...all the disadvantages of good roads: high speed, and almost total lack of that inspiring factor in travel -- the welcoming hand of the interested stranger.
Robert Edison Fulton Jr.Tag: travel strangers roads traveling good-roads
In London it had seemed impossible to travel without the proper evening clothes. One could see an invitation arriving for an Embassy ball or something. But on the other side of Europe with the first faint tinges of faraway places becoming apparent and exciting, to say nothing of vanishing roads and extra weight, Embassy balls held less significance.
Robert Edison Fulton Jr.Tag: travel importance important traveling packing faraway-places
But wherever there is man, there must be some sort of route
Robert Edison Fulton Jr.Tag: man travel traveling route
...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in it mystified my longing.
Jack KerouacTag: travel beautiful wanderlust
because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...
Jack KerouacTag: travel wanderlust
...it was if another planet were calling. The call, embodied, issued in liquid syllables from the mouth of the Arab sailor who, on the prow of the Vestra each sun-up, looked toward the East and sang the Persian song:
Hearken unto dawn, oh, my soul...
Let good come unto the world.
Tag: soul travel good song dawn traveling call persian sun-up
I probably did too much thinking in India. I blame it on the roads, for they were superb...
Robert Edison Fulton Jr.Tag: thinking travel roads india traveling easy-roads
I had long ago learned that when you are the giant, alien visitor to a remote and foreign culture it is sort of your job to become an object of ridicule. It’s the least you can do, really, as a polite guest.
Elizabeth GilbertTag: travel
My grandfather says that's what books are for," Ashoke said, using the opportunity to open the volume in his hands. "To travel without moving an inch.
Jhumpa LahiriTag: books opportunity travel book jhumpa-lahiri the-namesake
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.
Robert Louis StevensonTag: travel foreigners openmindedness
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