Here’s a few travel quotes for you:
The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. -St. Augustine
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. -Lao Tzu
No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. -Lin Yutang
I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. -Mark Twain
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. -James Michener
To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. -Aldous Huxley
We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment. -Hilaire Belloc
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. -Benjamin Disraeli
One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. –Henry Miller
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. –Freya Stark
Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. –Miriam Beard
All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. –Martin Buber
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. –Ralph Waldo Emerson
A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. –Tim Cahill
Not all those who wander are lost. –J.R.R. Tolkien
Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. –Seneca
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends. -Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Nothing in the universe can travel at the speed of light, they say, forgetful of the shadow’s speed. -Howard Nemerov
Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo. -Al Gore
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How do you feel about travel? Are you able to get away from it all once or twice a year and go somewhere really far from home? Or are you a day-tripper?
I’m a bit of both. We try to drive somewhere like Boston or New York or Rhode Island at least once a year. And maybe every 2-3 years we might go on a cruise or something. But we also go on several small overnight trips that are 1-4 hours’ drive from home.
The way I see it, if you can’t afford to fly all over the world all the time, at least see what’s in your own backyard! If you do some research, you’ll find so many travel opportunities right inside your own state/province/country.
Have YOU seen everything there is to see in your area? Think about the museums, lakes, bridges, lookout towers/points, mountains, valleys, beaches, small towns, and 100 other tourist attractions you are missing out on.
It’s shocking how many beautiful spots there are everywhere. If you can’t afford massive vacations, or have the time to be one of those lucky travel bloggers getting paid to post their pics all over Instagram, then at least check out the secrets that hiding in plain sight within 4 hours of your home.
-Shawn
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