“Trip planning is the rehearsal, travel the performance. Every small choice that we make on the road changes our travel melody, shapes it into a song that is ours, and ours alone.”
— Daisann McLane, “The Jazz of Travel,” NatGeo Traveler, Jan-Feb 2012

“The beautiful thing about roadtripping is the low level of commitment required to make it happen – you just get out the maps and go. And for those of us who might be a bit, I don’t know, commitment-challenged, this makes our toes curl with joy.”
— Deonne Kahler, Planning for Travel When Your Planning Skills Suck

“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

“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

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

“I was hooked on traveling because my dad took the kids with him, every year driving somewhere in Europe for three weeks. Best gift he ever gave me.”
— Kent St. John

“One traveler can’t change world perception, but an ambassador of one can help, one family at a time.”
— Tim Leffel

“Apart from its stunning stretch of uninhabited beach and a jungle dense with wildlife and fruit trees, the island had an in-built marketing peg, a mysterious Golden Buddha that lay buried in a hidden location beneath the sand.”
— Kimina Lyall, from Out of the Blue: Facing the Tsunami

“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

“. . . a bit of silliness helps break down the barriers on what we believe we’re capable of.”
— Milli Thornton

“The only thing domestic about me is that I was born in this country. Now, let’s TRAVEL!”
— Sonja Stark