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101 of the Best Travel Quotes to Inspire Amazing Adventures

I’ve put together 101 of the best travel quotes as a reminder, motivation, and remembrance for the reasons why we travel.

I’m not just talking about the sightseeing and beach vacations. Travel is about the journey as much as the beautiful destination.

We learn about the world by experiencing new cultures and ways of living, in turn learning about ourselves.

I’ve been traveling the world for a few years – Will has been traveling for over 9 years – and the rest of the Broke Backpacker crew has put quite a dent in their passports too. I think these awesome quotes about traveling highlight some of the magnificent journeys and lessons we’ve experienced along the way.

Why? Because Travel quotes provide inspiration and capture truths about travel, adventure, and life.

Just like travel, words have the power to open our minds to completely new perspectives, which is why I hope this collection of quotes about travel and powerful words will inspire you to get out there and experience some adventurous travel yourself.

101 Best Travel Quotes

Some last words….

From funny travel quotes to inspiring words from legends past and present, here are the 101 best:

1. Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn.” – Nyssa P. Chopra, The Cultureur

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2. We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

This is one of my favorite quotes about traveling. A lot of people think that one travels to escape life, or that long-term travelers are running away from reality. The way I see it – sure – maybe vacations are a quick escape from the real world, but traveling is a way to embrace life’s grandest adventures. Traveling is a way for life not to escape us.

3. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind.” – Marty Rubin

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4. “To the tourist, travel is a means to an end; to the traveler, it’s an end in itself.” – Marty Rubin

5. “to live is to travel, on a voyage more epic than the odysseys of myth – not from place to place, but through the poignant strangeness of time.” – t.l rese.

6. “Travel often; Getting lost will help you find yourself.” – Holstee Manifesto

Some of my best travel experiences were not necessarily butterflies and rainbows. Sometimes they were uncomfortable and painful. Sometimes I have quite literally gotten lost, but in the end, these experiences have helped me find myself.

I think that is what traveling is often about: finding – or at least rediscovering – aspects of yourself.

7. “Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel’s immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we believed to be the right and only way.” – Ralph Crawshaw

8. “a man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – george a. moore, 9. “sometimes it’s the journey that teaches you a lot about your destination.” –   drake.

This is one of the most important travel quotes. Doesn’t matter how long you’re traveling for, you’ll see new cultures, open your mind and change your way of thinking – even if it’s just a little bit. Traveling shows us sides of the world but also about yourself that you’ve never seen before. Having a different view on things helped a lot of people when it comes to making hard decisions.

10. “A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin and culture are like a tree without roots.” – Marcus Garvey

11. Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things. -air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky. -all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” –  Cesare Pavese

I love this traveling the world quote from Cesare Pavese. Having been on the road for the last few years, he nailed my experience spot on. Nothing is certain – except air, sleep, the sea, the sky – but that is what traveling is about: embracing the unknown and trusting the process. The way I see it, the only thing for certain is what is happening in the now.

12. “Culture is the widening of the mind and of the spirit.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

13. “culture is the arts elevated to a set of beliefs.” – thomas wolfe, 14. “traveling — it gives you home in a thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.” – ibn battuta.

This is one of the most beautiful travel quotes. Meeting so many new people, making new friends and even finding a second family, has to be one of the best aspects of traveling. Having traveled quite a bit, I can say that having multiple homes is definitely an amazing feeling, although it can also create some distance between you and your original home.

15. “Culture is a way of coping with the world by defining it in detail.” – Malcolm Bradbury

16. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.”- Ibn Battuta

Probably one of the best travel quotes I’ve heard – the play on words, the sincerity, and the capture of what it means to travel. Traveling will undoubtedly leave you speechless, surprised, and lost for words, but those words will be found, and you will have epic stories to tell.

18. “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” – Danny Kaye

19. “every journey is personal. every journey is spiritual. you can’t compare them, can’t replace, can’t repeat. you can bring back the memories but they only bring tears to your eyes.” – diana ambarsari, 20. “the perfect journey is never finished, the goal is always just across the next river, round the shoulder of the next mountain. there is always one more track to follow, one more mirage to explore.” – rosita forbes, 21. “travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.” – ella maillart.

22. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” –  Roy M. Goodman

I think this is one of my favorite quotes about travel. Having been to 30 or so countries, and plenty of destinations among them, one of the most important lessons I’ve learned is that happiness does   not come from beautiful destinations any more than the concept that money can buy happiness…

It’s easy to assume that if money can’t buy happiness, surely experiences can, but you can be in the most beautiful place on earth having some crazy experience, and not be happy. We tend to always be in search of the next big thing – the most beautiful beach or bigger mountain – without realizing that it is the journey there that matters, not the destination.

Happiness is hard to define of course, but I think happiness lies in your outlook and present state of mind. To be happy is to be in the present moment, no matter what you own or where you are.

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23. “What gives value to travel is fear. It breaks down a kind of inner structure we all have.” – Elizabeth Benedict

24. “we must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” – john hope franklin, 25. “though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.” – ralph waldo emerson.

Walking on the globe with your head down will never open up all views and beautiful things to see. In order to enjoy traveling, you have to keep your mind and heart open, accept different cultures and traditions and simply try to adapt. Keep a positive mindset and you’ll see the beauty of the world.

26. “Real traveling is not about visiting places but about ‘re-visiting’ our inner-self.” – Sorrab Singha

27. “Travel not to find yourself, but to remember who you’ve been all along.” – Unknown

Both of these travel quotes (#26 and #27) encapsulate that sometimes we travel to learn more about ourselves. A large aspect of traveling is, of course, visiting places, but sometimes you end up visiting parts of yourself too.

28. “Travelling expands the mind rarely.” – Hans Christian Andersen

29. “traveling outgrows its motives. it soon proves sufficient in itself. you think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you.” – nicolas bouvier, 30. it is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” – ursula k. le guin, 31. “the best journeys are the ones that answer questions that at the outset you never even thought to ask.” – rick ridgeway.

32. “You thought too hard. Same with travel. You can’t work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.” –   Gayle Forman

This is one of my favorite travel quotes! It reminds me of something I read in the book  Shantaram , about an ex-convict on the run and his adventures in India. In the book, he was given similar advice: to surrender to India and accept his experience for what it was.

You have to surrender to the chaos and enjoy/endure the experiences as they come. While this is applicable to many aspects of life, it is definitely applicable to travel. You can’t try to force itineraries and plans or work hard to fulfill some high expectations in your mind. Doing so will only tire and disappoint you.

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33. “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.”  – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

34. “travel has a way of making the world a much smaller place.” – janna graber, 35. “life is a journey that must be traveled no matter how bad the roads and accommodations.” –   oliver goldsmith, 36. “focus on the journey, not the destination. joy is found not in finishing an activity but in doing it.” – greg anderson.

37. “Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Lawrence Durrell

I can relate to this quote about travel quite well actually. The longer and more that I travel, the more I find myself self-analyzing and observing my own thought and emotional processes.

Traveling has a funny way of throwing you out into the world with the intention of discovering more about everything around you, only to realize you will discover far more about yourself. It is why traveling can be the most rewarding form of introspection.

38. “You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi

39. “once you have traveled, the voyage never ends but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. the mind can never break off from the journey.” – pat conroy, 40. “travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.” – seneca, 41. “a man practices the art of adventure when he breaks the chain of routine and renews his life through reading new books, traveling to new places, making new friends, taking up new hobbies and adopting new viewpoints.” – wilfred peterson.

42. “It is good to have an end to journey toward, but it is the journey that matters in the end.” – Ernest Hemingway

I can relate to these words quite a bit as I try to find the balance between preparing and planning for the future, reaching goals, and just enjoying the ride and staying present in the moment.

Having goals and an endpoint in sight is good; however, I don’t think it will be as satisfying if you don’t enjoy the moments that take you there. If you only focus on the destination you’ll miss everything that matters – the journey along the way.

43. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” – Martin Buber

44. “life is a magical journey, so travel endlessly to unfold its profound and heart touching beauty.” – debasish mridha, 45. “good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.”- izaak walton.

Whether it’s long, annoying bus trips, a shabby hostel or simply somewhere you don’t necessarily feel comfortable, it’s always better to have great company by your side. Going through the rough times together makes the whole experience more endurable.

46. “The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.” – Alain de Botton

47. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

I love this quote about traveling. With age, comes wisdom. Wisdom isn’t something you can read about, it is something you learn through experience. The same goes for travel. You can read and hear about places and people that are different than you, but sometimes it takes experiencing those places and meeting those people for yourself to truly understand them.

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48. “Travel teaches toleration.” – Benjamin Disraeli

49. “travel opens your mind as few other things do. it is its own form of hypnotism, and i am forever under its spell.” – libya bray, 50. “half of the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – ray bradbury, 51. “travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of the experience.” – francis bacon.

52. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s OK. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain

Anthony Bourdain will always be remembered for his adventurous spirit and ability to share some of the most remote and fascinating corners of this planet with the rest of the world. His words ring true. Travel is not pretty, and it’s definitely not always comfortable.

Sometimes you’ll deal with awful buses and missed flights, sleep in strange places, be confronted with challenging and stressful situations, or encounter experiences that break your heart. But that’s okay because the journey will make you stronger, and ultimately make you a better person.

53. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert

54. “it is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. such are the melancholies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling.” – gustave flaubert, 55. “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 johnson, 56. “uncertainty and anticipation are the joys of travel.” –  ken hundert.

57. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” –  Dalai Lama

58. “investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – matthew karsten.

Rather than investing in the latest technology, do yourself the favor and take yourself on a little trip. Clear your mind, learn new things and experience different cultures and people. You won’t regret it!

59. “Traveling carries with it the curse of being at home everywhere and yet nowhere, for wherever one is, some part of oneself remains on another continent.” – Margot Fonteyn

60. “certainly, 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, 61. “culture is the tacit agreement to let the means of subsistence disappear behind the purpose of existence. civilization is the subordination of the latter to the former.” – karl kraus.

62. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

63. “travel expands the mind and fills the gap.” – sheda savage.

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64. “Traveling is almost like talking with men of other centuries.” – René Descartes

65. “if you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – cesare pavese, 66. “of the gladdest moments in human life, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands.” – richard francis burton.

67. “Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.” – Pico Iyer

68. “when you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. people don’t have your past to hold against you. no yesterdays on the road.” – william least heat moon, 69. “i soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” – lillian smith, 70. “for my part, i travel not to go anywhere but to go. i travel for travel’s sake. the great affair is to move.” – robert louis stevenson, 71. “conventional wisdom tells us… we take our baggage with us. i’m not so sure. travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home. sometimes we do leave our baggage behind, or, even better, it’s misrouted to cleveland and is never heard from again.” – eric weiner.

72.  “The journey is part of the experience – an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.” – Anthony Bourdain

73. “travel is like love, 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 the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” – pico iyer, 74. “to my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – bill bryson, 75. “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 friends.” – maya angelou, 76. “travel does what good novelists also do to the life of every day, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – freya stark.

77. “The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home.” – Freya Stark

78. “you will, if you’re wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown and accept whatever comes in the spirit in which the gods may offer it.” – freya stark, 79. “when you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. it is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – clifton fadiman.

This another one of the most important travel quotes, especially in nowadays time. When traveling, always keep your mind open, be respectful towards other people and try new things. Just because your believes, expectations and values work for you, doesn’t mean that it works for others too. Watch, experience and keep the critical thoughts to yourself if you don’t want to make enemies in a different country.

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80. “Travel empties out everything you’ve into the box called your life, all the things you accumulate to tell you who you are” – Claire Fontaine

81. “travellers understand, instinctively and by experience, that travel and adventure change and elongate time, even while navigating the deadlines of airline and train departures.” – paul sheehan.

82. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

83. “we travel because we need to because distance and difference are the secret tonic to creativity. when we get home, home is still the same. but something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.” – jonah lehrer, 84. “travel is a set of corrective lenses that helps focus the planet’s blurred reality.” – andrew solomon, 85. “ i travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations.” – nyssa p. chopra, the cultureur, 86. “travel is the best teacher. the only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world.” – c. joybell c..

87. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

88. he who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – moorish proverb, 89. “travel is like an endless university. you never stop learning.” – harvey lloyd.

Whether it’s about a new recipe, a new language or as simple as the fancy toilets in Japan, there’s ALWAYS something new and exciting for you to learn. That is the beauty of travel, just make sure you keep your mind open!

90. “ The symbol of joy to-day is travel. There is a wanderlust that infects the blood.” – Rollin A. Sawyer

91. “To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

92. “nothing develops intelligence like travel.” –  emile zola, 93. “the value of your travels does not hinge on how many stamps you have in your passport when you get home — and the slow nuanced experience of a single country is always better than the hurried, superficial experience of forty countries.” – rolf potts, 94. “there ain’t no journey what don’t change you some.” – david mitchell.

95. “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” – Gayle Forman

96. “no one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – lin yutang, 97. “a man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.” – george moore, 98. “all the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – paul fussell.

99. “Living in another culture, not just visiting it, has reshaped our view of the world.” – Nancy Petralia

100. “travel molds a man, people mold his wisdom and experiences mold his life” – sujit lalwani, 101. “travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. one looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. good travelers are heartless.” – elias canetti.

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Hopefully, these adventure-inspiring quotes have given you some inspiration to explore the world we live in! Traveling has changed my life and given me some pretty irreplaceable life experience.

Remember, you don’t have to travel far to have wonderful adventures. Just keep an open mind and enjoy the ride! We hope you enjoyed this post!

Ana Pereira

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Best Travel Quotes: The 55 Most Inspirational Travel Quotes Of All Time

Posted on Last updated: November 10, 2021

As cheesy as it may sound, I love inspirational travel quotes!

Whether you’re planning a trip, battling post-trip blues, or just aimlessly scrolling through your phone, you can be sure there is a quote about travelling somewhere out there that will hit the spot for you.

There are travel quotes about finding yourself, travel quotes to inspire your next trip, great travel quotes that push you to live your best life and more.

We can all relate to inspiring travel quotes, which is what makes them so fun to read. In this post I’ve put together some of the most famous travel quotes (and my personal favourites).

I hope you will find these awesome travel quotes inspiring and they will make you want to head out and see some more of the world!

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Famous travel quotes

1. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” –  Andre Gide

2. “Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing at all” –  Helen Keller

3. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” –  Mary Anne Radmacher

4. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled.” –  Mohammed

5. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

6. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.”   – Freya Stark

7. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” –   Anthony Bourdain

8. “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” –   Lao Tzu 

9. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” –   Robert Louis Stevenson

Short travel quotes

10. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

11. “Life is meant for good friends and great adventures” –  Anonymous

12. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

13. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by” — Robert Frost

14. “Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” – Dalai Lama

15. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

16. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”  –   Anita Desai

17. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”

18. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” –   Chief Seattle

19. “Collect Moment, Not Things.”

20. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” –   Lovelle Drachman

Travel the world quotes

21. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” —  Hilaire Belloc

22. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” –   Robert Louis Stevenson

23. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” ―  Melody Truong

24. “This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.” –   Paulo Coelho

25. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet” –  Rachel Wolchin

26. “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” –  Michael Palin

27. “Wanderlust: n. a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world”

28. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” –   Ray Bradbury

Adventure travel quotes

29. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.” ―  Mark Twain

30. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” –   John Steinbeck

31. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It’s lethal.” –   Paulo Coelho

32. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” –   Paulo Coelho

33. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” –   Marcel Proust

34. “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.” –   Carew Papritz

35. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” –   John A. Shedd

36. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” –   Jamie Lyn Beatty Thi

37. “It feels good to be lost in the right direction”

Quotes about travelling & coming home

38. “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” –   Terry Pratchett

39. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” –   Henry Miller

40. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” –   Ibn Battuta

41. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”―  David Mitchell

42. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” –  Aldous Huxley

43. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” –   Lao Tzu

Inspirational travel quotes

44. “Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?”  – Caroline Myss

45. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” –   Anonymous

46. “We live in a world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” ―  Jawaharial Nehru

47. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” ―   Jack Kerouac

48. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” –   Gustave Flaubert

49. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” –   Oscar Wilde

My personal favourite travel quotes

50. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” –  Anonymous

51. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar

52. “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth, then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

53. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” – Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

54. “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” – Unknown

55. “Not all those who wander are lost.” –  J.R.R. Tolkien

Final thoughts on the best quotes about travel

I hope you’ve enjoyed these awesome travel quotes and you’re feeling inspired and full of wanderlust after reading them!

This is just a compilation of my own personal favourite quotes about travel, if you’re still looking for more awesome travel quotes, check out these  111 travel quotes  and 100+ quotes perfect for Instagram  by other awesome content creators.

What are your favourite inspirational travel quotes? Let me know in the comments below!

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Wednesday 22nd of May 2019

Waving a big hello to you, friend! My favourite: 9. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” Looking forward to hearing from you more :)

Tuesday 28th of May 2019

Hi Steve! That one is one of my favourites too :)

Saturday 18th of May 2019

What a wonderful list of travel quotes. My personal favourite is “To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen. i just want to travel more and more

Monday 27th of May 2019

That's one of my favourites too :)

Marc Deschamps

Wednesday 17th of October 2018

My favourite: 27. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain Thank you very much for this inspirational post. Living this life, too... Marc and Sylvia

Monday 22nd of October 2018

One of my favourite quotes too :)

Brian & Noelle

Thursday 30th of August 2018

We absolutely love number 36 and 41! Travel quotes are so good for a little inspiration!

Those are amongst my favourite too! :)

Tuesday 7th of August 2018

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.- Lao Tzu

Saturday 24th of November 2018

That a good one. So true. Plans are made on the go. It might extend

Saturday 18th of August 2018

Another beautiful travel quote!

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Every Travel Quote Ever

Say goodbye to scouring the internet in search of inspirational travel quotes to keep you focussed on saving for that next big trip. Instead take a read through our list of every travel quote ever. We dare you to try and not be inspired.

Are we missing one of your favs? Share your own travel quote in the comments and we might just include it!

Inspirational Travel Quotes

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Unknown

“I am not a great book, I am not a great artist, but I love art and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.” – Michael Palin

“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

“The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.” ― Rich Ridgeway

“To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

Take the first step, the rest will follow. Book the ticket, apply for the job, send the email, jump into the water. The rest gets easier from there. – Abi from http://www.insidethetravellab.com/

“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.” ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“Certainly, 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

“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

“He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch Proverb

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

“He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

It’s never too late to have a life you love. Don’t ever feel like you’ve missed the boat, don’t have what it takes or can’t achieve your dreams. Instead of removing your dreams, remove the doubts and fears keeping you from them. It’s never, ever too late. – Phoebe from https://littlegreybox.net

“Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.” – Lauren Hutton

“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin

“I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.” – Seneca

“Travelling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Scott Cameron

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley

“Tourists visit. Travellers explore.” – Unknown

If you don’t do it now, when will you do it? -Monica from http://thetravelhack.com/

“Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.'” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on Earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Unknown

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

“NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” ― Clifton Fadiman

“I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

Adventure Travel Quotes

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson

“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” ― Steve McCurry

“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

The biggest addiction a person can have is discovering the unknown. Once it takes hold, there is no getting out and the only way to get your fix is by pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and exploring new horizons, cultural, and places. – Stephen from A Backpacker’s Tale 

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”― Andre Gide

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” ― Unknown

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” ― John A. Shedd

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ― Mark Twain

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” ― Martin Buber

“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” ― Trenton Lee Stewart

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” – Tennessee Williams

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” ― Freya Stark

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” ― G.K. Chesterton

The more borders you cross, the more your mind opens — Paul from Global Help Swap

“One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.” – Ella Maillart

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

“When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

“Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace

“A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi

“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru

“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown (thanks to Melissa Bond for the contribution!)

“Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten

“It is better to travel well then to arrive.” – Buddha

“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle

“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.” – Mignon McLaughlin

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” – Doug Coupland

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese

“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalia de Castro

“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment” – Hilaire Belloc

“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather

“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

“Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” – Al Gore

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” – William Hazlitt

“You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi

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140 Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Wanderlust

by Mark and Kristen Morgan

Published: August 19, 2022

UPDATED: January 15, 2024

Travel has the power to transform your life because just one trip can help you see through a new perspective. The quotes on this list inspired us to quit our scientific careers for a life on the road and we hope to motivate you to live a life of adventure . If you’re new to our blog, you can read our story here .

We’ve organized this guide featuring quotes about travel into various topics so you can easily search for a particular theme.

Famous Travel Quotes

1. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

2. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Gandhi

3. “A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” – Henry Rollins

4. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert

5. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

6. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

7. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

8. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

9. “Life is a journey not a destination.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

10. “We must travel in the direction of our fear.” – John Berryman

11. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

12. “Live your life by a compass not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

13. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Robyn Yong

14. “It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb

15. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

16. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde

17. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” – Anthony Bourdain

18. “As soon as I saw you I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.” – A. A. Milne

19. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama

20. “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

21. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

22. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman

Inspirational Travel Quotes

23. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

24. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat.” – Unknown

25. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

26. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled.” – Mohammed

27. “The important thing is to never stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.” – Albert Einstein

28. “To Travel is to Live.” – Hans Christian Anderson

29. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green

30. “Can we just skip to the part of my life where I travel the world?” – Unknown

31. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

32. “I love the places that make you realize how small you and your problems are.” – Anonymous

33. “What you have to decide… is how you want your life to be. If your forever was ending tomorrow, would this be how you’d want to have spent it? Listen, the truth is, nothing is guaranteed. You know that more than anybody. So dont be afraid. Be alive.” – Sarah Dessen

34. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

35. “Travel while you’re young and able. Don’t worry about the money, just make it work. Experience is far more valuable than money will ever be.” – David Avocado Wolfe

36. “Whatever is good for your soul, do that.” – Unknown

37. “Go the distance, couples who travel together are more likely to stay together and feel more connected.” –  Anonymous

38. “Don’t get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” – Dolly Parton

39. “Never let your memories be greater than your dreams.” – Douglas Ivester

40. “The world is a book and those who don’t travel read only one page.” – Augustine of Hippo

41. “I want someone to look at me the way I look at a travel magazine.” – Unknown

42. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

43. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

44. “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them wherever you go.” – Anthony Bourdain

45. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

Funny Travel Quotes

46. “Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles M. Schulz

47. “Drink Heavily with locals whenever possible.” – Anthony Bourdain

48. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

49. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

50. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

51. “I wish I had never gone traveling.” – Said no one ever

52. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

53. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” – Babs Hoffman

54. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller

55. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

56. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Rachel Wolchin

57. “Some people want a big house, a fast car, and lots of money. Some people want a tiny cabin in the woods away from those kinds of people.” – Unknown

58.  “Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark

59. “I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places.” – Henry Youngman

60. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

Couples Travel Quotes

61. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” – Lewis Carroll 

62. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not live.” – Ernest Hemingway

63. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton

64. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

65. “Surround yourself with people who make you hungry for life, touch your heart, and nourish your soul.” – Anonymous

66. “I don’t want to be tied down with someone, I want to be set free with someone.” – Anonymous

67. “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 the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” – Pico Lyer

68. “Travel brings power and love back to your life.” – Rumi

69. “I always have many roads to travel, but I take the one which leads to you.” – Amit Kalantri

70. “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion” – Leigh Hunt

71. “The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with those who matter to you.” – Ritu Ghatourey

72. “Find someone who is a home and an adventure all at once.” – Anonymous

73. “I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once, to see the world. Twice to see the way you see the world.” – Unknown

74. “A couples who travels together, grows together.” – Ahmad Fuadi

75. “I love you because the entire universe conspired to help me find you.” – Paulo Coelho

76. “Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others, find it in a person.” – Beau Taplin

77. “But the most beautiful things in life are not things. They’re people, and places, and memories, and pictures. They’re feeling and moments and smiles and laughter.” – Unknown

78. “We have nothing to lose and a world to see.” – Rainie Navarro

79. “We’d rather have a passport full of stamps than a house full of stuff.” – Anonymous

80. “When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.” – Helen Hayes

Short Travel Quotes

81. “Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever.” – Anonymous

82. “Be afraid. And do it anyway.”

83. “Backpacking is money spent on education.”

84. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty

85. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

86. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

87. “Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.”

88. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

89. “I love those days when my only decision is window or aisle.”

90. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous

91. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde

92.  “Live your life by a compass not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

93. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

94. “A life lived in fear is a life half lived.” – Spanish Proverb

95. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

96. “Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.” – Mae West

97. “Let’s wander where the wifi is weak.” – Unknown

98. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn

99. “Traveling with kids is not a vacation. It’s an adventure.” – Unknown

100. “Great things never came from comfort zones.” – Anonymous

101. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

102. “Adventure may hurt you, but monotony will kill you.” – Unknown

103. “Don’t count the days, make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali

104. “To live will be an awfully big adventure.” – Peter Pan

105. “Travel, because money returns. Time doesn’t.”

106. “I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just want a paycheck to buy plane tickets.”

107. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”

108. “You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy plane tickets, which is kind of the same thing.”

Adventure Travel Quotes

109. “The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” – Paulo Coelho

110. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

111. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

112. “Until you step into the unknown, you don’t know what you’re made of.” – Roy T. Bennett

113. “The journey is the destination.” – Dan Eldon

114. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.” – H. Jackson Brown Jr.

115. “It’s not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.” – Sir Edmund Hillary

116. “Different languages, different cultures, different souls.” – Anonymous

117. “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.” – David McCullough

118. “Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life is meant to be.” – Steve Pavlina

119. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal.” – Paul Coelho

120. “Adventure is out there – just waiting for us to find it.” – Ellie Badge

121. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the times you spent in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac

122. “If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.” – Patrick Rothfuss

123. “I love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s gonna happen or who I’m gonna meet, where I’m gonna wind up.” – Jack Dawson

124. “Do not go where the path may lead: go instead where there is no path a leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

125. “Only those who risk going out too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” – T.S. Elliot

126. “The most difficult thing is the decision to act, the rest is merely tenacity.” – Amelia Earhart

127. “If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – John Rohn

128. “The goal is to die with memories not dreams.”

Mark Twain Travel Quotes

129. “I have found out there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

130. “I have found out there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

131. “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.” – Mark Twain

132. “…nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.” – Mark Twain

133. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” – Mark Twain

134. “The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation.” – Mark Twain

135. “It liberates the vandal to travel — you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.” – Mark Twain

136. “To forget pain is to be painless; to forget care is to be rid of it; to go abroad is to accomplish both.” – Mark Twain

137. “Kindness is the language which the deaf can hear and the blind can see.” – Mark Twain

138. “Whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” – Mark Twain

139. “The secret of getting ahead is getting started.” – Mark Twain

140. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.” – Anna Quindlen

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Happy Travels ,

Mark and Kristen

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• Jun 1, 2019

15 Travel Quotes that Will Inspire You to Explore

It's easy to forget what inspires us to travel and explore the world when we are caught up in the whirlwinds of work, home, and all things life. But every now and then, a good story, an awesome interaction, or in this case, an amazing quote, can put things into perspective to remind us of what travel is all about and why it's important. Whether we're quoting Frost or we're inspired by a lesser known line such as "We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us," these statements have a way of lighting a fire inside of us.

So read on and see if any of these quotes resonate with you and your life. Who knows? It could inspire you to take up your next adventure sooner than you had planned. These are our favorite quotes about exploring, adventure, and the world.

​1. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

2. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us." – Robyn Yong

3. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar

4. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself." – David Mitchell

5. “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” – Anthony Bourdain

6. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown

7. "A year from now, you will wish you had started today." – Karen Lamb

8. "It is a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us." – Oberyn Martell, Game of Thrones

9. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury

10. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac

11. “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 friends.” – Maya Angelou

12. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty

13. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama

14. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

15. “This is your world, you should come see it sometime.” – Unknown

We hope you find inspiration in the wise words of others who have traveled and explored the world.

And if you've been moved to start searching for your next great adventure, check out FTLO's upcoming trips for 2023 and you'll be glad you took the first steps to start traveling the world!

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101 Best Travel Quotes in the World with Pictures

Written By: The Planet D

Inspiration

Updated On: May 22, 2024

We all know that travel quotes can be powerful. From inspirational travel quotes to motivational quotes about traveling we find that other people often say the words better than we can, so we put together these inspiring words of wisdom with our favorite quote photos.

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101 Best Travel Quotes

Through inspirational quotes, Dave and I have been motivated to take chances, inspired to travel  and strive to live a better life. When we started our travel blog in 2008, we gathered travel quotes to share and were the original bloggers who shared daily inspiring quotes on Twitter more than 15 years ago. Whether you enjoy short quotes or longer ones you are going to enjoy these motivational quotes about traveling .

Famous Travel Quotes

Adventure travel quotes, funny travel quotes.

• Inspirational Travel Quotes
• Short Travel Quotes
• Meaningful Travel Quotes

Happy Travel Quotes

• Unique Travelling Quotes

Travel Quotes by Famous People

Favorite travel quotes.

Inspiring travel quotes have certainly ignited our spirit of exploration and captured the essence of why we travel. For example,

• “A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles,” Tim Cahill reminds us that experiences and connections matter more than distances traveled.
• Another stirring quote is “Life is short, and the world is wide,” attributed to Simon Raven. It emphasizes our limited time to explore a vast world.
• The wisdom in St. Augustine’s words, “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page,” encourages us to broaden our horizons through travel.
• John Steinbeck’s famous saying, “People don’t take trips, trips take people,” reflects the transformative power of travel.
• “Travel far, pay no fare… a book can take you anywhere,” by Anne Morrow Lindbergh, suggests that even in the absence of physical travel, we can journey through the pages of a good book.
• “ A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving ” ~ Lao Tzu

Each of these travel quotes offers a unique perspective on the enriching experiences travel brings to life.

Feel free to pin, use as Instagram captions, download, and print these best travel quotes to put up these best travel quotes around your house for inspiration!

1. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” ~ Saint Augustine

Let’s kick our list off with some of the more famous travel quotes by famous people. We’ll get to the more obscure as we go down the list.

This is definitely one of the best travel quotes of all time, but it certainly reads true. One of our favorite travel quotes is “The World is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.

When you travel, the whole world opens up. Travel has helped us to understand the meaning of life and it has helped us become better people. Each time we travel, we see the world with new eyes. Just like reading a book, when you travel, you experience more than only one page of life. Make your life a novel, not a page.

2. “Not all those who wander are lost” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

This is one of our favorite travel quotes because it gets us. Throughout our lives, people have thought that because we keep traveling and searching for new things to do, we are not focused.

They have often thought we were flaky or unfocused. But travel helped us find our purpose and put focus into our lives. The more we got lost in our travels, the richer our lives became.

Seriously people, not all those who wander are lost. That’s a statement and a quote.

So when you think that the travelers in your life are flighty, remember, “not all who wander are lost “

3. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all” ~ Helen Keller

If Helen Keller can see life as a great adventure, what excuse do the rest of us have? Take a chance and live life to the fullest. When we are at our most daring, we feel the most fulfillment.

When we think of this travel quote, we live by it. Adventure is different for everyone, but we try to treat each day by doing something daring and adventurous; it keeps things exciting.

I wonder what she would think now, knowing that she is quoted as having one of the most popular travel quotes in the world.

4. “Take only memories, leave only footprints” ~ Chief Seattle

Chief Seattle had many inspiring quotes, but this is probably the most famous of all travel quotes, it is also a motto everyone should live by in life.

We need to give back to this world. People often feel they can take home a trophy, sneak a piece of stone from a historic site , or take something from nature.

Travel isn’t about taking, it is about absorbing the beauty of the world. So remember, sometimes only memories are all you need. They are your only private moments to enjoy. So try to take only memories.

5. “Travel is  fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” ~ Mark Twain

Travel opens our minds and heart and makes us better people—one of our favorite travel quotes by Mark Twain.

6. ” The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ~ Marcel Proust

When thinking about travel quotes, we often look to the most popular ones, but these quotes really make me think. Sure, we can set sail to different lands, but until you change your mindset, you’ll never really immerse yourself in a voyage of discovery.

7. “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” ~ Gustave Flaubert

Traveling quotes often mention the fact of how travel makes you humble and how life experiences are more important than accumulating things.

8. “Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do” ~ H. Jackson Brown Jr.

This doesn’t necessarily need to be related to travel quotes it can work for life quotes too. It can be scary to try something new, take a chance, and step out of your comfort zone. But when looking back on life, it’s the chances you didn’t take that you’ll regret.

9. Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” ~ Hemmingway

As a travel couple, this is one of those travel quotes that is close to our hearts. We love traveling together and couldn’t imagine doing it alone.

10. “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen.” ~ Benjamin Disraeli

This is one of those travel quotes that sum up a traveler perfectly. Over the years, our memories of our travels change and our stories become larger than life. Not only do we forget the bad and remember only the good, but the senses stick with us.

11. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

Before we started traveling in 2000, I only dreamed of writing for a living. But after our travels, I was so moved by many of our experiences I started writing stories to my friends and family.

When we first set off to begin our travel blog, a friend shared the works and travel quotes of Ibn Battuta with me it was through these early recommendations inspired me to become a storyteller.

No best travel quotes list would be complete without adventure quotes. Travel is an adventure and they go hand in hand. These are some of our favorite quotes about the adventure that we’ve collected over the years.

12. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal” ~ Paul Coelho

Travel quotes about adventure are our favorite because we are always pushing our boundaries and when we’re feeling a little afraid or lazy, we always think of this quote. Plus, I like this much better than his other quote: “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.”

13. “Great things never came from comfort zones.” ~ Anonymous

It’s true! Of all the travel quotes in this list, I really feel that this one rings true to life. Even if you are not traveling, you need to step out of your comfort zone.

Whether you’re taking on a new project, opening a business, or enrolling in a course, when you do something that scares you a little, you can do something great.

14. “If you are always trying to be normal, you will never know how amazing you can be.” ~ Maya Angelou

When looking for travel quotes about adventure travel, this one really stuck out by Maya Angelou. It wasn’t until we started to live a life less ordinary that we understood how much control we had over our lives and just how amazing we could make it.

15. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey” ~ Babs Hoffman

This doesn’t have to a quote on travel alone. Life itself has a lot of potholes. Whether you are traveling or at home working at your job, you should definitely enjoy the journey.

16. “Fear is only temporary. Regrets last forever.”

Are you wanting to travel the world but are afraid to take the next step? The travel quote above says it all. Fear is only temporary , but if you don’t follow your dream, you may regret it forever.

We are not saying to follow travel quotes like this blindly. Don’t put yourself in dangerous situations, but don’t let being afraid of the unknown consume you either.

17. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.”

This is one of my favorite travel quotes on adventure travel. It’s scary to step out of your comfort zone, but if you do so with proper training and guidance, a whole new life will begin!

18. “Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind”

Well to me this quote means you have to leave your burdens, your stress, and your preconceived notions behind. To understand travel, you must be open to new possibilities and it will change your life.

19. “Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you. ~ David McCullough

This is one of those quotes about travel that has never rung truer than in today’s society. Everyone is traveling to show off and brag or catch a selfie rather than to have an experience. But its the experience that you’ll remember, not the social share.

20. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” ~ Jamie Lyn Beatty

It’s true, we all have to do our job and have our careers. And that is important we need to make money to be able to live. But it is also important to take time to smell the roses and let go of work when you are not in the office.

We have always looked at our lives this way, jobs fill your pocket so that you can spend your down time having a great adventure. Be it travel or at home, life begins outside the office.

I love funny travel quotes. Sometimes when we get stressed out or frustrated with travel, we need to sit back and laugh about the little things.

21. “Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” ~ Charles M. Schulz

We all have worries every day and more than ever the state of the world is in question. But travel makes you forget your troubles and Charles Schulz couldn’t have said it better. It’s the funniest of travel quotes.

22. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate people than to travel with them.” ~ Mark Twain

We have always given the advice that if you want to test to see if you are compatible in your relationship, go and travel together for a while.

Mark Twain could not be more correct. If you can travel with someone you’ll be friends for life! So put these travel quotes to the test and travel with someone right now!

23.  “A Journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you can control it. ” ~ John Steinbeck

When traveling, things are often out of our control and we have found that it is better to relax and let go. And that is true for our marriage as well. We can’t always be in control and that is half the fun!

24. “Drink Heavily with locals whenever possible.” ~ Anthony Bourdain

This is a rather funny travel quote by Anthony Bourdain, but it is also very true. Some of our best travel experiences have been when having a few drinks with the locals.

So when we are out late at night, we look to these types of travel quotes for justification. hah!

25. “I told the doctor I broke my leg in two places. He told me to quit going to those places” ~ Henny Youngman

This quote reminds me of my dad. He’s always telling silly jokes like this and I love it!

26. “There is nothing safer than flying, it’s the crashing that’s dangerous.” ~ Theo Cowa

For those of you who are afraid to fly, I am afraid that you are not going to find the humor in this travel quote, but I find it quite cheeky.

27. “I always like to go to Washington D.C. It gives me a chance to visit my money.” ~ Bob Hope

This one made me chuckle because we were just in Ottawa (Canada’s National Capital) and we made a point of saying “ Now we know where our taxes go, look at all the beautiful museums and buildings in this city! ”

And even though Bob Hope was talking about his home country of the USA, it certainly rings true anywhere. So, we put it in our best travel quotes list, because everyone can relate!

28. “Jet Lag is for Amateurs.” ~ Dick Clark

While I think it’s a funny travel quote, I tend to disagree with Dick Clark. It seems that the more I travel, the worse jet lag gets. But then I suck it up and think of him and then I say “Deal with it Deb, Jet Lag is for amateurs.” See, travel quotes can be motivating!

29. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” ~ Paul Theroux

I love this travel quote so much because it is very true. When we come home from our travels, we always forget the tough times and difficult experiences.

We only remember the beautiful things about our travels and the bad stuff fades away. But let me tell you, we’ve had some very unglamorous travels in our lives.

30. “I wish I had never gone traveling.” Said no one ever.

I don’t know who said this travel quote, but it is straightforward and to the point. If you are looking for travel quotes that capture the feeling of travel, this is it!

Inspirational Quotes About Travel

Inspirational travel quotes can be life-changing. I used to have quotes taped all over my house and now that we have moved into a house again, I’m collecting inspiring quotes about life and adventure. Words have meaning and can change mindsets.

31. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” ~Andre Gide

I am going to update this quote though and say Woman and Man Cannot discover new oceans until they lose sight of the shore.

When Dave and I first started our careers in travel, we kept one toe in our careers and one toe in travel. It wasn’t until we finally let go of our safe life in the film industry and took a chance to go all into our new adventure travel careers that everything changed.

32. “It’s Better to Travel Well than to Arrive” ~ Buddha

33. “it is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.” ~ penelope riley.

We all make mistakes in life and travel. Travel quotes can be relatable in life as well. And it really is the mishaps and adventures you have along the road of life and travel that make for everlasting memories.

34. “The important thing is to never stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing” ~ Albert Einstein

35. “travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”.

Okay so maybe it isn’t exactly the truest of travel quotes because if you buy a house, it may grow in value and if you buy stocks, you may get lucky and hit the jackpot, but you can never go wrong with travel.

But travel brings riches in life with experiences, learning, and making new friends.

36. “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.” ~ Alexander Sattler

Quotes about traveling often have a message of being free from possessions and things, and instead of having life experiences instead. It think this travel quote says it the best.

37.  “It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.”

When we saw the Taj Mahal for the first time, we had heard about it many times. We had read about it and people had told us all about it. But it wasn’t until we saw it that we really understand its beauty and meaning.

38. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow

We agree with this travel quote indeed. Travel changes a person and it is because of the people you meet and the experiences you have. It is true that you take a piece of a place home with you.

39. “When was the last time you did something for the first time.” ~ Anonymous

We have found that travel gives us the courage to try new things. When we are home in our routine, we become comfortable. But when we travel, we are inspired by others and inspired by the destination.

40. “Someday I’m going to be free and I’m going to travel the world.”

Before we started traveling full time we felt trapped. When we started putting our minds to living a life of travel, we felt the barriers break and soon we were living our dream. This quote is very close to our hearts.

41. “You may say that I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one. I hope someday you’ll join us and the world will be as one.” ~ John Lennon

Travel brings people together. It helps people understand other cultures and religions. What we think we know about other places is thrown out the window, once we land on their soil.

So get out there, meet other people and you’ll soon see that people around the world are just like you and me.

Short Travel Quotes Captions

Dave and I have been gathering quotes about travel for 20 years and shared them since we started our travel blog in 2008. They have always helped to pick us up when we’re down, put life in perspective, or just brought a smile to our faces.

These are our favorite traveling quotes we’ve posted on social media from Twitter to Pinterest .

42. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets” ~ Oscar Wilde

For life and travel, we all must follow our path without making excuses and we should never live with regrets.

43. “We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us.”

Many people think traveling quotes are all about people escaping and dreaming. But to us, this quote captures exactly the essence of travel. We never traveled to escape life, we always traveled to find ourselves.

44. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” ~ John Steinbeck

We all take trips, but most of the time the trip ends up taking a life of its own.

45. “Don’t listen to what they say, go see” ~ Chinese Proverb

Perhaps people tell you not to go to a place because they think it is awful when it is really beautiful. Or perhaps someone constantly tells you how wonderful a destination is.

Go and see for yourself and make up your own mind. That’s what this says to me.

46. “Don’t Quit Your Day Dream”

One of my favorite quotes about wanderlust. One of the things Dave and I are most thankful for is the fact that we never stopped dreaming.

If we settled (like we were supposed to in life) we’d still be working at our jobs thinking we weren’t allowed to have dreams once we reached a certain age. Never stop dreaming.

47. “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way”

Isn’t this just the dream? I love it when I take a trip and clearly do not have a plan. That is when the real adventures happened in our travels.

48. “Oh, the places you’ll go.” ~ Dr Seuss

It’s a short one, but oh it’s a good one. Whenever we meet someone that is starting to travel or is thinking of traveling, we always think of this quote by Dr. Suess.

These words make us think of adventure. Oh the Places You’ll Go! Doesn’t this make you excited to get out and explore thw world?

49. “Try to Be a Rainbow in Someone Else’s Cloud” ~ Maya Angelou

50. “life’s a journey, not a destination” ~aerosmith.

Okay so maybe Ralph Waldo Emerson deserves the credit for Life is a journey, not a destination, but we heard it first through Aerosmith, so I’m giving it to Aerosmith. Because I couldn’t find the proof anyway.

I’ll never forget being in Vietnam in 2003 and while sitting in a bar, they encouraged travelers to write their favorite quotes on its wall.

What did Dave choose? Life’s a journey, not a destination naturally. We have always lived by this motto and of course adventure is for everyone.

51. “Where to next?”

“Where will you travel next? How will travel change you and how will you change the world?”

52. “To Travel is to Live” ~ Hans Christian Anderson

Why does this travel quote resonate so much with us? Before we traveled, we felt that we never truly lived. The more we worked, the more exhausted and disconnected we felt. When we introduced travel into our lives, we felt alive again.

53. “I want to make memories all over the world”

To us, memories mean more than things. When we are out with friends, we have so much to talk about. It’s way more meaningful to have a memory to share than to show off a “thing.”

Meaningful Quotes About Travel

54. “whenever you find yourself on the side of majority, it’s time to pause and reflect.” ~ mark twain.

Mark Twain is one of the greats when it comes to creating famous quotes about travel. We have always tried to live a life less ordinary and think outside the box. I do believe this has helped us have success in our business and our relationship.

55. “The world is changed by your example, not your opinion.” ~ Paul Coelho

I think in today’s society this travel quote couldn’t be truer. Many people are quick to attack others through social media and everyone has an opinion.

But what about “being the change?” Positive leadership can be powerful.

56. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” ~ Aldous Huxley

We often have preconceived notions of what other countries are like. But once we visit a destination, we realize that we have it all wrong.

Travel helps us to understand and learn about different cultures and ways of life. We always encourage people to visit other countries to understand the people and cultures around the world.

It’s impossible to truly understand a place until you have met the people, and immersed in the culture.

57. “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” ~ Gandhi

Travel often opens our eyes to different ways of thinking and understanding the world. We as travel bloggers love to preach what we have learned to the world, but we also need to live by example.

58. “There’s a sunrise and sunset every single day, and they’re absolutely free. Don’t miss so many of them.”

59. “Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”

I’ll never forget saying to Dave “I need meaning to my travels” when we first started traveling. It was by creating this blog, creating our videos, and creating our purpose to share our experience that I finally created myself.

60. “If your ship doesn’t come in, swim out to it.” ~ Johnathan Winters

This is certainly one of the best motivational quotes that have to do with travel.

I often hear people complaining that they can never catch a break. But you know what? You can’t wait for things to happen, you have to make them happen.

61. “Without new experiences, something inside us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.”

Travel can awaken the giant within. It did for us!

62. “Those who follow the crowd usually get lost in it.” ~ Rick Watson

Don’t get lost in the crowd. Be an individual. Think big and be brave. Stand out and live life to the fullest.

63. “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.”

All my life, I worked hard and dreamed of what I might do one day when I retire. Once I learned that doing what you love is happiness. We don’t have to dream about what might be one day.

64. “Because when you stop and look around, this life is pretty amazing.”

Do you ever just stop and take a breath and look around? I am amazed at the little things. Too many of us wait until we are abroad to appreciate life and nature. Get out there now and start living today. From home!

65. “This heart of mine was made to travel this world”

Dave and I feel that our hearts were truly made to travel the world. Even when we worked in the film industry, we were always planning our next trip.

66. “The Impulse to Travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life”

It’s true. Whenever we have an upcoming trip, we always feel hopeful.

67. “Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost”

Do you get lost when you travel? Or are you a planner? Here, the anonymous traveler quotes an idea to go with the flow, just the way we like it.

68. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” ~ John Green

69. “Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” ~ Brenna Smith

71. “The journey is my home.”

Dave and I were on the road for seven solid years. We didn’t have a home. People often said to us that they couldn’t imagine not having a home base, but we felt at home on the road. We actually felt more at home on the road than at home.

Unique Travel Quotes

Not all of the best travel quotes are famous. We have dug deep down the rabbit hole of quotes to find some of the more unique quotes about travel out there. Enjoy!

71. “It’s a big world out there, it would be a shame not to experience it.”

We got this traveling quote from our friend JD of EarthXplorer. Well said JD! There is no better piece of advice. I wish my niece and nephews listened to me when I told them this.

72. “You can shake the sand from your shoes, but not from your soul.”

Whenever I read this quotation on travel, I always think of the singer Dido. Do you know that song ? “I’ve still got sand in my shoes and I can’t shake the thought of you.” When traveling to islands and beaches , this one always pops into my mind.

73. “Stop being afraid of what could go wrong and think of what could go right.” ~ Anonymous

Over the years we have had many people ask us, “how did we have the courage to do what we do.” Truthfully, we never thought too much about what could go wrong.

When we knew we wanted to cycle Africa or climb a mountain, we didn’t focus on what could go wrong, instead, we focused on the excitement and challenges ahead. So we recommend using this travel quote to help you overcome the “what ifs in life.”

74. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” ~ Hilaire Belloc

When we first started traveling, people thought we were running away from things. But in truth, we were finding ourselves and we ran right toward our purpose in life. We have never felt so fulfilled as when we do when we’re traveling.

75. “It doesn’t matter where you’re going, it’s who you have beside you.”

We love traveling together and this is our favorite of all couple travel quotes. While we admire solo travelers we are so grateful to having someone to share special moments together.

76. “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do, like breathing.” ~ Gayle Foreman

People often say to us “Oh, you must be such great travelers!” and we say, It’s not about being good at something, it is about enjoying what you do. If you enjoyed your travels and if you have a good time, you did a good job!

77. “All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.” ~ J.R.R. Tolkien

As we get older, we have developed a deeper appreciation of the time we have on earth. After spending many years doing something we did NOT love, we realized that time goes by quickly and we have to make the most of our time.

Now that we have a passion for our careers and adventures, we understand even more how true this quote is.

78. “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.”

Dave and I often get lost when traveling and it is usually the times that we take a wrong turn that we have our greatest adventures.

Getting lost is part of the fun of travel, so don’t over plan too much when planning your travels.

79. “Traveling allows you to become so many different versions of yourself.”

When we started traveling we discovered so many new things about ourselves and each other.

By stepping out of our comfort zone and trying new things, travel helped us become better people and this quote is definitely true for us.

80. “Travel has a way of stretching the mind.” ~ Ralph Crawshaw

Travel expands the mind and without having to study or read books or take a course. We learn and grow without even trying when we travel.

81. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” ~ Anotole France

Wow, this is certainly one of those deep travel quotes. But it is true! Humans are connected to the universe, when we get out and really travel, we feel that connection stronger.

82. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”

How many times have you gone traveling and thought that you have it all planned out? But it’s the surprises and secret destinations along the way that really stick with you for the rest of your life.

83. “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” ~ Tim Cayhill

People really do make the journey. We may only meet someone for a fleeting moment, but they often stay in our memories forever.

84. “Just Go. Go See all the Beauty in the World”

Each day we are grateful that we get to live in this beautiful world.

Not only is the earth’s scenery awe-inspiring, but there is a beauty in the people, culture, and wildlife that we have experienced.

I love hearing travel quotes from my favorite celebrities and people in history. Check these ones out and see what you think.

85. “I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake.” ~ Robert Louis Stevenson

We just love to travel. It doesn’t matter where. No matter where we go, we always learn something new.

86. “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them — wherever you go.” ~ Anthony Bourdain

87. “because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. climb that damn mountain.” ~ jack kerouak.

We have our tasks and chores to do each day, but it is the unique challenges that come with an adventure that we will remember at the end of our lives. I want to be able to say “I climbed the mountain and I lived well.”

88. Paris is Always a Good Idea ~ Audrey Hepburn

89. You go away for a long time and return a different person – you never come all the way back ~ Paul Theroux

90. “you only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough.” ~ mae west.

Ah, Mae West. I can just hear her saying this quote in that fabulous accent. I am sure she wasn’t talking about travel, but we can make anything related to travel quotes.

91. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” ~ Robert Frost

Robert Frost said it best, if you take the road less traveled in life, you will probably see success. And when it comes to travel, you can find something amazing if you go off the beaten path.

92. “We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel next, to find ourselves.” ~ Pico Iyer

93. “once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” ~ dalai lama.

94. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

95. “the only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.” ~ henry david thoreau.

96. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it” ~ Charles Dudley Warner

My favorite part of traveling is the anticipation. This captures that perfectly.

97.  “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens

98. “keep your face always toward the sunshine – and shadows will fall behind you.” ~ walt whitman.

I have found that travel has helped me become an optimist. The more experiences I have, the more positive my life becomes.

99. “Try to be a rainbow in someone else’s cloud” ~ Maya Angelou

100. “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 friends.” ~ maya angelou, 101. “the biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” ~ oprah winfrey.

It was Oprah Winfrey that got us hooked on inspiring quotes so how could we not finish off our best travel quotes list with words of wisdom by the Grand Dame of Show Biz, inspiration, and philanthropy? And it is definitely a great way to end.

Bonus Travel Quotes

And we leave you with not the most inspirational travel quote, but this one is practical for travel.

“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money”  – Susan Heller .

Not truer words have been said about packing. The best way to travel is to travel light. You can always buy something if you forgot it or need it, but seriously, chances are you probably won’t.

You’ll be surprised just how few clothes and accessories you’ll need to travel. So when packing for your next trip remember… When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. ~ Sir Richard Burton

It’s becoming more difficult to find unknown lands as the world shrinks in the age of Instagram and TikTok. But it is still possible, so start searching for those unknown lands today.

And I think to myself, what a Wonderful World – Louis Armstrong

And we leave you with the wise words of Louis Armstrong. Seriously, do you ever just think to yourself, what a wonderful world? We do.

When we took our first travels in 2000, we felt a huge change in ourselves. Our lives were never the same. We never came all the way back, we have left a piece of ourselves around the world and we wouldn’t have it any other way.

What are your favorite travel quotes? Now that we’ve got your wanderlust juices flowing, please share your favorite travel quotes in the comments below. Whether you are looking for an Instagram caption or inspiration, we hope these travel quotes have ignited your wanderlust!

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145 thoughts on “101 Best Travel Quotes in the World with Pictures”

Travel far, travel wide, and let your soul be your guide.”

Fantastic collection of travel quotes! Every single word goes well with the picture they’re pasted over. It is tough to say which one is the best travel quote.

Hi Dave and Deb,

I absolutely loved your article about the ultimate travel quotes! As someone who is always on the lookout for inspiration to travel, reading through these quotes made me feel excited and motivated to plan my next adventure. I especially loved the quote by Ibn Battuta that says “Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” It perfectly captures the transformative power of travel and how it can change us in so many positive ways.

Overall, your article was beautifully written and showcased a diverse range of travel quotes that were both inspiring and thought-provoking.

great article.. and the quotes were really inspiring.. i loved them.. thanks for the quotes.. i literally took snaps from my phone and kept it safe for captions when i travel and post..

Very informative and eye catchy images. keep it up. thanks

Thanks for sharing these lovely informative travel quotes with pictures.

Really good post. I love all the travel quotes. thanks for the list.

What beautiful places, I will add them to my travel list with my husband this vacation!

The best way to learn and gain knowledge is through travel, and I admire your originality. Outstanding writing. I appreciate the post.

Awesome travel quotes. Great source of inspiration.

Lovely travel quotes with pictures. these quotes are inspirable for travelers. Thanks for sharing.

Awesome collection of quotes. These are very inspiring for travelers. Thank you so much for sharing these beautiful quotations with us. Love this post.

I was searching for the best traveling quotes, and I came across your blog and read a few of them. Really, I like them all. It will be helpful for writing Instagram captions. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for a ‘Wonderful article’, so many reasons given to ‘make smiling a habit’!

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”. Can add this too 🙂

It was nice to go through your post. Thanks for sharing the beautiful quotes here. Keep up the good work. https://www.cakesandbakes.in/stories/category/customized-cakes/

It would be great if the pandemic ended soon so I could travel again for adventures. Thank you for sharing your quotes.

Your quotes is one of the best quotes that i have seen. specially number 90 which is “you only live once,but if you do it right ,once is enough” is best. Thanks to you for sharing such a nice things.

Great! Thanks for sharing really

Hi, Dave and Deb really I appreciate your creativity. Fantastic writing. Thanks

My favourite: You travel to see things and visit places – but what you remember when you come back home is the people you met…..

Who said so?

Great Words

I was looking for the best quotes for travelling and after getting your blog, I read some quotes. Really i like these all quotes. It will be helpful to me for write Instagram caption. Good job and keep sharing!

Wonderful collection

I was hoping the pandemic will end up so I can free travel again for adventure. Thanks a lot for sharing your collection qoutes.

Thanks for the travel quotes. I’m going to save some and print them out. My favorite is like a lot of people here. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. This year has proven that. We can’t sit around all day and be happy. Let’s make it an adventure.

My choices for the best travel quotes are: Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all Travel makes one modest you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page

Great travel quotes, although I don’t get this one… The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. Does travel give you new eyes or do you have to have your eyes open before traveling? Hmm, things to think about.

These really are inspirational travel quotes. I love this one by Anthony Bourdain. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.”

These are the best travel quotes I’ve seen! What a list! And thank you for the pictures. This phrase “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” Really puts it all into perspective. When you travel (really travel, not as a tourist) you understand that you are not the center of the universe. And I agree travel really does make you richer. Thanks

Wow! What a list of inspirational travel quotes. I’m going to print these off to get motivated and start saving for travels. Here’s to traveling the world! My favourites are Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore But I agree with you, it should be “people”

Thanks for the inspiration with these travel quotes. I am looking forward to traveling again!

Amazing list of travel quotes!! Truly inspiring. Keep up the great work!!

Those are amazing travel quotes, thanks for sharing! My favourite is “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before” by the Dalai Lama. May I share your picture of it on my social media? Of course, I’d mention that it belongs to you. Thanks and have a great day?

These are beautiful words to live by. Experience life and adventure.

Loved it: “KEEP YOUR FACE ALWAYS TOWARD THE SUNSHINE – AND SHADOWS WILL FALL BEHIND YOU.”

Congrats on the article and keep it updated! Love the one of: “Travel…the best way to be lost and found at the same time.” Travel is a mix of feeling with sometimes the fear of get lose but feeling free at the same time.

I wish you all a good holidays/travels for this 2021, if pandemics let us for sure! Keeping healthy is priority

Really amazing post on travel quotes, thanks for sharing these lovely quotes. And this particular quote “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” is the perfect example of happiness. Please keep sharing these types of posts. Thanks once again

Really this is a great post I love that quote. It’s short and sweet and right to the point. I always find that it is the journey that can be life-changing and that offers me the most inspiration. Thanks for you

traveling is my hobby. I love traveling thanks for sharing this post

I personally believe that all travelers must pick inspiring travel quotes in there mind. It helps to enjoy the trip. I always do the same for me. By the way a fantastic 101 travel quotes list.

Thank you, Dave and Deb, for this collection. I read all 101.

Thank you! I am glad you enjoyed these trafel quotes. Do you have a favourite?

I love to travel but these quotes make me so dizzy. I wish I had wings!!!

Thank you for sharing such a large collection of quotes, during quarantine this is an excuse to distract a little)

I am glad we could distract you a little bit. I find travel quotes to be so inspiring. They often relate to other things in lie as well. All the best to you!

Great article had fun reading it anyway my personal fav is “It’s good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end”

I love that quote. It’s short and sweet and right to the point. I always find that it is the journey that can be life changing and that offers me the most inspirations.

My travels should be the freedom of your dreams…!!!

Thanks for sharing! I hadn’t heard this travel quote before! Cheers.

I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos. I really should do this with a lot of our travel photos so I have something to look at and continually motivate me to keep adventuring and taking the path less followed.

Thanks! We actually had these travel quotes in a vault for years before finally posting them into one article. We used to share daily travel quotes on Instagram and Twitter and then a few years ago we decided that one comprehensive post would be a better idea. So we rounded them up and put them in. Quotes really are great motivators.

Yup, I agree, these quotes are nothing but brilliant.

Love it. Would save a few on my notebook, so that it can be a source of inspiration for me when I am actually traveling and need some inspirational juice.

Love this blog, may come back later to read other parts 🙂

Thanks so much for the kind words. I love having quotes handy for inspiration. Especially in these trying times. I used to keep sticky notes posted around the house for motivation. I think I’m going to have to do that again now that we are home more often (at least for a bit:)

This is another awesome post with loads of inspiring travel quotes. Thanks. 🙂

Thanks so much! We appreciate the kind words. Do you have a favourite? Or do you have any unique travel quotes to share? We always love finding new ones to inspire.

We have nothing to lose and a word to see!.

I love this! I assume that is “world to see?’. It’s another fantastic short travel quote that is completely to the point. Thanks for sharing.

wow!! It’s was quite overwhelming to read all these travel quotes. some of them which got stuck to my mind are- i) “THE MOST BEAUTIFUL IN THE WORLD IS, OF COURSE, THE WORLD ITSELF.” – WALLACE STEVENS ii)“TRAVELING ALLOWS YOU TO BECOME SO MANY DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF YOURSELF.” iii)“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 iv) “TWENTY YEARS FROM NOW YOU WILL BE MORE DISAPPOINTED BY THE THINGS YOU DIDN’T DO THAN BY THE ONES YOU DID DO” ~ H. JACKSON BROWN JR

Those are fantastic! My favourite is “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” We have found this out first hand in our travels and there is no truer travel quote 😀

Didn’t see this one above but it’s one of my favorites and from a very well traveled Nat Geo photographer:

“Ibn Battuta never dwells on what drove him on.

Curiosity? Perhaps . . . More likely it was a quest for knowledge.

One never seduced by a foreign culture cannot appreciate the fetters of his own. Life, after all, is a journey – a voyage of discovery.

Why not take the high road?”

Thomas Abercrombie, National Geographic

Thanks for sharing, that’s a great message. I love finding new words of wisdom.

travel makes your mind opened wider than before dudes. so, let’s go to explore

Is that your own quote? I love it. It’s perfect, straightforward and bang on. Thanks for sharing.

My favourite quote isn’t above. “The Journey Is the Destination” Sorry, I don’t know the source. Jules (46 countries and still counting.)

Congratulations on the wonderful travels Jules! I love that quote too. I remember Aerosmith sang “Life’s a journey not a destination” and that always stuck with me as well. It is a very wise phrase.

I have really loved all the quotes, they speak into our lives. Thank you so much.

Thank you! I am glad that you scrolled through them all. All the best to you!

Travel is exciting. Your blog is great. I am very fascinated.

Thank you very much! all the best to you!

Awesome list of quotes. Thanks for sharing.

nice article dave and deb, really amazing to read…

Lovely collection of travel quotes, but you miss something in this. So, i share the new collection of Travel Quotes and Sayings. Please check and share your reviews.

Awesome quotes, my favorite is “great things never came from comfort zones” .

These quotes are mind blowing.i want to go all of the dream places.thanks for the uploads good stuff

thank you for giving me wonderful information

Best Travel quotes I found on this website. Thank you…!!

Thanks for sharing traveling quotes.

Thanks for these quotes…. To me, traveling is my life.

Hey, Thanks for this article I love traveling. In these blogs lots of ideas, motivational thoughts as well as photos that I have to get inspired. Thank You

“ Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – Jennifer

I love this! Thank so much for sharing.

Thanks, Great list of quotes for travelers.

Thanks! We love gathering travel quotes

Inspiring travel quotes, thanks for sharing them with us.

Nice, I’m a professional photographer and these travel quotes work great. Thanks for sharing and keep up the good work!

Thanks very much for the kind words. That means a lot coming from a fellow photographer

Waving a big hello to you, friend! I like the “35. Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness” Looking forward to more recap posts from you!

A Big hello right back at ya! I love that quote too and the pride of the lion really captures the feeling.

I am so much motivated to travel, because of these quotes.

Awesome! So glad we could motivate you with these traveling quotes!

Travel is the best way to rejoin the world with your eyes.

Great list of quotes for travelers.

Nice Quotes, I like “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone”

Thanks for the post. “Don’t listen to what they say, Go see” is my favorite quote.

All are the best travel quotes, I have read in my life. Yes, Travelling provide a new direction and new motive to live a happy life. As I am concerned, Travel teaches various new lesson about life experiences, a strong will power for understanding others people.

This is just an amazing list! One of my favorite quotes is: “It is better to see something once than to hear about it a thousand times.”

The quotes are very cool.please keep writing. Thanks.

This is fantastic. Nice inspirational images with the nice line. I really appreciate your work

Really wonderful quotes I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos.

I love this! It’s one thing to read a quote, but having an image attached really helps you to FEEL the quote.

I am so much motivated to travel, because of these quotes. Thanks for sharing…

First of all, thanks for sharing these lovely quotes. And this particular quote “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” is the perfect example of happiness. Please keep sharing these type of posts.

Nice article and thanks for sharing! There are many good quotes in between but I think this is my favorite “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been with.”

We love reading travel quotes too – always a great source of inspiration!

Thanks, PlanetD You are Amazing …

These all quotes are amazing ”” I like to read again and again

Best quotes ever, i’ll use them in my travel blog! Keep it up

1. “You might not have been my first love but you were the love that made all the other love irrelevant”. 2. “How you love yourself is how you teach others to love you”. 3. “I din’t leave because I stopped loving you I left because the longer I stayed the less i loved myself”.

Quotes to motivate you by Rupi Kaur.

Great article travel is life , birth to death you get all the experiences comes from people and you meet with people with help of travel. Travel is major part of our life live life travelish.

this whole post was amazing especially the pictures

Great collection of quotes! May I add another favorite quote of mine from John Galliano? ” I’m passionate and I travel the world not just as a tourist but to understand cultures… I’ve lived with Masai tribe… I travel the world and bring it back in the form of a research book that would become the starting point for the collection. ” John Galliano

Great list of travel quotes!

Awesome quotes collection. Thanks for sharing such an amazing quotes stuff.

Very nice quotes.

Amazing quotes! That is true, nothing great can happen until we get out of the comfort zone. It’s just it can be so hard to take a first step and a lack of motivation is not really helping 🙂 But I think these quotes can give all the motivation and inspiration a person needs to start living a new exciting life. Thank you for posting!

Awesome post! I love all of these! Great blog too, really inspiring ?? I have just taken the plunge and started a travel blog. Ohh!

Thanks for sharing such a great collection bank of quotes,

I truly loved this post! And your images are unbelievable! I have traveled to Morocco a few times, but never during in winter. I did travel to Turkey during winter and it was not difficult at all to find best places for visit, like you said, it is fairly an exciting time to travel and the energy is really superior. Thanks to this post, I am not wanting to going back to Morocco!

inspiring quotes <3.. i also do blog about them regularly to remind me of bits and wisdom of life.

”I DONT WANT TO BE A MAJORITY OF PEOPLE RATHER I WANT TO BE A TRAVELLER OF MY LIFE……

Wonderful quotes I love seeing the combinations of quotes matched with photos. I really should do this with a lot of our travel photos so I have something to look at and continually motivate me to keep adventuring and taking the path less followed. Really thanks for sharing such beautiful quotes.

Thank you! Really good post and alive.

I love travel quotes…so inspiring and full of insight. Great collection.

Best quote is ” Great Things Never Came From Comfort Zone ” that is my motto too

” A JOURNEY IS BEST MEASURED IN FRIENDS RATHER THAN MILES ” this my favo quote 😀 share it if care it

Nice collection of inspiring travel quotes! I like it when one uses own pictures as inspiration for those quotes 🙂 One of my favourite quotes is “a ship is safe in harbour, but that’s not what ships are built for”. When browsing the internet for more info about this quote, I came across a poem with this quote in, and it’s really beautiful. I think at least 🙂 Here’s the link to that poem: http://www.thetravellingchilli.com/2014/11/ship-safe-harbour-thats-ships-built/

Thanks for this nice post!

You miss 100% of every shot you don’t take.–Wayne Gretzky This is how I live my life and view travel. I cannot see the world if I don’t take the shot to get out there.

That is an amazing one! And from a fellow Canuck! I’m going to use that if you don’t mind. I’ll be sure to tag you when I do! thanks for sharing.

Oh, I love this! It’s one thing to read a quote, but having an image attached really helps you to FEEL the quote. My favorite is the one about getting “lost in the right direction.” I feel that way very often 🙂

Thanks Jessica. It’s one of my favourite things to do each day. look for inspiring quotes and then look through Dave’s photos to match them up.

Travel is the best form of education!

Agreed! We’ve always said that is the best way to learn about culture, history, politics…so much!

Hi.! Thanks for sharing this lovely informations with pictures…I feel like saving them for futures references and facebook sharing…ofcourse your link will be there 🙂

Thank you. If you could credit ThePlanetD on facebook when you do that would be fabulous. Cheers!

Wow!! It is Very good through. I love to read that type thought. I am getting a good inspiration. thanks for sharing nice views.

So happy to hear we could inspire you! Cheers.

Really good post and alive photos! all photos are so nice, Our life is too short but we can make it very nice and most enjoyable to tour nice places in the world, Thanks for your nice post and some alive photos, have a enjoyable life!

Thank you! We enjoy putting the photos with the quotes, it helps them to come alive I think.

A couple on here I’ve not heard before.

My favourite quote is “Cover the earth before it covers you.” 🙂

That’s fantastic Raymond. I hadn’t heard of that one either! I’m glad that we could introduce you to a few new ones. I’m always trying to find new inspiration, but often it’s the oldies that are the goodies 🙂

Thank you! We enjoy putting the photos with the quotes

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31 Mark Twain Quotes About Travel and the World As He Saw It

Samuel Clemens traveled extensively and experienced countless cultures. Let his wisdom inspire you to see the world.

Samuel Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was one of the leading travelers of the 19th century. His extensive time spent abroad allowed Twain to become renowned as a travel writer, While Twain might be best remembered for his novels, his words, in some ways, transcend time. (Even if his use of "shall" dates him.)

Though he penned some of his best work from the 1870s to 1890s, his humor, insight, and vast cultural knowledge are still applicable today. Mark Twain's quotes on travel will excite and inspire you, while still bringing you back to reality.

Whether there's a quote on the tip of your tongue or you’re looking for profound thoughts on experiencing the world, the following selected quotes are just that. Browse some of Twain's most famous quotes, all verified by the Center for Mark Twain Studies .

Mark Twain Quotes on Travel

“It liberates the vandal to travel — you never saw a bigoted, opinionated, stubborn, narrow-minded, self-conceited, almighty mean man in your life but he had stuck in one place since he was born and thought God made the world and dyspepsia and bile for his especial comfort and satisfaction.”

“There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.”

“Take the universe as a whole, and it is a very clever conception and quite competently carried out, but I don’t think much of this globe as a work of art. It would have been better to take more time to it and do it right, it seems to me, than to rush it through, helter-skelter, in six days, just for reputation.”

“It is a subject that is bound to stir the pulses of any man one talks seriously to about, for in this age of inventive wonders all men have come to believe that in some genius' brain sleeps the solution of the grand problem of aerial navigation — and along with that belief is the hope that that genius will reveal his miracle before they die, and likewise a dread that he will poke off somewhere and die himself before he finds out that he has such a wonder lying dormant in his brain.”

Famous Quotes From Mark Twain’s Books

“In our day we don't allow a hundred and thirty years to elapse between glimpses of a marvel. If somebody should discover a creek in the county next to the one that the North Pole is in, Europe and America would start fifteen costly expeditions thither; one to explore the creek, and the other fourteen to hunt for each other.” — "Life on the Mississippi," 1883

"To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else — these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Lifetimes of ecstasy crowded into a single moment." — "Innocents Abroad," 1869

"Consider well the proportion of things. It is better to be a young June-bug than an old bird of paradise." — “Pudd'nhead Wilson,” 1894

"One gets large impressions in boyhood, sometimes, which he has to fight against all his life." — "Innocents Abroad," 1869

"The elastic heart of youth cannot be compressed into one constrained shape long at a time." — "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer," 1876

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.” — "Innocents Abroad," 1869

"It is curious — the space-annihilating power of thought." — "Following the Equator,” 1897

“Be good and you will be lonesome.” ― “Following the Equator,” 1897

"Now and then we had a hope that if we lived and were good, God would permit us to be pirates." — "Life on the Mississippi," 1883

“I have found out there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” — "Tom Sawyer Abroad," 1894

Mark Twain Quotes on Courage

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“With courage you will dare to take risks, have the strength to be compassionate, and the wisdom to be humble. Courage is the foundation of integrity.”

“It is curious — curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare.”

“Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear — not absence of fear. Except a creature be part coward, it is not a compliment to say he is brave; it is merely a loose misapplication of the word.”

Mark Twain Quotes About Life

“It is noble to teach oneself, but still nobler to teach others — and less trouble.”

“Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.”

“Everything has its limit — iron ore cannot be educated into gold.”

“What is the most rigorous law of our being? Growth.”

“I was seldom able to see an opportunity until it had ceased to be one.”

Funny Mark Twain Quotes

“Never refuse to do a kindness unless the act would work great injury to yourself, and never refuse to take a drink — under any circumstances.”

“Humor, to be comprehensible to anybody, must be built upon a foundation with which he is familiar. If he can't see the foundation the superstructure is to him merely a freak — like the Flatiron building without any visible means of support — something that ought to be arrested.”

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I have never heard the quote, but it makes a lot of sense. Good for you to get out and explore! To me these adventures are way more valuable than fancy clothes or other “stuff”.

Oh, I so agree with you! I love to travel. The quote is so perfect! Keep traveling and keep saving for that special 2023 get-away!

I can appreciate the quote but don’t do much traveling. Of course, anything is possible!

You make very good points and I agree with you. Travel broadens our lives. I do enjoy travelling but I hate the planning and getting ready. Once I’m on the plane/car/boat/whatever I am ok. And I’ve been travelling since I was 6 years old when I left my home country of China. Sometimes I have to remind myself that when I feel like a stick in the mud. I had an experience, too going to Paris a few years ago. I had to buy 3 sets of tickets. It’s a long story but we got reimbursed.

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20 Travel Quotes That Inspire My Wanderlust

Life is an adventure. Live it. To live is to laugh as if you’ve never known pain. To live is to love as if you’ve never been hurt. To live is to explore the world as if it’s your birthright to do so. When I say “adventure” I don’t focus purely on the adrenaline highs of extraordinary physical activities or wanderings into the unknown (though I may mean exactly that).  For me, adventure is living and breathing perfect awareness of the endless possibilities of your existence (creativity and imagination).  It also means “exploring life’s possibilities with no stone unturned”.

Here are 20 travel quotes that inspired me to climb mountains, explore islands, and get out of the box ( a corporate office job ) whenever I can. These are some of the reasons why I seek the Great Outdoors. 

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1.  “To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.” – James Thurber ( The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, movie)

I got bored while on a company-sponsored out-of-town vacation in Subic and managed to escape to the protected forest park of Camp Jest. In my beach shorts and cotton shirt, shoulder sling bag, and heeled rubber sandals I trekked approximately 6 hours back and forth in the depths of Ilanin forest with an Aeta guide and had the time of my life learning how to identify medicinal plants, how to extract shampoo from gugo barks and how to find them, how to build a fire and make bamboo cooking utensils using only a sharp bolo. We didn’t reach the waterfalls though, as we were all too slow in trekking and we need to go back to the starting point before dark.

What could have been a zombie moment for me- following the rest of the crowd mindlessly partaking of the hotel’s breakfast buffet- turned into an unexpected adventure and an unforgettable time of my life.  I bonded with office acquaintances that became my closest friends until now.  Despite blistered feet, sore legs, and shoulders, I knew there was no turning back; I will chase my own adventure moving forward.

2.  “It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves – in finding themselves.” – Andre Gide

Get out of your comfort zone and know yourself more through travel. Nothing will enrich your mind, body, and soul the way traveling could.  Travelling will make you look inward and finally find that inner child. In rediscovering that inner child (creativity, resourcefulness, positivity, imagination, and self-assurance) comes a lightness of being that holds the keys to true happiness.

3. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

The only way to make dreams come true is to stop dreaming and start doing. It all begins in a single step, and this applies not only to a physical journey but also to the general aspects of life. If you’re not used to traveling long distances but would really like to – then go out – take a short vacation out-of-town – then maybe next time you can go further to the nearest island you can cross over to explore. Then set your sights on finally exploring other places outside your country. (I have yet to do that, really. There are still too many places to explore on my side of the world. )

 This is exactly the process I went through, and I got hooked on traveling ever since.

4. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

When I’m feeling down in the dumps I distract myself from the blues and start planning my next trip somewhere.  You see, if I haven’t been everywhere, then at least I have been somewhere, and everywhere is now achievable by a series of “somewheres” to go to.

5. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru

For most of us, the 9 to 5 work lifestyle is inevitable. When was the last time you saw the beauty of the sunrise on an unobstructed skyline? When was the last time you stopped for a while on your own or with your loved one just to behold a magnificent sunset by the bay? Did you have the time to appreciate the best things that life has to offer without you working for it?

6. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”- Mark Twain

There are many things I could have done but remained unfinished business. The “what-ifs” of this life can bother me no end. So I took risks.  I made a lot of mistakes.  I had to start over several times. My point is- don’t live your life asking yourself a series of “what-ifs” hanging in the air of regret. I could have been a bitter woman who hated life in general. But no – I discovered hiking in the process. Hiking is the reason why, despite it all, I can still call life beautiful.

7. “Travel not to find yourself, but to remember who you’ve been all along.” – unknown

I found I’m happy when I’m trekking for hours just to visit hidden falls, lakes, and other wonders of nature. I found happiness scrambling up boulders and rocks to get to a mountain summit.  In the process, I discovered my limits, my capabilities, and my inner thoughts and aspirations long stilted by practicalities. In other words:  I rediscovered who I really am.  I have been that confident, self-assured inner child with a pollyanna sunshine attitude towards anything and everything even when drenched and soaking wet under the rain. Until I forgot I was a Polyana and nurtured negative thoughts about life. The law of attraction says you attract what you think. I began the journey inward and tried my best to nurture only the good things in life.

It doesn’t matter how difficult your journey is. What matters is the fulfillment that comes from reaching a destination and the journey itself.

8. Always do what you are afraid to do. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

As much as I hate to admit it but I’m afraid of water depths. Once I was “trying” to enjoy snorkeling at Apo Island near Dumaguete. I did enjoy ogling colorful marine life, not until I felt I couldn’t move in the strong current. I cried out of fear. I can only float myself to safety if the need arises but the phobia can just be paralyzing.  I tried to conquer this fear of water depths when I jumped from the top of Bolinao Falls –  without a life vest. Friends down below me assured me I’ll be safe with them around.  The experience was just another thrill for my adventurous friends, but for me, it was a milestone.  I could have just backed out and say it’s not worth the risk. I was silently proud of myself for conquering a lifetime of fear.

9. Life is not a journey to the grave with the intention to arrive safely in a pretty and well-preserved body; but rather to skid in broadside, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming ‘Wow! What a ride!’”-Hunter S. Thompson

Every time I come home from a long road trip or a strenuous multi-day hike, I would wake up in the morning with wound scratches here and there, sunburned skin, an aching body, and a limp. You’d think I looked like a mess but you know what? My daughter doesn’t think so. She thinks I glow every time I come home from a recent hike, all exhausted and spent. Before I lay my head to sleep in my comfy bed I know that an inner smile lingered remembering how I slept under the stars or shivering in the cold camping on a mountain, in a tent. Yes, that was quite an adventure, and all my heightened senses are telling me how good it is to be simply alive. I’ll probably do it again for as long as I can.

10. We travel not to escape life but for life not to escape us. – Unknown

When we were kids, we were just basking in the joys of “being” and I think all of us did at one point or another until we had to grow up. We had to live to work to make a living as responsible adults with a timeline of life tasks to tick off, and not simply work to live life. Work to live, not the other way around.   Take time to travel.

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11. It is not down on any map, true places never are. – Herman Melville

I am enthralled with waterfalls. I chase them whenever I can. They’re often in enchanting fairy-tale settings in the woods except that it’s not a fairy-tale theater setting. It might be an enchanted place for real, or not. Either way, most of them cannot be found on maps. And those that are found in maps are often converted to resorts or tourist stops. True places are like these uncharted beauty spots. It could be a spot in a nearby garden. It could be your favorite rock or a campsite near a lake. That one true thing about these places is how you connected to the spirit of the place and that connection, can’t be labeled on a physical map.

12. To travel is to live. – Hans Christian Andersen

I am still grateful that I am living life in my own way every time I stand on a mountain peak, camp out in remote islands with nothing else but the most basic of camping gears and the natural beauty all around me. I could have worked all my life in an office focusing solely on how to survive- but fortunately, I didn’t. I climb mountains and go places every time I got the chance. Twenty years down the road I know these journeys are worthwhile stories to tell with a smile on my face.

13. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller

If a blind prodigy knew life is nothing but adventure and adventure is life itself, then we must be missing out on something if we have eyes that see but are blind to the beauty of life and this world we live in. Travel as often as you can. Live life, love life, chase your adventure.

14. A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. – Tim Cahill

In each journey I make, I get to know new friends. Does it matter how many miles one has traveled? A journey’s a journey and cannot be anything but. But what makes journeys special are the friends you make along the way.

15. “Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity”-John Muir

I believe that physical, emotional, and mental healing takes place the moment you step into the wilderness. Wide-open spaces with greenery calm the senses, alerts the mind, and increases awareness, and at the same time acts as a natural relaxant.  On a personal note, traveling and hiking are major stress buster when office demands are too high.

16. “The mountains are calling, and I must go. “– John Muir

There are moments all nature-lovers and trekkers have in common- moments when they just have to be hiking somewhere, and looking from the summit of a mountain somewhere. For some reason, I get these familiar longings to travel and hike up a particular mountain when the daily stress is creeping up on me and makes me say these infamous words by the most famous American mountaineer and naturalist – John Muir, and I say to myself: “ The mountains are calling, and I must go.” – often to a snicker from an eavesdropping daughter who heard me by chance. “You really have to go, Mom. You’re already talking to yourself.”

17. “Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.” – Henry David Thoreau

I got lost on my way several times. The good thing about being lost is how I managed to be more alert in finding the right path. My mind recalls the past routes I’ve taken up to the point of how I got lost in the first place. I tend to stop, think and ask for help if needed. Most of all, I learned to accept things I cannot change. There’s no use wasting time blaming yourself or anybody else. No amount of worrying and panicking can take me back to the right path.   I became more adaptable to change. With getting lost, I learned the true meaning of patience.

18.  “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.”-Martin Buber

One word says it all – detours. I love the surprises that detours bring.

19. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”  – Unknown

Travel can enrich your mind, body, and soul.  The experience lasts longer than any item purchased. Some of the friends you make along the way are like diamonds in the rough, they stand by you forever, and they shine better when buffed and polished with hard times.

In relation to what I just said about experiences, the last quote (#20) sums it all up for me:

20. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac

This quote applies to anything you want to do in your life. Take that one step and tackle that one obstacle that always seems to block your way. Go ahead and climb your mountain – mountains always have gifts for those who dared to climb.

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“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us” – Anonymous

I will admit, sometimes I do travel to escape things in my life (sometimes you just need to get away right?), but most of the time I travel to enrich my life. I love this quote and this sentiment because travel broadens our world views and exposes us to so much beauty that would have escaped us otherwise if we’d stayed home.

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We travel not to escape life, but for life

Escapism, simply put is intentional detachment from the “real world” or one’s everyday life. most people practise it to divert from unpleasant & uninteresting aspects of their lives. commonly seen at the top of most people’s bucket list is excursion; otherwise known as travel – usually driven by the will of avoiding certain difficulties..

Such travellers believe that taking a break from their stressful lives will solve their issues, only to learn that their problems follow them around everywhere they go. Honestly ask yourself this – will the pictures you take on your vacation truly depict beatitude or they’ll just be other phony images to flaunt on Instagram & filter your reality?  Yes, it is every second person’s aspiration to book a ticket & hop on a plane & find themselves on a location other than their own every now and again but discovering the intention thereof is pivotal. Travelling is primarily meant to shift our headspace, repaint our headspace & ultimately expand our horizon. However, when approached in a negative light, its benefits can easily be missed & make the whole journey unfavourable. 

In light of setting a travel intention – you’re not doing this just for the sake of it. This act can serve as a lens through which you view your trip ahead & sets a contour of your stay. In so doing, you’ll be able to make far better decisions about how you want to spend your time & achieve your travelling goal(s). It has been proven that the benefits of travelling are not just a temporary effect, visiting various places changes you psychologically. This is because when we do something different, especially in an unfamiliar place our brains become overly stimulated & encourages personal growth altogether. This may comprise: learning, self-discovery, forging new relations  & wallowing within the fun of adventure. 

• Most travellers are constantly in awe of the many life lessons they acquire during the period of their trips. Valuable lessons like the history & human race are equipped into their knowledge as they continually journey. 
• Self-discovery is one of the fundamental aspects of humankind. What better way than utilizing your trip to reach that spiritual fulfilment of knowing yourself. A flexy itinerary can offer you a sense of clarity, perspective & self-awareness. 
• The connections that are built during vacations in foreign countries can promote a global understanding of each other’s culture. Seemingly trivial things like food, music & language can strengthen a bond between two people from different countries. So these are the aspects that can be explored when interacting with others on your trip. 
• How can we forget the thrill of it all – adventure! Activities like climbing mountains, bungee jumping & the like can test the boundaries of our comfort domain, gauge our abilities, expose fears & offer us an opportunity to develop the lacking or weak parts.

All these points trace back to the unruffled fact that states: Travelling beyond your vicinity is crucial to gain exposure to the world at large. 

With that being said, it is not your big suitcase that is of utmost importance when you’re on a quest of pilgrimaging to a different country, but an open mind that is readily available to soak in all the new experiences & teachings. As you travel & discover these newly found worlds, you’ll emerge as a well-rounded human being. 

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Tech titans, crypto bosses, AI researchers, investors, and so-called “immortalists” are showing support for “longevity escape velocity,” the controversial theory that people could live indefinitely by extending their remaining life expectancy faster than time passes.

“Now that doesn’t guarantee you living forever,” computer scientist and futurist Ray Kurzweil explained in March . “You could have a 10-year-old and you could compute that he’s got many, many decades of longevity, but he could die tomorrow.”

Kurzweil, 76, argues that medical research — especially vaccine development — is progressing quick enough that you get back about four months of longevity a year. Technological advances — such as self-driving cars — will also help cut down on the number of accidents and deaths, he contends.

The former Google engineer predicts that by 2029, people will get back a full year of longevity.

“Past 2029, you’ll get back more than a year. Go backwards in time,” Kurzweil continued in his conversation with the venture capital and private equity firm Bessemer Venture Partners. “Once you can get back at least a year, you’ve reached longevity escape velocity.”

The term is not new , but it gained steam last year with the Dublin Longevity Declaration . As part of the pledge, leading longevity scientists called on world leaders to immediately expand research to improve health span and lifespan.

“We wanted to put this out there because everyone knows aging is bad, everyone says it’s bad, but nobody does anything about it,” gerontologist Aubrey de Grey — president and chief science officer of the Longevity Escape Velocity Foundation, which aims to prevent age-related disease — said in an October statement.

“Like bad weather,” de Grey added, “people are stuck in the assumption that nothing can be done, even if we try. We wanted to put that assumption to rest.”

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“But in no way do I think that’s going to lead to the notion of living forever,” he added.

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Gen X is fed up, so they're taking more vacations alone

• Gen X is shifting from family trips to solo and friend-based vacations.
• More than 60% of Gen Xers book vacations to escape daily stress, the highest of any generation.
• Empty nests and upcoming retirements are influencing this trend.

With their children growing up and leaving the house, Gen Xers have a newfound freedom that is changing how and why they travel .

Gen X is booking fewer family trips and more vacations with friends or solo adventures, according to a report by Morning Consult published in May, which is based on monthly survey interviews with around 2,200 US adults from October 2021 to March 2024. Additionally, more than 60% of Gen Xers — who were born between 1965 and 1980 — cited the need to get away as their primary reason for booking a vacation, a higher percentage than any other generation.

"More than 6 in 10 Gen Xers say the desire to escape spurred their trip plans, perhaps reflecting the pressures of their current life stage," travel and hospitality analyst Lindsey Roeschke wrote in the Morning Consult report.

The percentage of Gen Xers planning trips with kids under 18 has dropped from 28% in October 2021 to 17% in February. The Morning Consult report noted that the drop is likely due to changing life circumstances, such as retirement or children moving out of the home.

According to data collected by the US Census Bureau , there were 22.5 million empty nesters in the US in 2014, the most recent year with available data. Another study published by the US Census Bureau in 2021 found that 60.2% of parents over the age of 55 did not have any children living at home, and those parents either lived alone or with a partner. However, neither of those studies differentiated between Gen Xers and baby boomers or how those numbers have changed over time.

Meanwhile, solo travel and trips with friends have increased and surpassed family vacations, signaling a move toward more personal and self-focused travel experiences.

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"Everyone likes to gloss over Gen Xers, but I'm really intrigued by the way their travel habits are shifting as they enter a new life stage," Roeschke wrote.

The next most common reason for Gen X to take a vacation was to visit family or friends, at slightly more than 40%. 

Stress and empty nests may not be the only factors

Another factor influencing the level of travel sans families could be divorce. According to Morning Consult's data, the number of Gen Xers taking a vacation with a partner dropped from 36% in October 2021 to 46% in February 2024, the lowest rate in the three-year span examined.

The divorce rate for people aged 45 to 54 — Gen Xers are typically between the ages of 44 and 59 — rose from 13.1 per 1,000 people in 1990 to 15.8 in 2021, according to research conducted by Bowling Green State University and published in 2023. For people aged 55 to 64, the rate more than doubled from 5.1 to 10.6 per 1,000 people. 

Financial pressures also play a significant role in shaping Gen X's travel habits. According to a Business Insider and YouGov survey of over 1,800 US adults in July, half of Gen Xers do not feel financially secure despite being in their peak earning years.

This financial strain influences travel decisions, leading travelers to seek deals and budget-friendly options, a trend that has been seen across all generations.

Driven by a need to escape and influenced by financial considerations, Gen Xers are carving out new travel experiences, prioritizing their well-being.

Are you a Gen Xer who recently planned a solo vacation and is willing to talk about why you chose to do so? Reach out to this reporter at [email protected] .

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12 Realities of Retired RV Life Beyond the Glamour

Posted: June 17, 2024 | Last updated: June 17, 2024

Are you ready for the raw, unfiltered truth about life on the road in your golden years? Forget those curated Instagram posts of # RVlife and dreamy sunsets. We’re going beyond the glitter and diving into the nitty-gritty realities that many retirees face when they ditch the sticks and bricks for a home on wheels.

The allure of RV living is undeniable. The freedom to travel, see new places, and escape harsh winters while meeting fellow adventurers sounds idyllic. However, life on the road comes with its own unique set of challenges that are often glossed over in those picture-perfect travel blogs.

So, buckle up and get ready for a dose of reality. We’re not here to discourage you from pursuing your RV dreams. Instead, we want to empower you with the knowledge needed to make an informed decision. This way, your retirement adventure will be a fulfilling journey, not a series of frustrating surprises.

1. The Downsizing Dilemma

Trading a spacious house for a home on wheels means getting ruthlessly minimalist. Letting go of sentimental items, furniture that holds memories, and even beloved books is an emotional process that can be far harder than most expect.

It’s not just about the stuff, it’s about what it represents. Downsizing often forces us to confront attachments and memories, making for a sometimes painful emotional journey alongside the practical challenge of fitting your life into a significantly smaller space.

2. The “Honeymoon Phase” Ends Quickly

That initial sense of freedom and novelty is intoxicating. The first few weeks on the road could be exhilarating, filled with new sights and experiences. However, this initial honeymoon phase often gives way to the realities of daily life in a confined space.

The novelty wears off. The close quarters, the constant packing and unpacking, and the challenges of finding reliable internet or cell service can quickly become frustrations. It’s essential to be realistic about the long-term challenges alongside the initial excitement.

3. Maintenance Nightmares

RVs are notoriously finicky . Think of them as houses on wheels that are constantly jostled down the road. Things break, appliances malfunction, leaks spring up unexpectedly, and repairs often require specialized RV mechanics who aren’t always easy to find.

Being handy is a valuable skill for RVers. If DIY isn’t your forte, budgeting for repairs is crucial, as they can quickly add up and put a dent in your travel funds.

4. The Campground Catch-22

Peaceful campsites tucked away in nature might be your dream . The reality is often overcrowded RV parks with noisy neighbors and a distinct lack of privacy. Plus, costs add up quickly, especially if you stay in one place for a longer duration.

Finding the perfect balance between affordability and a serene environment is a constant juggling act. Boondocking (camping without hookups) is an option for the adventurous, but it requires being self-sufficient and mindful of waste disposal.

5. Fueling the Beast: Gas Costs and Environmental Impact

Fueling up an RV can cause sticker shock, especially with today’s soaring gas prices. RVs are notorious gas guzzlers, with large vehicles averaging only 6-10 miles per gallon . A long road trip can easily cost hundreds of dollars, making that “budget vacation” not so budget-friendly after all.

Besides financial considerations, there’s the environmental impact to factor in. If sustainability is a priority, the carbon footprint of an RV lifestyle might give you serious pause. While some models are more fuel-efficient, most RVs’ sheer size and weight mean frequent trips to the pump are unavoidable.

6. Weather Woes: Extreme Temperatures and Unexpected Repairs

Most RVs aren’t built for extreme weather conditions. Intense heat can make life inside unbearable without a powerful air conditioner constantly running (hello, noise and energy costs!) while freezing temperatures can lead to frozen pipes and other costly repairs.

Unless you plan to chase mild weather year-round, be prepared for the challenges each season brings. This can mean shelling out for expensive RV parks with climate-controlled facilities or facing the discomfort and potential hazards of extreme heat or cold.

7. The “Lonely Road” Syndrome

The idealized version of RV life often involves a happy couple exploring the country together, making new friends at every campground. While those connections happen, the reality is often more solitary . Many retirees travel alone, and the transient nature of RV life makes forming lasting friendships challenging.

It’s important to be honest with yourself about your social needs. If you thrive on a tight-knit community, the RV lifestyle might feel isolating. Seeking out RV groups with shared interests or activities can help combat loneliness.

8. The Grocery Gauntlet

Stocking up on groceries in an RV requires strategic planning . Limited fridge and pantry space means frequent trips to the store, which can be time-consuming and expensive, especially in remote areas where grocery options might be limited or overpriced.

Meal planning becomes essential. Look for recipes that utilize versatile ingredients you can use in multiple dishes. Non-perishable food items like canned goods and pasta can be lifesavers on longer trips, but it’s important to maintain a balanced diet with fresh fruits and vegetables as well.

9. Unreliable Internet and Cell Service

Many retirees envision working remotely or staying connected with family and friends while on the road. However, this is easier said than done. Reliable internet and cell service are often spotty in rural areas, making it difficult to work, stream movies, or even make basic phone calls.

This can be a major dealbreaker for those who need consistent connectivity. Researching campsites with strong WiFi or investing in a cellular signal booster can help, but be prepared for the occasional frustrating technological hurdle.

10. Medical Access on the Road

While many retirees enjoy good health, medical needs can arise unexpectedly. Finding a doctor or specialist in unfamiliar locations, dealing with out-of-network insurance issues, and accessing necessary medications can be a logistical nightmare.

It’s crucial to research healthcare options in your intended travel areas beforehand. If you have specific medical needs, consider establishing a relationship with a telemedicine provider for remote consultations and access to prescriptions while on the road.

11. The Learning Curve is STEEP

Driving a massive RV, operating its various systems, and figuring out how to live in a confined space all present challenges. Dumping tanks, managing water levels, and even just finding the right hookups at a campsite require learning new skills.

Don’t expect RV life to be a seamless transition. Be prepared for frustrations and setbacks, especially in the beginning. Research online forums, join RV clubs, and connect with other enthusiasts for advice and support as you navigate the learning curve.

12. Security Concerns

While the RV community is generally friendly and welcoming, crime is an unfortunate reality in some areas. RVs, often parked in isolated campgrounds or rest stops, can be targets for theft , vandalism, or even break-ins. Investing in additional security measures like alarms, motion-sensor lights, and GPS tracking can help, but the vulnerability of being in a smaller, less secure dwelling is a real concern for some.

It’s also essential to be aware of your surroundings, trust your instincts, and avoid leaving valuables unattended in your RV. Researching safe routes and destinations and being cautious about where you park can further minimize your risk.

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