The Rocky Mountains realize - nay, exceed - the dream of my childhood. It is magnificent, and the air is life-giving.

I love collard greens and sweet potatoes. But like, traveling, I'm always just looking for that thing where you feel like there's love in the food. Like one of the best things, in Brazil it's...

San Diego is the best city in the world.

Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it...

I'm a travel enthusiast.

I hate to travel with stuff.

In a certain sense, a writer is an exile, an outsider, always reporting on things, and it is part of his life to keep on the move. Travel is natural.

If I had the choice to travel to two places in Europe, it would be Paris and London.

I really cherish the memories I have of my trips. For some reason, when you travel, it's like your mind picks up on the fact that this is something uncharacteristic, so it tunes in more acutely and...

Besides, I'm a gypsy at heart and I like to travel around.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

Miami is one of these great places that is a really sensual, physically beautiful place.

Italy has great food and Barcelona has great energy.

Stockholm is unique in that it's built on islands and surrounded by water, so you get this enormous sense of freedom. It's got everything you could possibly need - everything New York or London has...

Japan, not only a mega - busy city that thrives on electronics and efficiency, actually has an almost sacred appreciation of nature. One must travel outside of Tokyo to truly experience the 'old...

Paris at night is a street show of a hundred moments you might have lived.

When I was at home I was in a better place but travellers must be content.

The passion for travelling is, I believe, instinctive in some natures. We have seen men persevere in their enterprises against the most formidable obstacles; and, without means or friends, and even...

Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world.

Wanderer, there is no road, the road is made by walking.

It was as if I was right there with Magellan, following every curve of his pen as he wrote down his words to his beloved ones confiding his secret. I had become the ink, and the tip was tattooing my...

And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it's a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why...

Consulting maps can diminish the wanderlust that they awaken, as the act of looking at them can replace the act of travel. But looking at maps is much more than an act of aesthetic replacement. Anyone...

The idea and experience of travel can mean many things: it involves movement of some kind, sometimes through unknown places, at other times just between home and the world. Journeys can also be...

Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.

To travel is to see the world as it is.

A hot, dry breeze greeted the Swensen sisters and their mother when they emerged from the air-conditioned interior of McCarran International Airport in Las Vegas.

I was much older now, settled in a little coastal town called Cabrer, which ironically means 'go away'. It hadn't been spoiled by tourists yet, so maybe the name had some kind of mojo that kept them...

Travel is much more rewarding when it ceases to be about reaching a destination and becomes indistinguishable from living our life.

On a plane I like to be left to myself, as the clouds and the sky and drone of the motor all make me feel dreamy, and dreams are a solo enterprise.