Travel Quotes - Page 2

i had a dream when i was 22 that someday i would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till i came to one of the poles of the earth

It was exciting to be off on a journey she had looked forward to for months. Oddly, the billowing diesel fumes of the airport did not smell like suffocating effluence, it assumed a peculiar pungent scent that morning, like the beginning of a new adventure, if an adventure could exude a fragrance.

Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

All of life is a trust fall, and I'm awakening to the thrill, rather than the fear, of being suspended midair.

To wander is to be alive.

Sometimes you have to let go a little bit and travel the path of least resistance but this doesn’t mean that you quit when things get tough, as you are working towards a goal! It just means that you may only be able to see a rough draft of your final destination, right now, and that it’s safe to explore along the way.

Just as a painter paints,
and a ponderer ponders,
a writer writes,
and a wanderer wanders.

I know I am planning to visit a "land" that is not entirely foreign, only foreign to me. As an adventurer, I am on a journey that I believe will last me my whole life. A new relationship, discovery, or awareness excites me.

When you walk,go different roads that take you nowhere,and see your world.

I, sometimes, fear that probably I'll just keep changing cities, and may be someday I'll also travel the world, but never find another soul who thinks exactly the way I do.

I didn't know that the world could be so mind-blowingly beautiful.

I travel to be replenished with beauty, for travel makes the beauty of this world seem like a Christmas that never ends. I travel for the jolting, angelic act of seeking strangeness and newness and profoundness . . .

Writing historical fiction has many common traits with writing sci-fi or fantasy books. The past is another country - a very different world - and historical readers want to see, smell and touch what it was like living there.

So I find words I never thought to speak

In streets I never thought I should revisit

When I left my body on a distant shore.

But between now and then, there was Life; and Bod walked into it with his eyes and his heart wide open.

The whole world is like an opened candy jar, and we're plunging in for the best treats

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

Don't ever live vicariously. This is your life. Live.