Before We Leave

Totally irrelavant photo but it just makes me smile anyway.

Here are some thoughts by other thinkers about tavel and why to bother:

'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

'Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accouts.  Braod, wholesome, cahritable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.'

Mark Twain

'All travel has its advatages.  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

'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

'A traveller without observation is like a bird without wings.'

Moslih Eddin Saadi

'Embrace the detours.'

Kevin Charbonneau

'Not bound to swear allegiance to any master, wherever the wind takes me I travel as a visitor. Drop the question of what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day Fate allows you.

Horace

'Time spent laughing is time spent with the gods.'

Japanese proverb

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

St Augustine

'We live in a world 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

'Do not follow where the path may lead.  Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.'

Ralph Waldo Emerson

'Travel and change of place impart new vigour to the mind.'

Seneca

'Bizzare travel plans are dancing lessons from God.'

Kurt Vonnegut

'I haven't been everywhere but it's on my list.'

Susan Sonntag.

'Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled.'

Mohammed

'The traveller sees what he sees.  The tourist sees what he has come to see.'

G K Chesterton

'All that is gold does not glitter; not all those who wander are lost.

Tolkein

'Decide how you want to feel and go wherever it takes to feel that way.'

Andy Hayes

'Laugh a lot and when you are older all your wrikles will be in the right places.'

Anon

'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