Our travels make memories, which we store as treasures to relive again and again. -- Christina "Tina" Lynn Arldt Reynolds Born December 31, 1962 [Thursday, November 18, 1999; when her sister began a career in the travel industry.] Happy memories never wear out ... relive them as often as you want -- Anonymous Nothing is so awesomely unfamiliar as the familiar that discloses itself at the end of a journey. -- Cynthia Ozick Being away from home gave me a chance to look at myself with a jaundiced eye. -- Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis How are you going to keep them down on the farm, after they've seen the farm? -- Anonymous What you get by reaching your destination isn't nearly as important as what you become by reaching your destination. -- Anonymous We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. -- Robert Lewis (later: Louis) Balfour Stevenson November 13, 1850 - December 1894 British writer, essayist, poet, novelist Treasure Island Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. -- Leigh Hunt You don't have to travel around the world to understand that the sky is blue everywhere. -- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe 1749-1832 The best thing about traveling is going home. -- Charles Dudley Warner May you always find new roads to travel, new places to go, new memories to call your own. -- Michael Pishner Born October 17 Favorite Quote We believe a travel agent is: A knowledgeable guide, An experienced traveler, An invaluable resource, A fulfiller of dreams. -- Carnival Cruise Lines Who travels for love, finds a thousand miles not longer than one. -- Japanese Proverb A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. -- Lao Tzu 570-490 B.C. What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do, especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. -- William Least Heat Moon, Blue Highways Here today, up and off somewhere else tomorrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! -- Kenneth Grahame 1859-1932 Mr. Toad in The Wind in the Willows [1908] Travel far and wide and learn much from each place you visit. -- Wayne Carpenter Born March 14th Ordinary Virtues Up Nolan Creek The Belton Journal [November 19, 1998] A traveler must have the back of an ass to bear all, a tongue like the tail of a dog to flatter all, the mouth of a hog to eat what is set before him, the ear of a merchant to hear all and say nothing. -- Thomas Nashe 1567-1601 A man's feet should be planted in his country, but his eyes should survey the world. -- George Santayana 1863-1952 If you look like your passport photo, you're too ill to travel. -- Will Kommen 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 Travel has a way of stretching the mind. The stretch comes not from travel's immediate rewards, the inevitable myriad new sights, smells and sounds, but with the experiencing firsthand how others do differently what we have believed to be the right and only way. -- Ralph Crawshaw It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. -- Robert Lewis (later: Louis) Balfour Stevenson November 13, 1850 - December 1894 British writer, essayist, poet, novelist It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. -- Henry Ward Beecher June 24, 1813-1887 American Clergyman, abolitionist Famed as an orator of anti-slavery and woman suffrage. Traveling can be broadening, especially if you are on a cruise ship with all meals prepaid. 'Tis fine to see the Old World, and travel up and down Among the famous palaces and cities of renown, To admire the crumbly castles and the statues of the kings But now I think I've had enough of antiquated things. So it's home again, and home again, America for me! -- Henry Van Dyke Oh, it's home again, and home again, America for me! To the blessed Land of Room Enough beyond the ocean bars, Where the air is full of sunlight, and the flag is full of stars. -- Ronald W. Reagan Born February 6, 1911 40th United States President (1981-1989) Quoting Henry Van Dyke The trouble in corporate America is that too many people with too much power live in a box (their home), then travel the same road every day to another box (their office). -- "The Popcorn Report" Faith Popcorn 1991 One of the best things in life is road trips with friends. The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. -- St. Augustine Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. He that travelleth into a country before he hath some entrance into the language, goeth to school, and not to travel. -- Sir Francis Bacon 1561-1626 English philosopher, essayist, statesman I've learned that motel mattresses are better on the side away from the phone. --Age 50 Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803-1882 It is better to follow even the shadow of the best, than to remain content with the worst, and those who would see wonderful things must often be ready to travel alone. -- Henry Van Dyke The Other Wise Man Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone. -- The Dhammapada Before you land, know thy destination. The North Pole is like an ocean frozen in time where you can see the solid waves across the horizon. The land looks like a fairy tale. -- Ronals Amundsen First man to reach the South Pole [1911] Anywhere is walking distance if you've got the time. -- Steven Wright Destinations are like clothing. They go in and out of fashion. Periods of growth may be followed by periods of decline, which are sometimes never reversed. After a destination becomes fashionable, it becomes popular. The adventurous early visitors are followed by a mass of tourists. Some destinations, like denim jeans, manage to retain their popularity. Others, like hem-lines, rise and fall cyclically. Still others disappear seemingly forever, like starched collars. Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination. -- Roy Goodman How many roads must a man travel down before he admits he is lost? -- Bumper Sticker Just because you are lost does not mean your compass is broken. -- The Edge, Movie Own only what you can carry with you; know language, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. -- Alexander Solzhenitsyn Drive slow and enjoy the scenery -- drive fast and join the scenery. -- Doug Horton The really happy man is the one who can enjoy the scenery when he has to take a detour. Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage. -- Herman Melville Moby Dick Love is an inexpressible bounty of adventure represented by four simple letters. All adventures, especially into new territory, are scary. -- Sally Ride The big question is whether you are going to be able to say a hearty yes to your adventure. -- Joseph Campbell Adventure is worthwhile in itself. -- Amelia Earhart Pilot Adventure isn't hanging on a rope off the side of a mountain. Adventure is an attitude that we must apply to the day to day obstacles of life -- facing new challenges, seizing new opportunities, testing our resources against the unknown and in the process, discovering our own unique potential. -- John Amatt Organizer and participant in Canada's first successful expedition to Summit Mt. Everest The architect of the universe didn't build a stairway leading nowhere. Make your time here an exciting adventure. Adventure is not outside a man, it is within. -- David Grayson We owe something to extravagance, for thrift and adventure seldom go hand in hand. -- Jenny Jerome Churchill It's when you're safe at home that you wish you were having an adventure. When you're having an adventure you wish you were safe at home. Make voyages! Attempt them... there's nothing else. -- Tennessee Williams We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. 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