I was happy in Dublin because it is very cosmopolitan..

A young ballplayer looks on his first spring training trip as a stage struck young woman regards the theater..

I have no connections here; only gusty collisions, rootless seedlings forced into bloom, that collapse. ... I am the Visiting Poet: a real unicorn, a….

Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.

Australia is about as far away as you can get. I like that..

How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before th….

The tourist may complain of other tourists; but he would be lost without them. He may find them in his way, taking up the best seats in the motors, a….

it is not every tourist who bubbles over with mirth, and that unquenchable spirit of humor which turns a trial into a blessing..

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

We do not associate the idea of antiquity with the ocean, nor wonder how it looked a thousand years ago, as we do of the land, for it was equally wil….

The modern airplane creates a new geographical dimension. A navigable ocean of air blankets the whole surface of the globe. There are no distant plac….

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

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

Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits..

Travel spins us round in two ways at once: It shows us the sights and values and issues that we might ordinarily ignore; but it also, and more deeply….

We travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate..

No one has really heard my side of the story, the adventure we had together, the transformation that I had going from a schoolgirl to a woman overnig….

Rain is my lover, my apple strudel. / It haunts my heels like a pedigreed poodle. / Beyond the seas or across the nation, / It follows me faithful on….

Being in love was like China: you knew it was there, and no doubt it was very interesting, and some people went there, but I never would..

There's a race of men that don't fit in, A race that can't sit still; So they break the hearts of kith and kin, And they roam the world at will. They….

My ideal travel companions are my family..