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It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent.
The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.
Now I know why they tell you to put your head between your knees on crash landings. You think you're going to kiss your ass good-bye.
Mail from home was so important when you were traveling. It kept you in touch with the familiar, even the part you were running from.
We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and challenge.
Since I travel so much, it's always great to be home. There's nothing like getting to raid my own refrigerator at two in the morning.
Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in the steps they trod.
I like reading, free diving and hiking. But my favorite thing to do is travel anywhere in Greece. I love everything about that place.
I write about love so I can keep focused on the true goal: to be with my lady, lady and travel with her and have my li'l family unit.
If you talk to a man in a language he understands, that goes to his head. If you talk to him in his language, that goes to his heart.
Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can.
I usually travel with a posse. I roll deep. I travel like a rapper, but without the artillery. We don't carry guns, we carry cookies.
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything.
My keen love of travel was seldom hindered by Father. He permitted me, even as a mere boy, to visit many cities and pilgrimage spots.
No matter how you travel, how 'successful' your tour, or foreshortened, you always learn something and learn to change your thoughts.
Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others.
Don't be a tourist. Plan less. Go slowly. I traveled in the most inefficient way possible and it took me exactly where I wanted to go.
Being an F1 driver is a crazy job but not what everyone expects. My year consists of 20% driving and 80% media, marketing, and travel.
I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?
If I could travel through time, I wouldn't go back and change anything in my life, because I'm delighted with the way it's turned out.
Spain travel tip: If bathroom genders are indicated by flamingos, the boy flamingo is the one with a hat. I learned this the hard way.
Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone's hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.
For a foreigner, L.A. is such a big, wonderful and weird place that, until you find your niche, you feel a little bit discombobulated.
We have some fans that come to almost all of our shows, and they will travel to different countries to see us - that's pretty amazing.
No one likes a straight road but the man who pays for it, or who, when he travels, is brute enough to wish to get to his journey's end.
Now my eyes are turned from the South to the North, and I want to lead one more Expedition. This will be the last... to the North Pole.
I don't want to get back into the pressure cooker of play-by-play and worry about travel. I don't want to die in a stadium parking lot.
Instead of bringing back 1600 plants, we might return from our journeys with a collection of small unfêted but life-enhancing thoughts.
Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home.
Travelling, I worry about luggage, prices, and strange food. At home, I am free to broaden my mind by thinking about the higher things.
Long-term, perpetual travel is the dream of many. But surprisingly, for such a popular desire, few people realize how accessible it is.
The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.
...nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.
Perhaps for totemic reasons, people like to possess a piece of the country they are visiting. Women like to wear it. Men like to eat it.
I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the earth, then I ask myself the same question.
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.
I like to go to work, and also, I don't have any kids. I don't have any hobbies. I don't like to travel. So going to work is kind of it.
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
Elsewhere is a negative mirror. The traveler recognizes the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.
Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.
In language gender is particularly confusing. Why, please, should a table be male in German, female in French, and castrated in English?
To build my legacy and be that person I want to be, this is what it's going to take: to get on the road and travel. Let's do it that way.
A shoe that is too large is apt to trip one, and when too small, to pinch the feet. So it is with those whose fortune does not suit them.
Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.
Right out of college I was offered a job with 'Saturday Night Football' and I ended up turning it down because I really wanted to travel.
I knew I couldn't live in America and I wasn't ready to move to Europe so I moved to an island off the coast of America - New York City .
If you want to make the most of travel to Russia, it is better to leave tight plans and preconceptions behind and just enjoy the journey.
Where I was born and where and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.
I distracted myself from the fear and terrorism by thinking about things like how the universe began and whether time travel is possible.