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Knowing is better than not knowing. The more relevant information you have in hand about a destination and route the easier and more pleasant is the trip.

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There are two kinds of adventurers: those who go truly hoping to find adventure and those who go secretly hoping they won’t.

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There is an expression—walking with beauty. And I believe that this endless search for beauty in surroundings, in people and one’s personal life, is the headstone of travel.

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A journey of a thousand miles starts must begin with a single step.

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Travel is the art of discovery. It’s about visiting a place you haven’t been before, and learning both about the things that make it unique and the things that tie it to the greater human experience.

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One of the things travel sometimes teaches you is that you don’t have to travel anymore. There’s nothing wrong with coming home.

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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 … [ Read more ]

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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do, just as one pleases.

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Tramping is a way of approach, to nature, to your fellow man, to a nation, to a foreign nation, to beauty, to life itself.

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Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and its fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment.

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To travel alone, I learned, isn’t to rely on yourself. To travel alone is to force yourself to depend on others. It is to fall in love with mankind.

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Those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone.

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When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

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When one walks, one is brought into touch first of all with the essential relations between one’s physical powers and the character of the country; one is compelled to see it as its natives do. Then every man one meets is an individual.

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Travel is about experiencing a place, a country, a culture—and a bicycle, in my opinion, is the best vehicle for it. But without the element of discovery or reflection, a journey, even a bicycle journey, can devolve into getting from point A to point B. That’s not travel. It’s commuting in a foreign land.

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Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

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The initial mystery that attends any journey is: How did the traveler reach his starting point in the first place?

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Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

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What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then expend vast quantities of time and money in a largely futile attempt to recapture the comforts that you wouldn’t have lost if you hadn’t left home in the first place.

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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.

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