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There's a book that tells you where you should go on your vacation. It's called your checkbook. ~Anonymous
A vacation is like love — anticipated with pleasure, experienced with
discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia. ~AnonymousFor my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. ~Anonymous
Living on Earth may be expensive, but it includes an annual free trip around the Sun. ~Anonymous
You don't want to get to the end of life's journey and discover you never left the interstate. ~Robert Brault
Embrace the detours. ~Kevin Charbonneau
The whole object of travel is … to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. ~GK Chesterton
He who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left. ~Chinese Proverb
Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quiestest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. ~Pat Conroy
The middle of the road is where the white line is — and that’s the worst place to drive. ~Robert Frost
No matter what happens, travel gives you a story to tell. ~Jewish Proverb
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life. ~Jack Kerouac
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel from coast to coast without seeing anything. ~Charles Kuralt
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ~Lao Tzu
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. ~Lin Yutang
The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore ~Ferdinand Magellan
We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known. ~ Carson McCullers
Some roads aren't meant to be travelled alone ~Proverb
The Journey is my home. ~Muriel Rukeyser
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~St Augustine
He who would travel happily must travel light. ~Antoine de St Exupery
Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. ~Seneca
A ship in a harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for. ~William Shedd
Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. ~Alexander Solzhenitsyn
To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. ~Freya Stark
I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. ~Robert Louis Stevenson
Not all those who wander are lost. ~JRR Tolkien
It's a dangerous business ... going out your door. You step onto the road; and if you don't keep your feet, there's no knowing where you might be swept off to. ~JRR Tolkien
Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime. ~Mark Twain
You can fall in love at first sight with a place as well as a person. ~Alec Waugh
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Category Archives: Travel World
Traveling and Sojourning in Film
Movies, VHS, DVD, TV, and Theatre There are some good, and not so good, tourist videos on the market. I’ve been known to watch Rick Steves, Europe, and Burt Wolfe, Travels and Traditions. And they’re pretty good.
Valerian Ivanovich Albanov and the Land of White Death
Arkhangel’sk, Saint Anna, and the Arctic In a country where ships are named Saint the people have to be religious. A man who carries an icon of Nicholas the Miracle-worker in his pocket must also be religious—or superstitious. But this … Continue reading
Sojourner Travel 