I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.
Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure.
Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.
Better an oops than a what if…
Don’t die without embracing the daring adventure your life was meant to be.
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.
Adventure should be 80 percent ‘I think this is manageable,’ but it’s good to have that last 20 percent where you’re right outside your comfort zone. Still safe, but outside your comfort zone.
Certainly, travel is more than seeing the sights, it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.
At the very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure
Flying First Class is still legitimate adventure travel.
Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.
Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.
Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.
Travel is like love, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.
There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to keep moving, to never stop.
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.
Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.
Road trips required a couple of things: a well-balanced diet of caffeine, salt and sugar and an excellent selection of tunes—oh, and directions.
Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.
Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another.
The joy of discovery is the single most important thing in life. Don’t forget it.