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

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.

 —Saint Augustine

Afoot and lighthearted I take to the open road, / Healthy, free, the world before me, / The long brown path before leading wherever I choose.

 —Walt Whitman

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

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

 —James Michener

Too often travel, rather than broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.

—Elizabeth Drew

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

 —Benjamin Disraeli

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

 —Lao Tzu

In America there are two classes of travel — first class, and with children.

 —Robert Benchley

That’s the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.

 —Dave Barry

There are only two emotions in a plane: boredom and terror.

 —Orson Welles

What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do — especially in other people’s minds. 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

The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.

 —G.K. Chesterton