz), Spain | Docked | Arrive 12:00 PM | Depart 8:00 PM | |
| Thu, May 12 | ||||
| Malaga, Spain | Docked | Arrive 8:00 AM | Depart 7:00 PM | |
| Fri, May 13 | ||||
| At Sea | ||||
| Sat, May 14 | ||||
| Barcelona, Spain | Arrive 6:00 AM |
Wednesday, April 6, 2011
Saturday, April 2, 2011
Butterfly exhibit at Botonical Gardens
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