Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation, and travel, so broadening at first, contracts the mind.
The job of the travel writer is to go far and wide, to make voluminous notes, to tell the truth.
I wouldn't say that I'm a travel novelist, but rather a novelist who travels - and who uses travel as a background for finding stories of places.
The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.
The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.
One of the things the 'Tao of Travel' shows is how unforthcoming most travel writers are, how most travelers are. They don't tell you who they were traveling with, and they're not very reliable about things that happened to them.
The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of being the first person in a new place.
I think people read travel books either because they intend to take that trip, or because they would never take that trip. In a sense, as a writer you are doing the travel for the reader.
The idea of traveling in Africa for me is based on going by road or train or bus or whatever and crossing borders. You can't travel easily or at all through some countries.
I enjoyed working as a model a lot as it let me travel and I got to do some really interesting projects.
Young people should travel, and they don't. You can't know if you don't go.
I live in New York and travel all over the world on a regular basis.
We've gotta reinvest in space travel. We should've never left the moon.
Think Indonesia and tourism, and the first thing that comes to mind is probably Bali. Think golf holiday, and most people would dream of Scotland or Ireland. But Indonesia harbors one of the best-kept secrets in the world of travel: it is a golfer's ...
There are few places you can find silence. Air travel could be the last fortress of solitude.
I can't travel without Sudoku.
In America there are two classes of travel - first class, and with children.
In our town, Halloween was terrifying and thrilling, and there was a whiff of homicide. We'd travel by foot in the dark for miles, collecting candy, watching out for adults who seemed too eager to give us treats.
The first year or so on The Daily Show is pretty intense in terms of travel. You're going to the worst places in the country, talking to the craziest people in the world.
I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.
