Taj Mahal
I travel: to learn and grow, to challenge myself, stretch my limits and foster an appreciation of both the world at large and the chair waiting in front of the wood stove back home.
Cape Town, South Africa
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
Cambodia
Paris, France
“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
Halstatt, Austria
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
Holland
“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
Scotland
“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
Machu Picchu
“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe" Anatole France
Beijing, China
“I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within.” – Lillian Smith
St. Petersburg, Russia
“Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white.” – Mark Jenkins
“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese
