Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.Anthony Bourdain
When you have worn out your shoes, the strength of the shoe leather has passed into the fiber of your body... He is the richest man who pays the largest debt to his shoemaker.Ralph Ealdo Emerson
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.James A. Michener
Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.Jack Kerouac
Nobody warned me about this part. When I envisioned my trip, I imagined exciting adventures, exotic locales, a jet-set lifestyle. I never thought grief and doubt would climb into my backpack and come with me. I pictured standing at the top of the Sun Gate, looking down at Machu Picchu, without ever thinking about the steps it would take to get there. This is the curse of wanderlust, when the postcard image becomes a brutal reality.Maggie Downs
