25 TRAVEL QUOTES

In 2015, a group of four women calling themselves, “The Coxless Crew,” set out to row across the Pacific Ocean from America to Australia. By themselves. Unaided. For 8,446 miles. A documentary called, “Losing Sight of Shore,” was created to immortalize their adventure. The tagline of their journey was, “Everyone has their own Pacific to cross,” which immediately made me wonder, “What’s my Pacific?” Food for thought. Check out their documentary here!

I love this quote so much. It’s simple, to the point, and it comes from one of my favorite movies. I feel like, deep down, Pirates of the Caribbean is one of every traveler’s favorite movies, right?

It’s easy to fall into a thought-trap when planning a big change in your life. To look at the current life you’re living and think, “Well, I’ve been working here for years. It’s too late to do something I’ve always wanted to do, like quit my job to travel the world.” Sometimes, all it takes is little bravery and a, “F*ck it,” to make that change.

It’s easy to get feeling like the master of your world when that world only exists within a 30-mile radius. I’ve definitely been guilty of that. It becomes easy to navigate on autopilot, and that’s when you let interesting people or new experiences pass you by. As soon as you set foot in another country, the simplest thing becomes an adventure. Dangerous, even. Going to a grocery store where no one spoke English made my heart race more than any roller coaster I’ve been on. Now, go learn just how tiny you really are.

When backpacking long-term, your travels rarely end up the way you expect. Finding a neat coffee shop could derail your daily itinerary. Meeting a cool group of friends can convince you to stay on an island in Thailand for an extra month. If you give yourself the flexibility, your travels will be full of these secret destinations you never accounted for.

I met a kind, but quiet, German fellow in my hostel in Cambridge. In our talks, he mentioned how he rarely takes public transit. He said that when you walk, you slow down. You observe more. And, after a day or two of gettin lost in a new city, you feel as if you know it. This is one of my favorite travel quotes and I immediately adopted his way of thinking. My feet didn’t thank me. 

This is one of my favorite travel quotes from the OG vagabond, Rolf Potts. He wrote the book, Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel. which is one of the best travel books out there. This quote is the quintessential thing I tell my friends when they ask what I did on a daily basis. “Walk.” Eventually, you’ll meet someone or find something that interests you.

This is the absolute truth. I’ve met plenty of travelers who are on the road for a particular purpose. It’s one thing to set out with an end goal in mind, but it’s another thing entirely to set out in pursuit of the journey itself. I would go even further to say that the journey IS the experience. 

This isn’t specifically a travel quote, but it’s an excerpt from one of my favorite books of all time, The Alchemist. It basically is telling you that if you have a dream, you can’t wait for it to just fall in your lap. You have to do something to move towards that goal. Anything. The act of doing will present you with opportunities to move yourself even closer towards achieving what you want.

This is one of my favorite travel quotes because it’s the one that’s hit me the hardest. I didn’t know how difficult it would be to come home, especially when my trip around the world ended so abruptly. It took a long time to get used to being back home. To get used to living in a house and having privacy. But being home and having time to think has given me, it’s a burning desire to get back on the road and the confidence that I can live literally anywhere. If that sounds like something you want, then you need to go for it. Trust me.