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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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Jackie is a travel-addicted Canadian who currently resides in Vienna, Austria. When she’s not writing travel guides or reading her new favourite book, she’s planning her next weekend getaway somewhere in Europe.

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152 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire You To See The World

We’ve been putting together some of our favorite inspirational travel quotes as we continue to travel the world and experience new places and things abroad.

What follows is a complete collection of 152 of the best travel quotes, complete with adventure travel quotes from famous figures like Anthony Bourdain, John Muir, and Mark Twain.

Warning: some of these quotes may give you the travel itch! In any case, I hope you’ll find some of these short travel quotes inspirational for your own journey!

Table of Contents show 152 Best Travel Quotes • Famous Travel Quotes • Mark Twain Travel Quotes • Funny Travel Quotes • Short Travel Quotes • Misc Travel Quotes • Inspirational Travel Quotes • Travel With Friends Quotes • Adventure Travel Quotes • Solo Travel Quotes • Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes More Travel Content & Tips  

152 Best Travel Quotes

• famous travel quotes.

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

Take only memories, leave only footprints. — Unknown

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert

Not all those who wander are lost. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Every man dies, but not every man really lives. — William Wallace

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde

Life is a journey. Make the most of it. — Unknown

I’ve traveled every road in this here land… I’ve been everywhere, man, I’ve been everywhere. — Johnny Cash

Paris is always a good idea. — Audrey Hepburn

Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. — Unknown

Collect moments, not things. — Unknown

Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way. — Dr Seuss

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Unknown

I’m shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I’m gonna see the world. — George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life

It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. — Gary Snyder

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

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. — John Muir

The mountains are calling and I must go. — John Muir

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. — John Muir

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. — Hans Christian Andersen

Oh the places you’ll go. — Dr. Seuss

I shall be telling this with a sigh, Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. — Robert Frost

When one is alone at night in the depths of the woods, the stillness is at once awful and sublime. — John Muir

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. — Charles Dickens

• Mark Twain Travel Quotes

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.

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

It is the loveliest fleet of islands [ Hawaii ] that lies anchored in any ocean.

No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but that one [ Hawaii ], no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same.   For me the balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud wrack; I can feel the spirit of its wildland solitudes, I can hear the splash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

• Funny Travel Quotes

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you. — Leroy Satchel Paige

Two great talkers will not travel far together. — George Borrow

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

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. — Caskie Stinnett

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? — Erma Bombeck

Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. — Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz

• Short Travel Quotes

Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. — Unknown

Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. — Asian Proverb

Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battutah

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. — Unknown

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

Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness. — Ray Bradbury

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

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. — Neale Donald Walsh

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. — Unknown

And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. — Louis Armstrong

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind. — G.K. Chesterton

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. — Anita Desai

Life is short and the world is wide. — Unknown

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

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

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. — Vincent van Gogh

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir

A wise traveler never despises his own country. — Carlos Osvaldo Goldoni

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. — William Hazlitt

I love to travel, but hate to arrive. — Albert Einstein

And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. — John Muir

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it. — Henry Rollins

Live your life by a compass, not a clock. — Stephen Covey

Some experiences simply do not translate, you have to go to know. — Kobi Yamada

I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. — Mary Anne Radmacher

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding. — Arthur Frommer

Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage. — Paulo Coelho

Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. — Erol Ozan

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. — David Mitchell

The journey itself is my home. — Matsuo Basho

Live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry. — Jack Kerouac

The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. — Guillermo del Toro

A good traveler leaves no tracks. — Lao Tzu

It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the Earth people who make you feel right at home. — Aaron Lauritsen

It is better to travel well than to arrive. — Unknown

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. — Agnes Repplier

• Misc Travel Quotes

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. — Albert Camus

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. — John Muir

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. — John Muir

I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana, it is love. — John Steinbeck

Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society. — John Muir

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. — Jacques Cousteau

The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet, you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray. — Vincent van Gogh

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. — John Burroughs

No pain here, no dull empty hours, no fear of the past, no fear of the future. These blessed mountains are so compactly filled with God’s beauty, no petty personal hope or experience has room to be. — John Muir

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. — Jules Renard

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. — Albert Einstein

Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There’s a human story at every lighthouse. — Elinor DeWire

To almost every man and woman there is something about a lighted beacon which suggests hope and trust and appeals to the better instincts of all mankind. — Edward Rowe Snowe

• Inspirational Travel Quotes

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. — Helen Keller

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. — Douglas Ivester

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. — Lawrence of Arabia

Do not dare not to dare. — C.S. Lewis

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. — George Adair

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. — Unknown

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. — John Paul Jones

This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. — Shana Alexander

I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. — Henry Rollins

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 Kerouac

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. — Ray Bradbury

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. — Pascal Mercier

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

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. — Judith Thurman

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

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. 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

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling. — Gustave Flaubert

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown. — Paul Theroux

Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more. — Victoria Erickson

• Travel With Friends Quotes

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. — Tim Cahill

You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. — Miriam Adeney

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson

• Adventure Travel Quotes

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. — Amelia Earhart

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal. — Paulo Coelho

Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis. — Tim Cahill

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. — John Muir

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. — Edward Abbey

Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless.   We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only when this is recognized can the blown-in-the glass bum relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. — John Steinbeck

What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. — Jack Kerouac

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. — J.A. Shedd

It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any. — Hugh Laurie

Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the Earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white. — Mark Jenkins

The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – above all, a travel bureau – arrange everything before-hand? — Richard Aldington

Be careful because Cambodia is the most dangerous place you will ever visit. You will fall in love with it, and eventually it will break your heart. — Joel Brinkley

• Solo Travel Quotes

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. — Freya Stark

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Unknown

I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. — Bill Bryson

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home. — Freya Stark

When you’ve managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown – either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude – there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when we are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free. — Tim Cahill

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

He travels the fastest who travels alone. — Rudyard Kipling

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. — Lawrence Durrell

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. — Liberty Hyde Bailey

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

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. — Thomas Jefferson

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

Personally I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know anybody, don’t know my way around and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home. — Michael Mewshaw

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. — Paulo Coelho

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. — Walt Whitman

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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.

Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks — on your body or on your heart — are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.

It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu , for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about.   For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what’s happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there — with your eyes open — and lived to see it.

Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? … I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.   Maybe that’s enlightenment enough – to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.

I think food, culture, people and landscape are all absolutely inseparable.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia . I wanted to ride out into a desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers. I wanted to kick snow off my boots in a Mafiya nightclub in Russia. I wanted to play with automatic weapons in Phnom Penh, recapture the past in a small oyster village in France, step into a seedy neon-lit pulqueria in rural Mexico. I wanted to run roadblocks in the middle of the night, blowing past angry militia with a handful of hurled Marlboro packs, experience fear, excitement, wonder.   I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books. I wanted to see the world – and I wanted the world to be just like the movies.

At this point I think my body is like an old car. Another dent ain’t gonna make a whole lot of difference. At best it’s a reminder that you’re still alive and lucky as hell. Another tattoo, another thing you did, another place you’ve been.

Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund.

If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

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.

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95 most inspirational travel quotes ever penned

Our favourite inspirational travel quotes have encouraged us to travel with abandon over the years. Perhaps they will do the same for you…

For us, there is no such thing as luxury travel; travel is, by default, a luxury. It is a privilege provided by the country of our birth, a privilege that many are not as fortunate to enjoy.

Sometimes, we have to pinch ourselves at just how ridiculous our lives have become: an ex-teacher and jobbing writer travelling the world for a living. It is absurd, it is astonishing, it is luxury.

When I first went travelling at 21 years old, my father gave me this quote scrawled on a piece of card.

It infused me with wanderlust. It encouraged me to get out of my comfort zone, make the most of my time, see the world and enjoy the freedom that comes with being on the road. It remains one of the most inspirational travel quotes I’ve read (even if Twain did not actually say it).

Today, 20 years and almost 100 countries later, it’s still in my wallet. Despite its tattered and dishevelled appearance, it’s every bit as important to me now as it was then.

With that in mind, we’ve collated our most beloved inspirational travel quotes to encourage readers to “explore, dream and discover” for themselves.

inspirational travel quotes

1. “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

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

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

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

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

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

7. “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” – Paul Brandt

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

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

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

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

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

13. “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.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

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

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

16. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships were built for.” – John A. Shedd

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

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

19. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

20. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

21. “Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.” – The Dalai Lama

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

23. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re travelling, 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

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

25. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

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

27. “Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley

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

29. “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

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

31. “I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” – Ricky Skaggs

32. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” – Hilaire Belloc

33. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

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

35. “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

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

37. “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

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

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

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

41. “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, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

42. “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

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

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

45. “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

46. “There are far, far better things ahead than we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

47. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, 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

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

49. “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 traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell

50. “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

51. “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

52. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew

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

54. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” – Ray Bradbury

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

56. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot

57. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” – Robert Orben

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

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

60. “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

61. “If an ass goes travelling, he’ll not come home a horse.” – Thomas Fuller

62. “Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg

63. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

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

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

66. “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

67. “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw

68. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni

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

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

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

72. “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

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

74. “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

76. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

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

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

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

80. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle – or Si’ahl

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

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

83. “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.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

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

85. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

86. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Julia Ormond (although it is often wrongly attributed to Audrey Hepburn)

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

88. “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

89. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

90. “It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.” – Sir Ernest Shackleton

91. “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

92. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

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

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

95. “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 (or possibly H Jackson Brown Jr )

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101 Best Short Travel Quotes (+ Caption Ideas!)

There’s something about beautiful, meaningful, or impactful travel quotes that have always spoken to me–and I’m sure I’m not alone in remembering spending days doodling travel captions in the margins of notebooks during school or work as inspiration to work toward the next big adventure.

We’ve put together this gigantic list of the best short travel quotes around to help inspire your next adventures (or just help you find some short travel captions for Instagram, whatever works for you!), including everything from world-famous adventure quotes to short quotes about traveling pulled from some of my favorite travel books and memoirs.

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These top travel quotes are among the most famous short travel quotes in the world.

You’ve likely heard most or all of them before, but that doesn’t mean they can’t make for a classic Instagram caption or a dose of travel inspiration!

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

I am forever obsessed with this beautiful travel quote–the longer and farther we travel, the more I appreciate just how smitten I am with this incredible world of ours.

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.” — St. Augustine

While this is one of the most famous travel quotes out there, it’s as controversial as it is inspiring: not everyone has the opportunity to travel, after all, and I certainly don’t believe that you  have  to travel to be a well-rounded person.

… That being said, for those of us lucky enough to have the opportunity, I do believe travel can enrich us and our knowledge of the world immeasurably.

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

“Tell me, what do you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?” — Mary Oliver

“This… this was excitement, romance, adventure–and there was so much more of it,  too  much more of it for even another month, another year, another  decade  to adequately contain my investigations.” — Anthony Bourdain

This quote from Anthony Bourdain’s first memoir (the fantastic Kitchen Confidential , which helped propel him to stardom), has always stuck with me: this  is exactly how I feel arriving in a new destination and becoming intoxicated by just how much I love it.

Bourdain is talking about his first trip to Tokyo here, but the sentiment could belong to any number of overwhelming, delightful, fantastic cities around the globe

For me, it brings to mind Rome , Mexico City , Istanbul , Bangkok , and so many more.

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

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

“Climb the mountain so that you can see the world, not so that the world can see you.” — David McCullough

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

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

Some of the best short travel quotes in the world are not about any single destination or accomplishment in particular, but about appreciating all of the unexpected (if often uncomfortable) adventures that happen along the way.

“The journey itself is my home.” — Matsuo Basho

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

I love this quote–and have found it to be true over and over again while traveling.

Major travel accomplishments are fantastic, but often the best and most memorable travel adventures cannot be planned.

“It’s better to travel well than to arrive.” — Buddha

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

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

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

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

“The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost.” — Henry David Thoreau

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

“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

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

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

“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

“Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” — Paul Theroux

Oh, how true this is!

The reality of travel–especially long-term travel like what we have been experiencing for nearly 5 years as of the time that I’m updating this travel quotes blog post–is often stressful and physically uncomfortable, but so far, it has always been worth it.

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

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” — Martin Buber

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

“Adventure is worthwhile.” — Aesop

Short, sweet, and to the point: Aesop’s words are still worth living by.

“I have no reason to go, except that I have never been, and knowledge is better than ignorance. What better reason could there be for traveling?” — Freya Stark

While our personal travel bucket list is longer than ever, we find ourselves living by this short travel quote near-constantly on the road: when the opportunity presents itself to explore another neighborhood, city, or country that we know little to nothing about, our question is no longer “why should we visit?” but “why not?”.

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

“The journey not the arrival matters.” — T.S. Eliot

Travel long enough, and it becomes clear that changing along the way is simply part of the deal.

Here’s how travel changes you–as told in short travel quotes from a wide variety of travelers.

“Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell.” — Libba Bray

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

“So much of who we are is where we have been.” — William Langewiesche

I love this quote about traveling and have been tempted to use it plenty of travel captions before: each destination has a way of weaving itself into us and becoming part of who we are.

“You go away from a long time and return a different person–you never come all the way back.” — Paul Theroux

As someone who left on what was supposed to be a RTW trip with a clear end date, never came back, and half a decade later has a new career, focus in life, and wealth of experiences to show for it, I can certainly attest to this: we have never and will never come all the way back to who we started before traveling long-term.

We have been so changed by our experiences that the life we originally planned for ourselves feels inconceivable now, and we place the responsibility for most of that on leaping into the unknown.

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

“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life–and travel–leaves marks on you.” — Anthony Bourdain

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

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

“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

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

“You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.” — Ella Maillart

“Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.” — Isabelle Eberhardt

“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” — Anthony Bourdain

“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and I remember more than I have seen.” — Benjamin Disraeli

“I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” — Bill Bryson

This pick from Bill Bryson might be just slightly too long for this post specifically on short travel quotes, but I love it too much to leave it off: nothing brings back childlike wonder quite like being dropped in a country dramatically different from your own!

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

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

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

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

“Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” — Mary Ritter Beard

“Traveling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” — Gayle Foreman

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

“Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.” — Mark Twain

“When you travel, you’re forced to have new thoughts. “Is this alley safe?” “Is this the right bus?” “Was this meat ever a house pet?” It doesn’t even matter what the new thoughts are, it feels so good to just have some variety. And it’s a reboot for your brain. I can feel the neurons making new connections again with new problems to solve, clawing their way back to their nimbler, younger days.” — Kristin Newman

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

There’s no doubt that one of the best things about travel is getting to connect with people all over the world–here are some of the best travel quotes on the subject, starting with one of my ultimate favorites…

“Travel is about great and illogical leaps of trust.” — Dave Eggers

I pulled this from a short story called The Road to Riyadh that Eggers wrote for Lonely Planet as part of a phenomenal compilation of true travel stories , and have had it seared into my memory from the moment I read it–it perfectly captures the emotion behind stepping outside your comfort zone when traveling. 

“If you’re 22, 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

“Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” — Wendell Berry

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

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

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

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

“If I am an advocate for anything, it is to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. Walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food. It’s a plus for everybody.” — Anthony Bourdain

“Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg

Anyone who has ever fought with their travel companion over something seemingly inane while way too jetlagged knows this short travel quote to be true!

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

“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

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrowmindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” — Mark Twain

As much as I love this famous travel quote by Twain, I’ve always felt that it’s best appreciated when read with the following one by Michener:

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and ignore the people, you might better just stay home.” — James A. Michener

These two short travel quotes may have two entirely different takes on how travel can (or cannot) change you, but read together, to me they always add up to the idea that you get out of travel what you put into it–and I have always found that to be true in our own adventures around the world.

At its core, the pursuit of travel tends to be about the joy of living an adventurous life.

Here are some of the best travel quotes on pursuing a life of adventure!

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

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

Nearly 5 years of living a life of travel later, we can confirm this is definitely true for us! So much overpacking in those early months…

“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

“Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag” — Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

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

“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.” — Freya Stark

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

“Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” — Ray Bradbury

“To travel is to live.” — Hans Christian Anderson

“You only live once. But if you do it right, once is enough.” — Mae West

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

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.” — T.S. Eliot

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

“My favorite thing is to go where I have never been.” — Diane Arbus

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine. It’s lethal.” — Paul Coelho

“I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility.” — Jack Kerouac

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

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” — Neale Donald Walsch

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

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

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

“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

“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” — Chief Seattle

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.” — Eleanor Roosevelt

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

“Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.” — Holly Morris

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

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

Freya Stark provided the world with many amazing travel quotes, but this is definitely one of my favorites from her! There’s definitely something invigorating about a beautiful horizon in the distance.

“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

“Don’t let anyone rob you of your imagination, your creativity, or your curiosity. It’s your place in the world; it’s your life. Go on and do all you can with it, and make it the life you want to live.” — Mae Jemison

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

“The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life.” — Agnes Repplier

“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

… And, of course, what better way to close out a list of the best short travel quotes than this classic by Kerouac?

Here’s to continually living adventurously and climbing all the mountains, literally and figuratively.

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In May 2016, I left my suburban life in the USA and became a full-time traveler. Since then, I have visited 50+ countries on 5 continents and lived in Portugal, developing a special love of traveling in Europe (especially Italy) along the way. Today, along with my husband Jeremy and dog Ranger, I’m working toward my eventual goal of splitting my life between Europe and the USA.

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“Adventure is worthwhile.” — Aesop . The best one yet. I LOVE LOVE LOVE this list of quotes. Thanks for putting together. I’m going to keep this as a reference, and use all over the place…on my website, in my IG quotes, etc.

Thanks, Lauren! So glad you like them. 🙂

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36 Short Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Adventures

These short travel quotes will have you packing your bags to discover somewhere new in no time.

Welcome wanderlusters. When it comes to travel, sometimes less is more – especially when it comes to words. A snappy, short travel quote can inspire, motivate or even change the way you see the world. 

Celebrate your next adventure with these succinct and impactful travel quotes .

The Best Short Travel Quotes

These short quotes about travel might be bite-sized, but they pack a punch in significance for your next trip — regardless of the location.

“If it scares you, it may be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin

Travel experiences that push you beyond what’s ordinary and predictable are worth exploring; go boldly and fearlessly.

“My favourite thing to do is go where I’ve never been.” – Unknown

This quote speaks to a broader life philosophy: staying open-minded and embracing the unknown.

“When was the last time you did something for the first time?” – John C. Maxwell

Nothing beats the first time you travel somewhere enchanting.

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

With a few travel hacks and expert tips, it’s possible to see the most amazing places in the world… without breaking the bank.

“Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

Remember what I said about food for the soul? Travel pours into your sense of being abundantly.

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

Sometimes, new travel experiences require you to try things outside of your norm, and that’s okay.

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Short Unique Travel Quotes

It’s the unique, short inspirational quotes about travel that are most fitting when the journey takes you somewhere unusual. These unique sayings are perfect for rare travel opportunities.

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

Outside the cost of jet setting, being brave enough to travel makes all the difference.

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

Travel is your opportunity to satisfy your inherent sense of wonder, intrigue, and curiosity.

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

When you travel, part of the journey is finding something new — even within yourself.

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

The more of the world you see, the better you’ll get to know the essence of who you are.

“The world is big, and I want to get a good look at it before it gets dark.” – John Muir

Life is brief and unpredictable; you ought to travel as much and as far as possible while you still can.

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

The essential things you get from travel aren’t material; they’re deeply gratifying over and above what’s tangible.

Short Travel Quotes for Instagram

When the travelling quotes are short and witty, you better believe they deserve a spot on your Instagram posts. This is especially useful when you’re in luxury destinations and only want short aesthetic travel quotes to accompany breathtaking snaps.

Here are some of my favourite Insta-ready travel quotes.

“The goal is to die with memories, not dreams.” – Unknown

Travel guarantees memories and can be part of fulfilling your wildest dreams.

“To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

Travel unlocks more ways to enjoy the act of living itself.

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

The entire world is an astonishing wonder worth seeing and exploring.

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

Like many other areas in life, risk-taking makes travel much more enriching.

“Don’t listen to what they say, go see.” – Unknown (Chinese Proverb)

Nothing beats travelling to a destination and being there in person for visceral experiences.

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

Soak up all the richness in new lands, but always tread carefully and respectfully.

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Short Travel Quotes for Couples

Looking for short cute travel quotes to symbolise your couple’s trips? Take your pick from the ones below.

“In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.” – Charles M. Schulz

Sometimes, the destination is simple, but your partner can elevate the travel experience beyond measure.

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

Worldly goods aren’t bad, but travel offers a different kind of wealth.

“A couple who travels together grows together.” – Ahmad Fuadi

If you want to get to know someone, live, work, or travel with them.

“All you need is love and a passport.” – Unknown

With the right person on your arm, discovering the world always feels right.

Next Read: Ever wondered how to maximise your time in a different setting, fully absorbing new cultures and traditions? Read all about the joys and rewards of immersive travel here.

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

You won’t feel the miles and hours when embarking on thrilling journeys with a loved one.

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

In romantic partnerships, you can’t lose as long as you keep finding new places to make memories in together.

Short Travel Quotes With Friends

It takes a little practice to master how to travel alone before you become a pro, making some of the best quotes about travel those celebrating time spent with your favourite crew. These endearing short travel quotes are apt for your group adventures.

“Life is short, and the world is wide.” – Simon Raven

There’s a massive planet to behold; share its discovery with special people.

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

Go encounter phenomenal places with treasured people to truly enjoy the fullness of life.

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

The more curious you and your travel companions are about the world, the more you’ll reap in return.

“Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends” – Shirley MacLaine

When you travel, you interact with different people and often make new lifelong friends in the most fascinating parts of the world.

Next Read: Going boldly into the world without fear is priceless, but it’s wise to cover your bases. Get the 411 on the importance of travel insurance in this article.

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

Meeting people and forming genuine connections are central to your biggest travel takeaways.

Short Funny Travel Quotes

I love travel memes and find funny short-trip quotes just as amusing. There will be travel escapades that feature unexpected, unplanned, or hilarious quirks. They’re part of the stories you’ll share over and over. So why not use clever short quotes to capture the humour?

“Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark

Approach each trip with enduring enthusiasm and energy.

“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein

Always try to enjoy every aspect of the full journey, not just the final destination.

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

You might not be able to see it all, but you can certainly try.

“A hangover suggests a great night, jet lag suggests a great adventure.” – J.D. Andrews

While partying is fun, don’t let it hinder the full scope of your travel experiences.

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

This is one of the most poetic ways to describe what wanderlust means for some people.

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw

Embrace trips that are nothing like what you’re used to at home; put the comfort zone on the back burner.

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

Let spontaneity drive all the elements of the voyage from start to finish.

Short Travelling Quotes | The Final Say

There it is, some of the best, unique, funny, inspirational, and Insta-worthy short quotes about travelling the world. With this fun list of what to say to inspire an unforgettable vacay, it’s time to let your passport do all the talking.

Whether your next dream destination is an island escape, a trip to a flashy city, or a desert retreat, you’ve got meaningful short quips to capture all your memorable moments.

If your upcoming journey involves exciting, action-packed activities, here are winning adventure quotes to match your one-of-a-kind holiday exploits.

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Between vacations, many daydream about what adventures the next trip holds. You can spend your days switching back and forth from looking at your favorite travel photos to trying to go about your day to day life. But a few friendly reminders that the next adventure is closer than you think can help you put your wanderlust to rest. And one of the best distractions comes with this list of travel quotes. Pick your favorite from the collection below and use it to inspire your next trip!

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These travel quotes are as hilarious as they are true. Pick your favorite to send to a friend or to use in your next Instagram caption.

• “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
• “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat.” – Unknown
• “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller
• “Can we just skip to the part of my life where I travel the world?” – Unknown
• “Vacation calories don’t count. Right?” – Unknown
• “I want someone to look at me the way I look at a travel magazine.” – Unknown
• “I need six months of vacation, twice a year.” – Unknown
• “The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” – Russell Baker
• “I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.” – Bob Hope
• “Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.” – Susan Sontag

These inspirational travel quotes will remind you of the transformational experience traveling can be. They also look great on a travel mug .

• “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
• “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
• The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
• “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
• “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
• “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
• “A person susceptible to ‘wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”  – Pico Iyer
• “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin
• “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

They’re short, they’re sweet, and they’re oh-so-true. These short travel quotes will have you wanting to be back on a beach in no time.

• “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty
• “To Travel is to Live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
• “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman
• “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
• “Live your life by a compass not a clock.” – Stephen Covey
• “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
• “Oh the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
• “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop
• “Life is short and the world is wide.” – Unknown
• “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

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• “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville
• “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green
• “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Augustine of Hippo
• “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde
• “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama
• “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck
• “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
• “The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” – Henry David Thoreau
• “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost

Mark Twain Travel Quotes

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

Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes

• “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
• “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
• “It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.” – Anthony Bourdain
• “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” – Anthony Bourdain

Do you love solo travel? If so, these adventure quotes were made just for you. And don’t be afraid to share them with other fellow travelers who don’t mind the occasional solo adventure.

• “A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd
• “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert
• “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
• “Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world.” – Mark Jenkins
• “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
• “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
• “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” – The Dhammapada

Whether it’s with your Dad, your sister, your friend, or your significant other– these travel together quotes are sure to remind you of all the wonderful memories you shared together.

Couple Travel Quotes

• “I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once to see the world. Twice, to see the way you see the world.” – Anonymous
• “It doesn’t matter where you are going. It matters who is beside you.” – Anonymous
• “Will you give me yourself? Will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?” – Walt Whitman
• “What we find in a soul mate is not something to tame, but something wild to run with.” – Robert Brault
• “Go the distance, couples who travel together are more likely to stay together and feel more connected.” – Anonymous
• “Here’s to all the places we went. And here’s to all the places we ‘ll go. And here’s to me, whispering again and again and again and again: I love you.” – Anonymous

Family Travel Quotes

• “When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.” – Helen Hayes
• “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.” – A. A. Milne, Winnie the Pooh
• “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures” – Lewis Carroll
• “It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy… Let’s go exploring!” – Calvin from Calvin and Hobbes
• “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories” – Og Mandino

Travel With Friends Quotes

• “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
• “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton
• “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine
• “I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone.” – Leonardo DiCaprio
• “Sharing adventures means enjoying them 100% more.” – Anonymous
• “Friends that travel together, stay together.” – Anonymous

If you want to document your travel experiences on social media, we have the Instagram captions for you. Use these short and fun travel captions for Instagram to share how you spent your vacation.

• An adventure a day keeps the doctor away.
• Left my heart in [insert city here].
• Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.
• I have not been everywhere yet, but it’s on my list.
• The tan will fade, but the memories will last forever.
• “Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark
• I follow my heart … and it usually leads me to the airport.
• Life is not meant to be lived in one place.
• Always say yes to new adventures.
• BBN: Be back never.
• Always take the scenic route.
• Eating my way through [or insert city or country here]
• “One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.” – Henry Miller

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124 Inspirational Travel Quotes That’ll Make You Want to Travel in 2022

This is the ultimate list of inspirational travel quotes. Let wordsmiths such as Stephen King, Mark Twain and the Dalai Lama transport you around the world from your armchair.

Not all inspirational travel quotes are created equal. “You have to look through the rain to see the rainbow.” Ugh! Case and point. With so many of these clichés flying around, we forget the real purpose of an inspirational quote. The best travel quotes are meant to inspire. To resonate with and encourage you to take action.

Whether you’re stuck in a rut, hungry for change and adventure, lacking motivation or self-confidence, the right inspirational quote can give you a well-needed kick up the butt to get you on the right track towards achieving your goals

My favourite kind of inspirational quotes is travel related, obviously! They remind me that following my dreams will always lead to happiness and fulfilment. So, I’ve collated a rather epic list of not just any inspirational travel quotes, but the best travel quotes. Many of these travel quotes describe wanderlust perfectly. You’re going to love them!

There’s a mix of short travel quotes, some would even make perfect travel captions for Instagram, some are funny quotes about travelling with friends, but most of all they are all awesome trip quotes.

Ok, so the length of this list is probably a little overkill, but they are all beautiful travel quotes from some really inspiring authors and legends including Stephen King, John Steinbeck, Mark Twain, Samuel Johnson, John Steinbeck, Lao Tzu, Euripides, Seneca, Dalai Lama, Bill Bryson, T.S Eliot, Oscar Wilde and so so many more.

Here is the ultimate travel quotes list and the only one you’ll ever need. Save and Pin your favourites.

1. You need not even listen, just wait…the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself. – Franz Kafka

2. We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment. – Hilaire Belloc

3. 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

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

5. Travel expands the mind and fills the gap. – Sheda Savage

6. time flies. it’s up to you to be the navigator. – robert orben, 7. the world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. – w.b. yeats, 8. the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – marcel proust, 9. the biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – oprah winfrey, 10. take the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what’s there in front of you. – erick widman.

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

12. living on earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year. – unknown, 13. it doesn’t matter where you are. you are nowhere compared to where you can go. – bob proctor, 14. if we travel simply to indulge ourselves we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer. – unknown, 15. it is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and come back with a richer, fuller understanding of america – in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principles. – dwight d. eisenhower, 16. travelling tends to magnify all human emotions – peter hoeg, 17. when a man is a traveller, the world is his house and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, and all the people are his family.- drew bundini brown, 18. ‘i’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen non-percent of. – louis c.k..

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

20. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean. – Constantine Cavafy

21. Travel not to escape life, but so life doesn’t escape you. – Unknown

22. Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life – and travel – leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks – on your body or on your heart – are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt. – Anthony Bourdain

23. To see the world, things dangerous to come to. To see behind the walls, draw closer. To find each other. And to feel. That is the purpose of life. – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

24. To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. – Hans Christian Andersen

25. To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people just exist. – Oscar Wilde

26. though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.- ralph waldo emerson.

27. This is your planet. You really should come see it sometime. – G Adventures

28. there is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. and you ask “what if i fall” oh but my darling, what if you fly – erin hanson.

29. The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. – G.K. Chesterton

30. The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. – Albert Einstein

31 .the best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart. – helen keller.

32. Still round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate. – J. R. R. Tolkien

33. paris is always a good idea. – audrey hepburn, 34. own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. let your memory be your travel bag. – alexander solzhenitsyn, 35. our footprints always follow us on days when it’s been snowing. they always show us where we’ve been, but never where we’re going. – winnie the pooh, 36. 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..

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

38. nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation. – gayland anderson, 39. life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments and places that take our breath away – unknown, 40. 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, 41. if you are lucky enough to have lived in paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for paris is a movable feast. – hemingway, 42. if we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet. – anon, 43. i’m not lost, i’ve just temporarily lost sight of my destination. – unknown.

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

45. i love to travel, but hate to arrive. – albert einstein.

46. I am not the same having seen the moon shine from the other side of the world. – Mary Anne Radmacher

47. how is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world i never knew – ernesto che guevara., 48. experience, travel – these are as education in themselves. – euripides.

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

50. A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but its persistence. – Jim Watkins

51. 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, 52. 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, 53. travel is glamorous only in retrospect. – paul theroux.

54. Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, 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

55. to travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – aldous huxley, 56. the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. – marcel proust, 57. the first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it. – rudyard kipling, 58. not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves. – henry david thoreau.

59. 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

60. i have worn the dust of many foreign streets, but to brush it off would surely be a crime. i have the memories of many foreign adventures, but to forget them, would surely be a sin. so, breath in the dust, and keep the memories in. – rowland waring-flood.

61. 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.

62. adventure is a path. real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. the world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. in this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. this will change you. nothing will ever again be black-and-white. – mark jenkins, 63. a wise traveler never despises his own country. – carlo goldoni.

64. A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not why ships were built – John A. Shedd

65. Your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure. – Aldous Huxley

66. 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 colours. and the people there see you differently, too. coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. – terry pratchett, a hat full of sky, 67. when we get out of the glass bottle of our ego and when we escape like the squirrels in the cage of our personality and get into the forest again, we shall shiver with cold and fright. but things will happen to us so that we don’t know ourselves. cool, unlying life will rush in. – d. h. lawrence, 68. we travel initially to lose ourselves; and we travel next to find ourselves. we travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. we travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe where riches are differently dispersed. and we travel, in essence, to become young fools again – to slow time down and get taken in, and to fall in love once more. – pico iyer, why we travel, 69. we must not cease from exploration. and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we began and to know the place for the first time. – t. s. eliot.

70. 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

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

72. Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost

73. 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 harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain

74. trust me, it’s paradise. this is where the hungry come to feed. for mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven’t tried before. so never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. and if it hurts, you know what it’s probably worth it. – richard, ‘the beach’ (alex garland), 75. travelling 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, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. – cesare pavese, 76. 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, 77. travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. – seneca, 78. tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. – paul theroux, 79. too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation. – elizabeth drew, 80. to those who stay put, the world is but an imaginary place. but to the movers, the makers, and the shakers, the world is all around, an endless invitation. – unknown, 81. 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, 82. to awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. – freya stark, 83. there is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. – charles dudley warner.

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

85. the world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – st. augustine, 86. the use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are. – samuel johnson, 87. the journey, not the arrival matters. – t. s. eliot, 88. stuff your eyes with wonder,’ he said, ‘live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. see the world. it’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. – ray bradbury, 89. to travel is to live. – hans christian anderson, 90. so much of who we are is where we have been. – william langewiesche 91. somewhere on your journey don’t forget to turn around and enjoy the view. – unknown, 92. there are no shortcuts to any place worth going. – beverly sills, 93. 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, 94. people travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. – dagobert d. runes, 95. don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled. – mohammed, 96. our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. but no matter, the road is life. – jack kerouac, 97. one’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. – henry miller.

98. 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 99. Not all those who wander are lost. – J. R. R. Tolkien

100. no one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. – lin yutang, 101. never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life. – dolly parton, 102. man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. – andre gide..

103. Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. – Benjamin Disraeli

104. life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well-preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming, “wow what a ride” – hunter s. thompson, 105. blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures. – lovelle drachman., 106. if you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. – james michener, 107. i want to shake off the dust of this one-horse town. i want to explore the world. i want to watch tv in a different time zone. i want to visit strange, exotic malls. – homer simpson, 108. 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.

109. I am not born for one corner; the whole world is my native land. – Seneca

110. he who does not travel does not know the value of men. – moorish proverb, 111. travel is the only thing you can buy that makes you richer, 112. 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, 113. do not follow where the path may lead. go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. – ralph waldo emerson, 114. 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, 115. 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, 115. all journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. – martin buber.

116. A traveler without observation is a bird without wings. – Moslih Eddin Saadi

117. a journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. – lao tzu, 118. a journey is like marriage. the certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. – john steinbeck, 119. a journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. – tim cahill, 120. a good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. – lao tzu.

121. Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness. – Mark Twain

122. you will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. that is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. – miriam adeney.

123. 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

124. travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown. – gaby basora.

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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

Cant really travel due to the pandemic so ill just read travel quotes 🙂

Hi, there are some great quotes here, all make you stop and think – which is always a good thing! I think my favourite is ‘I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list’

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world :)) I saw it on profile on Worldee.com and its my favourite one!

That’s beautiful 🙂 Thanks for sharing Tomas

Yes, it’s really inspiring, but it’s a sad thing you can’t go anywhere at the moment…

Thanks Jenny 🙂 When borders open up again, we will be able to appreciate travel even more 🙂

You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. – Miriam Adeney

I love this a lot, thanks for sharing Love from Indonesia

This is so true. Thanks for sharing Adi 🙂

My favourite is Anderson’s “to travel is to live” . In a lack of travel opportunities sometimes i feel i just exist ,not live. Crying:'((((

Thank you for this post. I loved it. Reading the quotes made me reflect on the feelings and experiences of my travels and made me long for more 🙂

Thank you, Allison, it’s my pleasure. It’s so wonderful to hear that you enjoyed it. I get a tad emotional myself every time I look back through this post. It’s definitely one of my favourites 🙂

The Winnie the Pooh one was good. Clever little bear , isn’t he. ?

Thanks for the amazing post. Some made me laugh, some made me think but all of them makes me want to travel more.

Thanks Basil 🙂 Did you have a favourite?

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Most Inspirational Travel Quotes

Travel quotes are there to express the feeling you experienced while traveling. Combine the best travel quotes with the power of an image and instantly let people have a taste of your travel feelings. This collection of travel quotes is made to inspire and motivate you and others to pack your bags and go explore! Or simply to add as a travel caption under your brand new Instagram post or to pin to your Pinterest . Also read our adventure quotes to spark your wanderlust !

Top 50 Best Travel Quotes

1. “Jobs fill your pockets, adventures fill your soul.” 2. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” 3. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” 4. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”

5. “Travel is my therapy. ” – Travel Quote

6. “ In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take ” In 2017, we took an exciting and scary step. We decided to turn our travel blog from a hobby into our full-time job. We would’ve had so much regret if we didn’t take this opportunity. Now, each of these travel quotes fit the stories we’ve made.

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7. “My goal is to run out of pages in my passport.” 8. “Not all those who wander are lost.” 9. “Travel is an investment in yourself.”

10. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

11. “Life is short, and the world is wide.” 12. “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” 13. “The goal is to die with memories not dreams.” 14. “Sandy Toes sunkissed nose.”

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15. “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted. ”

16. “Travel. Your money will return. Your time won’t.” 17. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” 18. “Collect Moments, Not Things.” 19. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.”

20. “Adventures are the best way to learn.”

21. “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.” 22. “We have nothing to lose and a world to see.” 23. “We don’t need objects; we need adventures.” 24. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”

25. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Popular Travel Quote

26. “Of all the books in the world. The best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” 27. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat.” 28. “Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell.” 29. “I love places that make you realize how tiny you and your problems are.”

30. “Have stories to tell not stuff to show. ”

31. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” 32. “At the end of the day your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” 33. “Don’t let fear get in the way of the life you are meant to live.” 34. “I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.”

35. “Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time. ”

36. “Always take the scenic road.” 37. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” 38. “Go where you feel most alive.”

39. “I want to make memories all over the world” Every destination you’ll visit leaves its own unique memory. Our travels through Sri Lanka , Myanmar , or Petra in Jordan already give us goosebumps. As this travel quote says: Make memories all over the world!

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40. “Travel is the healthiest addiction ”

40. “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” 41. “Happiness is planning a trip with the ones that you love.” 43. “I don’t know where I’m going but I’m going. Are you coming with me?” 44. “Let’s get lost.”

45. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams”

46. “Beach please.” 47. “Don’t call it a dream. Call it a plan.” 48. “Don’t be that person who is too busy when you are young and then too tired when you are old.” 49. “Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn.”

50. “Ocean air, salty hair.”

Wanderlust Travel Quotes

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65 Inspiring & Uplifting Travel Alone Quotes for Solo Travel

When you’re on the road solo or planning to travel alone, quotes can help to inspire and uplift you. These 65 beautiful solo travel quotes from literature, pop culture and history make the perfect solo travel captions for social media.

You only need to search the internet to see there are millions of inspirational quotes about travelling out there. Solo travel quotes have a special ingredient – not only can they ignite wanderlust and stoke passion for the great unknown, they have the added benefit of giving strength and courage to a solo traveller who is facing the world alone.

Solo travel is a life-changing experience . As with all travel, it’s often difficult to find the right words to describe your trip, or to convey how travel has altered your life once you get back home.

To give your confidence and boost and help you share your solo travel experience with the world, I’ve curated this epic list of 65 meaningful and insightful travel alone quotes.

Copy and paste them for your next social media update, or send them to a friend who’s planning their solo trip. However you choose to use these solo travel quotes, they are guaranteed to inspire and delight!

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Short and sweet solo travel quotes

Short travel alone quotes are perfect for social media, including solo travel announcements (that exciting moment when you make your trip official!), or your first travel solo travel update from the road.

These popular and not-so-famous quotations beautifully capture what it’s like to travel alone, with only yourself for company.

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.”

– Freya Stark

“I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.”

– Storm Jameson

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

– Hannah Arendt

“A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.”

– Isabelle Eberhardt

“I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”

– Mary Anne Radmacher

“The journey of life is amazingly beautiful if you take it as a fearless adventure.”

– Debasish Mridha

“When a thing beckons you to explore it without telling you why or how, this is not a red herring; it’s a map.”

– Gina Greenlee

“Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.”

– John Mayer

“Some journeys can be only travelled alone!”

– Ken Poirot

“If you make friends with yourself you will never be alone.”

– Maxwell Maltz

“Keep good company – that is, go to the Louvre.”

– Paul Cezanne

“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.”

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

– Henry David Thoreau

“There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.”

– Mandy Hale

“You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.”

– Diane Von Furstenberg

“Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.”

“I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.”

– Daphne Du Maurier

“Always choose the window seat. We often forget there’s magic of flying. But what it brings to our lives is undeniably the stuff of dreams.”

– Timi Nadela

“Sometimes the best journeys are those, that start when we do not plan, continue how we do not expect and are taking us places we do not know.”

– Aisha Mirza

“Life is a journey with almost limitless detours.”

“The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.”

– Paul Theroux

“I used to be a pedestrian before, now I am the rider on the same road.”

– Piyush Paudyal

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

– Anaïs Nin

Motivational quotes for planning a solo trip

When you’re planning to visit a new country or a foreign city by yourself for the first time, the hardest part can be finding the inner courage to pack your backpack and make your solo travel dreams a reality.

These travel alone quotes speak to the very heart of solo travel – the push and pull between indecision , wanting to do the right thing while also finding freedom and empowering yourself to spread your wings.

You may feel nervous – that’s totally normal – but have faith that a well-planned solo journey is almost always a step in the right direction.

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.”

– Erol Ozan

“This is the journey of your life. Don’t try to explain it to others, because only you can see it.”

– Nitin Namdeo

“It is pointless to embark on any journey if you do not believe yourself worthy of the destination.”

– Anthon St. Maarten

“To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”

– Elizabeth Gilbert

“Forget about the fast lane. If you really want to fly, just harness your power to your passion.”

– Oprah Winfrey

“Adventure should be part of everyone’s life. It is the whole difference between being fully alive and just existing.”

– Holly Morris

“A ship is safe in the harbour, but that’s not what ships are built for.”

– Gael Attal

“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 harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”

– Mark Twain

Poetic quotes about solo travel

These longer solo travel quotes are nothing short of art.

“Everywhere you go, you shall find dramatic splendour and awe because your majestic soul is part of the vivid whole, and nothing about you is ignoble.”

– Kilroy J. Oldster

“The goal of my life is to tie adventure to my feet, stock memories in my pocket, hold imagination in my palms like fairy dust and sprinkle it on my tales.”

– Mitali Meelan

“It seemed an advantage to be travelling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others… “Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion’s questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.” 

– Alain de Botton

“I am of course lost in this journey I’m on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. So call me a fool, but I’m happy to be lost.”

– Micheline Jean Louis

“It’s not getting from A to B. It’s not the beginning or the destination that counts. It’s the ride in between…This train is alive with things that should be seen and heard. It’s a living, breathing something – you just have to want to learn its rhythm.”

– David Baldacci

“To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown.”

Solo female travel quotes

Solo female travel is becoming more and more popular. I’ve done a few solo trips in recent years, and it never ceases to amaze me how different my travel experience is when I’m alone rather than with my partner or friends.

These quotations capture the independent spirit of solo female travellers.

“Good girls go to heaven, bad girls go everywhere.”

“When a woman becomes her own best friend life is easier.”

“Looking in the mirror, I saw a joyful face. And this happy girl was just about to go on a trip, with a one way ticket in her bag. Life was a never ending journey.”

– Nico J. Genes

“She remembered who she was and the game changed.”

– Lalah Delia

Quotes that prove solo travel makes you stronger

Solo travel often starts with taking a leap of faith. If it’s your first solo trip, you must actively work on believing in yourself and trusting your instincts.

Sometimes in travel (and in life), the only certainty is uncertainty. Things won’t always be easy, things wont’ always go to plan. Barriers and hurdles are almost guaranteed – but these experiences are likely to make you stronger and more resilient.

These travel alone quotes are all about testing your limits.

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

– Neale Donald Walsch

“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

“Life shrinks or expands in proportion with one’s courage.”

“It is in all of us to defy expectations, to go into the world and to be brave, and to want, to need, to hunger for adventures. To embrace the chance and risk so that we may breathe and know what it is to be free.”

– Mae Chevrette

“Do not stop thinking of life as an adventure. You have no security unless you can live bravely, excitingly, imaginatively, unless you can choose a challenge instead of a competence.”

– Eleanor Roosevelt

“On the path to greatness, life teaches you to walk with stones in your shoes.”

– Matshona Dhliwayo

“Life is a journey with big rocks to climb, little ones to trip over, and milestones to mark where we have been.”

– David Cuschieri

Quotations that prove solo travel changes your perspective

I’ve never met anyone who decided to solo travel and came back the same person. Travel changes you – that’s undeniable – and often travel alone can shape you in ways you never could have anticipated.

One of the greatest lessons travel can teach you is to be humble. Travel helps you find your place in the world. A solo trip can give you the tools you need to tackle all of life’s adventures – and misadventures, too.

These solo travel quotes refer to self-discovery, breaking through your comfort zone, and seeing travel as a motif for the journey of life.

“A person susceptible to ‘Wanderlust’ is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation.”

– Pico Iyer

“Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.”

– Grace Lichtenstein

“I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.”

– Pablo Holmberg

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

– Marty Rubin

“Climb the mountain so you can see the world, not so the world can see you.”

– David McCullough Jr.

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

– Gustav Flaubert

“The best trip is the journey you take in finding yourself.”

– Angela Vallely

“Mapmaking: You’re on the path and have already begun to morph – so has the road. The journey has chosen you. The only way out is forward and through.”

– Helen S. Rosenau

Remember, your trip might start out as a solo adventure but it might not end that way! It’s the bonds you form along the way that often make travel truly memorable.

For more inspiration, check out these beautiful quotes about travelling with friends .

“Traveling solo does not always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvellous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.”

– Jacqueline Boone

Coming home: Solo travel quotes to mark the end of a journey

All good journeys must come to an end! It feels like just yesterday friends and family were wishing you a safe journey , and now it’s time to go back to the people you love.

These quotes sum up the bittersweet feeling of coming home after a solo trip.

“It’s a long ride home with nothing but me for company. I bore myself sometimes. Not often. Just now and again.”

– A.J. Hartley & David Hewson

“It’s amazing how many different roads we can take, but they all lead home.”

– Jewel E. Ann

“Some journeys take you farther from where you come from, but closer to where you belong.”

– Ron Franscell

“The real work of an expedition begins when you return.”

– Louise Arner Boyd

“This life is an enduring and complex journey, but finally I have reached the point in my story where I am appreciative of where I’ve been, proud of where I am, and excited about where I have yet to go.”

– Becca Lee

“I, too, once journeyed beyond the stars.”

– Elizabeth Lim

“Maybe happy endings were real, as long as you understood that they weren’t endings, but steps on the road.”

– Katharine McGee

“When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement. I was the bridegroom, taking the world into my arms.

When it is over, I don’t want to wonder if I have made of my life something particular, and real. I don’t want to find myself sighing and frightened, or full of argument.

I don’t want to end up simply having visited this world.”

– Mary Oliver

That’s a wrap! I hope these 65 travel alone quotes have made you see solo travel in a new light, or perhaps motivated you to take the leap into solo travel.

Do you have any more inspiring quotes to share? I’d love to hear them in the comments below!

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Wonderful quotes for solo travellers. The solo female traveller quotes are also interesting.

This quotes make people strong to take decision and travel alone. Thanks for sharing such types of motivating quotes.

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Beautiful quotes. I love them all. Thanks for sharing.

These quotes will definitely encourage anyone to go for solo travelling. Everyone will be inspired by these. Thank you.

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60 Inspirational Short Travel Quotes

By: Author Tim Kroeger

Posted on Published: April 30, 2020  - Last updated: September 15, 2023

Do you have go-to getaway quotes that bring inspiration and motivation to travel and to be free? Here are short travel quotes to add to your collection.

Short travel quotes look good on a frame at your office, as a bumper sticker on your car, or even as a permanent tattoo on your skin.

These travel getaway quotes efficiently tell a story of a life lived outside one’s comfort zone.

It speaks of adventures, misadventures, and lessons learned along the way.

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Short Travel Quotes

Do you have good travel slogans that you live by?

Are there motivational quotes about travel and learning that have proven to be true in your life?

There are many cute short quotes and sayings about traveling, taking a break, and exploring the world that is truly inspirational.

Here are short travel quotes that will make you want to pack your bags and have an awesome adventure.

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

– Neale Donald Walsch

2. “The biggest risk in life, is not taking one”

– Barfi

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

– John A. Shedd

4. “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 – where you go.”

– Anthony Bourdain

5. “Jobs fill your pocket, Adventures fill your soul”

– Jaime Lyn Beatty

6. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well. ”

– Eugene Fodor

7. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”

– Anonymous

8. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.”

– Asian Proverb

9. “My favorite thing to do is go where I’ve never been”

– Annonymous

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

– Seneca

11. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.”

– Robert Louis Stevenson

12. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.”

– Mary Anne Radmacher

“14. When was the last time you did something for the first time?

– John C. Maxwell

15. “Every exit is an entry somewhere else.”

– Tom Stoppard

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

– Gustave Flaubert

17. “Work, travel, save, repeat.”

18. “A hangover suggests a great night, jet lag suggests a great adventure.”

– J.D. Andrews

19. “To Live will be an awfully big adventure”

– Peter Pan

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

– Andre Gide

21. “Yesterday, I believe I never would have done what I did today”

– David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

22. “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself”

– Wallace Stevens

23. “If it scares you ,it may be a good thing to try”

– Seth Godin

24. “If you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: It’s lethal.”

– Paulo Coelho.

25. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.”

– Chuck Thompson

26. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself”

– David Mitchell

27. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”

– Aldous Huxley

28. “The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have.”

– Anna Quindlen

29. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.”

– Peter Hoeg

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

– Clint Borgen

More Inspirational Short Travel Quotes

Short travel phrases and inspirational vacation quotes perfectly encapsulate every explorer’s zest for a life on the road.

These groups of words add depth to every photograph and drama to every story told.

Can’t get enough of short but sweet quotes about life through the eyes of a traveler?

Here are more inspirational short travel quotes perfect for every wanderer out there.

31. “Not all those who wander are lost.”

– J.R.R. Tolkien.

32. “The world is big and I want to get a good look at it before it gets dark.”

– John Muir

33. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.”

– Sir Richard Burton

34. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.”

– Freya Stark

36. “Some people are so poor, all they have is money”

– Patrick Meagher

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

– Frank Tyger.

38. “Life offers you a thousand chances… all you have to do is take one.”

– Frances Mayes, Under the Tuscan Sun

39. “Collect Moments, Not Things.”

– Aarti Khurana

40. “He who would travel happily must travel light.”

– Antoine de St. Exupery

41. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.”

– Helen Keller

42. “You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.”

– Dr. Seuss

43. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”

– Susan Sontag.

44. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.”

– Anais Nin

45. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.”

– Tim Cahill

46. “The journey not the arrival matters.”

– T.S. Eliot

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

– James Michener

48. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.”

– Roy M. Goodman

49. “Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.”

– Thomas Fuller

50. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.”

– Herman Melville

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

– Shirley MacLaine

52. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”

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

– Irving Wallace

54. “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.”

– Simon Raven

55. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.”

– Stephen Covey

56. “To travel is to live.”

– Hans Christian Andersen

57. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.”

– Chief Seattle

58. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.”

– John Steinbeck

59. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.”

– Babs Hoffman

60. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.”

– Melody Truong

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50 Best Travel Alone Quotes to Embrace Your Adventure Solo

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These travel alone quotes express all the joys and advantages of solo travel. While taking a trip with your friends or family can be fun, traveling alone offers its own perks: planning your own schedule, visiting all of the places you’re interested in, and, most importantly, getting to know yourself better.

Whether you’re looking for travel inspiration or a way to sum up your trip, this collection of traveling alone quotes has something for every solo traveler, including short solo travel quotes, solo female travel quotes , and solo travel funny quotes.

Short quotes on traveling alone

Solo travel funny quotes, inspirational solo travelling quotes, solo female travel quotes.

Take the time to read through all these lone traveller quotes so you can find your favorites and save them for the next time you’re planning a solo trip or reminiscing about your last adventure .

These short and sweet solo trip quotes are just what you need for a quick burst of inspiration.

1. “When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted by himself.” – Liberty Hyde Bailey

This solo journey quote sums up one of the biggest advantages of traveling alone: getting to know yourself better!

2. “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” – Daphne du Maurier

While traveling with others can be quite enjoyable, solo travel can allow you to really appreciate the places you visit and the experiences you have, as this love to travel alone quote reminds us.

3. “Adventure can be an end in itself. Self-discovery is the secret ingredient.” – Grace Lichtenstein

As this vacation alone quote suggests, finding out more about yourself is one of the most important parts of going on an adventure. That’s why traveling alone can be so rewarding.

4. “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” – Anonymous

As this solo trip quote points out, it can be hard to find a compatible travel partner. It’s better to plan an amazing trip and travel alone than to be stuck with someone you don’t mesh well with.

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

This traveling solo quote reminds us to live life to the fullest and make every day an adventure if we can.

6. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

I love how this quote about traveling alone puts a positive spin on being alone in an unfamiliar place, something many people might find scary or intimidating.

7. “Traveling alone makes it easier to be yourself.” – Charles Bukowski

When you’re a solo traveler, there’s no one you have to show off to or change your personality for. Being alone means you can just be yourself.

8. “A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.” – Isabelle Eberhardt

This lonely traveller quote is a poetic way of expressing a lifetime commitment to travel and adventure. The nomadic lifestyle isn’t for everyone, but those who love it embrace it wholeheartedly.

9. “Half the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury

If you’re a solo traveler who gets lost often, this traveling by yourself quote is the one for you! Getting lost doesn’t have to be a bad thing; it can lead to even more fun and exciting adventures.

10. “If you are waiting for someone to travel with you, you may end up waiting a lifetime.” – Unknown

This short solo travel quote sums up one of the most basic reasons for traveling alone: there’s no need to navigate scheduling conflicts! Traveling solo means you can start your trip tomorrow if you want to.

11. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

This solo adventure quote works for just about any person who loves traveling. If you love to travel as much as we do, then you’ll probably agree that traveling is an absolutely priceless experience.

12. “The inner journey of travel is intensified by solitude.” – Paul Theroux

This solo journey quote shows that any trip involves an internal journey as much as a physical one. Being a solo traveler will, of course, make that internal journey more intense.

13. “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson

I love this vacation alone quote because I think it’s so accurate: traveling alone does give you, by necessity, the chance to be more introspective and think about your trip.

14. “You must go on adventures alone to find out where you belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice

As this solo travel quote suggests, self-discovery is a significant part of traveling alone.

15. “Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” – John Mayer

This lonely traveler quote shows that solo travel may be intimidating, but it could also turn out to be one of the best things you ever do. Why not give it a chance and see how you like it?

As these funny solo travel quotes show, there’s humor to be found in just about every situation, including traveling alone.

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

This witty solo female travel quote is perfect for all the solo travelers just trying to satisfy their wanderlust.

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

This famous quote about traveling alone captures the excitement and anticipation of planning where to go next.

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

No matter how far you travel, you’ll always end up encountering yourself. Hopefully, you’re happy with the self you meet!

19. “I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.” – Bob Hope

As this funny quote about traveling alone points out, your luggage ends up traveling to quite a few places with you. If you check your bags, they’ll even go to places you haven’t been!

20. “A hotel room all to myself is my idea of a good time.” – Chelsea Handler

There’s nothing quite like cozying up in a luxurious hotel room bed with some room service, and this quote about solo travel sums up that feeling pretty nicely .

The best solo travel quotes will help you develop an appreciation for traveling alone and maybe even inspire you to start planning your next adventure. Check out these inspirational quotes about traveling alone for even more trip-planning motivation.

21. “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

This traveling alone quote is a good reminder that there are some journeys we just have to take by ourselves. Whether you take this quote literally and plan a solo trip, or as a metaphor about living life, these are undeniably words of wisdom.

22. “Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.” – Wendell Berry

This solo traveller quote points out that our journey of discovering the world is a personal one. Fortunately, the more we discover about the world, the less we feel alone.

23. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.” – Henry David Thoreau

One huge benefit of traveling alone is that the only person whose schedule you have to worry about is yours! Take advantage of this freedom so you can go on your trip sooner rather than later.

24. “I’m never happier than when I’m alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson

As this vacation alone quote suggests, if you enjoy getting lost in the crowd, then traveling alone is a great option.

25. “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” – Mandy Hale

This solo trip quote reminds us that sometimes solitude is a necessity. Make the most of your time alone and try to appreciate the advantages of solo travel.

26. “I have traveled many roads in my life. Some were imbued with pain and I needed to avert my gaze. Others were so beautiful that I would have remained there forever. But always, at some point in these routes, I reached a place where I encountered myself.” – Pablo Holmberg

This traveling alone quote offers a beautiful metaphor for thinking about life. Every road we travel, whether literal or symbolic, offers some way of finding out more about ourselves.

27. “When you’re traveling with someone else, you share each discovery, but when you are alone, you have to carry each experience with you like a secret, something you have to write on your heart, because there’s no other way to preserve it.” – Shauna Niequist

This solo adventure quote provides a lovely way of looking at the memories you make when you travel alone.

28. “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

This famous quote about traveling alone is a fantastic reminder that we should try to live life with no regrets. Trying to fulfill as many of our dreams as possible can help ensure that we don’t end up disappointed by what we haven’t done.

29. “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

I love this quote for traveling alone by the legendary Anthony Bourdain. It sums up the beauty and power of travel so perfectly.

30. “Loneliness adds beauty to life. It puts a special burn on sunsets and makes night air smell better.” – Henry Rollins

As this travel solo quote points out, traveling alone means you’re not distracted by other people, so you can focus on and truly enjoy the beauty around you.

31. “It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially molded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others.” – Alain de Botton

As this traveling by yourself quote shows, when we travel with other people, we can be influenced by their opinions and impressions of the places we go. On the other hand, when we travel alone, we have the chance to see a place on our own terms.

32. “The goal of my life is to tie adventure to my feet, stock memories in my pocket, hold imagination in my palms like fairy dust and sprinkle it on my tales.” – Mitali Meelan

What’s the use of going on an adventure if you don’t have any good memories and stories to bring back with you? As this traveling alone quote reminds us, adventures can live on forever in our memories.

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

This very famous quote about traveling alone is so popular because a book is such an apt metaphor for explaining why traveling is so important.

34. “Some journeys can only be traveled alone!” – Ken Poirot

This traveling solo quote cuts right to the chase: sometimes traveling alone really is best!

35. “The treasured vistas of our solo journeys are not always about the landscape.” – Gina Greenlee

Sometimes, your favorite part of a trip might not have anything to do with what you see. Instead, you might appreciate something totally intangible and personal .

Solo female travelers often have more to deal with and think about than other travelers, which can make traveling alone seem scary and even dangerous. If you’ve been thinking about traveling alone as a woman, these strong woman travel alone quotes will definitely inspire you to live out your dreams.

36. “Traveling alone doesn’t always mean you’re alone. Most often, you meet marvelous people along the way and make connections that last a lifetime.” – Jacqueline Boone

This solo traveling quote makes a great point that traveling alone can actually be a good way to make new friends. Being by yourself means you’ll seek out new connections and get to meet people from all over the world.

37. “Never did the world make a queen of a girl who hides in houses and dreams without traveling.” – Roman Payne

This traveling alone as a woman quote points out that history’s most famous women have never been the ones who stayed at home and dreamed without putting those dreams into action.

38. “Solo travel not only pushes you out of your comfort zone; it also pushes you out of the zone of others’ expectations.” – Suzy Strutner

As this solo travel quote suggests, traveling alone allows you to find freedom from others’ expectations and, instead, live life on your own terms.

39. “Good girls go to heaven; bad girls go everywhere.” – Mae West

This witty quote about solo female travel makes the perfect caption for photos of a trip around the world.

40. “My spirit gets nourished in faraway places. Sometimes I wonder if it’s a biological need, perhaps a biological flaw, that compels me to seek the excitement and challenge that comes of being in a place where nobody knows me.” – Rita Golden Gelman

This quote for traveling alone will probably speak to all of the solo travelers out there who are full of wanderlust, especially since it expresses the spiritual fulfillment that can come from exploring far and wide.

41. “You are the one that possesses the keys to your being. You carry the passport to your own happiness.” – Diane von Furstenberg

I love this strong woman travel alone quote because it emphasizes how responsible you are for your own happiness. Ultimately, you’re the one who knows yourself best, so why not take yourself where you’re happiest?

42. “The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.” – Albert Einstein

This solo female traveler quote points out that going off the beaten path can be a good thing. Take a risk and dare to go where no one else has ever gone.

43. “As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.” – Virginia Woolf

This female solo travel quote is a lovely way of saying that solo female travelers can find a home just about anywhere in the world.

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

Travel involves a lot of beautiful, magical experiences, some of which are so profound that they change our lives forever. These experiences could include everything from seeing the moon or watching the sun rise to looking out over a spectacular landscape.

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

As this solo adventure quote suggests, being alone in a foreign country allows you to escape every part of your everyday life and make the most out of living.

46. “I’m not afraid of storms, for I’m learning how to sail my ship.” – Mary Louise Alcott

It can be tempting to panic when something goes wrong while you’re traveling. However, as this vacation alone quote shows, mistakes and mishaps can be the best way to learn and become even more confident.

47. “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

The unknown can often be frightening, but this solo journey quote expresses the excitement and anticipation that can also come with not knowing what will happen next. In other words, sit back and enjoy the ride!

48. “One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are.” – Edith Wharton

This travelling alone quote really speaks to me because, like Edith Wharton, I think there are so many amazing people you can meet all over the world. Fortunately, solo travel is the perfect opportunity to meet at least a few of them.

49. “I am of course lost in this journey I’m on, but I do remain confident, though I am lost it will be a great adventure, this adventure will surpass my wildest imagination. So call me a fool, but I’m happy to be lost.” – Micheline Jean Louis

As this lonely traveler quote points out, there can be beauty and excitement in getting lost. It’s all part of the adventure!

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

This lovely quote about traveling alone has a great message: that we have so much in common with our fellow humans around the world. Even if we come from different backgrounds or countries, there will always be something we can share.

I hope these solo trip quotes sparked your wanderlust and inspired you to embark on a solo adventure! They’re also a great way to reflect on any past trips you’ve had.

Let me know in the comments which quote is your favorite (or maybe you have more than one!). If you need even more inspiration, check out these top 100 travel quotes .

Happy solo traveling!

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75 Quotes About Family Travel To Cherish The Memories!

Family travel can be stressful . It doesn’t matter if you are the parent or the child , there are plenty of ways it could go wrong. After all, you don’t always have the same interests and lifestyle. There is nothing worse than having one bad family vacation and having everyone not willing to go to another one. However, there are many good  benefits of family travel . Whether that is bonding with some of the dearest people in your life or just exploring somewhere new together, family travel isn’t always so bad. That is why we have written this post on the 70 best quotes about family travel, so you can be inspired to travel with your family and cherish the precious memories . You will also find some excellent travel with kids quotes!

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Our Favorite Traveling With Family Quotes

These are our 10 favorite traveling with family quotes. Not only do these resonate with us, but they are also very insightful and inspirational !

1. “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino

2. “Sometimes you will never know the value of a moment until it becomes a memory.” – Dr. Seuss

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

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

5. “Don’t count the days. Make the days count.” – Muhammad Ali.

6. “In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them.” – Kevin Heath

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

8. “There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.” – Dave Willis

9. “Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” – Charles R Swindoll

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

Short Family Trip Quotes

Short family trip quotes are perfect if you don’t want to have long captions that might sound a little too cheesy. They are perfect for every occasion!

1. “I have learned that to be with those I like is enough.” – Walt Whitman

2. “When all else fails, take a vacation.” – Betty Williams

3. “Here’s to a vacation of no regrets!” – Joan Rylen

4. “A family that travels together stays together.”

5. “Adventure awaits.”

6. “Having kids is a reason to travel, never a reason to stop.”

7. “Travel to unravel.” – Richie Norton

8. “To travel is to live. Life’s a trip.” – Richie Norton

9. “Kids don’t remember their best day of television.”

10. “No road is long with good company.”

Funny Quotes About Family Travel

Nothing is easier to remember than humor ! Use one of these funny quotes about family travel to remember those loving memories.

1. “I don’t want to go to Peru.” How do you know? You’ve never been there.” I’ve never been to hell either and I’m pretty sure I don’t want to go there.” – Richard Paul Evans, The Sunflower (2005)

2. “There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.” – Robert Benchley

3. “Are we there yet?”

4. “That’s why I love road trips, dude. It’s like doing something without actually doing anything.” – John Green, An Abundance of Katherines (2006)

5. “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” – Tom Lichtenheld

6. “My favorite childhood memory is my parents paying for my holidays.”

7. “Education is important but travel is importanter!”

8. “I need Vitamin Sea.”

9. “No WiFi out here, but I found a better connection.”

10. “Now is the time to seas the day.”

Inspirational Family Vacation Quotes

Sometimes family travel isn’t all glamorous. In fact, it probably isn’t most of the time. That doesn’t mean you shouldn’t travel! Take in some of these inspirational family vacation quotes and push yourself to do what needs to be done!

1. “Deciding not to travel with kids because they won’t remember, is like not reading them books because they won’t remember the stories you read them.”

2. “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

3. “In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!” – Mehmet Murat ildan”

4. “You can learn many things from children. How much patience you have, for instance.” – Franklin P. Jones

5. “The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences.” – Mark Paterson

6. “Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” – Aristotle

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

8. “Live in this belief: “I am not born for any one corner of the universe; this whole world is my country.” – Seneca, Letters from a Stoic

9. “At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict, or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, a parent.” – Barbara Bush

10. “Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.” – Euripides

Happy Family Travel Quotes

Cherish those special memories of your vacation using one of our favorite happy family travel quotes! 

1. “Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” – George Burns

2. “Happiness [is] only real when shared.” – Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

3. “Happiness is planning a trip to somewhere new, with someone you love.”

4. “Suntans and sandcastles.”

5. “I live to explore the world with the people I love the most.”

6. “This is my road. I’m so happy you came and traveled with me.” – Rachel Hartman, Tess of the Road (2018)

7. “Joy is portable, bring it with you.”

8. “What’s your favorite place?” “I don’t have a favorite place. I have my favorite people. And, whenever I’m with my favorite people, it becomes my favorite place.”

9. “Oh, the places you’ll go” – Dr. Seuss

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

Profound Travel Quotes With Family

Family travel is more than what you see on the surface. Our profound travel quotes with family will you understand why this is such an incredible experience !

1. “Not all classrooms have 4 walls.”

2. “Adventures are the best ways to learn.”

3. “Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.” – Harvey Lloyd

4. “Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” – Francis Bacon

5. “Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best.” – Bob Talbert

6. “Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them.”

7. “Where you live shapes how you see the whole world, but when you see the world it shapes how you see yourself.” – Richie Norton

8. “Traveling is like going to the library! The more you travel, the more you will feel as if reading books!” – Mehmet Murat ildan

9. “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children and roots and wings.” – Hodding Carter

10. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” – Paulo Coelho

Simple Family Adventure Quotes

Simple family adventure quotes are the best captions for remembering your family vacation memories. Easy and simple , they are perfect for social media !

1. “There is no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.”

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

3. “Adventures are the best gift you could ever give to kids.”

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

5. “If you don’t try new things, you stay stupid.” – Alexander Watson

6. “Life is too short to not go on that spontaneous road trip.”

7. “People forget the years and remember moments” – Ann Beattie

8. “Some roads aren’t meant to be traveled alone.”

9. “The journey, not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot

10. “Always say yes to family travel!” 

Bonus Family Outing Quotes!

Did you think we were done? Here are 5 bonus family outing quotes that will help you describe that special bonding time on your family vacations!

1. “We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth, and to tell our stories. These are the moments when the world is made whole. In my children’s memories, the adventures we’ve had together in nature will always exist.” – Richard Louv, Last Child in the Woods: Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder

2. “Of all the paths you take in life, make sure a few of them are dirt.” – John Muir

3. “There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” – Walt Streightiff

4. “It is never too early to begin exploring the world.”

5. “Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag.” – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

How Do You Caption a Family Trip?

Captioning a family trip can be both fun and memorable, allowing you to express the joy and experiences of the journey. Selecting the perfect caption for your family trip photos can be difficult, but we recommend you to select a quote that evokes emotions.

Look for the following characteristics in the quotes:

• Something that emphasizes the significance of shared experiences in strengthening familial bonds
• Something that encapsulates the essence of a family vacation, focusing on love and happiness as the core of a memorable trip
• Something that is humorous and reflects the chaos and fun of traveling with children
• Something that captures the excitement and anticipation of a family trip
• Something that emphasizes the joy of creating lasting memories together

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• 100 Best Quotes About Family Travel to Inspire You

Traveling with family can be challenging, but family trips are also an opportunity to create the best things in life:  perfect moments.  There will never be perfect parents or perfect children, but you will find plenty of perfect moments when traveling together!  These moments might be as simple as sharing a laugh over a meal or as memorable as exploring a new city together.  The value of a moment is often not realized until it’s gone, so make sure to savor these perfect moments with your family.

I hope this article inspires you to plan your next family travel adventure and create some of the best things in life with your loved ones!

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Traveling is always an adventure, and so many quotes capture the spirit of adventure.  Some of these quotes emphasize the excitement and uncertainty of travel, while others focus on the sense of discovery and newness that these journeys can bring.

• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
• “There is no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this.” – Unknown
• “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
• “The danger of adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort.” – Angelina Jolie
• “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine.  It’s lethal.” – Paulo Coelho
• “Adventure is out there!” – Carl Frederickson, Disney’s UP
• “The best way to teach your kids about the world is to show them.  Adventure travel is a great way to do that.” – Unknown

Family vacations are a great way to create memories that will last a lifetime.  I’m in my fifties and still have vivid memories of family vacations from my childhood.  Disney, Florida, Washington DC, and that summer my parents rented a beach house on Lake Michigan .

Family vacations are also a chance to bond with your family and learn more about each other by getting out of your routine.  These quotes all suggest that family vacations are more than just a trip.  They are an opportunity to create memories, learn, and grow together.

Here are a few quotes about family vacations that capture the joy and importance of these experiences:

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• “A family vacation is a good time to bond and make memories that last a lifetime.” – Steve Harvey
• “A vacation is like love – anticipated with pleasure, experienced with discomfort, and remembered with nostalgia.” – Samuel Johnson
• “A family vacation is like a journey through time – it takes you back to your childhood and makes new memories for the future.” – Oprah Winfrey
• “A family vacation is a time for rejoicing, for letting go of the responsibilities of daily life, and for being with the people you love.” – Barbara Eden
• “Vacations with family are a time to create lasting memories, to laugh, and to simply be together.” – John Wooden
• “Vacations with family are the perfect opportunity to reconnect and rediscover the things that truly matter in life.” – Steve Maraboli
• 7.“Going on a family vacation is like taking a trip down memory lane – it’s a chance to make new memories and revisit old ones.” – Maya Angelou
• “A family vacation is an investment in love and happiness, one that pays dividends for a lifetime.” – Joel Osteen
• “Going on a family vacation is like taking a deep breath – it’s a chance to relax and recharge.” – Jim Rohn
• “Vacations with family are like a musical symphony – they’re a harmony of laughter, love, and memories.” – Zig Ziglar
• “Vacations with family are the perfect escape from the stress of everyday life and a time to create new bonds and strengthen old ones.” – Tony Robbins
• “A family vacation is a time to create memories that will last a lifetime, and to laugh, play and simply be together.” – Richard Branson
• “Vacations with family are like a treasure hunt – they’re a journey filled with discoveries, laughter, and unforgettable experiences.” – Oprah Winfrey

Traveling with your family is a chance to bond with your loved ones and learn more about each other.  For example, I know my brother struggled with carsickness throughout his childhood.  This experience helped me understand how to deal with my own son when he had serious carsickness issues on our family trip from Michigan to Florida.  I not only remembered how my mom helped my brother, but I wasn’t surprised to find it ran in the family.

Here are a few quotes about traveling with your family that capture the joy and importance of these experiences:

• “A family that travels together stays together.” – Paul Theroux
• “The best thing about traveling with family is that you will always have a built-in best friend.” – Samantha Brown
• “Traveling with family is a joy.  It’s about sharing experiences together, making memories, and creating bonds that last a lifetime.” – Rick Steves
• “Traveling with family is a great way to bond, learn about new cultures and make memories that will last a lifetime.” – Anthony Bourdain
• “Traveling with family is a journey that broadens the mind, deepens the bonds, and strengthens the spirit.” – Jostein Gaarder
• “Family travel is like a story – it has its twists and turns, but in the end, it’s a tale of love, laughter, and memories.” – Nicholas Sparks
• “Traveling with family is a journey that creates memories that last a lifetime.” – Robert J. Sawyers

Family vacations can be a lot of fun, but they can also be a lot of work.  There’s always the possibility of something going wrong, and that’s where the humor comes in.  That family vacation to Florida I mentioned earlier brought a bunch of catastrophes, only one of which was when my brother’s two front teeth broke off when a gust of wind caught the van’s back door and unexpectedly slammed it into his face.  Yikes!  Talk about putting a damper on a family vacation.

Of course, now we look back at this trip with a little humor around the whole situation, but at the moment, it was anything but funny.  Here are a few funny quotes about family vacations that capture the joy, the chaos, and the absurdity of these experiences:

• “Going on a family vacation is like jumping into a pool of chaos with a side of fun.” – Jimmy Fallon
• “A family that laughs together stays together.” – George Santayana, Spanish-American philosopher
• “Traveling with kids is a reason to travel, never a reason to stop.” – Unknown
• “Vacations with family are like a rollercoaster ride – they’re full of ups and downs, but they’re always an adventure.” – Tina Fey
• “A family vacation is a test of endurance, not a test of love.” – Erma Bombeck
• “Vacations with family are like trying to solve a Rubik’s cube while wearing oven mitts.” – Jim Gaffigan
• “Vacations with family are like playing with fire – they’re dangerous, but they’re worth it.” – Ellen DeGeneres
• “Traveling with kids is like taking a road trip with a clown car full of drunk monkeys.” – Unknown
• “Family vacations are like prison.  You get to see the same people every day, and you’re all stuck in a small space together.” – Unknown
• “The best way to keep your kids from fighting is to separate them by at least 5,000 miles.” – Unknown
• “Vacations with kids are like a game of whack-a-mole – just when you think you have a moment of peace, something pops up.” – Michael Scott
• “The only thing worse than being stuck on a long car ride with your kids is being stuck on a long car ride with your kids’ kids.” – Unknown
• “Traveling with kids is like being in a circus.  There’s always someone screaming, someone throwing up, and someone trying to run away.” – Unknown
• “Vacations with family are like a marathon – they’re challenging, but you’ll be proud of yourself for finishing.” – Trevor Noah
• “Going on vacation with family is like trying to solve a mystery – you never know what kind of surprises you’ll uncover.” – John Oliver
• “Family vacations are like a puzzle – all the pieces have to fit together just right, or it just won’t work.” – Louis C.K.
• “And 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

Family road trips are a great way to create memories unique to your family dynamic.  They are also a chance to learn fun facts about each other, like who can sing the loudest in the car, who is most likely to throw up in the backseat, and who can sleep through just about anything in the car.

On a family trip to Florida, I learned how little my three sons cared about the details of their clothing when they all came out of their shared room wearing each other’s outfits.  And let me tell ya – no one was the same size in our group, so the site of them wearing mismatched and off-sized clothing will stick with me forever!

Family road trips allow us to create memories, learn, and grow together, or at least learn how to tolerate each other for long periods.  If you are looking for inspiration for your next family road trip, I encourage you to read these quotes and consider the possibilities, like the possibility of never wanting to go on another one again.

• “A family road trip is the ultimate adventure, but it’s also a journey of discovery, both of the world and of each other.” – Rick Steves
• “Some roads aren’t meant to be traveled alone.” – Unknown
• “A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” – Tom Lichtenheld
• “The open road is a symbol of freedom, and a family road trip is the ultimate test of togetherness.” – Anthony Bourdain
• “Life is too short to not go on that spontaneous road trip.” – Unknown
• “The family road trip is an American classic, a rite of passage, a journey to who knows where and why, exactly, but it’s all good.” – Michael Paterniti
• “A family road trip is a journey of discovery, both of the world and of each other.  It’s a chance to bond, learn, and make memories.” – Phil Dunphy from TV Show Modern Family
• “No road is long with good company.” – George Eliot, English novelist
• “A family road trip is a journey to the heart of what matters most – each other.” – Paul Theroux

Family travel memories are some of the most cherished memories we have.  They are the moments we look back on and smile, the moments that make us feel connected to our loved ones, and the moments that remind us of the simple joy of life.

I remember the old 8-track player that pumped out Roger Miller tunes on some of our road trips when I was a kid.  Roger Miller is on my playlist today just because of that memory.  Family travel memories are more than just about the destination.  They are about the journey, the people you are with, and the experiences you share.  They are the memories that make us who we are.

So next time you can travel with your family, make the most of it.  Slow down, savor the moments, and create memories that will last a lifetime.

• “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” – Trenton Lee Stewart
• “Having kids is a reason to travel, never a reason to stop.” – Unknown
• “The journey, not the arrival, matters.” – T.S. Eliot
• “In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them; they will remember the time you spent with them. – Kevin Heath
• “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
• “Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children.” – Charles R. Swindoll
• “Kids don’t remember their best day of television.” – Unknown
• “Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” – Francis Bacon
• “Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt
• “When you travel with your children, you are giving them something that can never be taken away… experience, exposure, and a way of life.” – Pamela T. Chandler
• “The best way to learn about a culture is to experience it firsthand.” – Unknown
• “Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” – Hodding Carter
• “There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child.  There are seven million.” – Walt Streightiff
• “The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories.” – Og Mandino
• “We have such a brief opportunity to pass on to our children our love for this Earth and to tell our stories.  These are the moments when the world is made whole.  In my children’s memories, the adventures we’ve had together in nature will always exist.” – Richard Louv
• “The memories made on a family road trip last a lifetime.  It’s about creating shared experiences and bonding over the journey.” – Samantha Brown

Making memories with your kids is one of the most important things you can do as a parent.  These memories will shape who they are as people and give them something to look back on fondly for years to come.  They will also provide you with something to look back on when your kids are all grown and have flown the nest, and you miss them with an unrelenting fierceness.

Here are a few quotes about making memories with your kids that capture the importance of these experiences:

• “Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings.  These memories will never be forgotten by your children.” [sic] – Ezra Taft Benson
• “Adventures are the best gift you could ever give to kids.” – Walt Disney, American entrepreneur
• “The best way to educate your children is to take them traveling.” – Ellen Burstyn
• “The best way to learn about your children is to travel with them.” – John Steinbeck, American novelist
• “Traveling with kids is like taking your sanity on vacation.” – Unknown
• “When you travel with kids, you get to see the world through their eyes.” – Unknown
• “The best education a child can get is traveling.” – Erik Erikson
• “The only thing worse than traveling with kids is not traveling with kids.”  – Unknown
• “The best education a child can get is travel.  It’s a passport to understanding the world and other cultures, languages, and ways of life.  It’s a journey of discovery that can last a lifetime.” – Anita Roddick

Not every family trip includes mom, dad, and 2.5 kiddos.  Family trips can include generations and extended family.  Our family trips often had an extra neighbor kid or two as my kids grew.  These trips allow you to see outside your routine and your own four walls.  They also provide the chance to learn about other people’s routines and habits.  Learning how other people function outside of your core family’s comfort is another bonus of traveling with people who don’t live under your roof.

• “Going on a trip with family is like a symphony – each member contributes their own unique melody to create a harmonious whole.” – Lisa See
• “Going on a trip with family is a time to forget about the everyday stresses of life and to simply enjoy each other’s company.” – Susan Wiggs
• “Going on a trip with family is a journey filled with discovery, adventure, and a lifetime of memories.” – Neil Gaiman
• “A family trip is a journey of discovery, a chance to experience new things and create memories that will last forever.” – David Mamet
• “A family that travels together stays together.” – Anita Brookner, English novelist
• “The world is a beautiful place, and there is no better time to experience it than with your family.” – Unknown
• “A family trip is the perfect escape from the daily grind, a chance to create new memories and strengthen bonds.” – Rachel Naomi Remen
• “Taking a trip with family is a journey of laughter, love, and memories, where each member adds their own unique contribution.” – Douglas Coupland
• “Going on a trip with family is a journey of making memories, experiencing new things, and simply enjoying each other’s company.” – Lena Dunham

Traveling the world with your family is truly a unique and amazing experience.  World travel offers an opportunity to see new places, learn about different cultures, and bond as a family through discussion and experience.

I spent time in Japan as an exchange student when I was young.  A cultural nuance in Japan is that eating soup is done with a loud slurp.  My parents came to visit while I lived there, and I’ll never forget the look on my dad’s face when I picked up my soup bowl and gave it a big ole slurp!  I had no idea how that little detail would affect him.  At home in the good ole US, I had been taught to eat soup quietly and with a spoon.  Picking up a bowl, using chopsticks, and slurping were all new to him!

This moment is a lifelong memory for both of us, and we have had many conversations about that moment over the years!  Here are a few quotes about traveling the world with your family that capture the joy and importance of these experiences:

• “Traveling with your family is the best way to learn about each other and the world around us.” – Unknown
• “The world is a beautiful place, and there is no better way to experience it than by traveling with your loved ones.” – Unknown
• “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
• “The world is a dangerous place, but not as dangerous as living without adventure.” – Mark Twain
• “Travel makes one modest.  You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
• “Traveling is the art of getting lost.” – Paul Theroux
• “Travel is a great way to meet new people and make friends from all over the world.” – Samantha Brown

Traveling with family can be a challenging experience, but it is almost always rewarding!  Traveling together gives us a chance to see new places, learn about different cultures and bond as a family.

And vacation doesn’t have to be flashy or expensive.  Whether you are looking for a short weekend getaway or a longer holiday, family travel has endless possibilities.  You can visit a new city, explore the great outdoors, or even stay in your backyard.  No matter where you go, make the most of your time together and create memories that will last a lifetime.

Here are some bonus tips for when you plan your family trip!

Plan ahead: This will help you avoid stress and make the most of your time together.

Be flexible: Things don’t always go according to plan, so be prepared to adjust your itinerary.

Make time for each other: Traveling can be hectic, so make sure to set aside some time to relax and connect as a family.

Have fun!  Family travel is about making memories, so enjoy the journey, and don’t forget to laugh.

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A practical guide to travel in Egypt, from tipping culture to independent touring

From packing tips to advice on haggling, here’s everything you need to know while planning your trip.

Whether you want to sail down the Nile on a felucca, explore ancient temples, browse the museums of Cairo or go trekking in Sinai, there are a few things to bear in mind when planning your trip to Egypt. Here’s what to be aware of when it comes to visas, tipping, guides and more.

Do I need a visa?

Almost all travellers, including visitors from the UK and the EU, need a visa to travel to Egypt. While it’s possible to get a visa on arrival, it saves time at the airport if you apply online in advance. A single-entry tourist visa costs US$25 (£20). If you plan to stay in the resort towns in Sinai for fewer than 15 days, you do not need a visa. Instead, you receive a ‘permission stamp’ in your passport when you land at Sharm el-Sheikh International Airport. While this option is a money saver, the list of places you’re permitted to visit is quite limited — even Ras Mohamed National Park at the southern tip of Sinai is off limits without the full visa.

What should I pack?

Egypt is a majority Muslim country, so it’s respectful for travellers to dress modestly. For all genders, this means covering everything between your shoulders and knees. You will likely be asked to cover up more if you visit a mosque or church.

The tap water is not safe to drink here so bring a water bottle with a filter, such as those from Lifestraw .

Wi-fi ranges from infuriatingly slow to nonexistent across the country, even at five-star hotels. Get mobile data through your service provider at home or buy an Egyptian SIM card when you land at the airport.

Can I pay by card in Egypt?

Cash reigns supreme but you can use a card at some higher-end hotels and restaurants. Take some Egyptian pounds out of a cash machine when you arrive, but be mindful of the fluctuating exchange rate and don’t take more out than you need. For bigger expenses, consider bringing US dollars, the most — and sometimes only — accepted foreign currency.

Tipping, called baksheesh, infiltrates almost every interaction you’ll have. It’s customary to tip nearly everyone you come in contact with, even for services you don’t want or require. Keep small change on hand for toilet attendants, porters, mosque caretakers and guards at temples and tombs.

Should I join a tour or travel independently?

Egypt has been a package-tour destination since the days of Thomas Cook, who first led a group to Egypt in 1869. The country is well set up for tour groups, and many first-time visitors find this option easiest, with guides and transport logistics arranged for you. Egypt’s historic sites have little signage, making a tour guide a necessity for deeper understanding.

Nile cruises generally run between Luxor and Aswan in both directions, but a few make the long journey from Cairo. Trains, planes and buses connect cities along the Nile, and buses or internal flights can take you to the Red Sea coast.

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Choose your own adventure: Where to go and how to save on summer vacations

Revenge travel is so last year.

“It's not necessarily about just getting out of the house anymore,” said Sydney Stanback, Global Insights and Trends lead at Pinterest, which has seen more than 1 billion travel searches and more than 10 billion travel saves over the past year. 

Sure, many of the usual suspects are once again among the most popular destinations across multiple search engines this year, but she said this summer, “It's more so about traveling with intention.” 

According to NerdWallet’s Summer 2024 Travel Report , 45% of Americans plan to take a trip requiring a hotel stay or flight this summer with expenses averaging just under $3,600. A fifth of those travelers expect to go into debt to pay for vacations.

Here’s what to consider when booking a summer trip, including where to go, when to travel and how to save:

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What is the best place to travel in summer? 

The answer is subjective, especially this summer.

“Everyone's kind of choosing their own adventure based off of what their needs are for travel,” Stanback said. 

Pinterest’s Summer 2024 Travel Report found summer travelers are most interested in adventure, exploring mysterious or uncharted destinations, and rest. Searches for “quiet life” jumped 530%, but that doesn’t mean the same thing to everyone.

“My mother actually just took a yoga retreat to Panama,” Stanback said. “That's what she needed to do in order to get the rest that she needed and the well-being that she needed. But for me, when I think of rest and restoration, I simply think about going to a beach spa and just sitting and being by myself.”

Solo travel remains popular. Solo travel searches reached an all-time high in Google in January, but again, not for everyone.

“For Gen Z specifically, that need is to gather and reconnect with their community because they were in isolation for so long and during very meaningful moments in their lives,” Stanback said. She noted group travel and road trips are of keen interest to Gen Z.

“It's not necessarily about traveling and going out and going to restaurants and going to bars and clubs,” she added. “We actually see that a lot with younger generations. They’re kind of stepping away from that and really considering their well-being when they're taking time off.”

Where do most tourists go in summer?

Expedia’s Summer Outlook and Google Flights identified the same cities among their most searched summer 2024 destinations based on flights, though rankings varied by platform.

Top 5 domestic destinations 

◾ Orlando, Florida

◾ Los Angeles

◾ Las Vegas

Top 5 international destinations

◾ Cancun, Mexico

◾ Paris, host of the Summer Olympics

Allianz Partners found slightly different results in their analysis of “more than six million flight itineraries for trips between five and eight days in length for travel booked between Memorial Day weekend and Labor Day.”

Instead of LA and Vegas, Allianz named Boston and Honolulu among this summer’s top five domestic destinations. Internationally, San Jose del Cabo, Mexico; Oranjestad, Aruba; and Punta Cana, Dominican Republic, made Allianz’s top five, instead of Rome, Paris and Tokyo.

“I am expecting crowds to rival last summer's in popular overseas cities,” Expedia’s travel expert Melanie Fish said, noting how places like Barcelona and Venice are trying to curb overtourism. “They're trying fees and if that's not enough, they're going to have to go even further.”

How can I save on a trip?

Summer trips are already costly for many travelers. “Americans with household income under $100,000 accounted for nearly half (46%) of intended leisure travel spend in summer 2023,” according to Deloitte’s Facing travel’s future report from April.

Expedia’s Fish shared five tips for booking summer 2024 vacations:

◾ Bundle your trip. Booking airfare and a hotel at the same time can earn you deep discounts.

◾ Travel midweek or later in the summer if it's an option. You'll save money and save yourself from fighting crowds. 

• ◾ Fly early in the day … The early bird who takes the first flight of the day will typically get a better price and a lower chance of delays and cancellations. ◾ Book once, earn twice. You can stack rewards from your travel credit card (and) your airline.◾ Just go. Don't pressure yourself to create the trip of a lifetime … Do it in a bite-sized chunk if possible. 

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How far ahead should I book travel?

“The sweet spot is now,” Fish said. “We're within that 21- to 60-day pre-travel window to save around 15% on airfare, so now is the time to plan. That means ready, set, but maybe wait until August to actually go.”

She said travelers can save an average of $250 on international flights if they wait until the peak summer travel season passes. 

“It's 15% cheaper on average to fly domestically in August versus June, 30% cheaper to fly to Europe in late summer, and 55% cheaper to fly to Mexico and the Caribbean in August,” she said. “Of course, August is peak hurricane season , so that has something to do with that price dip.”

High school journalists published a pro-Hitler quote heard on campus. This is what happened next

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The student newspaper at C.K. McClatchy High School in Sacramento published a list late last month of anonymous quotes dubbed “some of the weirdest stuff” heard on campus.

The listicle included odd but innocuous lines like: “My hamster ate its babies last night,” overheard in a hallway. And, “Please, stop licking my armpits,” heard in a history class.

Then there was this: “Hitler’s got some good ideas” — a line purportedly overheard in a government class.

The decision by student editors at the newspaper, the Prospector, to publish the remark has sparked a debate about cavalier antisemitism on campus and the rights of the press — including the student press — to publish offensive speech.

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In an email to families Sunday night, Principal Andrea Egan called the quote “deeply offensive” and said she promptly met with the journalism students to discuss “the importance of exercising good judgment in their editorial decision-making.”

“Please know that I am navigating this to the best of my ability within student publications’ laws governing free speech,” Egan wrote. “Nothing is more important to me than the wellness of the students and staff who come to our schoolhouse daily.”

Brian Heap, a spokesman for the Sacramento City Unified School District, said in a statement that the remark, allegedly overheard in a classroom, was not reported to a teacher or administrator prior to publication.

It was published as part of a listicle titled “What Did You Say?”

The introduction to the list of nine quotes read: “Have you ever heard something while walking in the school hallways and thought, ‘That is the strangest and weirdest thing I have ever heard in my life’? Well, we asked you to share with us some of the weirdest stuff you’ve heard. Here are some of our favorites.”

In an email to The Times, Samantha Archuleta, the faculty advisor for the journalism program, emphasized that the Prospector’s staff is composed of “14-17 year olds learning to navigate journalism.”

“All choices — topics, writing, editing, publishing — are made by students, so there will be inevitable errors,” Archuleta wrote. But she stressed that their right to publish is protected by California law and the 1st Amendment.

“Yes, our ‘explainer’ was too simplistic and unsophisticated, given the sensitivity of the quote, and we’ve discussed this error as a staff and addressed how to avoid it in the future,” she wrote. “But to be clear, the offending quote was from a student on campus, not a Prospector journalist — the Prospector was merely reporting what the student said.”

In a statement on the Prospector’s website, the student journalists said their intent was for the listicle to “expose things that are said on campus that are inappropriate at different levels.”

“While some quotations may be innocuous or even funny, none of them were meant to be seen as light-hearted, celebrated, or condoned. Instead, we hope to hold up a mirror to our richly diverse community and expose the things we and others on campus overhear daily,” the statement reads.

The statement said the Hitler comment was made by a student who was speaking among friends and was not part of a classroom discussion.

“We do believe that addressing the quotes has sparked a much-needed conversation, but the situation has escalated into something we did not intend. ... It’s deeply concerning that these remarks are being said on campus without proper action from staff,” the statement reads.

The controversy at McClatchy High School comes at a volatile time, with protests over the Israel-Hamas war roiling university campuses nationwide and student journalists providing some of the most detailed, up-to-the-minute coverage of the unrest.

At UCLA last week, four student journalists who work for the Daily Bruin were attacked — sprayed with Mace and pummeled — by pro-Israeli counterdemonstrators who violently clashed with pro-Palestinian demonstrators in an encampment on campus.

The decision by the Prospector staff to publish the quote also comes amid a surge in antisemitism on school campuses — as well as a rise in vandalism at synagogues and Jewish stores, restaurants and institutions. There also has been a rise in Islamophobia and anti-Muslim sentiment and attacks nationwide.

Jay Schenirer, president of Congregation B’Nai Israel, a synagogue in the same neighborhood as McClatchy High School, told The Times that children and teenagers in his congregation were hurting and scared because of the rhetoric at their schools and that they were taking the publication of the pro-Hitler quote seriously.

It was particularly alarming, he said, that the quote was published in a list of seemingly lighthearted quotes.

“It’s hard to imagine anyone would find this funny,” said Schenirer, a former Sacramento City Council member whose adult children attended McClatchy.

On Sunday, he said, some 70 people attended a meeting at Congregation B’Nai Israel to discuss the incident, antisemitism at local schools, and how to make sure students feel safe.

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They composed a list of recommendations for schools, including: designating an adult to whom students can report incidents of antisemitism; “provide administrators with additional education about free speech and where is the line, when it is crossed, and how to deal with it”; and standardizing high school ethnic studies curriculum throughout the district.

Schenirer said he had spoken multiple times with Principal Egan since the student newspaper’s publication of the offensive quote.

“We need to take this seriously,” he said. “We can’t stand by on the sidelines. We need to be very proactive about this.”

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Mother’s Day gift ideas for a travel-loving mom

Find a gift she’ll love for her next adventure.

By Caroline McDonald

Mother’s Day is quickly approaching. If your mom loves to travel, she is probably itching to go on a trip or two this spring and summer. While it may be too expensive to fund her entire vacation, travel accessories are far more affordable and versatile.

To help you make your mom’s travel dreams a reality, here are a few fun gift ideas.

Travel accessories for mom

Hoxis oversize vegan leather tote bag.

This $36 stylish leather tote on Amazon is lightweight and durable, and it comes in ten different colors. According to Travel + Leisure , the bag works as an effective carry-on item that “can be taken from the airplane to a day of shopping (and even to the poolside) with ease.”

Riemot Luggage Caddy

For the mom who likes to fly, this luggage caddy from Amazon is incredibly convenient. Only $14, the caddy fits right over the handles of your suitcase and boasts three pockets, functioning as a cup holder and as a place to put your wallet, phone, or passport. The caddy is washable and adjustable, and comes in a variety of colors.

National Parks Pass

With spring and summer comes warmer weather and an abundance of opportunities to explore the outdoors. This $80 National Parks Pass includes entry into all of the national parks in the United States for an entire year — over 2,000 sites.

Travel books for mom

‘salt to the sea’.

In “Salt to the Sea”, Ruth Sepetys gives the gripping fictional account of four refugees who lived during World War II. Seeking freedom and healing, they board the ill-fated Wilhelm Gustloff, where their paths converge. Buy the paperback for $7.68 on Amazon .

‘Pride and Prejudice’

Jane Austen’s beloved classic tells the story of Elizabeth Bennet, a young woman living in 18th-century England. When she meets the aloof Mr. Darcy, the two of them must overcome both pride and prejudice on their journey toward love. The Penguin Classics version of the book can be found on Amazon for as low as $5.59.

‘Eat, Pray, Love’

This bestselling novel chronicles the life of a woman who, after a difficult divorce, traveled the world to find joy and purpose. Find it on Amazon for $10.75.

‘All the Light We Cannot See’

Before its Netflix adaptation, the novel “All the Light We Cannot See” enjoyed worldwide success and even won a Pulitzer Prize. Author Anthony Doerr spins the tale of a blind French girl who, in the throes of World War II, escapes the Nazis by fleeing to Saint-Malo. You can buy the paperback on Amazon for $12.64.

Trips for mom

Visit a national park.

Still brainstorming? Why not invest in an inexpensive getaway? Get outside and enjoy the warmer weather by spending time with mom in a beautiful national park. Here is a list of national parks from the National Park Service .

Visit a theme park

Need more of an adrenaline rush? Theme parks are a great option. Travel Channel provides a guide to 40 of the best amusement parks.

Visit a beach

A third trip mom is bound to enjoy is a summer beach excursion. Here are the best beaches in the U.S., according to U.S News & World Report .