Personally I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know anybody, don’t know my way around and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home.
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The perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. There is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore. Achievement is the price which the wanderer pays for the right to venture.
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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.
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The world is round and the place which may seem like the end may also be the beginning.
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That is the charm of a map. It represents the other side of the horizon where everything is possible. It has the magic of anticipation without the toil and sweat of realization. The greatest romance ever written pales before the possibilities of adventure that lie in the faint blue trails from sea to sea.
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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.
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The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.
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Whoever created the world went to a lot of trouble. It would be downright rude not to go out and see as much of it as possible.
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The wise man travels to discover himself.
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If you travel, it must be to seek difference.
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Every journey is personal. Every journey is spiritual. You can’t compare them, can’t replace, can’t repeat. You can bring back the memories but they only bring tears to your eyes.
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One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.
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A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.
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A wise traveler never despises his own country.
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Own only what you can carry with you… Let your memory be your travel bag.
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Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.
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They should tell you when you’re born: have a suitcase heart, be ready to travel.
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I am much inclined to live from my rucksack, and let my trousers fray as they like.
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One never reaches home, but wherever friendly paths intersect the whole world looks like home for a time.
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There are hundreds of languages in the world, but a smile speaks them all.
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