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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.

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Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

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You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.

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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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