"Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything." Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt

"If traveling was a drug I'd sell it by the gram." - Unknown

"He who binds to himself a joy Does the winged life destroy; But he who kisses the joy as it flies Lives in eternity's sun rise." William Blake

"It does not matter if we cannot keep what we find - at least we once held it and hopefully gained from the experience before it slipped away. Enjoy the temporary for nothing lasts."

"i'm on my way
don't know where i'm going
i'm on my way
takin my time but i don't know where"
~Paul Simon, Me and Julio Down by the Schoolyard

“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

This is my favorite...

"As viagens são os viajantes. O que vemos não é o que vemos, senão o que somos".
(Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see, but what we are.)
Fernando Pessoa

I just picked up The Towers of Trebizond (Rose Macaulay, 1956), and I am planning on loving this novel just for the opening line:

"'Take my camel, dear,' said my aunt Dot, as she climbed down from this animal on her return from High Mass."

"There are no events but thoughts and the heart's hard turning, the heart's slow learning where to love and whom. The rest is merely gossip, and tales for other times."

-Annie Dillard

love this thread, i'm a huge quote nerd. the first quote that comes to mind is:

"getting lost is not a waste of time" from a jack johnson song.

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry & narrow mindedness. Broad, wholesome, charirtable views cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth."
- Mark Twain

And in case anyone questions your desire to travel....
"He who jumps into the void, owes no explanation to those who stand and watch"
- Jean Luc Godard