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...

I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see.

For someone who likes to get around as much as I do, I really travel quite badly. Planes frighten me, boats bore me, trains make me dirty, cars make me car-sick. And practically nothing can equal the...

I wish I were rich enough to endow a prize for the sensible traveler: £10,000 for the first man to over Marco Polo's outward route, reading three fresh books a week, and another £10,000 if he drinks...

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.

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time

I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don't you think?

Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near

We could leave the country if you want. Live in Spain, Italy, wherever you like, spend our days eating mangoes in the sun. Sleep late, play Scrabble, flip through books aimlessly, swim in the ocean.

Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become...

The South Pacific is not a paradise, in the sense that Eden wasn't either. There are always apples and snakes. But it is a wonderful place to live. The green vales of Tahiti, the hills of Guadalcanal,...

The South Pacific is memorable because when you are in the islands you simply cannot ignore nature. You cannot avoid looking up at the stars, large as apples on a new tree. You cannot deafen your ear...

Through travel I first became aware of the outside world; it was through travel that I found my own introspective way into becoming a part of it.

Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.

We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top travel experience.

There was nothing along the road save the country it traversed and there was nothing in the country at all.

They spoke less and less between them until at last they were silent altogether as is often the way with travelers approaching the end of a journey.

Homesickness is absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the time. You don't really long for another country. You long for something in yourself that you don't...

Great artists make the entire world their home.

See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.

If travel were so inspiring and informing a business...then the wisest men in the world would be deck hands on tramp steamers, Pullman porters, and Mormon missionaries.

I had learned years ago never to give original documents to anyone if I could help it.