I am a sucker for words. And bangs, but especially words.
They’re my love language, my inspiration, and on bad days, they’re what send me spiraling into dark places.
So when travel and words intersect in travel quotes, I can almost never get enough.
For ages, I’ve been compiling travel and adventure-related quotes in a text file on my computer, just for my pathetic self. 😁 But it seemed fun to share some favorites here.
Pssst. What would be super fun is if you shared a favorite of yours. I bet you know a good one, and I’d love to add it to my monster list of happy, snarky, and grumpy travel quotes (and credit you, of course).
My current favorite travel quotes:
Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas and take your next trip in kilometers.
George Carlin
Homeschooler math for the win! 😂
Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.
Anthony Bourdain
And it is a gorgeous feeling. It’s a feeling that you have to learn to appreciate, but once you do, you’re so much less a victim of circumstance and more an intrepid explorer, come what may.
Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.
Hellen Keller
Yeah, there’s probably no such thing as a “safe” life. Just boring or not boring. Seems like the most sheltered people tend to have the worst safety record. 🤔
The beauty of travel lies in the unexpected moments and encounters along the way.
Pico Iyer
Like being gifted an entire Christmas when you’re flat broke and a gazillion miles from anyone you know. Or picking up a 69-year-old hitchbiker and getting invited to tour Sicily in a sailboat.
When life throws you a rainy day, play in the puddles.
Winnie the Pooh
If you’re fulltiming, you’re gonna see a lot of those “rainy days”. How you handle them will define your travel, and it’ll shape your kids.
Never pass up a loo stop.
Rick Steves
Somebody gets it. Somebody’s been there, done that. 💩
Who wants a life imprisoned in safety?
Amelia Earhart
Not the kids I get to grow up with every day, and not their dad! She did disappear, though… 🤔
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
I’m ashamed to say, but this is one of the reasons I hit the road. 😬 The other reasons were better ones.
Travel is like knowledge. The more you see, the more you know you haven’t seen.
Mark Hertsgaard
Every so often, I look back on my recent past and think, “But NOW I’m smart. NOW I know things.”
If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.
Paulo Coelho
The silent killer…
I’m not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.
Winnie the Pooh
I’m with ya Pooh…my whereabouts tend to find themselves lost more often than they’d like to admit. 😳
Every time you encounter something that forces you to “handle it,” your self-esteem is raised considerably. You learn to trust that you will survive, no matter what happens. And in this way your fears are diminished immeasurably.
Susan Jeffers
This is what the road will do to you. And to your kids, if you let it. 💪
Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.
Yogi Berra
IYKYK
To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.
Freya Stark
How many times have you woken up in the morning and not been able to remember what you were gonna see when you stepped out of the camper (with no alcohol involved)?
An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.
G.K. Chesterton
Took me a minute, but yup!
Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.
Erol Ozan
Any fulltimer knows the drill.
A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.
Tom Lichtenheld
This is funny but sad, and it’s true more often than it needs to be. 😞
Stop ignoring what’s in front of you, stop rushing through the garbage time in pursuit of the “quality time.” It’s all great. It’s all wonderful. It’s all part of the trip. If you remember to see it that way.
Ryan Holiday
I love this. The mundane and monotonous can be every bit as meaningful as the epic stuff- it’s up to you.
Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.
Hodding Carter
There are different kinds of stability, and at least in our experience, a stable home full of love seems to count for a lot more than a static address. Roots and wings are such a great combo.
It’s just quite an adjustment to find out that the people who sit on toilets on this planet are the odd ones.
Rick Steves
This kind of shattering discovery is a perfect example of the kind of broadening of the mind that happens when you leave your comfortable, familiar settings. How is it possible that the rest of the world doesn’t do things my way? 🤯
Too often…I would hear men boast of the miles covered that day, rarely of what they had seen.
Louis L’Amour
I think travel influencers tend to be this way, but backwards…everybody posts their glam shots of the destinations, and I’m always wondering how the miles in between were for their family members. ✨🤔
The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.
Christopher McCandless
This guy sounds like a fulltimer. 🤝
Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
Gustave Flaubert
Kids need to know that they’re important. But kids (and parents) also need to see how much bigger the world is than them and theirs. 😲
Well, snap.
I tried to keep it to 10, I really did. Culled and culled and culled and just couldn’t cull any more. Sorry!
I’m looking for help accumulating some great travel quotes– if there’s one you’ve found that’s pretty good, would you be game to paste it in the comments here, with either a link to your site or social for credit? Thank you so much! 🙏😊
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