I want to travel so bad it hurts! I want out of Spokane something fierce. I'm really going to have trouble sitting through the rest of this year of school...

If adventures do not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad. - Jane Austin
You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. You are the guy who'll decide where to go -Dr. Seuss
When you travel, you experience, in a very practical way, the act of rebirth. You confront completely new situations, the day passes more slowly, and on most journeys you don't even understand the language the people speak. So you are like a child just out of the womb. You begin to attach much more importance to the things around you because your survival depends upon them. You begin to be more accessible to others because they may be able to help you in different situations. -Paul Coehlo
Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines, your refrigerator full of food, your closet full of clothes - with all this taken away you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That's not always comfortable but it is always invigorating. -Michael Crichton
When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off into the darkness of the unknown, faith is knowing one of two things will happen: There will be something solid to stand on or you will be taught how to fly. ~Barbara J. Winter
Of the gladdest moments in human life, me thinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Home, one feels more happy. The blood flows with the fast circulation of childhood... A journey, in fact, appeals to Imagination, to Memory, to Hope - the three sister graces of our moral being. - Sir Richard Francis Burton, 1856
May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks. -J.R.R. Tolkien
Remember you are over the edge of the wild now, and in for all sorts of fun wherever you go. -J.R.R. Tolkien
When you get back from your travels, and tell your friends of all the interesting people you have met in obscure bars and hostels. Only to realise after years of travel, you are the guy they talk about. -Cedric Pieterse
Music reminds us of our travels, just as much as it inspires us to travel. It urges us to unfold the maps, pack the backpack and hit the road. -Cedric Pieterse
Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. - Miriam Beard
There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. - Robert Louis Stevenson