"Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing, Done with indoor complaints, libraries, querulous criticisms, Strong and content I travel the open road."
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"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are."
"Just living in Los Angeles guarantees the loss of a few I.Q. points each year."
"If you ever plan to motor west, travel my way, take the highway that is best. Get your kicks, on Route Sixty-six."
"Because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars."
"The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready."
"I have climbed several higher mountains without guide or path, and have found, as might be expected, that it takes only more time and patience commonly than to travel the smoothest highway."
"The great living experience for every man is his adventure into the woman. The man embraces in the woman all that is not himself, and from that one resultant, from that embrace, comes every new action."
"Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success."
"If you have never taken the train across Canada, you really should put it on your life list... Meanwhile, I get to sit back and watch for moose from the dome car as we roll through the lake-dotted vastness of the boreal forest."
"We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope."
"To get to know a country, you must have direct contact with the earth. It's futile to gaze at the world through a car window."
"Traveling is a fool's paradise."
"The world is a globe — the farther you sail, the closer to home you are."
"Stuff your eyes with wonder."
"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next, to find ourselves. We travel to open our hearts and eyes. And we travel, in essence, to become young fools again—to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more."
"Who is everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends."
"I stepped away to find out more about myself, which I was having difficulty doing as a football player. I got a chance to travel the world. I studied Eastern philosophy, and I've grown as a person so much."
"Trailer for sale or rent, rooms to let, fifty cents. No phone, no pool, no pets, ain't got no big regrets. Two hours of pushin' broom, buys an eight by twelve, four-bit room. I'm a man of means, by no means, king of the road."
"Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs."