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Tourists don’t know where they’ve been. Travelers don’t know where they’re going.

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Travel works best when you’re forced to come to terms with the place you’re in.

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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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.

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If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it is lethal.

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The adrenaline and stress of an adventure are better than a thousand peaceful days.

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Travel is not exploration. It is about taking things from each other.

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Whenever you go on a trip to visit foreign lands or distant places, remember that they are all someone’s home and backyard.

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Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone’s hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.

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Travel invigorates the mind like physical exercise invigorates the body. It keeps our senses alert and allows instinct to flower, which is our greatest guide.

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Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.

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Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance; they make the latitudes and longitudes.

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We should come home from adventures and perils and discoveries every day with new experience and character.

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You can’t understand a city without using its public transportation system.

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An advanced city is not one where even the poor use cars, but rather one where even the rich use public transport.

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Lots of places that once seemed wildly exotic may now seem boringly mundane, but anybody who wants to leave the crowds behind can still do it. I’m routinely amazed how just putting a few more miles between yourself and the nearest airport can make all the difference. Or a few more canals over from St Mark’s Square, if you happen to be in Venice. There … [ Read more ]

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Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.

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It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I still have to go, the more there is to learn. Maybe that’s enlightenment enough; to know that there is no final resting place of the mind; … [ Read more ]

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It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what’s happened. In the end, you’re just happy … [ Read more ]

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If you’re 22, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

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Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.

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