...Our conversation with the supermarket manager had been about as helpful as a New Jersey road sign, and if you've ever been there, you know the signs don't tell you the exit you're coming up to, they only point out the exits you've just missed.
It puts parents in very foul moods--and since you're probably there to visit relatives, their mood was pretty touch and go to begin with.
Tags: humor family travel helpfulness road-signs
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live.
Tags: life experience travel
If you write about a place, you need to be right about the place!
Laurence BradburyTags: writing travel fatal-flaw
Yeah, that’s my experience. Humbling to the point where you have major regrets about some of the stupid things you said, some of the things you thought were right. You keep going to these countries, and it’s like, you forgot the lesson from the last time. Because the first person you encounter kind of bitch-slaps you upside the head in the most wonderful, innocent way and you realize, God, I’m still an asshole. And this guy, by doing nothing except being broke and so incredibly polite—it takes you aback, you realize, I’m still not there yet. I still have like eight miles to go before I can even get into the parking lot of humility. I have to keep going back. It’s like going back to a chiropractor to get a readjustment. That’s me in Africa, that’s me in Southeast Asia. You come back humbled and you bring that into your life. It’s made me much more tolerant of other peoples—and I’m not saying I used to be a misogynist, or I used to be a racist, that was never my problem. But I can be extremely headstrong, impatient, rude. Like, “Hurry up, man. What’s your problem? Get out of my way.” That sentiment comes easy to me. Going to these countries, you realize none of that is necessary, none of it’s cool, it’s nothing Abraham Lincoln would do, and so why are you doing it? Those are the lessons I’ve learned.
Henry RollinsTags: experience humility travel
Roam abroad in the world, and take thy fill of its enjoyments before the day shall come when thou must quit it for good.
SaadiTags: life inspiration travel
Maybe you had to leave in order to miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was.
Jodi PicoultTags: travel beloved place miss leave starting-point
...a tourist can't help but have a distorted opinion of a place: he meets unrepresentative people, has unrepresentative experiences, and runs around imposing upon the place the fantastic mental pictures he had in his head when he got there.
Michael LewisIt's hard to walk away from a winning streak, even harder to leave the table when you're on a losing one.
Cara BertoiaTags: romance travel gambling blackjack casino
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 JohnsonTags: travel tip-of-thought
Where you come from does matter -- but not nearly as much as where you are headed.
Jodi PicoultTags: home travel iispiration
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