{"id":91,"date":"2013-10-08T04:05:06","date_gmt":"2013-10-08T04:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?page_id=91"},"modified":"2024-12-23T17:54:13","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T17:54:13","slug":"inspiration","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/globaladventurestravel.com\/?page_id=91","title":{"rendered":"Inspiration"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/strong><\/p>\n

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. ~ Aldous Huxley<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

So much of who we are is where we have been. ~ William Langewiesche<\/strong><\/p>\n

I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. ~ Robert Louis Stevenson<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember and remember more than I have seen. ~ Benjamin Disraeli<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

It doesn’t matter how old you get; buying snacks for a road trip should always look like an unsupervised nine-year-old was given $100. ~ Lisa Nafana<\/strong><\/p>\n

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. ~ Henry Miller<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. ~\u00a0James A. Michener<\/strong><\/p>\n

The whole purpose of travel is to return home and discover what your house actually smells like. ~ Alex Baze<\/strong><\/p>\n

If you have someone that you think is The One…[t]ake that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world, and go to places that are hard to go to and hard to get out of. And if when you come back to JFK, when you land in JFK, and you\u2019re still in love with that person, get married at the airport. ~ Bill Murray<\/strong><\/p>\n

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn\u2019t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe\u00a0harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. ~ Mark Twain<\/strong><\/p>\n

Travel makes a wise man better and a fool worse.\u00a0 ~ Thomas Fuller\"CruelestJourney\"<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Kira Salak kayaked 600 miles down the Niger River to Timbuktu, encountering a modern-day slave trade, friendly children, and intense beauty. Her book The Cruelest Journey<\/em> details her experiences. An amazing read.<\/p>\n

Not all who wander are lost. ~ J. R. R. Tolkien<\/strong><\/p>\n

A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for. ~ John A. Shedd<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. ~\u00a0Mary Anne Radmacher Hershey<\/strong><\/p>\n

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~\u00a0Saint Augustine <\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"Long<\/a><\/strong>Ewan McGregor and his friend Charlie Boorman write about their motorcycle ride from London to New York in Long Way Round<\/em>. They covered 20,000 miles in four months. They were chased by paparazzi in Kazakhstan, courted by men with very large guns in the Ukraine, hassled by the police, and given bulls’ testicles for supper by Mongolian nomads.<\/p>\n

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. ~ Lin Yutang<\/strong><\/p>\n

I have found out that there ain\u2019t no surer way to find out whether you like\u00a0people or hate them than to travel with them. ~ Mark Twain<\/strong><\/p>\n

Two roads diverged in a wood and I \u2013 I took the one less traveled by. ~ Robert Frost<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\u00a0understand each other, we may even become friends. ~ Maya Angelou\"In<\/a><\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Bill Bryson is a native of Des Moines but has lived most of his life in Britain. His travel journals are loved around the world for their\u00a0humor and humility. I love his report on Australia, In a Sunburned Country<\/em>. His descriptions of the hot weather, friendly residents, and deadly wildlife were the perfect introduction to my trip to Australia in 2009.<\/p>\n

And that’s the wonderful thing about family travel:\u00a0 it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.\u00a0 ~ Dave Barry<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The Diary of a Young Girl: The Definitive Edition<\/em> helped complete my visit to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. I read the original diary in school, but read this edition on\u00a0my flight to Europe.\u00a0The book helped me envisage the how terrifying\u00a0Anne’s two years\u00a0 in the attic were.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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