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Quote-a-rific
In no particular order, a collection of travel quotes found recently on the web when searching for something cool for Katie's 30th birthday card. Enjoy :)

“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do - especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” - William Least Heat Moon

“People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” - Dagobert D. Runes

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” - Lin Yutang

“All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” - Samuel Johnson

“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” - Freya Stark

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things 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.” - Mark Twain

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” - Bill Bryson

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” - Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I - I took the one less traveled by.” - Robert Frost

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” - Lao Tzu

“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” - Tim Cahill

"May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks." J. R. R. Tolkien

“Not all those who wander are lost.” - J. R. R. Tolkien

“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” - Benjamin Disraeli

"We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us..."

"To travel is to live" Hans Christian Andersen

"I think that it is indeed more worthwhile taking the road less traveled. You are sure to suffer, hurt, curse and get frustrated. But in the end you'll always come out the other end with more than a tale. You'll have spot in your memory that will always take your breath away every time you revisit it."
Rob Thomson

"Of the gladdest moments in human life, me thinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.
Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Home, one feels more happy.
The blood flows with the fast circulation of childhood...
A journey, in fact, appeals to Imagination, to Memory, to Hope - the three sister graces of our moral being." Sir Richard Francis Burton, 1856

"Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of food, your closet full of clothes - with all this taken away you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable but it is always invigorating." Michael Crichton

"The journey is the reward." ~Taoist saying

"More lands to travel to, more places and people to see. To talk with, to eat with, to drink with, to laugh with, to share being with them, being with me."

I have not been everywhere, but it is on my list! (sontag)

"Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country." Anais Nin

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. ~Caskie Stinnett

"life is more fun if you get a bit dirty"

"The knack of learning how to fly is to learn how to throw yourself at the ground and miss" ~ Douglas Adams


"My favourit thing is to go where I have never gone before! Diane Arbus

"Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey" Babs Hoffman

"Only those who will risk going to far can possibly find out how far one can go" T.S.Elliot