You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.
Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance.
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
Travel is very subjective. What one person loves, another loathes.
I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.
There comes a moment on a journey when something sweet, something irresistible and charming as wine raised to thirsty lips, wells up in the traveller’s being.
The hardest part is to travel, and to be away from your family.
If you travel first class, you think first class and you are more likely to play first class.
My parents and my grandfather on my mom’s side would travel the earth. They went to Australia and China, and they went to probably every soccer game I ever played.
When I’m in London I do have the convenience of being close to St James Park which is also good for me because it gives me an excuse to get out and get some much needed exercise!
Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.
London is a roost for every bird.
I still make sure to go, at least once every year, to a country where things cannot be taken for granted, and where there is either too much law and order or too little.
If you want to succeed you should strike out on new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success.
We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far.
A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.
Success comes to those who dedicate everything to their passion in life. To be successful, it is also very important to be humble and never let fame or money travel to your head.
The best education I have ever received was through travel.
I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.
To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive.
The travel writer seeks the world we have lost – the lost valleys of the imagination.
The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.
Life is short and the older you get, the more you feel it. Indeed, the shorter it is. People lose their capacity to walk, run, travel, think, and experience life. I realise how important it is to use the time I have.
The world reveals itself to those who travel on foot.
I am humbled and excited by new opportunities for me to support and share the amazing work NASA is doing to help us travel farther into the solar system and work with the next generation of science and technology leaders.
