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Unplanned Trip Quotes to Unleash the Thrill of Spontaneous Travel in You

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Are you someone who loves spontaneous adventures and impromptu trips? Well, unplanned trip quotes will allow you to break free from the confines of daily life and venture into the unknown.

I can help you with it because I have come up with 120 unplanned travel quotes.

120 Heartfelt Unplanned Trip Quotes to Fuel Your Wanderlust and Sense of Adventure

To inspire you to take the leap and embrace the unknown, we’ve put together a collection of the best unplanned travel quotes.

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Game changer!

Chill Breeze!

Incidental!

Inexplicable!

Spell-bound!

Flee and go carefree!

A dream vacation happens when you don’t have a conditioned vision!

Chancing upon change around beautiful ranges!

I intended to recover, but travel taught me what it feels like to discover!

An unexpected trip to an unknown place sure takes a special place in our heart space!

Glacier, I never dreamt of seeing you any sooner!

She took me to nature, doing a great favour, feeling indebted to her forever!

Unplanned zone, but feeling like my own!

My surprised travel-freak bones cannot stop talking to the river stones!

The moment I groaned, someone got it blown, look at where we have flown!

Disowned my home and came running behind this drone!

My plans are never prone to get postponed, so this time I chose to do it before, all alone!

No plans to go home, going in search of a gnome !

Shoes on; so one day, the world gets to read my unexpected adventure tale that begins with, “Once upon…

The heart is what you should follow, just go if it says so!

Best treks happen when you set out being casual!

Nature, thank you so much for unexpectedly inviting & surprising this ever-so-cautious creature!

It is okay to be unplanned and still Go because you never know when life grows boring!

Adventure should always be an unplanned venture!

Climbing hills before life leads me to take pills!

Stressed? Drive West!

Derive peace from an unplanned breeze!

Drive, with no plan in mind, it will give you amazing vibes!

Some french fries, to strengthen my excitement vibes!

The thrill is what you will feel when you unexpectedly travel uphill!

Seas, I did not see you coming!

So Excited that I left my Ted behind!

Go, go, and go before life gets you bored!

Making the best of my travel chance that I never fancied!

I was free, so these crazy ladies dragged me to adore these swaying trees!

An expedition, without any expectations!

Never worry about unnecessary trouble, travel chances disappear like a bubble!

Sitting on the beach sand, I never thought I would be adoring these rain bands, life is indeed a magical wand!

 Never say no to surprises & fun!

Go where life takes you because you will be surprised by breathtaking views!

Hues that I never imagined I would view!

Suddenly I let my life unmute, and nature is making me feel so cute!

Allow yourself to be unlocked; travel leads to abundant fun stock!

Tour whenever possible, life gets beautiful!

Unplanned Tour Quotes to Inspire You

Making the best birthday, on the highway!

This Anniversary, we were blessed by the travel fairy!

My insides are filled; an unplanned stay atop the hills!

When I stopped being travel wary, I was approached by the travel fairy, something new to add to my travel diary!

If you have a deep desire to wander, the Universe will ensure to leave you in wonder!

Waves that drew me from far, saving me from an internal war!

If you have the will, don’t hesitate to climb the hill!

I do unplanned trips solo, whenever I feel low!

I am not an unplanned solo traveller, just that I don’t find like-minded wanderers!

Sudden hues, reveal your life clues!

 You will never discover if you don’t come off your covers!

I chose to not stay undercover, and so I reached this beautiful river!

Don’t be lazy to snatch travel opportunities, I just saved my life from becoming hazy!

Unplanned travel lets your life be unveiled, don’t lose it because of your lack of will!

He is my lover, who never fails to surprise me with his unexpected travel showers!

If you would love some fun, you should take it whenever it comes!

I don’t mind if my family stops, to me, travel always stands on top!

Listen to your intuition, and go about your expedition!

Unexpected travel experiences, remove your life-obstructing fences!

When travel happens unplanned, it becomes your life’s turning point!

Why worry about the condition of the roads? Anyway, we will be having fun, in loads!

When life is calling, believe it is going to be enthralling!

Roar, when life takes you on a tour!

I might not be with my close group, but this is how unplanned travel shoos away my gloom!

This Summer, when an unexpected trip decided to show me some rare colours…

Travel makes you discover that life is butter!

Summer of surprises, who cares about supper?

Maybe I am nature’s son; time and again, she draws me to her for some fun!

Mother, I unexpectedly received these travel feathers!

I am a professional singer with a beautiful voice and an unplanned traveller, by nature’s choice!

When your life is in clutter, you need to take off your travel wings that flutter!

Trust her and wander, it will not become a bummer!

Oh my god, I forgot my phone charger, my family doesn’t know I am off to wander!

Ascend when you get the opportunity, it will help you transcend!

Whenever you sense the winds, grow your wings!

Sing and enjoy it whenever nature offers a fling!

Unexpected trips don’t put you in danger, it helps you connect with strangers!

When there is heartbreak, there comes an unexpected travel break!

Unleashing my unplanned self, into a delightful well!

Non-stop emotions generate travel potions!

Dear Money, I will earn you back, Honey; for now, travel is my only company!

Madness overboard, let’s go!

Fixing my heart fissure, with unexpected leisure!

Train, I never dreamt of meeting you until I felt drained!

Feeling roasted? Become your travel host!

Chuck life’s woes, and be like the river that flows!

Nobody cares? Merge with the air!

Wipe your tears, and get on your travel gear!

I felt stifled; so I decided to go on a trip in my cycle!

My head was heavy, my forehead dotted with beads of sweat; but driving back, all that I sensed was my helmet!

Halt and recharge your watts !

Eat bread, when the trip happens unintended!

Unplanned Road Trip Quotes

Without a thought, I got on his back, do bike trips need a backpack?

When life decides to throw unexpected parties!

Relax, when unexpected travel gives you a gap!

Unexpectedly unwinding!

Gassed out? Time to hop into your car!

Dear Family, the one you are calling is currently adventure seeking. Please try later!

Unplanned Trip With Friends Quotes!

My heart feels light, thank you guys for the unexpected delight!

Travel group formed by sheer fluke!

Besties make your unplanned trips zesty!

We are called a clan, because we always choose to wander without any plan!

Wanderers’ squad that gathers without a plan!

You get to visit Gems when you plan it unexpectedly with your friends!

The finest adventures happen with her!

Explore, whenever you are feeling bored!

If you have enough time to snore, use it to explore!

How do I express the vibe when you get to randomly travel along with your tribe?

Beautiful Dam and fam-jam, I never saw it coming, man!

We are friends, who set unbelievable travel trends!

Setting trends, with unexpected trips with friends!

Never mind the weather is so hot, unplanned tripping with friends always gets my heart!

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95 most inspirational travel quotes ever penned

Our favourite inspirational travel quotes have encouraged us to travel with abandon over the years. Perhaps they will do the same for you…

For us, there is no such thing as luxury travel; travel is, by default, a luxury. It is a privilege provided by the country of our birth, a privilege that many are not as fortunate to enjoy.

Sometimes, we have to pinch ourselves at just how ridiculous our lives have become: an ex-teacher and jobbing writer travelling the world for a living. It is absurd, it is astonishing, it is luxury.

When I first went travelling at 21 years old, my father gave me this quote scrawled on a piece of card.

It infused me with wanderlust. It encouraged me to get out of my comfort zone, make the most of my time, see the world and enjoy the freedom that comes with being on the road. It remains one of the most inspirational travel quotes I’ve read (even if Twain did not actually say it).

Today, 20 years and almost 100 countries later, it’s still in my wallet. Despite its tattered and dishevelled appearance, it’s every bit as important to me now as it was then.

With that in mind, we’ve collated our most beloved inspirational travel quotes to encourage readers to “explore, dream and discover” for themselves.

inspirational travel quotes

1. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson

2. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

3. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

4. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

5. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

6. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

7. “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” – Paul Brandt

8. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

9. “The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

10. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

11. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller Anderson

12. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

13. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

14. “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

15. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

16. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships were built for.” – John A. Shedd

17. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

18. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

19. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

20. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

21. “Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.” – The Dalai Lama

22. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

23. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re travelling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon

24. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveller only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

25. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

26. “A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” – Moslih Eddin Saadi

27. “Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley

28. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

29. “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

30. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

31. “I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” – Ricky Skaggs

32. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” – Hilaire Belloc

33. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

34. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

35. “The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

36. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

37. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou

38. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber

39. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

40. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

41. “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

42. “Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” ― Michael Palin

43. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

44. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

45. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman

46. “There are far, far better things ahead than we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

47. “Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – Freya Stark

48. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

49. “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell

50. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

51. “The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G.K. Chesterton

52. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew

53. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

54. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” – Ray Bradbury

55. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

56. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot

57. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” – Robert Orben

58. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

59. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde

60. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

61. “If an ass goes travelling, he’ll not come home a horse.” – Thomas Fuller

62. “Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg

63. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

64. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

65. “I am not the same having seen the moon shine from the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

66. “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

67. “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw

68. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni

69. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

70 “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

71. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

72. “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

73. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

74. “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

75. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

76. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

77. “The more I travelled the more I realised that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

78. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

78. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block

80. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle – or Si’ahl

81. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

82. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

83. “We live in a world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

84. “The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself” – Wallace Stevens

85. “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

86. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Julia Ormond (although it is often wrongly attributed to Audrey Hepburn)

87. “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” – Babs Hoffman

88. “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

89. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

90. “It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.” – Sir Ernest Shackleton

91. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” –  Jack Kerouac

92. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

93. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde

94. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M Goodman

95. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain (or possibly H Jackson Brown Jr )

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153 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire You To See The World

We’ve been putting together some of our favorite inspirational travel quotes as we continue to travel the world and experience new places and things abroad.

What follows is a complete collection of 153 of the best travel quotes, complete with adventure travel quotes from famous figures like Anthony Bourdain, John Muir, and Mark Twain.

Warning: some of these quotes may give you the travel itch! In any case, I hope you’ll find some of these short travel quotes inspirational for your own journey!

Table of Contents show 153 Best Travel Quotes • Famous Travel Quotes • Mark Twain Travel Quotes • Funny Travel Quotes • Short Travel Quotes • Misc Travel Quotes • Inspirational Travel Quotes • Travel With Friends Quotes • Adventure Travel Quotes • Solo Travel Quotes • Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes More Travel Content & Tips  

153 Best Travel Quotes

• famous travel quotes.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Unknown

Take only memories, leave only footprints. — Unknown

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert

Not all those who wander are lost. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Every man dies, but not every man really lives. — William Wallace

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde

Life is a journey. Make the most of it. — Unknown

I’ve traveled every road in this here land… I’ve been everywhere, man, I’ve been everywhere. — Johnny Cash

Paris is always a good idea. — Audrey Hepburn

Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. — Unknown

Collect moments, not things. — Unknown

Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way. — Dr Seuss

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Unknown

I’m shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I’m gonna see the world. — George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life

It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. — Gary Snyder

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. — John Muir

The mountains are calling and I must go. — John Muir

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. — John Muir

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. — Hans Christian Andersen

Oh the places you’ll go. — Dr. Seuss

I shall be telling this with a sigh, Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. — Robert Frost

When one is alone at night in the depths of the woods, the stillness is at once awful and sublime. — John Muir

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. — Charles Dickens

• Mark Twain Travel Quotes

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the Earth all one’s lifetime.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else — these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Lifetimes of ecstasy crowded into a single moment.

It is the loveliest fleet of islands [ Hawaii ] that lies anchored in any ocean.

No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but that one [ Hawaii ], no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same.   For me the balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud wrack; I can feel the spirit of its wildland solitudes, I can hear the splash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

• Funny Travel Quotes

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you. — Leroy Satchel Paige

Two great talkers will not travel far together. — George Borrow

I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. — Mark Twain

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. — Caskie Stinnett

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? — Erma Bombeck

Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. — Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz

• Short Travel Quotes

Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. — Unknown

Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. — Asian Proverb

Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battutah

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. — Unknown

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. — Ella Maillart

Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness. — Ray Bradbury

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. — Marcel Proust

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. — Neale Donald Walsh

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. — Unknown

And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. — Louis Armstrong

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind. — G.K. Chesterton

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. — Anita Desai

Life is short and the world is wide. — Unknown

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land. — G.K. Chesterton

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. — Vincent van Gogh

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir

A wise traveler never despises his own country. — Carlos Osvaldo Goldoni

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. — William Hazlitt

I love to travel, but hate to arrive. — Albert Einstein

And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. — John Muir

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it. — Henry Rollins

Live your life by a compass, not a clock. — Stephen Covey

Some experiences simply do not translate, you have to go to know. — Kobi Yamada

I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. — Mary Anne Radmacher

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding. — Arthur Frommer

Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage. — Paulo Coelho

Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. — Erol Ozan

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. — David Mitchell

The journey itself is my home. — Matsuo Basho

Live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry. — Jack Kerouac

The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. — Guillermo del Toro

A good traveler leaves no tracks. — Lao Tzu

It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the Earth people who make you feel right at home. — Aaron Lauritsen

It is better to travel well than to arrive. — Unknown

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. — Agnes Repplier

• Misc Travel Quotes

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. — Albert Camus

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. — John Muir

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. — John Muir

I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana, it is love. — John Steinbeck

Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society. — John Muir

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. — Jacques Cousteau

The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet, you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray. — Vincent van Gogh

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. — John Burroughs

No pain here, no dull empty hours, no fear of the past, no fear of the future. These blessed mountains are so compactly filled with God’s beauty, no petty personal hope or experience has room to be. — John Muir

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. — Jules Renard

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. — Albert Einstein

Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There’s a human story at every lighthouse. — Elinor DeWire

To almost every man and woman there is something about a lighted beacon which suggests hope and trust and appeals to the better instincts of all mankind. — Edward Rowe Snowe

• Inspirational Travel Quotes

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. — Helen Keller

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. — Douglas Ivester

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. — Lawrence of Arabia

Do not dare not to dare. — C.S. Lewis

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. — George Adair

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. — Unknown

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. — John Paul Jones

This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. — Shana Alexander

I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. — Henry Rollins

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that damn mountain. — Jack Kerouac

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. — Ray Bradbury

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. — Pascal Mercier

Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. — Alan Keightley

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. — Judith Thurman

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. — Pat Conroy

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet. — Patrick Rothfuss

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling. — Gustave Flaubert

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown. — Paul Theroux

Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more. — Victoria Erickson

• Travel With Friends Quotes

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. — Tim Cahill

You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. — Miriam Adeney

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson

• Adventure Travel Quotes

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. — Amelia Earhart

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal. — Paulo Coelho

Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis. — Tim Cahill

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. — John Muir

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. — Edward Abbey

Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless.   We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only when this is recognized can the blown-in-the glass bum relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. — John Steinbeck

What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. — Jack Kerouac

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. — J.A. Shedd

Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and make a trail. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any. — Hugh Laurie

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

The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – above all, a travel bureau – arrange everything before-hand? — Richard Aldington

Be careful because Cambodia is the most dangerous place you will ever visit. You will fall in love with it, and eventually it will break your heart. — Joel Brinkley

• Solo Travel Quotes

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. — Freya Stark

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Unknown

I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. — Bill Bryson

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home. — Freya Stark

When you’ve managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown – either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude – there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when we are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free. — Tim Cahill

No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow. — Lin Yutang

He travels the fastest who travels alone. — Rudyard Kipling

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. — Lawrence Durrell

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. — Liberty Hyde Bailey

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. — Henry David Thoreau

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. — Thomas Jefferson

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time. — Hannah Arendt

Personally I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know anybody, don’t know my way around and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home. — Michael Mewshaw

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. — Paulo Coelho

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. — Walt Whitman

• Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks — on your body or on your heart — are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.

It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu , for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about.   For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what’s happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there — with your eyes open — and lived to see it.

Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? … I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn.   Maybe that’s enlightenment enough – to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.

I think food, culture, people and landscape are all absolutely inseparable.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia . I wanted to ride out into a desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers. I wanted to kick snow off my boots in a Mafiya nightclub in Russia. I wanted to play with automatic weapons in Phnom Penh, recapture the past in a small oyster village in France, step into a seedy neon-lit pulqueria in rural Mexico. I wanted to run roadblocks in the middle of the night, blowing past angry militia with a handful of hurled Marlboro packs, experience fear, excitement, wonder.   I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books. I wanted to see the world – and I wanted the world to be just like the movies.

At this point I think my body is like an old car. Another dent ain’t gonna make a whole lot of difference. At best it’s a reminder that you’re still alive and lucky as hell. Another tattoo, another thing you did, another place you’ve been.

Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund.

If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

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.

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50 Spontaneous Adventure Quotes to Inspire Your Next Trip

March 21, 2024 · In: Blog , Spontaneous Adventures

Traveling holds both excitement and exhaustion, but the magic lies in your perspective. 

In my own journey, I’ve experienced a variety of trips – from impromptu escapades to meticulously planned expeditions across Ireland, I’ve embraced them all.

I firmly believe there’s no wrong method of traveling. However, I’ve found that some of the most unforgettable adventures spring from spontaneous urges to escape, particularly to waterfront destinations.

This impulse has led me to places like Costa Rica, Ireland, Virginia, St. Simons Island, and beyond.

Spontaneous adventures are the best way to get out of your head and into new experiences. 

Whether you’re new to last-minute travel or looking to get inspired for your next trip, here are 50 spontaneous adventure quotes that will highlight just how impactful packing up with or without a plan can be. 

50 Spontaneous Adventure Quotes 

Short & Sweet Spontaneous Adventure Quotes

You don’t need a plan, just go.

Embrace the detours .

Life’s best moments are unplanned.

Don’t overthink it .

Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.

You’ll never regret saying “yes” to a last-minute road trip .

Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.

Be afraid. And do it anyway.

Spontaneity is the best kind of adventure.

I’m not lost, I’m on a spontaneous adventure .

Life’s not meant to be lived in one place. 

Comfort zone: a beautiful place where nothing gets done.

Life is too short to not go on that spontaneous road trip.

I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list. – Susan Sontag

Quotes About the Importance of the Journey 

Travel for travel’s sake. – Robert Louis Stevenson

Sometimes we plan a trip to one place, but something takes us to another. – Rumi

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving – Lao Tzu

If you come to a fork in the road, take it. – Yogi Berra

In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with. – Charles M. Schultz

If you’re not lost, you’re not much of an explorer. – John Perry Barlow

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey. – Babs Hoffman

Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. – Erol Ozan

The best trips are the ones where you don’t make any plans and just see where the wind takes you .

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. – David Mitchell

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be. – Douglas Adams

The only impossible journey is the one you never begin. – Tony Robbins

Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take. – Angela N. Blount

Travel is best when it’s as unplanned as possible so you get that real sense of adventure – Douglas Booth 

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step – Lao Tzu 

Adventure is a Way of Life Quotes

One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. – Henry Miller

To travel is to live. – Hans Christian Andersen

Go solo; be it a trip, be it a search, with or for, yourself. – Vikrmn 

Design a life that you are inspired to live. – Annette White

If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet. – Rachel Wolchin

When all’s said and done, all roads lead to the same end. So it’s not so much as which road you take, but how you take it. – Charles De Lint

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. – Helen Keller

The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow. – Aaron Lauritsen

The world is a book, and those who don’t travel only read one page. – St Augustine 

There are no mistakes. Only new paths to explore. – Gregory David Roberts

Getting lost is sometimes the best way to find yourself. – Maxime Lagace

People don’t take trips, trips take people. – John Steinbeck

We have nothing to lose and a world to see – Rainie Navarro 

If happiness is the goal — and it should be — then adventure should be top priority. – Richard Branson

See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. – Ray Bradbury 

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever. – Joe Abercrombie 

We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. – Jawaharlal Nehru

We travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next to find ourselves. – Pico Iyer

It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the earth people who make you feel right at home. – Aaron Lauritsen

Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you – or unmaking you. – Nicolas Bouvier

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it is lethal – Paulo Coelho 

Never be Afraid to See What’s Out There

As we conclude our journey through 50 spontaneous travel quotes, let’s reflect on the essence of adventure they’ve ignited within us. These quotes remind us to embrace spontaneity, cherish the beauty of the unknown, and find ourselves in the journey. 

As we continue exploring, may we carry the wisdom of these words, remain open to new experiences, and never lose sight of the magic that awaits. So here’s to the adventurers, the dreamers, and the wanderers — may our travels be filled with wonder, our hearts open to discovery, and our souls forever restless for the next adventure. 

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Life is full of surprises, and sometimes the best adventures are the ones that are unplanned. Whether it's a spontaneous road trip or a last-minute getaway, there's something about the unpredictability of an unplanned trip that adds to its magic. And what better way to share those magical moments than with the perfect Instagram caption or quote?

Unplanned Trip Quotes:

• "The best things in life are unplanned - like this spontaneous adventure we're on."
• "Sometimes the unplanned trips are the ones that stick with us the most."
• "Life is short, take the unplanned trip."
• "The beauty of an unplanned trip is the freedom to go where the road takes you."
• "Let's go on an unplanned trip and create memories we'll never forget."

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Unplanned Road Trip Quotes:

• "Life is about the journey, not the destination - and an unplanned road trip is the perfect embodiment of that."
• "The best adventures are the ones we didn't plan for."
• "An unplanned road trip is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're going to get."
• "The beauty of an unplanned road trip is that it's all about the ride, not the destination."
• "An unplanned road trip is the perfect opportunity to discover new places and meet new people."

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Unplanned Trip with Friends Quotes:

• "An unplanned trip with friends is like a recipe for unforgettable memories."
• "The best trips are the ones taken with great company, even if they're unplanned."
• "An unplanned trip with friends is the perfect way to break out of our comfort zones and create new adventures."
• "The spontaneity of an unplanned trip with friends is what makes it so special."
• "Friends don't let friends miss out on unplanned trips."

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Unplanned Travel Quotes:

• "Traveling unplanned is the best way to experience new cultures and meet new people."
• "The beauty of unplanned travel is the freedom to discover the unexpected."
• "An unplanned trip is the perfect opportunity to leave behind the routine and embrace the unknown."
• "Unplanned travel is the ultimate adventure, full of surprises and possibilities."
• "Traveling unplanned is the perfect way to find yourself and lose yourself all at the same time."

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• "The best trips are the ones that happen spontaneously."
• "The beauty of an unplanned trip is the unexpected moments of joy and discovery."
• "The best memories are often made on unplanned trips."
• "Unplanned trips are the perfect antidote to routine and predictability."
• "The best things in life are the people we love, the places we've been, and the unplanned trips along the way."

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Quotes for Unplanned Trips:

• "Unplanned trips are the ones that leave the deepest impressions on our hearts and souls."
• "The beauty of an unplanned trip is the chance to let go of expectations and embrace the moment."
• "Sometimes the most beautiful adventures are the ones we didn't plan for."
• "An unplanned trip is the perfect opportunity to step outside of our comfort zones and explore new horizons."
• "Life is too short for plans, let's take an unplanned trip and see where the road takes us."

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Unplanned Tour Quotes:

• "The unplanned tour is like a surprise gift from life, full of unexpected treasures."
• "The beauty of an unplanned tour is the chance to discover hidden gems and unexpected beauty."
• "An unplanned tour is like a spontaneous dance with life, where we let go and let the rhythm guide us."
• "Unplanned tours are the perfect way to escape the routine and embrace the adventure."
• "Life is about taking chances, and an unplanned tour is the perfect chance to live in the moment."

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Unplanned Trip Caption with Family:

• "The best memories are made on unplanned trips with family."
• "An unplanned trip with family is like a treasure hunt, full of surprises and discoveries."
• "The beauty of an unplanned trip with family is the chance to reconnect and create unforgettable memories."
• "Unplanned trips with family are the perfect opportunity to strengthen bonds and build lasting relationships."
• "The best adventures are the ones shared with family, even if they're unplanned."

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Unplanned Trip Caption with Husband:

• "The best adventures are the ones we take with the ones we love - like this unplanned trip with my husband."
• "An unplanned trip with my husband is like a second honeymoon, full of romance and adventure."
• "The beauty of an unplanned trip with my husband is the chance to create new memories and strengthen our love."
• "Unplanned trips with my husband are the perfect way to escape the routine and spice up our life."
• "With my husband by my side, every unplanned trip becomes an adventure full of love and laughter."

Unplanned Trip Caption with Wife:

• "The best moments are the ones we share with the ones we love - like this unplanned trip with my wife."
• "An unplanned trip with my wife is like a romantic getaway, full of surprises and romance."
• "The beauty of an unplanned trip with my wife is the chance to create new memories and deepen our love."
• "Unplanned trips with my wife are the perfect way to escape the mundane and add some spice to our life."
• "With my wife by my side, every unplanned trip becomes an adventure full of love and joy."

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Unplanned Trip Caption with Girlfriend:

• "An unplanned trip with my girlfriend is like a spontaneous adventure, full of excitement and surprises."
• "The beauty of an unplanned trip with my girlfriend is the chance to deepen our connection and create lasting memories."
• "Unplanned trips with my girlfriend are the perfect way to escape the ordinary and create unforgettable experiences."
• "With my girlfriend by my side, every unplanned trip becomes a journey of love and discovery."
• "An unplanned trip with my girlfriend is the perfect way to let go of expectations and embrace the moment."

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Unplanned Trip Caption with Boyfriend:

• "An unplanned trip with my boyfriend is like a journey of love and adventure, full of surprises and magic."
• "The beauty of an unplanned trip with my boyfriend is the chance to deepen our love and create unforgettable memories."
• "Unplanned trips with my boyfriend are the perfect way to break out of our routine and create new experiences."
• "With my boyfriend by my side, every unplanned trip becomes a journey of love and growth."
• "An unplanned trip with my boyfriend is the perfect opportunity to explore new horizons and embrace the unexpected."

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Unplanned Trip Caption with Group:

• "An unplanned trip with a group is like a party on the road, full of laughter and adventure."
• "The beauty of an unplanned trip with a group is the chance to bond, create memories and make new friends."
• "Unplanned trips with a group are the perfect way to break out of our comfort zones and explore new horizons."
• "With my group by my side, every unplanned trip becomes a journey of growth and discovery."
• "An unplanned trip with a group is the perfect opportunity to let go of control and embrace the unexpected.

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Unplanned Trip Caption with Friends:

• "An unplanned trip with friends is like a journey of laughter and adventure, full of unexpected surprises."
• "The beauty of an unplanned trip with friends is the chance to strengthen bonds, create memories and have fun."
• "Unplanned trips with friends are the perfect way to break out of the mundane and create unforgettable experiences."
• "With my friends by my side, every unplanned trip becomes a journey of joy and discovery."
• "An unplanned trip with friends is the perfect opportunity to explore new destinations and make unforgettable memories."

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From funny quips about the challenges of traveling without a plan to heartfelt reflections on the beauty of spontaneous adventures, there's an unplanned trip quote or caption for every occasion. So, whether you're embarking on a spontaneous journey or just daydreaming about your next adventure, let these captions and quotes inspire you to seize the moment and embrace the unexpected. Because as we all know, some of the best memories in life are the ones that are made on the spur of the moment.

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Every Travel Quote Ever

Say goodbye to scouring the internet in search of inspirational travel quotes to keep you focussed on saving for that next big trip. Instead take a read through our list of every travel quote ever. We dare you to try and not be inspired.

Are we missing one of your favs? Share your own travel quote in the comments and we might just include it!

Inspirational Travel Quotes

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Unknown

“I am not a great book, I am not a great artist, but I love art and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.” – Michael Palin

“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

“The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.” ― Rich Ridgeway

“To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

Take the first step, the rest will follow. Book the ticket, apply for the job, send the email, jump into the water. The rest gets easier from there. – Abi from http://www.insidethetravellab.com/

“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.” ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“Certainly, 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

“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

“He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch Proverb

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

“He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

It’s never too late to have a life you love. Don’t ever feel like you’ve missed the boat, don’t have what it takes or can’t achieve your dreams. Instead of removing your dreams, remove the doubts and fears keeping you from them. It’s never, ever too late. – Phoebe from https://littlegreybox.net

“Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.” – Lauren Hutton

“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin

“I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.” – Seneca

“Travelling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Scott Cameron

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley

“Tourists visit. Travellers explore.” – Unknown

If you don’t do it now, when will you do it? -Monica from http://thetravelhack.com/

“Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.'” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on Earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Unknown

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

“NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” ― Clifton Fadiman

“I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

Adventure Travel Quotes

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson

“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” ― Steve McCurry

“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

The biggest addiction a person can have is discovering the unknown. Once it takes hold, there is no getting out and the only way to get your fix is by pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and exploring new horizons, cultural, and places. – Stephen from A Backpacker’s Tale 

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”― Andre Gide

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” ― Unknown

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” ― John A. Shedd

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ― Mark Twain

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” ― Martin Buber

“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” ― Trenton Lee Stewart

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” – Tennessee Williams

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” ― Freya Stark

“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” ― G.K. Chesterton

The more borders you cross, the more your mind opens — Paul from Global Help Swap

“One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.” – Ella Maillart

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

“When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

“Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace

“A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi

“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru

“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown (thanks to Melissa Bond for the contribution!)

“Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten

“It is better to travel well then to arrive.” – Buddha

“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle

“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.” – Mignon McLaughlin

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” – Doug Coupland

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese

“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

“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.” – Rosalia de Castro

“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment” – Hilaire Belloc

“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather

“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

“Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” – Al Gore

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” – William Hazlitt

“You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi

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Unplanned Trips Are Always the Best Quotes

The world is a beautiful place to travel, but it’s even more beautiful when you travel without a plan. Unplanned trips are always the best because planned trips never happen.

Unplanned trips are always memorable because there are no expectations, and you can leave space for magic to happen. We all dream of living our dreams , and it’s impossible until we start travelling and exploring new places.

Life is like an unplanned trip that unravels itself day by day with different shades of colour. You must be wise enough to enjoy life’s unplanned journey. These unplanned trips are always the best quotes that inspire you to enjoy every moment of your life, even the ups and downs.

Everything in this world seems planned out and so predictable. Unplanned trips are the ones that leave you with a smile on your face and make you feel like an adventurer in your sight. Life is more enjoyable when you accept things as they come and let go of control.

1. The best trip of your life is the one you didn’t plan.

2. As unplanned trips are the most authentic, embracing the situation and going with the flow is always best.

3. Unplanned trips take you away from the crowd and give you a break from the fast-paced lives we live.

4. Unplanned trips are always the best paths in life. They force you to see things differently, which is guaranteed fun.

5. The best memories are always created unplanned.

6. Unplanned trips mean you’re free to enjoy the moment and leave behind your busy life.

7. Hang up the itinerary and forget about scheduling. The best trip you can take is one with no plan. Go with the flow and say yes to adventure.

8. The best travel experience is an unplanned trip. It leaves you feeling energized, inspired, and free.

9. Get out there and do something unexpected. It’s the spontaneous adventures that are often best.

10. Unplanned trips offer a sense of freedom and let you leave the hustle and bustle behind.

11. Life is all about experiences, so get out and experience something new.

12. There’s no substitute for unplanned travel. It’s the best way to experience new cultures and exciting locales and relax away from home.

13. Everybody needs a little spontaneity in their lives, and an unplanned trip is a perfect way to let your hair down and enjoy a little excitement.

14. We all need to travel more. Unplanned trips are always the best kind of adventure.

15. The best trips are the ones you never planned and you never want them to end.

16. On unplanned trips, you can test your skills and find out unique facts about the place that you wouldn’t have known beforehand.

17. Regarding travel, planning is not always the best.

18. Everyone should try unplanned travel at some point. There’s nothing like seeing the excitement of your children as they make discoveries.

19. Change plans as you like, experience them at the moment, and leave at the last minute. A spontaneous trip will leave you with a smile on your face and make you feel like an adventurer in your own right.

20. Sometimes, it’s best to let go of your schedule and make an unplanned trip.

21. Unplanned trips are always the best because they present a sense of adventure.

22. Leave the office behind and get closer to nature with a holiday that renews your spirit.

23. Planning is overrated. Instead, travel more and explore the world!

24. Get off the beaten path and catch a glimpse of the world from another angle. An unplanned trip offers an escape from your hectic daily life.

25. A memorable trip is unplanned and enjoyed every step of the way.

26. When you don’t plan, you can focus on the present instead of worrying about the trip itinerary.

27. An unplanned trip is a great way to enjoy spontaneity and explore new places.

28. Sometimes, the most magical trips are those you didn’t plan. You’ll have to let fate take its course and see where it leads.

29. The best trips are the ones you don’t plan. They’re free of expectations, and they’re full of surprises.

30. The most unplanned trips are always the best. The longer you wait to plan a trip, the more stress you add to it.

31. The best trip is one you didn’t plan. Free yourself from formality and go wherever your heart takes you next.

32. Go on an unplanned trip and discover new destinations while exploring the unknown with your loved ones.

33. The best things in life are those that aren’t planned.

34. Unplanned trips are a great way to experience something new and exciting, so hop in the car with your friends or family and hit the road!

35. Life is a series of unplanned trips-it’s up to you to make it memorable.

36. Unplanned trip is perfect for anyone in need of a getaway.

37. Life is too short to plan every day. Unplanned trips are the best!

38. Taking a trip without your itinerary is the best way to experience every moment of your life.

39. When you go on an adventure that wasn’t planned, you learn to appreciate the journey.

40. The trip you didn’t plan is the best because it comes with so many surprises.

41. Get away from the crowds and get lost in your world. Let life slow down for a moment, even for just one weekend.

42. Explore new places by breaking your routine, trying new cuisine, learning a new language, and most importantly, having fun without the stress of planning.

43. Travel is a great way to relax, unwind, and enjoy new people and places.

44. Whether you’re looking for a weekend getaway or a reunion, an unplanned trip is a perfect opportunity to experience new adventures together.

45. If you love road trips and exploring new places, travelling is the best way to spend your time.

46. The best trips are often those unexpected journeys you take to the places you always wanted to see. We make it possible for you to take these trips and experience something new.

47. Give yourself a break from routine and get out there. You’ll be glad you did!

48. Unplanned adventures are always better than planned ones.

49. A trip is best when it’s spontaneous. When you take a trip, you’re not giving your time but rather giving yourself time.

50. Get back to nature and leave the hustle and bustle behind. Unplanned trips offer an escape from your hectic daily life.

51. There’s nothing like an unplanned getaway. It’s the best way to relax far away from your normal life.

52. The true meaning of life is to explore new places. A road trip is an amazing way to see the sights and create memories that’ll last a lifetime.

53. There’s nothing better than going for a drive in the morning when you don’t have any plans. You get to see new places, try something new, and have a great time.

You may never be able to plan everything in your life, so enjoy every moment. We live in a busy world where everyone is running behind on money and fame, and we have to slow down our lives and start enjoying it more by doing something creative or spontaneous. I hope you have enjoyed these unplanned trips are always the best quotes. You can also share this post with your friends.

36 Short Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Adventures

These short travel quotes will have you packing your bags to discover somewhere new in no time.

Welcome wanderlusters. When it comes to travel, sometimes less is more – especially when it comes to words. A snappy, short travel quote can inspire, motivate or even change the way you see the world. 

Celebrate your next adventure with these succinct and impactful travel quotes .

The Best Short Travel Quotes

These short quotes about travel might be bite-sized, but they pack a punch in significance for your next trip — regardless of the location.

“If it scares you, it may be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin

Travel experiences that push you beyond what’s ordinary and predictable are worth exploring; go boldly and fearlessly.

“My favourite thing to do is go where I’ve never been.” – Unknown

This quote speaks to a broader life philosophy: staying open-minded and embracing the unknown.

“When was the last time you did something for the first time?” – John C. Maxwell

Nothing beats the first time you travel somewhere enchanting.

“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

With a few travel hacks and expert tips, it’s possible to see the most amazing places in the world… without breaking the bank.

“Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

Remember what I said about food for the soul? Travel pours into your sense of being abundantly.

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

Sometimes, new travel experiences require you to try things outside of your norm, and that’s okay.

Adventure Quotes

Short Unique Travel Quotes

It’s the unique, short inspirational quotes about travel that are most fitting when the journey takes you somewhere unusual. These unique sayings are perfect for rare travel opportunities.

“Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

Outside the cost of jet setting, being brave enough to travel makes all the difference.

“Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” – Freya Stark

Travel is your opportunity to satisfy your inherent sense of wonder, intrigue, and curiosity.

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anaïs Nin

When you travel, part of the journey is finding something new — even within yourself.

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

The more of the world you see, the better you’ll get to know the essence of who you are.

“The world is big, and I want to get a good look at it before it gets dark.” – John Muir

Life is brief and unpredictable; you ought to travel as much and as far as possible while you still can.

“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown

The essential things you get from travel aren’t material; they’re deeply gratifying over and above what’s tangible.

Short Travel Quotes for Instagram

When the travelling quotes are short and witty, you better believe they deserve a spot on your Instagram posts. This is especially useful when you’re in luxury destinations and only want short aesthetic travel quotes to accompany breathtaking snaps.

Here are some of my favourite Insta-ready travel quotes.

“The goal is to die with memories, not dreams.” – Unknown

Travel guarantees memories and can be part of fulfilling your wildest dreams.

“To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

Travel unlocks more ways to enjoy the act of living itself.

“The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens

The entire world is an astonishing wonder worth seeing and exploring.

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

Like many other areas in life, risk-taking makes travel much more enriching.

“Don’t listen to what they say, go see.” – Unknown (Chinese Proverb)

Nothing beats travelling to a destination and being there in person for visceral experiences.

“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

Soak up all the richness in new lands, but always tread carefully and respectfully.

Next Read: The quote above lends itself to buzzwords like slow travel and sustainable travel . Learn more about what these mean and how you can see the world this way.

Short Travel Quotes for Couples

Looking for short cute travel quotes to symbolise your couple’s trips? Take your pick from the ones below.

“In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.” – Charles M. Schulz

Sometimes, the destination is simple, but your partner can elevate the travel experience beyond measure.

“We’d rather have a passport full of stamps than a house full of stuff.” – Unknown

Worldly goods aren’t bad, but travel offers a different kind of wealth.

“A couple who travels together grows together.” – Ahmad Fuadi

If you want to get to know someone, live, work, or travel with them.

“All you need is love and a passport.” – Unknown

With the right person on your arm, discovering the world always feels right.

Next Read: Ever wondered how to maximise your time in a different setting, fully absorbing new cultures and traditions? Read all about the joys and rewards of immersive travel here.

“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton

You won’t feel the miles and hours when embarking on thrilling journeys with a loved one.

“We have nothing to lose and a world to see.” – Rainie Navarro

In romantic partnerships, you can’t lose as long as you keep finding new places to make memories in together.

Short Travel Quotes With Friends

It takes a little practice to master how to travel alone before you become a pro, making some of the best quotes about travel those celebrating time spent with your favourite crew. These endearing short travel quotes are apt for your group adventures.

“Life is short, and the world is wide.” – Simon Raven

There’s a massive planet to behold; share its discovery with special people.

“Life is meant for good friends and great adventures.” – Unknown

Go encounter phenomenal places with treasured people to truly enjoy the fullness of life.

“Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman

The more curious you and your travel companions are about the world, the more you’ll reap in return.

“Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends” – Shirley MacLaine

When you travel, you interact with different people and often make new lifelong friends in the most fascinating parts of the world.

Next Read: Going boldly into the world without fear is priceless, but it’s wise to cover your bases. Get the 411 on the importance of travel insurance in this article.

“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

Meeting people and forming genuine connections are central to your biggest travel takeaways.

Short Funny Travel Quotes

I love travel memes and find funny short-trip quotes just as amusing. There will be travel escapades that feature unexpected, unplanned, or hilarious quirks. They’re part of the stories you’ll share over and over. So why not use clever short quotes to capture the humour?

“Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark

Approach each trip with enduring enthusiasm and energy.

“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein

Always try to enjoy every aspect of the full journey, not just the final destination.

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

You might not be able to see it all, but you can certainly try.

“A hangover suggests a great night, jet lag suggests a great adventure.” – J.D. Andrews

While partying is fun, don’t let it hinder the full scope of your travel experiences.

“I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – Melody Truong

This is one of the most poetic ways to describe what wanderlust means for some people.

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw

Embrace trips that are nothing like what you’re used to at home; put the comfort zone on the back burner.

“A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

Let spontaneity drive all the elements of the voyage from start to finish.

Short Travelling Quotes | The Final Say

There it is, some of the best, unique, funny, inspirational, and Insta-worthy short quotes about travelling the world. With this fun list of what to say to inspire an unforgettable vacay, it’s time to let your passport do all the talking.

Whether your next dream destination is an island escape, a trip to a flashy city, or a desert retreat, you’ve got meaningful short quips to capture all your memorable moments.

If your upcoming journey involves exciting, action-packed activities, here are winning adventure quotes to match your one-of-a-kind holiday exploits.

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Motivational And Inspirational Quotes

95 Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Next Adventure

• May 16, 2024
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I’ve curated some of the most famous and amazing travel quotes of all time to inspire you to book your tickets and get ready with your backpacks for a new adventure.

Find and share some amazing, funny quotes on traveling with pictures, images, and wallpapers for you to share with friends and family.

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Travel quotes have the power to inspire us to explore new places, experience new cultures, and create unforgettable memories.

They remind us that there is a big, wide world out there waiting to be discovered and that the journey is just as important as the destination.

These and other quotes highlight the refreshing power of travel. Whether you’re seeking adventure, relaxation , or personal growth, traveling can offer it all.

So pack your bags, step out of your comfort zone, and embark on a journey of self-discovery.

Top 1o Travel Quotes To Inspire Adventure

• “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Anderson

• “I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein

• “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

• “Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller
• “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu
• “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

Best Quotes About Traveling

Whether we’re setting out on a long journey or simply exploring our own backyard, travel quotes encourage us to embrace the unknown and live our lives to the fullest.

These short traveling quotes will fuel your wanderlust and inspire you to plan your next vacation to a cruise, beach, or mountains to take a break and relax from all the stress of life.

• “Travel is recess and we need it.” – Rick Steves
• “Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn
• “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

• “The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.” – Lao Tzu

• “Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves.” – Euripides
• “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman
• “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
• “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde
• “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” – Trenton Lee Stewart
• “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
• “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
• “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

Famous Quotes About Travel

Travel quotes come from a diverse range of people, from famous writers and philosophers to adventurers and everyday travelers.

Some speak to the wonder of seeing new sights, while others focus on the transformative power of travel on the soul.

Travel quotes can motivate us to step out of our comfort zones and seek new experiences.

• “Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark
• “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell
• “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

• “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

• “Still round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

• “Nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation.” – Gayland Anderson
• “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
• “The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton
• “It doesn’t matter where you are. You are nowhere compared to where you can go.” –  Bob Proctor
• “You never really travel alone. The world is full of friends waiting to get to know you.” – Unknown
• “There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” – Mandy Hale
• “Our footprints always follow us on days when it’s been snowing. They always show us where we’ve been, but never where we’re going.” – Winnie the Pooh

Inspirational Travel Quotes

Traveling is a way of discovering new places, cultures, and experiences. It can broaden your horizons and provide you with a fresh perspective on life.

The excitement of exploring unknown territories, trying new foods, and meeting different people can make traveling one of the most fulfilling activities a person can engage in.

• “Fall in love with the journey, not the destination.” – Unknown
• “There are no shortcuts to any place worth going.” – Beverly Sills
• “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni
• “When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.” – Unknown
• “I am a girl gone international because…. I love traveling alone.” – Unknown
• “It’s okay if you’ve got to travel alone sometimes. You are brave enough.” – Unknown
• “When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.” –   Liberty Hyde Bailey
• “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” –   The Dhammapada
• “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” –   Daphne du Maurier
• “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
• “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide
• “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner
• “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
• “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew
• “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Next Trip

• “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery
• “Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling.” – Unknown
• “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it is lethal.” – Paulo Coelho
• “I won’t stop traveling until I’ve seen the sunset from every coast.” – Unknown
• “The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens
• “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
• “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
• “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
• “The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton
• “Fill your life with experiences not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” – Cara Alwill Leyba
• “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang
• “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” ― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

Best Quotes On Travelling

Throughout history, travelers have recorded their journeys in various forms, from journal entries to novels, poems, and songs.

Many of these writings contain insightful and inspiring quotes about the joys and benefits of traveling.

• “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” –  Paul Theroux

• “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
• “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg
• “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill
• “Sometimes the greatest adventure is simply a conversation.” – Unknown
• “Sometimes you just need an adventure to cleanse the bitter taste of life from your soul.” – Unknown
• “It’s wonderful to travel with somebody that you love and we never travel anywhere without one another.” – Roger Moore
• “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost
• “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” – Mark Twain
• “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
• “I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

Short Travelling Captions For Instagram

Looking for the perfect captions for your vacation selfies? I have got the best collection of cool and savage travel captions and sayings that will get tonnes of likes to your photos on IG and Facebook.

You can also use these short traveling quotes as your status to let the world know about your trip and adventure!

• I want to travel.
• Take me with you.
• I need Vitamin SEA.
• Find joy in the journey.
• Why not…travel alone?
• Life is better in flip-flops.
• I want to travel the world.
• Work, Travel, Save, Repeat.
• Collect moments, not things.
• There’s a whole world out there.
• Travel is the healthiest addiction.
• Life is short and the world is wide.
• Travel is the best teacher.
• Travel is an investment in yourself.
• To travel is to take a journey into yourself.
• My passport is SCREAMING to be stamped.
• My goal is to run out of pages in my passport.
• Travel. Your money will return. Your time won’t.
• Let’s travel together and get lost in beautiful places.
• Spin the globe, wherever it lands that’s where we’ll go.
• Travel is the only thing you buy, that makes you richer.
• We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.
• Travel alone and see things from a different point of view.
• Can we just skip to the part of my life where I travel the world?
• It doesn’t matter where you’re going. It’s who you have beside you.
• Traveling is about finding those things you never knew you were looking for.

Funny Travel Quotes

• “Oh the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss
• “Don’t call it a dream…call it a plan.” – Unknown
• “Love is the food of life, travel is dessert.” – Unknown
• “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.” – Unknown
• “A change of latitude would help my attitude.” – Unknown
• “A great way to learn about your country is to leave it.” – Henry Rollins
• “I want to live in a world where searching for plane tickets burns calories.” – Unknown
• “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
• “I travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations.” – Nyssa P. Chopra
• “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller

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In a world that can often feel chaotic and overwhelming, quotes about traveling offer a much-needed sense of perspective and hope with a breath of fresh air.

They remind us that there is more to life than our daily routines and responsibilities and that the world is waiting to be discovered.

Which is your favorite travel quote? If we have missed some quotes, share them with us in the comment section below and we shall be happy to add them to the list.

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Words are powerful, and it is often due to the best travel quotes that I have been inspired to travel the world and reach for my dreams!

So no matter if you’re psyching yourself for an upcoming trip or simply scrolling through your phone to gain some added motivation, there are a number of travel quotes that can totally match what you’re feeling. Much like the best travel movies, the best travel quotes ever are powerful in inspiring just about anyone — AND also fun to collect!

That’s why in this post, I have gathered some of the best travel quotes that I love and that made an impact on me as I traveled the world these past years.

In fact, I’m sure you’ll find what you need here as I separate them in these sections:

Table of Contents

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… Or do you want to discover 50 unusual travel words?

Find out their interesting and beautiful meanings through this unusual travel words list.

Lesser-Known Travel Quotes

1. “ Blessed are the curious for they will have adventures. “ – Lovelle Drachman

This is one of the best travel quotes that affirm the notion that those who have the undying enthusiasm to discover new places, things, and even knowledge will always be rewarded with exciting encounters and memories! Don’t you agree?

2. “ A great way to learn about your country is to leave it. “ – Henry Rollins

The first time I read this travel quote, I couldn’t help but laugh because it is SO true! In fact, the first time I flew out of my home country, the Philippines , and landed in the city of Hong Kong , I was just blown away!

Among many other things, I couldn’t help but compare the infrastructure and public transportation (yep, we are far behind!) . I even learned about how others viewed my country as well as us Filipinos, and though it was disconcerting at first, it was — for the most part — refreshing to see how others perceived the place that I grew up in. You bet that the little bubble that I was living in was burst open and it exposed me to a world that challenged what I know while presenting me with new insights that I couldn’t have known had I cooped myself home.

3. “ Travel opens your mind as few other things do. It is its own form of hypnotism, and I am forever under its spell. “ – Libba Bray

I love how poetic this quote is by Libba Bray because I am absolutely under travel’s spell for several years now… and if it IS hypnotism, I don’t ever want to snap out of it! How about you?

4. “ We must travel in the direction of our fear. “ – John Berryman

I gotta admit, I used to fear the thought of traveling to India . Countless stories from friends and families alike kept me from ever setting foot in the country — but I knew that deep within me, amidst the fear that was built up by others’ words, was a deep desire to see the country for myself… and so, I booked a ticket.

Much like what this travel quote says, I traveled in the direction of my fear, and it was an amazing decision! After all, I had the chance to challenge the wrong ideas in my head and when I got over it, the ordeal brought me clarity and made me into a better person as I learned better to never let prejudice rule me.

5. “ Live your life by a compass, not a clock. “ – Stephen Covey

The best travel quotes always have a beautiful message like this one! After all, we were not born to solely work and waste our life away in society’s pre-set motions. We are more than the hours we put in at work and the obligations that we hold. We deserve to enjoy life as it is and to see more of what this world has to offer us!

True enough, in this context, a compass can mean a lot of things; but the way I see it, other than the meaning of giving ourselves the chance to wander off to places anew, it also represents the sense of following a certain direction — a direction to which our heart is leading us to, may that be a breather or a dream that has been put on hold.

6. “ You don’t have to be rich to travel well. “ – Eugene Fodor

We can’t deny the fact that travel costs money BUT it doesn’t have to be costly .

For years now, a lot of travelers and backpackers have already proven how they can have meaningful travels without breaking the bank — take it from me as well who was able to afford to travel the world and tick off all 7 continents without spending a fortune! So don’t ever let money be an excuse not to travel .

7. “ Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul. “ – Jamie Lyn Beatty

While we’re still talking about money, YES, we all need money to live, that’s a fact; however, it’s vital that we do not to let it rule us. We must always seek a balance in which we could unwind and go on trips in order to enrich our lives.

It’s just like what this axiom says: adventures DO fill our souls.

8. “ If you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: it’s lethal. “ – Paulo Coelho

Some people find solace in routine, but it helps to remember that you are not a cog in a machine that’s designed to do repetitive actions day in, day out. Of course, I can’t deny that there’s beauty in the mundaneness of everyday life; but if you find yourself seeking comfort in it for the sole reason that you fear something new, then it’s time to put a stop to it and get out of your comfort zone!

9. “I would rather own a little and see the world than own the world and see a little of it.” – Alexander Sattler

Sometimes, we get too caught up with work with the goal of saving up for future adventures — but what actually ends up happening is that you get distracted by the process. You work more, you buy more. You get caught up in it all. So… what happened to your travel dreams?

It’s quite easy to forget why you’re working in the first place, so try not get swept up by shallow things.

10. “ Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experiences. “ – Paulo Coelho

Can you think of an activity or a trip that you thought was initially risky — and yet it turned out to be the best travel experience that you ever had and you just can’t imagine yourself not taking it?

11. “ People travel because it teaches them things they could learn no other way. “ – Lance Morrow”

This is one of the best travel quotes that is truthful and straight to the point! Apart from obvious added life skills such as learning how to navigate yourself through foreign public transportation, or learning how to speak and converse with the use of foreign languages, travel also exposes you to other people who have stories of their own and other cultures that are totally different than yours.

Case in point, had you stayed home, you would have never seen with your own eyes that some people just don’t live the way you do — and that it’s okay. Or that other communities find something you initially deemed as offensive as something that is normal and accepted — and that’s also okay!

Travel simply broadens the way you understand and perceive the world, and the opportunities for learning are always endless! It is truly a form of education that is beyond any book or classroom.

12. “ To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life. “ – Walter Mitty ( The Secret Life of Walter Mitty )

Have you watched this movie before? It is one of my favorite travel movies and I highly suggest giving it a try to give you a boost of motivation to travel!

13. “ I travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations. “ – Nyssa P. Chopra

While there is nothing wrong with the aim of crossing countries off of your bucketlist, it can prove to be helpful to develop a sense of passion or meaning to why you choose to travel.

14. “ Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. “ – Benjamin Disraeli

…but, if you have to think of one travel memory that stands out above the rest, what would that be?

15. “ Don’t ask for security, ask for adventure. Better to live 30 years full of adventure than 100 years safe. “ – Jim Rohn

I acknowledge the fact that we all have different priorities in life and there’s nothing wrong if your priority is to be financially secure at an early age. So though this travel phrase might not resonate with you, I hope you can also see the bit of truth in it that as it is with life, it’s a lot better to try and go for adventures while we’re still young and able to. So don’t waste what you have now!

16. “ I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. “ – Mary Anne Radmacher

FACT : travel changes you and this artistic or aesthetic quote captures this thought perfectly. The changes may be small at times, but traveling never fails to leave its mark as it enables you to soak in a new learning or two.

17. “ Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. “ – Erol Ozan

I’ve gone through this myself far too many times now and it’s always a pleasant surprise to stumble upon unexpected discoveries. Given this probability, I often make it a point to wander around a new destination with no direction in mind!

So tell me, what amazing place have you managed to find by accident?

18. “ Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to. “ – Alan Keightley

The world is constantly changing along with people’s mindsets and preferences; so don’t ever box yourself in thinking that there is just one fixed style of travel — or that there is just one way to live.

In fact, years ago, I was told to lead my life as my parents did: get a job, marry, and have kids. Dreams have to take the backseat. It was suffocating but it was the only way I knew; that’s why I’m glad my eyes were opened to a number of other possibilities… and here I am today, experiencing the world the way I NOW know how, and the way that I want it to!

19. “ There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed. “ – Kate Douglas Wiggin

Similar to the meaning behind quote #16, the effect of travel is akin to some sort of enchantment because one’s exposure to a variety of novel occurrences can bring forth valuable insights that can change just about anyone — and for the better at that!

20. “ If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home. “ – James Michener

You can’t fully be immersed in your travels if you close yourself to the world and the reality that’s before you. Yes, it will make you feel uncomfortable — you’re in a new environment after all — but if you take the time to breathe and see what’s in front of you for what it is, you’ll be surprised at how unfounded your fears are. So try to be a bit more open, or else there might not be a point in your travels.

21. “ I’ll look back on this and smile because it was life and I decided to live it. “ – Anonymous

…and yes, you ARE living it!

22. “When you’re traveling, you are what you are, right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least-Heat Moon

The best travel quotes capture the beauty of traveling — as this saying goes, you can be who you want to be because of the simple fact that nobody knows you. Ain’t that swell?

23. “Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.” – Charles Dickens

I tend to think that the grass is always greener on the other side, but travel has taught me that the grass was already green where I was! Oftentimes, we take some things for granted, and for me, I used to think that the Philippines wasn’t a great place to live in — so I left. But after living in Europe for a while, I started to develop a deeper fondness for my home country. Of course, Europe was better in a LOT of things (it’s made up of a lot of first-world countries after all) but I’ve since learned that every place has its own pros and cons. The Philippines clearly had a lot more cons, but I now see its own beauty that I will never exchange for another place.

And above all, it is home.

24. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block

I’m sure you all have fun or funny stories related to this! If you have the time, I’d love to hear about it. Please leave a comment at the bottommost part of this post!

25. “This is a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us.” – Oberyn Martell ( Game of Thrones )

When I started watching this TV series, I never thought that I would stumble upon one of the most impactful travel quotes there is!

Short Travel Quotes

26. “Work, Save, Travel, Repeat” – Anonymous

This is one of the best short travel quotes you’ve probably already heard of, but it’s a classic because it’s the kind of cycle that we just simply do in order to achieve our dreams of visiting different destinations all over the world. Some of you will grind the 9-to-5, while others choose to do remote work — and I do travel writing while being an online entrepreneur.

But whatever your profession may be, just know through this catchphrase that travel is never impossible.

27. “If not now, when?” – Primo Levi

Don’t put off your travel plans any longer! If you’re going to wait for that perfect set-up, you might wake up one day realizing that you’ve missed so many opportunities to just do it . Worse, you might already be too old to do, for instance, that hiking trail that you’ve always wanted to conquer. So hear me out: do it ASAP.

If you ever need some ideas on which destinations to go to and how to plan, don’t fret because I got you covered with my itinerary guides . So that’s definitely one thing you won’t have to worry about!

28. “Life is short and the world is wide.” – Simon Raven

A longer version of this quote goes like this: “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.”

This is actually one of the best travel quotes that I have first encountered after I took the leap of faith to quit my job and travel the world . It’s simple but it holds so much truth. Besides, the sooner that you can try and jumpstart your journey, the better it will be!

29. “Oh, the places you’ll go!” – Dr. Seuss

With childlike wonder, positivity, and anticipation, I hope this quote inspires you to picture all of the new places that you’ll soon be setting foot in!

30. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

I may be a LOTR fan… but with no bias at all, I can honestly say that this is one of the best adventure quotes out there. Sure, it may be overused by now, but it’s like that for a reason: it’s relevant and it just holds so much truth.

After all, most people tend to think that those who travel are out there in order to ‘find themselves ‘ — which, of course, could also be the case — but there are also those people who journey through the world because they feel more like themselves than ever before.

31. “ Don’t call it a dream, call it a plan. “ – Anonymous

This isn’t just one of the best travel quotes but also basically one of the best life quotes out there.

So whatever your reason is for putting off what you’ve always dreamed of — be it time constraints, lack of travel resources , or motivation — just remember that NOW is the perfect time to start making your dream your new reality. In fact, it shouldn’t simply be a dream, but a plan where you set certain actionable steps in order to attain whatever it is that you want to achieve.

32. “ Life is a journey, not a destination. “ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is the kind of adventure quote that is used for just about anything: may it be for self-help, mindfulness, or for travel.

Life is indeed a journey. It’s about living in the moment — in every little moment. Because the truth of the matter is, the destination is not nearly as important as to how we get ‘there’ or how we spend the whole of it. So take joy in any present experience, no matter if they are a mix of highs and lows. Don’t waste the present for an uncertain future!

33. “ Collect moments, not things. “ – Karen Salmansohn

The best travel quotes remind us how fulfilling and lasting joy can never be derived from things. Just think about it: you might have felt extreme joy when you got your first iPhone — BUT, that doesn’t have much of an impact compared to when you finally fulfilled that dream vacation.

You can easily lose interest in a new gadget, but you will forever cherish a fond memory. So imagine collecting a lot more of those glorious memories… won’t that be more amazing than a number of objects that can easily disappear or deteriorate?

34. “ Paris is always a good idea. “ – Sabrina (1995), Julia Ormond

A lot of people seem to have wrongfully attributed this travel quote to Audrey Hepburn’s character, Sabrina (1954 film). However, she NEVER said this line; instead, it was Julia Ormond’s Sabrina character in the 1995 movie version who said it.

Fascinating, right? Since Audrey is a more well-known actress, it makes sense that her name was used… but anyway, I hope this helps clear things up once and for all. That fun trivia aside, this is still one of the best travel quotes out there. Even if some people would argue that Paris is overrated, it’s still and always will be a good idea. Another quote you might love as well is when Humphrey Bogart uttered:

“We’ll always have Paris.”

35. “ The journey not the arrival matters. “ – T.S. Eliot

This simple quote may or may not resonate with you; but sometimes, there are in-between experiences that are often more worthy to be ‘savored’. This is actually similar to quote #32 wherein both of the quotes basically deliver the message that getting there is half the fun!

36. “ To travel is to live. “ – Hans Christian Andersen

This is one of the best travel quotes that is simple yet profound. It is actually an excerpt from Hans’ autobiography wherein the whole of it goes like this…

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.”

37. “ Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. “ – Helen Keller

…and the rest of this goes…

“ Security does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than exposure.” ( TRIVIA : The ‘at all’ part above wasn’t originally written in).

By the way, Helen’s quote is actually one of the top best travel quotes that I lived by in the past years. After all, we only have one short precious life… so why not just make the most of it?

38. “ Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire. “ – Jennifer Lee

We are all searching for something that stirs up a passionate spirit within us, and if you’re lucky enough to find what that is, you must definitely do everything in your power to go for it! In my case, it was traveling… it always has been. I pursued it with such fervor and my life has truly been a bliss since then! As such, I hope that you’ll find yours too.

39. “ Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. “ – Anonymous

As someone who is also passionate about financial management, I would have to cheekily point out that travel does NOT technically grant you more money, compared to buying things like investments, etc. I mean, that’s just basic common sense.

However, we also know that traveling gives us a lot of invaluable things that would actually help make us richer in terms of knowledge, friends, skills, and so much more!

40. “ Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted . “ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

This is an example of the best travel quotes that have been changed or paraphrased over time. Ralph’s actual quote for this was:

“ Dare to live the life you have dreamed for yourself. Go forward and make your dreams come true.”

I hope this serves as a reminder that it’s about time you step out of your comfort zone and finally take that leap of faith. For instance, does traveling solo in Europe scare you even if it’s something you’ve been dying to do? If it is, try and challenge that fear. Look at how others have been able to do it — so you’ll surely be able to do it too! There’s no better time to dare yourself than NOW.

41. “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.” – Lewis Carroll

This is similar to another life quote that I love so dearly:

“ Making a big life change is pretty scary. But, know what’s even scarier? Regret . “

There have been so many people, mostly seniors, in my travels who have shared their sentiments that mostly revolve around this idea. Those conversations struck me deeply and I hope it will help you realize — just as much as I did — to take more chances rather than end up regretting not doing anything at all.

42. “ I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met. “ – Melody Truong

Did you know? This is one of the best travel quotes that has been written by someone so young! Melody was only 13 when she wrote this on her Tumblr page, and since then it blew up — plus, it was even WRONGLY attributed to the author of the book, ‘ The Fault in our Stars ‘. Anyhow, I’m sure you have felt the same sentiments that Melody stated in this travel quote. It’s quite a melancholic feeling, but it’s the kind of longing that can easily be remedied with a purchase of a plane ticket ! * wink *

43. “ I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I’ve never been before. “ – Bill Bryson

Don’t you just love this? If you ask me, traveling is the closest thing to living multiple lives because every trip that I take, it gives me the chance to transform myself into someone else. Or maybe I could even start over from a clean slate where I can truly be me — to show a face that I have never shown to anyone before. It’s absolutely fun, like that first day in school where you’re afraid yet also excited about the idea of meeting new people, new encounters, and so much more!

The brand new unfamiliarity of just about everything is the topmost allure to traveling, don’t you think so too?

44. “ I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. “ – Susan Sontag

This is what most travelers feel, and even if it’s close to impossible to see just about every single place in the world, our list will keep on growing. And we will do everything in our power to try and see as much as we could! Personally, I’m in no rush to see it all but it would surely be amazing to be able to do so.

45. “ Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you. “ – Anonymous

Naturally, there are risks involved when you go on any adventure; but more often than not, the rewards far outweigh the risks. Sometimes, those risks would either cease to exist or turn into wonderful experiences instead! (That being said, don’t ever forget to buy travel insurance !)

Now, of course, I acknowledge the fact that people are often content with the normal course: get a job, get married, have kids, and retire. But if you feel that there is more that you want out of life, get out of that rut and do more of what you want to do! Similar to this, I also love the following quote by Maya Mendoza…

“No amount of security is worth the suffering of a mediocre life chained to a routine that has killed your dreams.”

46. “ Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time. “ – Aliyyah Eniath

This is one of the best travel quotes that has an underlying message of ecological conservation . As travelers, we must always find ways to minimize our impact on nature. We only have one Earth, so we should do our part in ensuring that we continue to preserve this world’s flora and fauna. If I may leave a tip, always try to carry a bag with you where you can stash any waste you produce or see in any place that you travel to — may it be to the beach or to the mountains.

47. “I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m on my way.” – Carl Sandburg

At times, especially when you’re on a long term travel spree — or even with life, in general — there will be moments where you just don’t know what you’re doing or what you’re even trying to get to. But so long as you’re working towards something, know that you’re still heading in the right direction.

48. “ There’s no time to be bored in a world as beautiful as this. “ – Matt Hogan

I hope this serves as a helpful reminder if you ever catch yourself thinking that you’re bored. In fact, ‘travel’ can be as simple as a trip to a nearby lake or a hiking trail — the world is basically your playground, so remember that there is much for you to see and do!

49. “ Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret. “ – Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde led an extraordinary life and if you want to gain more context behind this famous travel quote of his, you should try reading his biography book that’s written by Richard Ellmann. Anyhow, I definitely believe that living life with no excuses and traveling to your heart’s content is a wonderful mantra!

50. “ When was the last time you did something for the first time? “ – John C. Maxwell

The best travel quotes serve as great prompts for all of us to continue learning, exploring, and experiencing new adventures! It will not only help us lead a fun and fulfilling life, but also in getting of a rut when things seem to slip into monotony.

51. “ Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. “ – Instructions for Life (1999)

Here’s an interesting fact for you: you might have seen this quote being attributed to the Dalai Lama, but he actually NEVER said this! Nevertheless, this remains to be wise words that I hope you get to follow because it’s truly a great goal to travel to a new place at least once a year.

52. “ The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams. “ – Oprah Winfrey

This quote isn’t exactly for travel, but it sure works as one of the best travel quotes that will help pump you up in reaching for your dreams — whatever that may be! If you ask me, it actually still feels surreal that I’m now living my dreams… because 10 years ago, if you told me that this would be my new lifelong lifestyle, I would have NEVER believed you! And in the words of Oprah, it has been one big adventure full of ups and downs; however, it’s the kind of ordeal that I won’t ever give up nor turn away from.

53. “ Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. “ – Gustav Flaubert

Traveling is definitely a humbling experience that opens you up to new perspectives especially about your existence. Sure, it could make you feel insignificant and small like a drop of water in the ocean, but I rather see it as a positive thing because it helps you focus on what really matters. It shreds away any frivolities and superficial things that you’ve previously deemed as important in life.

There have been numerous encounters where I have gone through this feeling such as when I felt the scale of the world and its environmental issues when I traveled down to Antarctica , or how little my problems were when I witnessed India ‘s slums.

54. “ Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. “ – Ibn Battuta

Every adventure grants you a ‘book’ of stories and memories; in fact, this is one of the best travel quotes that describes why I set up a travel blog in the first place! It has always been my wish to impart inspiration and tips through my own travel experiences, so this online space has been perfect for my needs.

Though… if I may so myself, don’t you think that sometimes, words aren’t just enough to describe what you’ve been through? I guess this is why we also tell our stories so that others could take their own adventures and go through what we’ve been through ourselves — by then, they will fully understand what we meant.

55. “ We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls. “ – Anais Nin

This is one of the best travel quotes that would describe the future me because I’m 100% sure that I will be traveling forever — or of course, for as long as I’m alive. Do you think you’ll be the same?

56. “ A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. “ – Tim Cahill

I totally agree with this one! I’ve met a lot of amazing friends from all over the world and I’m sure you know the saying that sometimes it’s your companions that help shape a travel trip — and you bet that the times I’ve spent with people have made my travels even more fun and fulfilling.

57. “ Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. “ – Neale Donald Walsch

Years ago, if I didn’t venture beyond my comfort zone, I would have still been depressed, working a 9-to-5 job that I didn’t love as I lived from paycheck to paycheck. That wasn’t my definition of ‘living’ nor will it ever be my passion nor my cup of tea — so I took the leap. And boy, I have never looked back since then! It wasn’t easy, that’s for sure, but the end result was worth my prior struggles.

58. “ Of all the books in all the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport. “ – Saber Ben Hassen

One could argue the semantics of calling a passport a ‘ book ‘, but in its essence, it certainly serves as one. This is for the reason that every stamp, every tear, and every crease holds a multitude of amazing memories and encounters!

59. “ Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures. “ – Anonymous

There are a ton of ideas out there on gifts for travelers and naturally, granting someone a gift where they can go travel is the best of all!

P.S. The quote above is wrongfully attributed to Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. A lot of merchandisers have used his name to sell the quote and I understand it’s lovely, but up till now I can’t find the right author of the quote — but it’s definitely NOT from Lewis Carroll.

60. “ To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world .” – Freya Stark

Remember those first mornings you’ve had in foreign places? You’ll first wake up feeling disconcerted and then… it dawns on you that you’re in a new destination. Next is the excitement and thrill as you realize the number of fresh experiences you’ll soon encounter. Aaaah… I can’t wait to wake up in a new country soon!

61. “ To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. “ – Aldous Huxley

We all have preconceived notions about countries, cultures, and people in general. We hear them from the media and even from our own friends, but this is one of the best travel quotes that reiterates the idea of how you have to see things for yourself before forming strong opinions about anything.

62. “ Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore. “ – Andre Gide

This is literally a perfect ‘mantra’ for travelers; but altogether, it’s a great message for how we should lead our lives. Plus, much like the rest of these adventure quotes, this one tells us the obvious truth that we can’t grow nor accomplish anything until we let ourselves do things that we have never done before.

63. “ The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. “ – Saint Augustine

Don’t delay your travel plans any further, it’s time to fuel your wanderlust and see the places you’ve long wanted to see! Just like what this famous travel quote says, if you don’t go anywhere, you’ll definitely have a limited view of the world.

64. “ Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. “ – An Asian Proverb

Similar to quote #61 above, it’s preferable that we witness something with our own two eyes than to base it off on other people’s opinions or observations. Even if let’s say, they dissuade you to visit it because it’s dangerous or too touristy, I urge you to find out for yourself.

65. “ We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. “ – Robyn Yong

A lot of us see travel as an escape from our daily life, but this is one of the best travel quotes that puts a nice spin to it because, in actuality, our mundane daily life is where life escapes us. Travel is one of the greatest solutions that helps revitalize our spirits and brings back our zest for life. Don’t you agree?

66. “ We wander for distraction but we travel for fulfillment. “ – Hilaire Belloc

Similar to the previous quote, we’re usually lost at first when we wander since we want to distract ourselves from anything that we want to escape from. But as you go through the motions, you’ll start to know yourself better and what your limits are… and in one of those moments, you’ll slowly start to feel that travel truly is for your fulfilment.

67. “ Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. “ – Anita Desai

The same way that friends can shape up who we are, the places we’ve seen and the encounters we’ve been through will forever make an impact on us. It can manifest into different things, may it be a change or an improvement in your mannerisms, favorites, values, and so on. In fact, a new language or a new friend can easily “become a part of you” and that’s a wonderful thing!

68. “ Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind. “ – Marty Rubin

I have some qualms with this particular quote but I can see that it has a meaningful message. If there is one thing that I think we should leave behind within ourselves when we travel, that would be prejudices; but then again, as we venture out into the world, it is naturally broken down. Don’t you agree? Other than prejudices, preconceived notions of fear is also an ideal thing to get rid of in order to truly come face to face with adventures of all kinds!

69. “ A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. “ – Lao Tzu

I believe that what Lao Tzu wanted to say about this quote is that we should basically live in the present moment — a focus on the ‘now’ is always a lot better than a focus on the outcome because doing so will help us be more open to a range of sudden opportunities and possibilities. Besides, more often than not, the best travel experiences come from unplanned situations!

70. “ Travel. As much as you can. As far as you can. As long as you can. Life’s not meant to be lived in one place. “ – Anonymous

Sure enough, there is an ENORMOUS world out there with various people to meet, cultures to see, food to try, and sights to enjoy. Staying in just one place may work for you, but just think of how much you’re missing out on some of the things that this world has to offer — so why not take advantage of it while you’re still here?

71. “ We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost. “ – Ray Bradbury

Travel always finds a way to unlock a myriad of emotions, desires and circumstances. Tell me, for what reason do you travel?

72. “ If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet. “ – Rachel Wolchin

I love the clever way this quote was written, and indeed, we’re not plants meant to sit in just one spot and grow — we got feet for moving. And it’s not just for walking from home to work or elsewhere, but it’s for us to explore… and to just basically feel, that yes, we are here and we are alive.

73. “ Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. “ – Ralph Waldo Emerson

While I don’t advise following this quote when you’re going on a hike (lol, unless okay, you know the terrain like the back of your hand) , this quote is amazing — literal meanings aside. After all, there is joy in carving out your own path away from what’s normal and what’s overdone. If you take it a step further and apply it to life in general, you can partake on a journey that no one has ever done before, and you’re sure to leave a mark that will pave the way for others to follow suit.

74. “ I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. “ – Robert Louis Stevenson

We all have our reasons for traveling, and you might not wholly agree with what Robert says here, but… I believe we can all agree on his last sentence: the great affair is to move — and to go beyond than just getting from point A to point B.

75. “ Wanderlust consumed her; foreign hearts and exotic minds compelled her. She had a gypsy soul and a vibrant hope for the unknown. “ – D. Marie

In case you don’t know it yet, wanderlust is defined as the strong longing or impulse for wandering/traveling. That being said, this is definitely one of those inspirational quotes that a lot of female travelers use. Though some may find a negative connotation to the word ‘gypsy’, a gypsy soul is said to refer to a person who loves movement and freedom.

Long Travel Quotes

76. “We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known . “ – Carson McCullers

Similar to quote #42 above, this is one of the best travel quotes that depicts our longing for places beyond!

77. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

A lot of people say that travel is the best way to test a relationship — not only for partners but also for friends, and I totally agree with them! Do you? If you do, can you share a particular story that encapsulates the thought in this travel quote?

For me, apart from testing the waters with my past boyfriends, I fondly remember going on a trip with this girl that I met during my travels. One of my blogging projects permitted me to bring a +1 along and I immediately thought of her who was also in the area. Besides, she was really cool and I even enjoyed her company, so I was all, “ why not? ” Well.. to my surprise, I discovered that she was a total diva and she was also the most condescending person that I’ve ever met who was super disrespectful to servers and waiters alike. It made me really glad that I saw that side of her sooner rather than later!

78. “ The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. “ – Shirley MacLaine

Don’t you agree with this? Because I do. We all ‘fear’ the unknown — or whatever it is that is different from us or from what we’re used to. But I think that if we just take the time to be open and understanding, we can quickly realize that we are all just one and the same.

79. “ When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money. “ – Susan Heller

Preparing your luggage for a trip can be such an arduous task and this quote cleverly sums up what needs to be done — but if you ever need a ‘helping hand’, you should check out my packing guides !

80. “ I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see. “ – Carew Papritz

If someone asks me why I travel, this is one of the best travel quotes that answers one of my top reasons why! How about you?

81. “ Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. “ – Judith Thurman

If you look back to quote #76 above, you will see how the message of this saying by Judith is very similar.

82. “ Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere. “ – Isabelle Eberhardt

This holds so much truth for me because honestly, I never had the urge nor dream to travel when I was young. I was absolutely content with the little island that I grew up in —but the more that I was exposed to the world (and even more so after my first trip abroad) , I was hit with the realization that I DO yearn for more!

83. “ We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open. “ – Jawaharial Nehru

To desire for adventures is one thing, but to be wholly appreciative and understanding of what you see in your travels is another matter that you must forever remember to hold.

84. “ And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later. “ – Randy Komisar

Related to adage #15 in this list, I am in love with the message that this quote is saying… but of course, I also recognize the idealistic message behind it because not everyone has the privilege to get up and take the leap to follow their dreams. But I hope that my story can help inspire you to see it is still possible because even someone like me who was broke and coming from dire circumstances was still able to risk it all and land to where I am today. So whenever it’s possible, no matter how small the steps may be, try and follow your passions or dreams.

85. “ The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. “ – Eleanor Roosevelt

Life is what you make it and with this one precious life you have, I hope you’re making the most of it!

86. “T o my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted. “ – Bill Bryson

The best travel quotes like this one often reminds us how the novelty of traveling is truly a feeling that anyone could get addicted to. In fact, even the smallest things can already seem so fascinating that they will just bring a smile to your face!

87. “ But the most beautiful things in life are just not things. They’re people and places, memories and pictures. They’re feeling and moments and smiles and laughter. “ – Anonymous

This is one of the best travel quotes (much like #33) that you’ve probably already heard of numerous times now — and it’s for the simple fact that it holds true!

88. “ Travel is like love, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end. “ – Pico Iyer

This is a great comparison because every trip that we take is akin to wearing rose-tinted glasses leading us to see everything in a fresh and wonderful light. Now, those glasses may or may not remain even after the trip ends, but much like what the last beautiful sentence says above: it’s a feeling, like a love affair, that will never really end!

89. “ You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. You’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again. “ – Azar Nafisi

There have been various instances as well as people that I wish I didn’t have to say goodbye to, but there IS one person that I don’t regret saying adieu — and that’s an older version of me. Besides, there has never been a travel experience that I didn’t come out as a better person, if not an improved ‘me’, and that is surely one of the beautiful things about it!

90. “ Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime . “ – Mark Twain

You’ve probably also heard of this awesome travel quote time and time again, but this is the sort of saying that will remain immortal because it simply holds true.

91. “ We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonics of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything. “ – Anonymous

Travel does not only affect creativity but a lot of other aspects in our minds as well: prejudice, bigotry, perception, preference, and so many others (just like what the #90 expression above says). And it’s surely this kind of change that I urge everyone to experience!

92. “ You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. “ – Miriam Adeney

This is yet another one of the best travel quotes that I love! So far, I have tried living in other places around the globe and the more I explore, the more I realize that home is everywhere yet also nowhere. At times it’s not even just about the people, because home for me could be a feeling, a familiar tune, or even a fond memory. It is always changing and it might be a price I have to pay, but I will never give it up for anything in the world.

93. “ 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

Anthony was a legend and his words will forever remain with us in this world. He traveled far and wide and he perfectly described the truth about travel. I especially love the phrase that goes: “ the journey changes you; it SHOULD change you.” Meanwhile, another passage by Anthony that I love is as follows…

If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.

94. “ Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving. “ – T erry Pratchett

This is exactly how I felt when I finally revisited my hometown in the Philippines, Batanes , after 10 long years! I can’t stress enough how mind-blowing it was to see how much things have changed, or how vibrant the seas and mountains actually were.

Simply put: I understood that I took things for granted and I surely saw my hometown with ‘new eyes and extra colors’ —and yes, it was amazing! But at the very core, even though there were some changes here and there, I realized that the one who changed the most… was me.

95. “ Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends. “ – Maya Angelou

This is another one of the best travel quotes (similar to the maxim in #78) that I love because it resonates with one of the important learnings that I’ve gained while traveling: to try and have a deeper appreciation and understanding of everyone and everything in this world.

The way I see it, the more people I meet, the more accepting I become of other people’s, customs, beliefs, etc. Now, of course, it doesn’t mean that I have to concede nor condone what they do if I feel that it’s something I don’t agree with in the first place; but rather, it simply gives me the chance to understand better. And I believe that such a simple act can already help open doors or build bridges, bit by bit… Don’t you agree?

96. “ The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. “ – Chris McCandles ( Into the Wild )

Have you seen this movie before? I’m not gonna spoil it for you but it does have a lot of best travel quotes like this one. We each have our own ideals on how to lead a fulfilling life. It will always vary, but I believe that one constant truth about it is that we find enjoyment in discovering new things that exposes us to what this world has to offer.

97. “ There’s an opposite to déjà vu. They call it jamais vu . It’s when you meet the same people or visit places, again and again, but each time is the first. Everybody is always a stranger. Nothing is ever familiar. “ – Chuck Palahniuk

This travel quote may or may not hold true for you, but I believe that we can all agree that there just are certain places, people and things that have this certain effect… No matter the number of times, some of them still feel like a brand new ‘meeting’. If you ask me, Japan is my top-of-mind country for this because even if I’ve been there for countless times, I still can’t get enough of it. Everything still feels new like a breath of fresh air!

98. “ Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts 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

It’s this kind of premise that scares a lot of new travelers, but hear me out: sure, travel can be brutal but NOT all the time. The start could be difficult but these kinds of experiences will help you realize how adaptable, independent and strong you can actually be. It could even be freeing, and the more you expose yourself to these kinds of things, the better you become.

99. “ But that’s the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don’t want to know what people are talking about. I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. “ – Bill Bryson

I love the phrase used by Bill here: ‘ childlike wonder ‘ because it truly encapsulates the emotion that I feel when I first step in a foreign country. With everything that’s new to me, it just makes me feel as if I’ve stepped into a whole new world — and that’s a feeling that I will never get enough of.

100. “ One fine day, it will be your turn. You will leave homes, cities and countries to pursue grander ambitions. You will leave friends, lovers and possibilities for the chance to roam the world and make deeper connections. You will defy your fear of change, hold your head high and do what you once thought was unthinkable: walk away. And it will be scary. At first. But what I hope you’ll find in the end is that in leaving, you don’t just find love, adventure or freedom. More than anything, you find you. “ – Isa Garcia

Not a lot of travel blogs have this on their list so YES, this is one of the lesser-known travel quotes and I’m so glad that I discovered it back in my Tumblr blogging years. Truth be told, this is one of those sayings that helped inspire me at the start of my journey to take a leap and I’m absolutely happy to say that that “ one fine day” for me has already happened. My turn was up and it has been amazing since then!

How about you, when is your turn gonna be?

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101. “Adventure is out there.”

102. “Work hard. Travel harder.”

103. “W e have nothing to lose, and a world to see. “

104. “There’s no way I was born to just pay bills and die.”

105. “The world is not in your books and maps; it’s out there.”

106. “Get busy living or get busy dying.”

107. “ BBN. Be back never. “

108. “…and so the adventure begins.”

109. “It’s bad manners to keep a vacation waiting. “

110. “It feels good to be lost in the right direction.”

111. “I followed my heart and it led me to the airport. “

112. “I’d rather have a passport full of stamps, than a house full of stuff.”

113. “You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough. “

114. “Quit your job, buy a ticket, get a tan, fall in love, never return.”

115. “ It does not do to dwell on dreams and forget to live. “

116. “Good things come to those who book flights.”

117. “ You must give everything to make your life as beautiful as the dreams that dance in your imagination. “

118. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do.”

119. “I travel because I’d rather look back at my life saying, ‘I can’t believe I did that’ instead of ‘if only I had’…”

120. “You don’t need magic to disappear, all you need is a destination.”

121. “Wander often, wonder always.”

122. “ Tired feet, happy heart. “

123. “ Catch flights, not feelings. “

124. “ Life is better in flip-flops. “

125. “ Let’s wander where the wi-fi is weak. “

126. “ And I think to myself, what a wonderful world . “

127. “ If traveling was free, you would never see me again .”

128. “ I do believe it’s time for another adventure. “

129. “The tan and jetlag will fade, but memories last forever.”

130. “So much of who we are is where we have been.”

I hope this comprehensive list of the best travel quotes from some of the greatest explorers and authors have ignited your wanderlust and inspired you to book that trip!

Do let me know in the comments section below as well which quotes do you love the most!

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These are some way too deeper and thoughtful quotes one can read. Some of them made me think out of the box. Thanks for sharing these gems, Aileen. Keep up the great work.

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50 Funny Travel Quotes to Inspire Your Wanderlust

Traveling the world can be an adventure filled with unforgettable experiences, and sometimes, it’s the funny moments that make the journey even more memorable.

Whether you’re backpacking across Europe, cruising the Caribbean, or exploring the mysteries of Asia, a good laugh is a universal language that connects us all. So, pack your sense of humor and enjoy these humorous travel quotes that will hopefully bring a smile to your face, no matter where you are on the globe.

50 Hilarious Travel Quotes

To change it up, I included my own spin to these quotes, sharing a snippet of my own adventures and memories after each, bringing these words to life with tales from my travel diary.

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

For the insatiable traveler, this quote is a witty nod to the never-ending bucket list. We’ve decided that our travel bucket list isn’t actually in a bucket anymore. It’s more like an expandable pocket dimension.

“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

So true! Traveling together non-stop for a year is how Micki and I learned marriage could work for us. If you can survive months living in a tiny van and still enjoy their company, you can likely get along forever.

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal”-  Paulo Coelho

It’s only funny because it’s true. Statistically, train connections in the USA are safer than getting out of bed every day. When in doubt, ride a train!

Birds literally just eat, travel, and shit on things they don’t like. I don’t know about you, but that’s the lifestyle I’m striving for. – Anonymous

Who knew that birdbrained might actually be a complement to some people. Having wings would be handy at times though.

“Jet Lag is for Amateurs.” – Dick Clark

This playful quip reminds us that true globetrotters know how to handle time zone changes with a grin. While it affects us all one way or another, pushing through it means you can get on with your journey sooner. Onward and upward!

“Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” – Al Gore

A humorous observation about the less-than-glamorous side of air travel. It’s why we always laugh when people go out of their way to look good on their passport pictures. We’ve found it’s better to look so run down that no matter how badly you’re doing on your day of travel that they won’t think something is wrong with you. Same logic applies to your driver’s license.

“I travel a lot, I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

Routine is just one of the many things nomads and wanderers try to avoid. Why have a repeat of yesterday when tomorrow can be anything?

“I’m a travel addict on the road to recovery. Just kidding, I’m headed to the airport.” – Anonymous

For those who find the allure of the airport irresistible, this quote is a humorous nod to our wanderlust. We purposely bought a house on one side of the city just to be closer to the airport. Just saying…

“Some tourists think Amsterdam is a city of sin, but in truth, it is a city of freedom. And in freedom, most people find sin.” – John Green

For me, this is a clever observation on the liberating spirit of travel and the adventures we’ll find when embracing that freedom. If the devil on your shoulder wins over the angel, that’s on you and not your destination. 😉

“There should be sympathy cards for having to go back to work after vacation.” – Anonymous

We’ve all felt the post-vacation blues, and this quote captures that sentiment perfectly.

“Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.” – George Carlin

A humorous take on the metric system by the legendary comedian, encouraging us to think differently about distances. One trick to happiness when traveling is to always round up or down until the number seems palatable. If you’re on a tight budget, forget I said that though.

“I follow my heart… and it usually leads me to the airport.” – Anonymous

Another witty testament to the heart’s desire for new adventures and experiences. While some people dread airports, we’ve always loved them.

“No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

Whether it’s travel, a movie, a book or a meal, always take other peoples opinions with a grain of salt. Most experiences are unique and we’ve both hated a city and loved it, with our expectations being the only difference between visits. Finding a nice place to sleep and a good restaurant goes a long way too.

“I’ve got 99 problems, but I’m on vacation and I’m ignoring them all!” – Anonymous

The perfect motto for anyone looking to temporarily escape the stresses of everyday life. Or, sell all your belongings and move your problems to another country where at least they’ll have a different accent.

Boy, those French. They have a different word for everything. – Steve Martin

A good reminder that there is no word for sorrow or regret in Timatuathian. Of course that language itself doesn’t exist so why would those two words exist anyway?

“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” – Michael Palin

Ah, the joy and pain of the travel bug. It has a ferocious bite and often refuses to let go no matter how many miles you’ve put on or the amount of countries you’ve seen. The more you see, the more you realize there is to see and therein lies the problem.

Witty travel quotes, the second half

Remember, as St. Augustine once said, the world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page. So turn the page, explore, and don’t forget to laugh along the way!

“You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy a plane ticket, and that’s kind of the same thing.” – Anonymous

A lighthearted reminder of how travel can bring joy into our lives. While it doesn’t take a lot of money to travel, more certainly never hurts.

“My favorite thing to do is go where I’ve never been.” – Diane Arbus

A simple yet profound statement about the essence of exploration and discovery. While it’s often the new that drives some, sometimes it can also be the old that they prefer to see in their rear view mirror.

“I would give up traveling but I’m not a quitter” – Anonymous

This quote is another playful turn on the hard work ethic and how sometimes when faced with adversity, it’s best to just bear down and keep at it, even if it’s enjoyable.

“A tourist is someone who drives thousands of miles to get a photo in front of their car.” – Anonymous

A playful jab at the classic tourist photo, this quote pokes fun at humans often absurd travel habits. Don’t worry, we have dozens of those pics as well. For instance, here we are in front of…

“The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” – Russell Baker

This quote humorously captures the irony of trying to blend in, only to be spotted a mile away. We have tons of pics over the years wearing certain clothing from Thai pants in Thailand to an Outback hat in Australia and all they scream at us now is tourist in bright letters.

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

A funny reminder that travel can render us speechless with its beauty before filling us with tales to tell.

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

This ancient wisdom reminds us that sometimes the journey is more important than the destination. While I’m guessing Lao wasn’t spanning the globe, pretty sure he enjoyed his travels and was secretly prophesizing about his luggage never arriving.

“Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

While not overly humorous in it’s own right, it does remind me of a story about a friend who decided to forge his own path once on a hike and ended up needing to be cut down from a tree hours later. It was a thing but definitely adds to the adage that a good journey can be made great with a little extra humor thrown in.

Hilarious and inspiring travel quotes, the third half

Sometimes all you need to add to a travel memory is a dash of humor to make it unforgettable. Here are some more funny travel quotes to awaken your wanderlust.

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

While the imagery of a trip as a literal persona kidnapping a person, throwing them on a plane and making them have fun makes me laugh, this is in truth a thought-provoking quote that suggests travel has the power to transform us.

Side note: A Transformer named Trip would be just as amusing to me.

“A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse and dreams of home.” – Carl Burns

This ironic quote captures the contrasting perspectives of the traveler and the stay-at-home dreamer. While we often dream of things we miss, having the ability to miss them in the first place is reason enough to jump on a plane and go someplace for a while. Perspective often needs distance to achieve itself.

“Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.” – Harvey Lloyd

A reminder that travel educates us in ways that go beyond traditional learning. I recall our trip to the Galapagos Islands where we not only learned about Charles Darwin’s thoughts on evolution but also the fact to get to the ferry early so we don’t have to sit in the open back for 2 hours getting soaked from the rain…

“A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting new places.” – Tom Lichtenheld

This funny quote definitely highlights the trials and tribulations of traveling with family. While new places and activities can hold some interest, 2 snippy children will argue no matter what’s in front of them. However, now they get to do it in another country!

“ If you are going through hell, keep going.” – Winston Churchill

Winston obviously knew what it was like driving in LA but I digress, the truth is that a journey isn’t over until it’s over and even then, you might not end up where you thought you would. The unknown is half the fun.

“Live your life by a compass not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

Obviously Covey wasn’t a clock maker, but his adage remains. It’s the direction we take in life that determines our situation and that can’t always be done on a set timetable. Inflexibility in travel means inflexibility in life. Bending a little sometimes gives you a different view on where you are and where you’re heading. It’s also good for the back and knees.

“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”- Anthony Bourdain

Anthony loved travel, meeting new people and trying new foods. Sure, that 2000 calorie piece of cake shouldn’t be on your everyday menu but are you seriously not going to try it once? Live a little.

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you travelled.” – Mohammed

The difference between knowledge and wisdom can often be measured by the amount of footsteps we’ve taken to get there. While the scholar reads about it, the traveler experiences it, tastes it, smells it, and digests it in such a way that they’re forever changed . The willingness to put oneself out there continually and the wisdom gained from such actions can speak volumes about a person.

“From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere.” – Dr. Seuss

Dr. Seuss’ characters strode the globe in their pursuits to teach and entertain and often found humor in the most unlikely places. I once found it in a sock, under a rock, in a shoe, surrounded by goo and so can you.

“It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way.”- Penelope Riley

Another quote not so humorous in it’s wording but funny in the mishaps department. Some of our most memorable moments on the road happened due to one mishap or another. Even our worst travel day ended with us saying “at least it will be an entertaining story one day.”

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

A classic example of a travel metaphor implying that we aren’t meant to stay in one place forever. We need movement to fulfill our purpose, regardless of the outcome. Though imagining all of us as little ships with legs walking around everywhere is also pretty funny to me.

“The further I go, the closer to me I get.” – Andrew McCarthy

Me is a person on the other side of the world doing something amazing at any moment. The closer to me I get, the more me I become. While I can’t always be me, I get solace in knowing that me is out there and I look forward to the day I get to be me again.

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

As Micki and I get closer to celebrating our 20th anniversary, the truth of this statement hits me. It’s all about the journey. Preventing the boat from capsizing isn’t about control, it’s about paying attention, watching out for hidden rocks and moving and changing with the river as opposed to fighting against it. Like a journey or a marriage, a river will take you where rivers take you. Enjoy the ride.

“ That moment when you’re asked where you got something and you answer with the name of the country, not the name of the store.” – Anonymous

We’ve been guilty of this dozens of times. For a while, everything we displayed was from another country or another trip. These days we’ve packed and unpacked our things too many times to even bother showcasing them anymore but we do own some nice boxes. That one we filled in Thailand, that one in Australia, that one in South America…

“ Going on a trip. Need about 5 outfits. I’ve packed 35 just to be safe.” – Anonymous

We’ve all done it though now we’ve learned from our mistakes and realize that in life we often dress to impress. The beauty of travel is most people don’t see you every day. Learn to get creative with your outfits. Maybe buy a nice hat and look out the window more often.

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan

When you’re too busy following the path, sometimes you don’t realize you’re actually missing the journey. Explore beyond the path, there is always more to experience. More usually meaning beer, wine, food, music, art, dance and all the other good things in life worth pursuing.

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”- Terry Pratchett

We travel not only to see new things but also to be able to return to things we miss. Like distance, absence also gives perspective.

“ Ironing boards are surfboards that gave up their dreams and got a boring job. Don’t be an ironing board.” – Anonymous

Don’t be an ironing board is my new mantra. For the record, I also don’t want to be an anchor (it holds people back), a yesterday (it’s never in the present) or a sock (nothing funny, I just dislike socks).

“The world is waiting for you. Good Luck. Travel Safe. Go!” – Phil Keoghan

While travel isn’t always an amazing race, sometimes it can feel that way. Slow it down, explore, enjoy! Now Go!

“ Nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation.” – Gayland Anderson

No truer words have been spoken! Anticipation of an upcoming trip is still high on my list of things I look forward to.

“ You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.” – Paul Theroux

The beauty of a new thing isn’t that it’s perfect or that it will instantly replace everything that was similar that came before. It’s the start of a new branch of something that can one day become amazing and transformative. Air travel started out rough (both figuratively and literally) and has gotten to the point where it can be a joy to sit down on a flight. I am grateful for that.

“You can’t control the past, but you can control where you go next.” – Kirsten Hubbard

Again we talk about control. While our journey should be allowed to happen as it happens, that doesn’t mean that sometimes you can’t point it in another direction. As winter approaches here, south seems prudent to me right now.

“I wonder if the ocean smells different on the other side of the world.” – J.A. Redmerski

Take it from me, it does. Everything does. Expectation often colors our reality. Color away my friends, color away.

“And that’s the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.” – Dave Barry

Haha, family travel is a great way to experience the exact same trip from multiple points of view. A parent and a toddler can have the exact same day yet have very different takes on a situation. Same can be said for travel. Want to see the world differently? Explore it via your children and you’ll have a whole new understanding of the world. Hopefully it’s a positive experience for everyone but if not, at least there’s probably a good story in there somewhere.

May your travels be filled with laughter and joy. Remember, every journey is an opportunity for new stories and a good chuckle. Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer, especially when it comes with a side of laughter!

50 Inspirational Travel Quotes That Will Make You Want to Explore the World

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• Post last modified: June 12, 2023

Whenever I feel lonely and bored, I usually end up looking for inspirational travel quotes to fuel my wanderlust. It’s funny that sometimes, it only takes one travel quote to make you pack your bag and go on an unplanned trip.

Here at Escape Manila , we give you 50 Inspirational Travel Quotes that will make you want to explore the world . So, pack your bags, travel, and experience the beauty of the world . You don’t have to go far. Believe me, there are amazing places that you can see and explore near you.

1: “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”― Mark Twain

2: “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

3: “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

4: “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, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

5: “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

6: “A ship in a harbor is safe, but it not what ships are built for.” -John A. Shedd

7: “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac

8: “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

9: “Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty

10: “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

11: “If you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: It’s Lethal.” – Paul Coelho

12: “To Travel is to Live” – Hans Christian Andersen

13: “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

14: “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” -Roy M. Goodman

15: “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

16: “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times”

17: “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted.”

18: “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot

19: “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” – Anthony Bourdain

20: “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman

21: “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” -Gustav Flaubert

22: Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama

23: “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green

24: “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” – Oscar Wilde

25: We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru

26: “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

27: “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

28: “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

29: “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu

30: “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries” – Aldous Huxley

31: “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury

32: “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

33: “Adventure is a path. Real adventure, self-determined, self-motivated, often risky, forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world” – Mark Jenkins

34: “I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.” – Carew Papritz

35: “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson

36: “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” – Robert Frost

37: “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

38: “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

39: “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

40: “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

41: “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

42: “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

43: “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous

44: “Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the trip.” – Babs Hoffman

45: “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

46: “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

47: “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

48: “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson

49: “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

50: “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

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15 Travel Quotes Perfect for Vacation Planning

• By Sarah Barkley
• Published on November 8, 2021
• Last modified May 21, 2023

It’s easy to forget the importance of getaways, but these travel quotes will help you remember. Whether your trip is long or short, you must have something to look forward to. Plus, you must embrace the time you are off and learn to relax during your trip. Those who are planning to combine their wedding and vacation may want to consider the Cayman Islands. You may click here for more info on what makes this place a great destination wedding spot. Domestic travelers, on the other hand, may want to visit Biloxi, MS and stay at one of their casino resorts like the one at this page https://www.palacecasinoresort.com/ .

These travel quotes will help you plan the trips you’ve always dreamed of. Plus, they’ll inspire you to visit new places you’ve never been to before. The quotes also help you commit to adventures and fully embrace life.

Travel Quotes Perfect for Vacation Planning

Spending time exploring new places will change your life, and these travel quotes will help you with your planning. Use these quotes to get inspired and excited about your future trips.

1. “It isn’t how much time you spend somewhere that makes it memorable: it’s how you spend the time.” – David Brenner

You can’t always take an extended trip, but you can still plan an exciting time. Even when you only have a few days off, plan activities that you’ll never forget. Spend your time in meaningful ways, and you’ll return to your daily life feeling refreshed.

When you plan a trip to a new location, remember this travel quote. Make sure you open yourself up to the influences of each place you visit. When you do this, you can see, hear, and experience life and culture in other areas of the world.

As you plan your trip, remember this quote and make an effort to experience the new environment. As Lerner explains, traveling with an open mind helps in your search for excellence.

3. “People should look for accessible vacation destinations the same way they look for any other vacation destination – based on their own personal tastes and preferences.” – Candy B Harrington

It doesn’t matter where you are going as long as you plan around your personal preferences. Choose places that will help you relax and that will be an enjoyable experience for you.

Don’t base your plans around what other people like because this is your trip. If you can remember this as you plan, you’ll come up with the perfect location for your trip.

4. “Think about it; how do you feel when you are planning a vacation? You feel excited and happy. Your stress level is diminished, and this also affects your work in a positive way.” – John Morgan

Sometimes planning a trip is just as much fun as going on one. As these travel quotes suggest, the planning process decreases stress levels and increases your productivity. When you’re thinking about the good time you’ll have, you’ll be happier in all areas of your life.

5. “I have never believed that vacations are luxuries. They are our necessities–just like shelter, clothes, and food, they make us feel like humans and not like animals that care only for survival.” – Alexander Babinets

As you plan your trip, remember that this is time for you to do the things you enjoy. Don’t think of it as a time of over-indulgence because you need this time to recover from daily tasks. You need this time to relax and let loose just as much as you need anything else in life.

6. “Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” – Dalai Lama

While it’s nice to visit your favorite places repeatedly, you must switch it up sometimes. As you plan your next trip, choose somewhere you haven’t been before. It’ll inspire you and help you gain wisdom about the world around you.

Even when you visit a new location, you don’t have to travel far. There are plenty of places around the world that you haven’t seen before. Do a little research during your planning to find somewhere new within your travel boundaries.

7. “No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.” – Elbert Hubbard

This is one of the best travel quotes for trip planning. Even if you have just returned from a trip, start planning your next one. When your experience is over, and you return to real life, you might feel a little disappointed.

By starting the planning of your next trip, you’ll bring back the feeling of excitement. Use the time you have to plan something new and exciting, and you’ll always have something to look forward to.

Leave time for spontaneous experiences and unexpected schedule disruptions. Even the most perfectly planned trip might not go as planned. Don’t try to micromanage every detail, or you’ll end up stressed out and disappointed.

Instead, make your plan but be open to disruptions and rearranging of your schedule. Your time off is a time for relaxation and fun, so don’t be too strict that it makes the experience terrible.

9. “An upcoming vacation gives us something to eagerly anticipate.” – Jaime Kurtz

No matter where you are going, you’ll look forward to it eagerly. This eager anticipation promotes joy and happiness in your life. You’ll be much happier than when you only have work and daily tasks in your future.

10. “A vacation is having nothing to do and all day to do it in.” – Robert Orben

Sometimes the perfect experience requires planning for nothing but downtime. Choose a location where you can relax so that you don’t feel like you’re missing anything. Everyone needs time to rest and recover from daily life without a time restriction.

11. “A vacation helps to relieve stress and boredom, gives us a change of scenery, provides us with adventure, and helps to bring us closer to the people in our lives.” – E. S. Woods

If you think you don’t need time off, then this is the travel quote for you. It would be best if you had time to destress and embrace the loved ones in your life. Plus, a change of scenery and a sense of adventure will inspire you and improve your productivity.

Remember this quote during your planning so that you remember how important time off is. When you remember that you need this time, the planning becomes more enjoyable and meaningful.

12. “Of journeying the benefits are many: the freshness it bringeth to the heart, the seeing and hearing of marvelous things, the delight of beholding new cities, the meeting of unknown friends, and the learning of high manners.” – Muslih-Uddin Sadi

Traveling improves your life in many ways that you might not realize right away. As this quote details, travel brings freshness to your life and allows you to see and experience many new things to do . You’ll meet people you wouldn’t have otherwise, and you’ll gain wisdom that you can’t find anywhere else.

13. “As you grow older, you learn a few things. One of them is to actually take the time you’ve allotted for vacation.” – John Battelle

It’s easy to say you don’t have time, but you must take a break from your daily life. You won’t enjoy life if you don’t ever make time for relaxation. Plus, you’ll be more productive when you return home than you would have been without a break.

If you’re reluctant to plan a trip, remember this quote about traveling. Please don’t feel bad for taking time off because it’s essential to your well-being.

14. “Each person deserves a day away in which no problems are confronted, no solutions searched for.  Each of us needs to withdraw from the cares which will not withdraw from us.” – Maya Angelou

Everyone needs a chance to rest and recuperate without dealing with any problems. It’s a time for you to ignore the issues and stop searching for solutions. When you take this time, it helps you withdraw from your everyday stressors for a bit.

15. “A vacation should be just long enough that your boss misses you, and not long enough for him to discover how well he can get along without you.” – Jacob Morton Braude

When you plan for a trip, you’ll want to decide on the length of your trip. Don’t make the adventure so short that your boss doesn’t even notice that you’re gone.

However, it’s no longer temporary time off if your boss learns how to get the job done without you. Use this quote in your planning to help choose your trip length.

Final Thoughts on Remembering These Words to Inspire Your Next Vacation

Whether you’re in the final planning stages or haven’t started yet, these travel quotes will help you. These quotes will inspire you to plan trips that make you happy and help you relax.

Plus, travel quotes remind you of why you should plan a trip. Remember your favorite quotes as you start planning your next trip, and you’re sure to have the best time.

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140 Wonderful Road Trip Quotes for Your Next Adventure!

Are you looking for some cool and uplifting road trip quotes? You’ve come to the right place! Whether you’re looking for a fun road trip quote, a solo road trip quote, or a road trip quote from a movie, I’m sure you will find a suitable one in the list below! Here we go!

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Best road trip quotes.

Road trip quotes: road trips in Iceland with a 4WD car

A road trip is a form of slow travel mostly undertaken by car, caravan or converted minivan. From a multi-week drive across different countries to a short getaway close to home, a road trip is all about the journey instead of the destination. 

While in general, a road trip means having your own vehicle to support you, essentially a road trip can be anything that encompasses some form of overland journey from one place to another, wether it’s a pilgrimage on foot, a backpacking trip in Asia taking long-distance busses, or hitchhiking across Europe.

There are so many inspiring road trip quotes and the list below is providing you with the best ones to spark your motivation to hit the road no matter what means of transport or purpose you got going on!

Enjoy the journey!

Short road trip quotes

Road trip quotes: staying close to home on a road trip through France with our van

"Live your life by a compass, not a clock." Stephen Covey

"Travel far enough, you meet yourself." David Mitchell

My favorite thing to do is to go where I’ve never been”. Diane Arbus

“All good things are wild and free.” Henry David Thoreau

If you have never heard of Henry David Thoreau then you should definitely read his book “ Walden “. 

While he did not exactly embark on a road trip, this book focuses on withdrawing in nature and living a simple life in natural surroundings. Be sure to take this book with you on your next road trip taken with a van or a tent to explore what nature has to offer! It will surely inspire you and change your view of the world. 

"And so the adventure begins." Unknown

“It’s not the destination, it's the journey.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

Quotes road trip

“Roads were made for journeys, not destinations.” Confucius

"Follow the yellow brick road." Yip Harburg

"We do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” John Steinbeck

“Sometimes it's a little better to travel than to arrive” Robert M. Pirsig

“The only impossible journey is the one you never begin” Tony Robbins

"Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don't be sorry." Jack Kerouac

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” Confucius

Unplanned road trip quotes

An unplanned road trip through the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia in a jeep

“If you don’t know where you are going, any road will get you there.” Lewis Carroll

“Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn't mean to take.” Angela N. Blount

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” Lao Tzu

“And just like that, we’re on our way to everywhere.” Emery Lord

“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.” Rosalia De Castro

“The destination was not really the point. The true desire was to get away—to go, as he concluded, ‘anywhere! anywhere! so long as it is out of the world!” Alain De Botton

“The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands” Sir Richard Burton

“The only people who ever get anyplace interesting are the people who get lost” David Henry Thoreau

Solo road trip quotes

Road trip quotes: beautiful scenery on a road trip through Flores, Indonesia .

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” Neale Donald Walsch

“I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” Daphne du Maurier

“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.” Anthony Bourdain

“Discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” Marcel Proust

“I may not have ended up where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” Douglas Adams

“It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by whom we are with, we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can inhibit us from observing others; we become taken up with adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, we have to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.” Alain De Botton

“Solitary people make the best travellers” Paul Theroux

“Every journey is simultaneously a beginning and an ending: I was leaving my old life behind and starting on a road trip to find a new me.” Debi Tolbert Duggar

“Sometimes you find yourself in the middle of nowhere and sometimes in the middle of nowhere you find yourself.” Stacey Westfall

"All he needed was a wheel in his hand and four on the road." Jack Kerouac

“It is perhaps sad books that best console us when we are sad, and to lonely service stations that we should drive when there is no one for us to hold or love.” Alain De Botton

Adventure road trip quotes

Road trip stop in Cahuita in Costa Rica: Hitchhiking is still one of the most adventurous ways to do a road trip 

“Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” John Krakauer

"The ship is safest when it is in port, but that is not what ships were built for." PAULO COELHO

Without the errors, wrong turns and blind alleys, without the doubling back and misdirection and fumbling and chance discoveries, there was not one bit of joy in walking the labyrinth. William Least Heat-Moon

“To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote, To travel is to live.” Hans Christian Andersen

“To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. You are surrounded by adventure. You have no idea of what is in store for you, but you will, if you are wise and know the art of travel, let yourself go on the stream of the unknown.” Freya Stark

“Do Not Follow Where The Path May Lead. Go Instead Where There Is No Path And Leave A Trail.” Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” Erol Ozan

“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.” T.S. Eliot

"The danger of an adventure is worth a thousand days of ease and comfort." PAULO COELHO

“At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling." Shanti

“I don’t know where I’m going from here but I promise it won’t be boring.” David Bowie

“There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop.” Bill Bryson

“The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” Sir Richard Burton

“Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” Jaime Lyn

"Look for chances to take the less-traveled roads. There are no wrong turns.” Susan Magsamen

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by.” Robert Frost

"I'd rather hop freights around the country and cook my food out of tin cans over wood fires, than be rich and have a home or work." Jack Kerouac

...those who can bear to observe only unwritten laws-they all head for the taiga. Sylvain Tesson

Quotes about roads and journeys

From Munduk to the south, Bali is an excellent destination to do a road trip on a motorbike.

“The journey is my home.” Muriel Rukeyser

"Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road." Jack Kerouac

Quotes about road trips

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware” Martin Buber

“Journeys are the midwives of thought." Alain De Botton

Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence. Henry DAvid Thoreau

A true journey, no matter how long the travel takes, has no end. William Least Heat-Moon

"It feels good to be lost in the right direction." Unknown

“I knew that if I allowed fear to overtake me, my journey was doomed. Fear, to a great extent, is born of a story we tell ourselves, and so I chose to tell myself a different story from the one women are told. I decided I was safe. I was strong. I was brave. Nothing could vanquish me.” Cheryl Strayed

"I was surprised, as always, by how easy the act of leaving was, and how good it felt. The world was suddenly rich with possibility." Jack Kerouac

“The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.” Ernesto Guevara

“You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back” Paul Theroux

Conscious road trip quotes

Quotes about road trips: traveling consciously on a road trip in Greece .

You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge. " Robert M. Pirsig

"When you go on a road trip, the trip itself becomes part of the story." Steve Rushin

“Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time.” Aliyyah Eniath

"We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us." Unknown

“A passenger on a road journey is in the hands of a driver; a reader embarking on a book is in the hands of a narrator.” Romesh Gunesekera

“That's why I love road trips, dude. It's like doing something without actually doing anything." John Green

"Travel is the only thing we buy, that makes us richer." Unknown

Conscious quotes about road trips

I can't say, over the miles, that I had learned what I had wanted to know because I hadn't known what I wanted to know. But I did learn what I didn't know I wanted to know. William Least Heat-Moon

“Not all who wander are lost.” J. R. R. Tolkien

“A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” Chinese Proverb

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” Anaïs Nin

“A single footstep will not make a path on the earth, so a single thought will not make a pathway in the mind. To make a deep physical path, we walk again and again. To make a deep mental path, we must think over and over the kind of thoughts we wish to dominate our lives." Henry David Thoreau

“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.” Roman Payne

“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

“A man who has been through bitter experiences and travelled far enjoys even his sufferings after a time.” Homer

What you've done becomes the judge of what you're going to do - especially in other people's minds. When you're traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don't have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road. William Least Heat-Moon

“For pilgrims walking...every footfall is doubled, landing at once on the actual road and also on the path of faith.” Robert Macfarlane

Road trip captions

"Better to travel than to arrive."

"Drifting on the road is my favorite mood."

"My real home is on the road."

"Going where the streets have no name."

"Putting a little gravel in my travel."

"Happiness is a road trip and good music."

"There are no wrong turns on a road trip."

“The world is too big to stay in one place, and life is too short to do just one thing.”

"Making memories one road trip at a time."

Road trip quotes from song lyrics

Good music is essential on a road trip.

"You used to say the highway was your home, but we both know that ain't true, it's just the only place a man can go, when he don't know where he's travelin' to." Steve Earle

Riding with the van through the wide land, where the sunflowers are making their stand, there’s nothing I miss, it won’t get any better than this. Steve Earle

"They call me the breeze, I keep blowing down the road, I ain't got me nobody, I ain't carrying me no load." J.J. Cale

"Well, I'm so tired of crying, but I'm out on the road again, I'm on the road again, I ain't got no woman, just to call my special friend." Canned Heat

"Living a different kind of life on a different kind of street, having a different kind of drive with a different kind of speed, and it looks like a big mess, but it’s a work in progress, fighting the big fight, trying to hold on tight, I got a long road ahead, no way I make it home tonight." Humberstone

"I drove all night to get to you." Cyndi Lauper

"I hitched a ride with a vending machine repair man, he said he's been down this road more than twice, he was high on intellectualism, I've never been there, but the brochure looks nice. Jump in, let's go, lay back, enjoy the show, everybody gets high, everybody gets low, these are the days when anything goes, everyday is a winding road." Sheryl Crow

"On the road again. Goin' places that I've never been. Seein' things that I may never see again. And I can't wait to get on the road again." Willie Nelson

"Keep your eyes on the road, your hands upon the wheel, yeah, we're goin' to the Roadhouse, we're gonna have a real good time. The Doors

"If you don't know where you're going, any road will take you there." George Harrison

“Road trippin’ with my two favorite allies, fully loaded we got snacks and supplies. It’s time to leave this town it’s time to steal away. Let’s go get lost anywhere in the U.S.A.” The Red Hot Chili Peppers

Road trip movie quotes

road trips in Greece: Passing by Damouchari where scenes for the movie “Mamma Mia” were shot.

"When I get home, I shall write a book about this place...If I ever do get home." Alice in Wonderland

“Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.” Thelma and Louise

road trip movie quotes

“I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.” Ernesto Che Guevara

“Some journeys take us far from home. Some adventures lead us to our destiny.” The Chronicles of Narnia

“I'd finally come to understand what it had been: a yearning for a way out, when actually what I had wanted to find was a way in.” Wild

"Maybe we could be friends, and buddies, and bro dogs, and hang, and chill." Zak in THe Peanut butter falcon

"The world is not in your books and maps, it's out there." Gandalf in The Hobbit

“You know, it's funny... you come to someplace new, an'... and everything looks just the same.” Eddie in Stranger than paradise

Road trip quotes with friends

Road trip with friends quotes: taking a road trip through Montenegro with friends is an amazing experience

“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” Mark Twain

“Happiness [is] only real when shared.” Christopher McCandless

Road trips quotes with friends

“Good friends follow you anywhere." Winnie the Pooh

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” Ernest Hemingway

“We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world & the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” Robert Louis Stevenson

“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” Tim Cahill

“No road is long with good company.” Turkish Proverb

Family road trip quotes

Road trip quotes: bonding with family on a road trip through Croatia.

“Travel sparks our imagination, feeds our curiosity and reminds us how much we all have in common.” Deborah Lloyd

“Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” Leigh Hunt

“A road trip is a way for the whole family to spend time together and annoy each other in interesting and new places.” Tom Lichtenheld

“Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.” George Burns

“There are no perfect parents and there are no perfect children, but there are plenty of perfect moments along the way.” Dave Willis

“We must take care of our families, wherever we find them.” Elizabeth Gilbert

Long drive quotes

Best road trip quotes: America is a great road trip destination.

“The road goes on forever and the party never ends.” Robert Earl Keen

“A long drive to nowhere is the best way to clear the mind.” Meggan Roxanne

Car travel quotes

“I climb behind the steering wheel… I drive off immediately without once looking back; it’s a long journey but it leads to freedom.” Corinne Hofmann

"Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music." Unknown

“The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.” Alain De Botton

“There is nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” Jack Kerouac

Drifting on the road is my favorite mood. Unknown

Long road quotes

“The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.” Aaron Lauritsen

"Road trip hair, don’t care." Unknown

Love road trip quotes

A short road trip through Belgium with my love and our old van.

“Travel brings power and love back into your life.” Rumi

“What we find in a soul mate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.” Robert Brault

Love road trips quotes

“Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” Lewis Carroll

“No road is long with good company.” Turkish proverb

Funny road trip quotes

Road trip quotes: when your car breaks down in the Cardamom Mountains in Cambodia .

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” John Steinbeck

“We all have that one friend who is either on a roadtrip or planning a roadtrip or thinking about a road-trip or talking to people who are on a roadtrip or posting quotes about a roadtrip.” Crestless Wave

“Of All The Paths You Take In Life Make Sure A Few Of Them Are Dirty.” John Muir

Road trip nature quotes

"according to the map, we've only gone four inches." Dumb and dumber

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” Susan Sontag

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine, it’s lethal.” Paulo Coelho

“Look at life through the windshield, not the rearview mirror.” Byrd Baggett

Funny quotes about road trips

“Hodophile (noun): a lover of roads; one who loves travel.”

“Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.” Jerry Seinfeld

Road trip quotes: Final thoughts

Quotes about road trips: A road trip in Crete, Greece is pure bliss.

There you go! I hope you enjoyed this extensive list of road trip quotes. Road trips aren’t only about withdrawing in nature or taking a vehicle and starting driving but can change your view of the world. All people should take at least one road trip during their life.

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Unplanned trips can be some of the most exhilarating experiences of one’s life. The excitement of not knowing what to expect and the thrill of exploring new destinations can create memories that last a lifetime.

However, capturing the essence of these unplanned adventures on social media can be challenging. Finding the perfect caption or quote to encapsulate the excitement and spontaneity of these trips can be a daunting task.

In this article, we will explore some of the best captions and quotes to use for Instagram when sharing your unplanned travel adventures. Here 100 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Next Adventure

From inspiring wanderlust to embracing the unknown, these captions and quotes are sure to capture the essence of your unplanned trip and inspire others to take their own spontaneous adventures.

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The Thrill of Unplanned Adventures – Quotes

• “Life is short, take the trip, buy the shoes, eat the cake.” – Unknown
• “Adventure awaits, go find it.” – Unknown
• “Unplanned adventures are the best kind, they take you places you never imagined.” – Unknown
• “The biggest adventure you can ever take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
• “Travel far, travel wide, travel often.” – Unknown
• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
• “The best things in life are the people we love, the places we’ve been, and the memories we’ve made along the way.” – Unknown
• “Sometimes the most scenic roads in life are the detours you didn’t mean to take.” – Angela N. Blount
• “Unplanned adventures are the ones you remember the most.” – Unknown
• “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Unknown

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Unplanned Trip Caption with Friends

• “Spontaneity at its finest: ditched plans for an impromptu adventure with the squad! 🚀 #UnplannedAntics”
• “When life gives you unexpected moments, grab your friends and make memories! 🌟 #UnplannedEscapade”
• “Off the grid and off the radar! Unplanned trips with friends are the best kind of therapy. 🌿 #SpontaneousSquad”
• “Winging it with my ride-or-die crew! Who needs a plan when you’ve got great company? 🌌 #UnplannedAdventures”
• “Cheers to the last-minute decisions that turn into unforgettable stories! 🥂 #UnexpectedJourneys”
• “Throwing caution to the wind and chasing sunsets with my favorite people! 🌅 #UnplannedBliss”
• “No itinerary, no problem! Just a bunch of friends and endless possibilities. 🌈 #UnplannedMagic”
• “Taking the scenic route through life with the best companions by my side. 🗺️ #SpurOfTheMoment”
• “Who needs a map when you’ve got friends to navigate the unknown together? 🗺️ #WanderlustCrew”
• “Lost in the moment, found in good company! Here’s to spontaneous adventures with friends. 🌟 #UnexpectedThrills”
• “Living for the moments when we throw plans out the window and embrace the unknown! 🪞 #UnscriptedFun”
• “Adventure is out there, and so are we! No plans, just friends and a whole lot of wanderlust. 🌎 #SpontaneousSouls”
• “Today’s agenda: unplanned shenanigans with my favorite troublemakers! 🎉 #SpontaneousSquadGoals”
• “Dancing to the rhythm of spontaneity with friends who make every moment count! 💃 #UnplannedVibes”
• “Here’s to the detours that lead to the best memories! Cheers to unplanned adventures with cherished friends. 🌟 #OffTheBeatenPath”

Unplanned Trip Captions With Group

• “Off the grid and into the wild with this fearless crew! Unplanned adventures, unlimited memories. 🌿🌟 #SpontaneousSquad #AdventureAwaits”
• “When life throws surprises, we throw on our backpacks! Here’s to unplanned escapades with the best bunch. 🎒✨ #UnexpectedJourneys #SquadGoals”
• “Lost but never worried, with friends like these, every detour becomes an adventure! 🗺️👣 #NavigatingLife #UnplannedExcursions”
• “Navigating the unknown with this fearless tribe! Who knew spontaneity could be so thrilling? 🌍🌟 #FearlessExplorers #SquadSpirit”
• “Embracing the chaos and loving every minute of it! Unplanned trips are always better with this epic crew. 🎉🚀 #ChaosAndLaughter #UnplannedMagic”
• “From last-minute plans to lasting memories, here’s to the spontaneous moments that bond us forever! 🌟🤝 #BondingThroughAdventure #UnplannedBliss”
• “No itinerary, no worries, just a group of friends ready for whatever comes our way! 🌈👭 #NoPlansNoProblem #SpontaneousSquad”
• “Turning unexpected moments into unforgettable adventures with this amazing group of souls! ✨🌟 #TurningTheUnexpectedIntoMagic #SquadChronicles”
• “In the end, we’ll only regret the trips we didn’t take! Cheers to embracing the unknown with these incredible humans. 🌟🌍 #EmbraceTheUnexpected #AdventureTribe”
• “Here’s to the unplanned pit stops, unexpected encounters, and unforgettable memories with this incredible crew! 🛣️💫 #PitStopsAndMemories #UnplannedAdventures”
• “Spontaneity is the spice of life, and with this squad, every moment is seasoned to perfection! 🌶️👌 #SpontaneousFlavors #LifeWithTheCrew”
• “Life’s too short for plans! Here’s to the unplanned adventures that make the best stories with this awesome group. 📖✨ #SpontaneousTales #StorytellersCrew”
• “Adventure awaits, and we’re diving in headfirst! Unplanned trips, unlimited fun with this incredible crew. 🌊🚀 #DiveIntoAdventure #UnplannedFun”
• “Wandering aimlessly, but never lost, with this amazing bunch by my side! Cheers to unplanned journeys and lifelong friendships. 🌟👣 #WanderingWithFriends #SquadGoals”
• “From spontaneous decisions to unforgettable destinations, here’s to the unplanned adventures that make life worth living with this fantastic crew! 🌟🌍 #LiveInTheMoment #AdventureSquad”
• “Who needs a plan when you’ve got great friends and a sense of adventure? Here’s to unplanned trips and endless laughter with this incredible group! 🎉🌟 #AdventureAwaits #SpontaneousSquad”

Unplanned Trip Captions With Loved Ones

• “Lost in the moment, found in love! Unplanned trips with my favorite people make the best memories. 💖 #SpontaneousLove #CherishedMoments”
• “No plans, just love and adventure! Here’s to spontaneous getaways with the ones who matter most. 🌟 #UnplannedJourneys #LoveAndLaughter”
• “In the chaos of life, I found my peace with you by my side. Cheers to unplanned trips and endless love! ✨ #LoveInUnexpectedPlaces #AdventureWithYou”
• “With you, every detour feels like destiny! Here’s to unplanned adventures and boundless love. 💫 #DestinedForAdventure #LoveAndWanderlust”
• “Unexpected moments, unforgettable memories, and undying love! Cheers to spontaneous trips with my favorite person. 🌹 #SpontaneousLove #ForeverAdventures”
• “Who needs a roadmap when I have your hand to hold? Unplanned trips are always better with you. 💑 #NavigatingLifeTogether #LoveAndAdventure”
• “Winging it through life, hand in hand with you! Here’s to spontaneous adventures and endless love. 🌍❤️ #WingingItWithYou #UnplannedLove”
• “When life gives us surprises, we turn them into adventures! Grateful for unplanned trips and the love that fuels them. 🌟 #SurprisesAndAdventure #LoveThatLasts”
• “Here’s to the unplanned moments that lead us to the most beautiful destinations: in each other’s arms. 💖 #UnplannedJourneys #LoveBeyondMeasure”
• “Every twist and turn feels like fate with you! Cheers to unplanned trips and the love that guides us. 🌹 #FateAndAdventure #LoveInEveryStep”
• “Spontaneity is our love language! Here’s to unplanned adventures and the endless joy of being together. 💫 #SpontaneousLove #ForeverAdventures”
• “Unplanned trips, unplanned love, but everything feels just right with you. Cheers to spontaneity and cherished moments. 🥂 #UnexpectedLove #LoveAndLaughter”
• “From random road trips to spontaneous getaways, every moment with you is an adventure worth taking. 💖 #AdventureWithYou #UnplannedMemories”
• “In a world of plans, you’re my favorite detour! Here’s to unplanned trips and the love that makes them magical. ✨ #FavoriteDetour #LoveAndAdventure”
• “With you, every moment is an adventure waiting to unfold. Cheers to unplanned trips and the love that fills our hearts . 💕 #AdventureAwaits #LoveInEveryStep”

Capturing the Moment: Unplanned Trip Photography

• “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag
• “The best journeys answer questions that in the beginning, you didn’t even think to ask.” – Jeff Johnson
• “There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.” – Ansel Adams
• “Photography is the story I fail to put into words.” – Destin Sparks
• “Life is like a camera, focus on the good times, develop from the negatives, and if things don’t work out, take another shot.” – Unknown
• “Taking pictures is savoring life intensely, every hundredth of a second.” – Marc Riboud
• “The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera.” – Dorothea Lange
• “Travel photography is a passion, a way of seeing the world and sharing it with others.” – Unknown
• “Photography is the only language that can be understood anywhere in the world.” – Bruno Barbey
• “The camera is a tool for learning how to see without a camera.” – Unknown

Spontaneous Memories: Unplanned Trip Captions

• “Life is a journey, make the most of every unplanned detour.” – Unknown
• “Creating memories is a priceless gift. Never forget to capture the moments.” – Unknown
• “Wander often, wonder always.” – Unknown
• “Let’s wander where the WiFi is weak.” – Unknown
• “ Life is short , but the memories last forever.” – Unknown
• “Life is a collection of moments, let’s make them unforgettable.” – Unknown
• “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine
• “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle
• “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T.S. Eliot

Unplanned Trip Quotes to Inspire Wanderlust

• “The world is too big to stay in one place, and life is too short to do just one thing.” – Unknown
• “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien
• “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
• “Adventure is out there, you just have to go and find it.” – Unknown
• “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown
• “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Abraham Lincoln
• “Travel is not a reward for working, it’s education for living.” – Unknown
• “The world is a playground and life is pushing my swing.” – Natalie Kocsis
• “The journey is the destination.” – Dan Eldon

Embracing the Unknown: Unplanned Travel

• “Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch
• “The world is a beautiful place, go out and explore it.” – Unknown
• “It’s not about the destination, it’s about the journey.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta
• “The most beautiful things in life are not things. They’re people, places, memories, and pictures. They’re feelings and moments and smiles and laughter.” – Unknown
• “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey
• “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.” – Oscar Wilde
• “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert
• “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see it for yourself.” – Unknown
• “The unknown is where the best memories are made.” – Unknown

Living for the Moment: Unplanned Adventures

• “Life is short, but the memories last forever.” – Unknown
• “Traveling is not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like breathing.” – Gayle Foreman
• “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” – Erol Ozan
• “Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go.'” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran
• “I travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape me.” – Unknown
• “Not all who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

Finding Beauty in the Unexpected: Unplanned Trip Stories

• “I stumbled upon a small town in Italy that I had never heard of before. It turned out to be the most beautiful place I had ever been, with friendly locals and delicious food. It’s now my favorite place in the world.”
• “On a road trip, we took a wrong turn and ended up driving through a breathtaking national park that we had never heard of before. We spent the entire day exploring and taking in the incredible scenery.”
• “While traveling through Southeast Asia, I met a group of locals who took me on a hike through the jungle to a hidden waterfall. It was a magical experience that I never could have planned.”
• “I decided to take a spontaneous trip to Iceland, and ended up seeing the Northern Lights for the first time. It was an unforgettable moment that I will cherish forever.”
• “While backpacking through Europe, I missed my train and had to spend the night in a small town in Germany. It ended up being one of my favorite experiences of the trip, as I got to see a part of the country that I never would have discovered otherwise.”
• “I was planning to spend a week in one city, but ended up meeting some fellow travelers who convinced me to join them on a road trip. It was a crazy, unpredictable adventure that taught me the importance of being open to new experiences.”
• “I randomly decided to take a weekend trip to a nearby city, and ended up stumbling upon a street festival that was happening. I had an amazing time dancing, trying new foods, and meeting locals.”
• “I took a last-minute trip to a small island in the Caribbean and ended up swimming with sea turtles. It was an unexpected and awe-inspiring experience that I will never forget.”
• “I decided to take a walk through a neighborhood in a new city, and stumbled upon a hidden garden that was filled with beautiful flowers and sculptures. It was a peaceful and unexpected oasis in the middle of a bustling city.”
• “I was traveling alone in South America when I met a group of travelers who invited me on a spontaneous camping trip. We spent the night under the stars, sharing stories and enjoying the beauty of nature. It was a reminder that the best experiences often come from taking risks and stepping outside of your comfort zone.”

The Freedom of Going with the Flow: Unplanned Travel Quotes

• “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” – Simon Raven
• “The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.” – Rich Ridgeway
• “The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper.” – W.B. Yeats
• “Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.” – Eckhart Tolle
• “Some of the best things in life are unplanned. Take a deep breath and let the adventure begin.” – Unknown
• “Don’t plan too much, live a little and take some risks.” – Unknown
• “The beauty of travel is that it allows you to experience something that is completely unexpected.” – Unknown
• “The world is big and I want to have a good look at it before it gets dark.” – John Muir
• “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.” – Anthony Bourdain

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Unplanned Adventures: A Journey of Self-Discovery

• “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
• “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine
• “Traveling is not just seeing the sights, it’s an experience that changes you forever.” – Unknown
• “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
• “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
• “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, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

Unplanned trips can be a great way to break out of your routine and experience something new and exciting. They allow you to embrace uncertainty, live in the moment, and discover the unexpected. With the right mindset, unplanned adventures can lead to personal growth and self-discovery. And whether you’re traveling alone or with others, taking photos, or simply enjoying the experience, there are plenty of ways to capture and remember your journey.

So next time you have a free weekend or a desire to explore, consider taking an unplanned trip and see where the road takes you. You might just discover something amazing.

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25 of the best travel quotes with friends

By: Author Sylvia

Posted on Last updated: May 11, 2022

Are you looking for the best travel quotes with friends? You came to the right place. 

For me, traveling is not laying on the beach sipping cocktails. Although that can sometimes be lots of fun and relaxing too.

For me traveling is all about seeking new adventures and making travel memories. And these adventures become even more fun when you can share them with a good friend.

That’s why I wanted to share this list with 25 of the best travel quotes with friends.

So they can inspire you to travel more and share adventures and memories with a good friend.

Let’s be honest.

A journey becomes even more beautiful when you can share it. 

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1.“Life was meant for great adventures and close friends.”

We start this list with one of my favorite travel with friends quotes because lets be honest, what do you need more in life than a good friend and a great adventure?

Our adventures brought us already to all 7 continents. One of the most memorable adventures we experienced was our cruise to Antarctica.   This is a continent that cannot be compared with anything else. 

But we also have great memories of our travels to Japan , Korea , and Borneo. 

Recently we discovered the Azores . At this moment we haven’t yet planned our next trip which is quite strange for us.

A complete guide to the Azores islands.

Where is your next adventure taking you? 

2. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.”  – Tim Cahill

Although we’re not keen on organized tours or any other form of mass tourism, except the occasional cruise to spoil ourselves, we are no hermits. 

We love to socialize and we always have a great time when we meet locals or other travelers during our trips.

With social networks like Facebook, it’s easier than ever to stay in touch after your trip.

The locals were very sociable in the Azores but in bigger cities, it is often not as easy to make a connection. 

That’s why we love websites like HiHiGuide where you arrange private tours with locals in major cities around the world.

Such tours are really great to learn more about the city, the culture of the country and the habits of the people.

3. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

This is so true.

While traveling together you learn to know someone’s flaws.

Spending 24 hours with someone can be quite challenging at times but it will also create memories that last for a lifetime. 

4. “There is a whole world out there. Pack your backpack, your best friend, and go.”

Although we don’t travel with a backpack anymore I definitely agree with this travel quote. 

Impulsive decisions are not always good but they can create really memorable vacations.

I still remember how we changed plans last-minute on a friend’s trip.  Initially, we wanted to stay close to home but because the weather was so bad we packed some clothes, jumped in the car and drove for several hours until we found some sun. 

We didn’t know where we were going but we had the best time.

The world is so big and there are so many places to discover that we’re always looking forward to our next trip. 

It seems like our bucket list is only getting longer…

5. “A good friend listens to your adventures. Your best friend makes them with you.”

This is one of my favorite best friend quotes. Nothing is better for friendship than making shared memories. 

It doesn’t necessarily need to be a long vacation.  You can just take your best friend on a city trip.  It will create a lifelong bond and years later you will still exchange great memories of your adventures together.

Which is the last adventure that you experienced and with whom?

6. “Friends that travel together, stay together.”

I do not fully agree with this traveling with this enjoying with friends quote. 

If you do not have the same idea about a vacation, it can sometimes be very disappointing to go on a trip with a friend.

Even to such an extent that this can put pressure on your friendship afterward.

So when you plan to go on a trip with friends, make good arrangements in advance about what you expect from the trip.

Good agreements make good friends and it will avoid that you or your friend will be disappointed and the dream journey turns into a nightmare.

7. “Sharing adventures means enjoying them 100% more.”

Everything is more fun in life if you can share it.

This is even psychologically proven. You’re more emotionally touched by the things you experience when a friend is going through the same experience.

All humans love to share their experiences. 

Ideally, with a friend who is traveling with you but it also explains why we love to share so many pictures of our trips on Instagram and Facebook.

8. “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and thirst for adventure.”

We certainly have thirst for adventure…

Kris and I dream about seeing polar bears in the wild, we have plans for an epic road trip through Australia and New Zealand, we still haven’t seen the northern lights and although we already spend a night in the desert we wonder how it would be to sleep under a starry sky instead of a tent …

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I can go on for hours. 

What adventures are still on your bucket list and more importantly with whom do you want to experience them? 

 9. “There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.” – Kristen Sarah

When traveling together you make collective memories that are definitely creating a special bond.

I already had some amazing vacations with friends and I can for sure testify that traveling with friends is much more fun than traveling solo. 

I tend to enjoy the places I visit and the things I do much more when I can share them with my friends.

Just think about some amazing experiences you had in the past.  There’s a big chance that this was a moment that some of your closest companions were at your side.

Being 24/7 with each other can be challenging at times but it will also bring you closer together.

10. “You can pack for every occasion, but a good friend will always be the best thing you could bring!” 

This is a perfect friendship travel quote to write on a small card and give to your best friend as a sign of your friendship.

11. “True friends never apart maybe in distance never in heart.” – Helen Keller

I have a few friends that I don’t see that often, but when we see each other we always have the best time and it feels like we saw each other just last week.

12. “If you want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far go together.”

This is supposed to be an African proverb but it’s not sure in what context it was originally used. 

Today it is often used in a business context referring to successful companies that are the result of true teamwork.

It does apply to travel as well. 

I don’t mind traveling solo if it’s just for a few days and my itinerary is jam-packed for each and every minute. 

I’m however reluctant to leave on a long trip without any friends. 

I think loneliness would start to creep in really fast.

13. “When traveling life’s journey, it’s good to have a friend’s hand to hold on to.” 

Life is not always perfect, inevitable you will encounter some bumps in the roads.

It’s good to have a friend by your side. 

Not only for the setbacks but also during the good times. 

True friends share your successes and are also there when things don’t go so well.

Good friends are priceless and must be cherished.

14. “Only the people you don’t know well enough seem normal. Every person you know well enough is odd, weird, and different. This is called friendship!”

I just laughed when I read this quote and at the same time asked myself whether my best friends would think so too.

Maybe I should ask them or maybe I rather don’t know. 😀

The question is whether they would dare to answer this honestly but I think that true friends should be able, to tell the truth and tell each other just how crazy they think you’re. 😀

15. “There are no strangers in this world, only friends I haven’t met yet.”

This is a great attitude that I absolutely agree with and try to apply daily. 

If you approach strangers in this way and you set negative prejudices aside you will often be positively surprised. 

The most inspirational travel proverbs.

16. “We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world & the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” –  Robert Louis Stevenson

This is so true.  The world is such an intriguing and complex environment.  When we are young we have our parents to guide us but then there comes a point when we’re on our own.

Even though everybody wants to be independent there’re always moments when you need to rely on somebody else.  Sometimes we are just looking for some good advice, at other times we need some help.

This is especially true when you’re abroad in a country you don’t know with a language you don’t speak. 

We traveled independently through China and we must agree that we underestimated how challenging this would be.  We often were completely helpless.  There were no English-speaking ticket offices in the train stations and to our surprise we didn’t meet that many people who spoke English during our trip.  

But those people who spoke English really did anything they possibly could to help us.  They never took advantage of us, they never asked anything in return. 

They just seemed happy to help us.

They acted as an honest friend and that’s something I will never forget about our trip.

17. “The more I traveled, the more I realized fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

If there’s one thing that I learned from my trips it is that most people are helpful and will be happy to help if they can.  This is how we are born. 

Unfortunately, some people make abuse of this and we become cautious.  When a stranger asks us for help we sometimes tend to make something of it. It’s a pity that our helpful attitude is challenged by the abuse of a few.

If we could set our fear aside we would be able to make more friends.

18. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” –  Izaak Walton

As they say, time flies when you are having fun. 

19. “Life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.”

Wouldn’t it be fun if all days were like this?

This is a little too good to be true but the proverb is absolutely true.  We should make the best of each and every other day.  

That means that we should spend our time on things that make us happy and that we should surround ourselves with people that make us better.

Or like they say in another proverb: “Life is too short to be anything but happy!”.

20. “Everyone needs this friend that calls and says, “Get dressed, we’re going on an adventure.”

Sometimes you just need that little push.

Although I’m always looking forward to a new adventure I notice how I sometimes postpone the booking. 

And the more I postpone it the bigger the resistance becomes to finally take the step.

That’s why I’m so happy with my friends who are always ready to join me on my next adventures.  

Afterward, I always wonder why I was so reluctant at first because it always turned out to be so much fun.  And it is of course always so much more fun with your friends around.

How about you? Do you prefer to stay at home or are you the person that calls and says get dressed we”re going on an adventure? 

21. “Travel is better with friends.”

This is certainly true, or at least 99% of the cases.  I personally only had great experiences during the trips with my friends and so does my husband.

But everybody knows some horror stories about friendships or relationships being destroyed during holidays. 

Don’t let this scare you.  As long as you make good arrangements in advance you will have the best time of your life.

Do you know such a horror story? 

22. “As with any journey, whom you travel with is more important than the destination.”

The experience is indeed largely made by the person with whom you share it. 

The destination can be extremely beautiful but the experience can be completely ruined if you’re there in bad company.

And this proverb also has a second meaning. 

Traveling is not only about checking things off the bucket list. 

It’s also about enjoying the moments and sharing them with those you love.

23. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all people cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou

This traveling with friends quote reminds me of a lot of a story we experienced when we were traveling through Vietnam a few years ago. 

We were hiking and accompanied by a local tribe that didn’t speak English.

Suddenly one of our fellow hikers slipped out in the mud and she desperately tried not to fall. It was really funny to see how she alternately was gliding forward and backward. 

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Once she had regained her balance everybody started laughing including the ladies of the local tribe. 

This really shows how all people are the same and even when we come from completely different backgrounds, and we don’t speak the same language, we still have more in common than we think.

This event even broke the ice. 

Before this happened we had no contact with the local tribe but when we continued onward we were helping each other to cross the muddy parts and we tried to do some basic conversation.

24. “You and me, we are more than friends. We are like a small travel gang!”

This is one of the most beautiful travel with friends captions that I found and it is absolutely true. 

Once you’ve gone on a vacation with a friend and you have that special bond you really form a small travel gang. 

Who’s in your travel gang?

25. “I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone.” –  Leonardo DiCaprio

I completely understand Leonardo. 

Humans are social beings and while some need more social contact than others we all love to be among other people. 

Spending time with friends will help relax those with stressful lives.

I had a great time putting together this list with travel memories quotes.  It reminded me again that every once in a while I need to spend time with my friends, preferably in an exotic vacation spot.  

I also decided that I will use one of these quotes every once in a while to show them how much I appreciate our friendship.

I hope that these quotes will help you to do the same. 

Looking for more inspiring travel quotes, check out these vacation travel quotes. 

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134 Funny Travel Quotes That Will Make You Laugh 2024

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Looking for a laugh? Check out this bumper collection of the funniest and most relatable travel quotes out there.

Designed to put a smile on your face and inspire your next travel adventure, these funny travel quotes will banish boredom and keep you entertained whilst you wait for your next trip to roll around. They are created to be shared, so make sure you send your favorite ones onto your friends!

Fun Quotes About Traveling When You’re Broke

• Stuck somewhere between “I need to save” and “you only live once”. 
• Friend: Let’s go to Bora Bora. Me: Man, I wanna go, but I’m pora pora.
• My favorite childhood memory is my parents paying for my holidays.
• When you’re trying to save money for a house, but end up with a one-way ticket to some tropical island.
• If traveling was free, BYE!

Funny Quotes about Travel

• I need a reasonably paid job. Something like $2000 an hour. Nothing too wild…
• Me: “I want to travel more”, the bank account: “Like, to the park?”
• Me before vacation: “I’m going to be responsible with my money. This is a low budget trip. I’m gonna stay in a hostel and everything.”Me on vacation: *orders fancy drinks, rides a jetski, goes skydiving, buys souvenirs for the uncle’s new girlfriend and adopts an alpaca.*
• I wish that road trips could pay my bills.

Funny Travel Instagram Captions

• At the end of the day…I’d rather like to have a lot of stories to tell, than a full bank account.
• I wish I was a postcard. For under $2 you can travel the world to any location in the world. 
• Do you ever stress about money and then accidentally book another flight?
• I wish travel therapy was covered by my health insurance. 
• Backpacking is money spent on Education.
• Bank account nice and empty. Starting the new year on a clean slate.

Funny Captions on Travel For When You’re At Work

• How can people my age plan spontaneous trips to Thailand, I can barely afford a spontaneous soft pretzel.
• I love when people say “just quit your job and travel.” Taking an Uber from the bar to my home is the only travel I can afford. 
• Go to work. Open computer. Scroll for plane tickets for 6 hours. Close computer. Go home.
• I need a vacation so long, I forget all my passwords!

Funny Holiday Quotes

• Work tip: Stand up. Stretch. Take a walk. Go to the airport. Get on a plane. Never return.
• Yeah, working is great…but have you tried travelling. 
• There should be sympathy cards for having to go back to work after vacation.
• Physically I’m here. Mentally I’m in a pool in Bali ordering my third mojito. 
• Ironing boards are surfboards that gave up their dreams and got a boring job. Don’t be an ironing board.

Funny Captions for Trip with Friends

• Life is short. Call in sick and book that last minute flight. 
• I feel like most of my work problems could be solved with a trip to…anywhere.
• I googled my symptoms. Turns out I just needed to go on a vacay.
• I’m getting tired of waking up and not being at the beach.

Travel Quotes About Funny But True Life Priorities

• Everyone is pregnant, engaged or getting married. I just wanna lose weight and travel.
• Forget champagne and caviar – Taste the world instead
• I travel a lot, I hate having my life disrupted by routine
• I just want to travel the world, overspend at IKEA and drink coffee while cuddling puppies.
• Friend 1: I’m getting a house. Friend 2: I’m having a baby. Friend 3: I’m getting married Me: I’m headed to the airport. 

Holiday Quotes Funny

• People having babies…and I’m like: What country am I going to next?
• I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just want a paycheck to buy plane tickets.
• I don’t want a house. I just want to travel and pet a lot of dogs.
• Screw the caviar, I want to travel the world!
• Reality called, so I hung up.

Funny Quotes For Vacation Obsessed Globetrotters

• I need 6 months of vacation. Twice a year.
• I’m a travel fiend on the road to recovery. Just kidding. I’m headed to the airport.
• I’ve got 99 problems. But I’m on vacation so I’m ignoring them all!
• “You can’t buy happiness” Okay, explain travel then…
• Travsessed ( n .) An obsession with travel. When all you talk or think about is your past or future trips

Vacation Quotes Funny

• It’s bad manners to keep a vacation waiting.
• Good things come to those, who book flights. 
• I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.
• Tripophobia (n.) The fear of not having any travel trips currently booked.
• You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy plane tickets, which is kind of the same thing.

Funny Quotes on Travel

• Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas and take your next trip in kilometers. – George Carlin
• A coconut a day keeps the doctor away.
• “Be strong”, I whisper to my WiFi signal
• Jetlag is for amateurs

Funny Vacation Captions You Can Relate To

• My parents complain I travel too much. I mean, I could be a dr*ggie, do they realize how lucky they are?
• A plane ticket is the answer. Who cares what the question is.
• Don’t speak the language. Already said 3 times “what”. Now just smile and nod and hope for the best.
• Me travelling. Person: “Un Cafe?” Me: “Oui” Person: “Sucre” Me: “Non” Person: “You speak very good french” Me: “Gracias”
• You’ve never felt true fear until your passport isn’t where you think you left it.

Travel Captions Funny

• Have you ever stopped to think, maybe travel is into me?
• Education is important. But travel is importanter!
• If anyone is Christmas shopping for me, I wear a size 7-day Caribbean cruise.
• Me thinking about how many flights I can book for the cost of a new iPhone 14 Pro.
• I don’t know where I’m going, but I’m going. Are you coming with me?

Funny Quotes about Traveling

• Europeans: I drove 40 minutes to spend the weekend in Paris, then popped to Germany to visit family on the way home. Australians: I was in Queensland and drove for 18 hours. Now I’m still in Queensland.
• That moment when you’re asked where you got something and you answer with the name of the country, not the name of the store.
• Travelling is like a chocolate box. Don’t matter what you get. All is good.

Funny Quotes On Travel And Love

• Girls don’t wait for the prince anymore, they pack and travel the world.
• All you need is  love  a passport.
• I followed my heart and it led me to the airport. 
• If you had to choose between true love or travelling the world, which country would you visit first? 
• All I want for Christmas is  you  forever vacation.

Travel Funny Quotes

• Imagine falling in love with someone and then finding out they clap their hands when the plane lands.
• Some people spend their life searching for “the one”. I’m just searching for the one good travel deal.
• I’ve got a crush on the world.
• I want someone to look at me the way I look at a travel magazine!

Funny Travel Memes About The Life Goals Of A Traveller

• Birds literally just eat, travel, and make a mess on things they don’t like. I don’t know about you, but that’s the lifestyle I’m striving for.
• By 35, if I’m not engaged or already starting a family, I declare myself the aunt who’s always travelling & comes to family events tipsy.
• High five if you don’t know what you’re doing with your life and just want to travel the world.
• I want to live in the world where searching for plane tickets burns calories.
• Everyone should believe in something. I believe I should be on the beach drinking Margaritas.

Short Funny Travel Quotes

• Be afraid. And do it anyway.
• Can we just skip to the part in my life where I travel the world?
• I just need a large coffee, a plane ticket and a bag full of cash. 
• Getting out of bed would be 10x easier if there was a Caribbean ocean and 30 degree weather waiting outside for you.
• I love those days when my only decision is whether to go to the beach in the morning or in the afternoon.
• Live a life you don’t need a vacation from.

Funny Quotes about Vacation

• Work hard. Travel harder.
• I need a holiday. And by “holiday” I mean I need to move away and find a job. On the beach. With cocktails. 
• The temptation to go to the airport, buy a one-way ticket, leave the country and live on my own has never been so real.
• Ladies, imagine this. It’s 15 years from now, and you have no kids. You’re the cool wine aunt that occasionally comes back to the country for a brief visit before leaving for another long exotic vacation. You have no commitments, and a suspicious amount of money.

Funny Vacation Quotes About Packing

• Packs 2 hours before leaving for a trip. Unpacks 3 months after coming home.
• Going on a trip. Need about 5 outfits. I’ve packed 35 just to be safe.
• Me: triple checked packing list Also me: *forgets underwear, contact solution, and favorite chapstick*.
• Watches Netflix happily. Remembers you need to pack. Watches Netflix stressfully.

Funny Traveling Quotes

• Me: I’m not going to overpack this time. Inner me: I need this. I will need that as well. I need everything.
• Procrastapacking (n.) the act of thinking about packing a suitcase instead of actually doing it.
• Overpack. It’s why suitcases have wheels now.

Funny Adventure Quotes

• I haven’t worn these trousers since I bought them. I should definitely pack them for my 3 day vacation. Just in case.
• So, do I live out of a suitcase for the next month? Do I unpack just to repack again? Do I put my toothbrush back in the bathroom? I’m a visitor in my own house what the heck.
• My favorite thing to pack on trips are all the clothes I never wear at home and then find fun, flirty and exciting ways to not wear them while I’m away.

Funny Captions for Travel

• Normal life: Wears the same top every day for a week. Packing for 3-day vacation: I’ll probably change a few times a day so I’ll take 21 tops.
• I have been to almost as many places as my luggage.
• Me getting ready for vacation: manicure and pedicure, buy new Sephora products, spray tan, get waxed, get hair done, work out for a month, live off kale and veggies, try on 30K swimsuits and cry in dressing rooms. Husband getting ready for vacation: packs a bathing suit, flip-flops, a T-shirt, and calls it a day.

Funny Travel Captions About Airports

• Running to the gate is my cardio.
• Airports: the only place where drinking 8 AM is socially acceptable.
• The airport is a lawless place. 7 am? Drink a beer. Tired? Sleep on the floor. Hungry? Chips now cost 17$.
• A passport holder sounds like a great idea until you get to the airport and have to remove it 4 billion times.

Funny Adventure Captions

• Worrying you’ve accidentally packed 3 kilos of dr*gs and an animal carcass as you walk through “nothing to declare” at the airport.
• I love those days when my only decision is window or aisle.
• “Be right back…” Just running away from Monday and going straight to the airport. 

Traveling Quotes That Are Funny

• If you look like your passport picture, you probably need a trip.
• Vacation calories don’t count, right?
• What’s that medical condition called where you constantly need to have a trip booked? 
• Should I book another flight to go abroad? Brain: no. Wallet: no. Mom: no. Dog: no. Universe: no…I think I’m gonna book the flight.
• You can’t make everyone happy. You are not a plane ticket.

Vacation Funny Quotes

• TIP: You won’t get the holiday blues if you just keep booking holidays.
• You know it’s time for a vacation when you start looking like the person on your driving license…
• In desperate need of a full body massage, 4 days of sleep and a ticket to the Bahamas.
• Can’t decide if I need a hug, an XL coffee, 6 ounces of vodka, or 2 months of travel.
• Travitude (n.) when you start to feel grumpy and sassy because you haven’t travelled in a while.
• My mom watches a special type of news program that only reports on horrible incidents happening in places I’m about to visit.

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121. “Jet lag is for amateurs.” — Dick Clark

122. “Worst thing about being a tourist, is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist!” – Russell Baker

123. “You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful.” – Paul Theroux

124. “I’m getting used to wearing flip flops everywhere. It’s a dangerous place to be. Next thing you know, I’m gonna show to a board meeting in sandals.”

Travel Funny Captions

125. “Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” —  Al Gore

126. “Boy, those French. They have a different word for everything.” – Steve Martin 

127. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

128. “Don’t worry about the world ending today; it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles M. Schulz

129. “Airline travel is hours of boredom interrupted by stark moments of terror.” – Al Boliska

130. “I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them” – Mark Twain

131. “Drink heavily with the locals whenever possible.” – Anthony Bourdain

132. “I travel light but not at the same speed.” – Jarod Kintz

133. “A hotel room all to myself is my idea of a good time.” – Chelsea Handler

134. “I crossed a time zone and I feel younger already. If I keep traveling west, I can become immortal.” – Jarod Kintz

That’s 134 Best Funny Trip Quotes

That’s a wrap on my hand picked selection of the best funny travel quote and witty puns out there. I hope they’ve entertained you and brought a smile to your face.

If so, I’d love to know which of these funny quotes about adventure were your favorites and if you know of any more I need to add to this list please comment below!

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My dad was 54 when I was born. My siblings are over 20 years older than I am, and he was a very different parent to them.

• My dad was 54 when my twin and I were born.
• Our older siblings were born over 20 years before we were.
• In many ways, I feel like we had the father they should've had. I'm grateful, but also feel guilty.

"That's my dad, not my grandpa ," was a line I was well-versed in reciting from a very young age. My dad became a father to me and my twin brother when he was 54. However, we weren't unplanned; my mother was almost 22 years younger than my dad and desperately wanted to be a mother.

Though I can imagine seeing two heartbeats on an ultrasound as you approach your mid-50s would be a shock to the system, my dad was thrilled to have us, and we weren't his first kids. He had been married once before and had two other children. But it had been a long time — my sister is 24 years older than me, and my brother is 26 years older than me.

I had a different experience with my dad than my older siblings did

By virtue of the age difference , we were never destined to be as close to them as most siblings are. We would never live in the same house or even the same city, and they have almost three decades of shared memories with our father under their belt that I would never be privy to. But beyond the hindrance of age, there was always another elephant in the room: though we shared a parent biologically, in practice, we never truly had the same dad.

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Within the nearly 30 years between my birth and theirs, my dad had divorced their mom, become a single dad , and experienced plenty of growing pains. While parenting them, he had fewer years of emotional development and financial stability. I know he tried to be a good dad to us all, but he was a veteran at good fathering by the time I was born — with them, he was just beginning to figure it out.

In my lifetime, my dad never had to prioritize a work trip over my recitals or sports games — he was nearing retirement age when I hit kindergarten . He was always there to offer me sage advice on relationships after having been through one divorce and one successful marriage. And he also was around to help me out when it came to my career and financial advice; while raising my siblings, he'd gone through near-bankruptcy, and in my childhood, he paid off our mortgage in full.

I know that without the life experience our dad had between the time they were born and when I was, I would not have had the comfortable upbringing I did. I also recognize that for my siblings, he was a 20-something single dad, walking alone in the proverbial jungle of first-time parenting. This tension, defined by a sense of resentment and unfairness, has always defined — and at times, damaged — my relationships with my siblings and made me grateful for the dad I did have, while also feeling guilty for the dad they didn't have. 

I've realized I may never be very close with my older siblings

I learned from a very early age that relationships — even with family — are never a right or a given. My parents have had a turbulent relationship with my older siblings, and boundaries were occasionally put in place when it came to communication. As a result, my relationships with my siblings also suffered.

My relationship with my sister was largely dead on arrival, and though I was close with my older brother throughout my early teen years, we never recovered after he and my parents had a blowout fight when I was 16. I wasn't involved — in fact, I can't even recall the details of the fight itself — but my connection with him was collateral damage.

My dad was and is a fantastic father to me and my twin. It feels as though I got the dad that they should've — that we all should've — had. But I've only realized this as an adult, as when I was young, I was just confused and, frankly, angry that my older siblings would shun me and my brother. However, I now understand their reasoning. I'm also old enough to know that, though I love my siblings, we may never reach a point where our relationship doesn't trigger traumatic memories or an ache to hug our own inner children. And that's OK.

At the same time, I've also developed a greater love and understanding for my dad . It's easy to love someone when you're only able and willing to see their infallible good sides. But true love and understanding means seeing the full picture: the mistakes they've made, the pain they've caused others that they've tried (and sometimes failed) to remedy, and loving them anyway.

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The state of tourism and hospitality 2024

Tourism and hospitality are on a journey of disruption. Shifting source markets and destinations, growing demand for experiential and luxury travel, and innovative business strategies are all combining to dramatically alter the industry landscape. Given this momentous change, it’s important for stakeholders to consider and strategize on four major themes:

• The bulk of travel is close to home. Although international travel might draw headlines, stakeholders shouldn’t neglect the big opportunities in their backyards. Domestic travel still represents the bulk of travel spending, and intraregional tourism is on the rise.
• Consumers increasingly prioritize travel—when it’s on their own terms. Interest in travel is booming, but travelers are no longer content with a one-size-fits-all experience. Individual personalization might not always be practical, but savvy industry players can use segmentation and hypothesis-driven testing to improve their value propositions. Those that fail to articulate target customer segments and adapt their offerings accordingly risk getting left behind.
• The face of luxury travel is changing. Demand for luxury tourism and hospitality is expected to grow faster than any other travel segment today—particularly in Asia. It’s crucial to understand that luxury travelers don’t make up a monolith. Segmenting by age, nationality, and net worth can reveal varied and evolving preferences and behaviors.
• As tourism grows, destinations will need to prepare to mitigate overcrowding. Destinations need to be ready to handle the large tourist flows of tomorrow. Now is the time for stakeholders to plan, develop, and invest in mitigation strategies. Equipped with accurate assessments of carrying capacities and enhanced abilities to gather and analyze data, destinations can improve their transportation and infrastructure, build tourism-ready workforces, and preserve their natural and cultural heritages.

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Global travel is back and buzzing. The amount of travel fell by 75 percent in 2020; however, travel is on its way to a full recovery by the end of 2024. More regional trips, an emerging population of new travelers, and a fresh set of destinations are powering steady spending in tourism.

There’s no doubt that people still love to travel and will continue to seek new experiences in new places. But where will travelers come from, and where will they go?

We share a snapshot of current traveler flows, along with estimates for growth through 2030.

The way we travel now

Which trends are shaping traveler sentiment now? What sorts of journeys do today’s travelers dream about? How much are they willing to spend on their trips? And what should industry stakeholders do to adapt to the traveler psychology of the moment?

To gauge what’s on the minds of present-day travelers, we surveyed more than 5,000 of them. The findings reveal disparate desires, generational divides, and a newly emerging set of traveler archetypes.

Updating perceptions about today’s luxury traveler

Demand for luxury tourism and hospitality is expected to grow faster than for any other segment. This growth is being powered in part by a large and expanding base of aspiring luxury travelers with net worths between $100,000 and $1 million, many of whom are younger and increasingly willing to spend larger shares of their wealth on upscale travel options. The increase is also a result of rising wealth levels in Asia.

We dug deeper into this ongoing evolution by surveying luxury travelers around the globe about their preferences, plans, and expectations. Some widely held notions about luxury travelers—such as how much money they have, how old they are, and where they come from—could be due for reexamination.

Destination readiness: Preparing for the tourist flows of tomorrow

As global tourism grows, it will be crucial for destinations to be ready. How can the tourism ecosystem prepare to host unprecedented volumes of visitors while managing the challenges that can accompany this success? A large flow of tourists, if not carefully channeled, can encumber infrastructure, harm natural and cultural attractions, and frustrate locals and visitors alike.

Now is the time for tourism stakeholders to combine their thinking and resources to look for better ways to handle the visitor flows of today while properly preparing themselves for the visitor flows of tomorrow. We offer a diagnostic that destinations can use to spot early-warning signs about tourism concentration, along with suggestions for funding mechanisms and strategies to help maximize the benefits of tourism while minimizing its negative impacts.

Six trends shaping new business models in tourism and hospitality

As destinations and source markets have transformed over the past decade, tourism and hospitality companies have evolved, too. Accommodation, home sharing, cruises, and theme parks are among the sectors in which new approaches could present new opportunities. Stakeholders gearing up for new challenges should look for business model innovations that will help sustain their hard-won growth—and profits.

Unbundling offerings, cross-selling distinctive experiences, and embracing data-powered strategies can all be winning moves. A series of insight-driven charts reveal significant trends and an outlook on the future.

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What the rise of the caesarean section reveals about pregnancy and childbirth in the U.S.

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After Rachel Somerstein was rushed into an operating room for an unplanned caesarean section, her doctor made the first cut. “I felt that,” she told him. “You’ll feel pressure,” the doctor responded.

But, horrifyingly, Somerstein “felt it all: the separation of my rectus muscles; the scissors used to move my bladder; the scalpel, with which he ‘incised’ my uterus.” When her daughter was born, Somerstein was so traumatized that she couldn’t hold her baby. She screamed for her to be taken from the room.

Friends encouraged Somerstein to file a lawsuit; others balked, doubting that she could have undergone major abdominal surgery without anesthesia. The overarching message to mothers who experience traumatic delivery in this country is to get over it. “How long did it really take,” one attorney asked the author, “five minutes?”

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It’s a common refrain: Just be happy you have a healthy baby. The dangerous and potentially unnecessary interventions of medicalized childbirth are never called into question when the pain and trauma of the person giving birth are invalidated. Somerstein quotes two scholars of healthcare and science: “Something is visible [only] when somebody recognizes it as relevant.”

Propelled by Somerstein’s own experience, “Invisible Labor” is a thorough investigation of birthing practices grounded in misogyny, racism and other forces contrary to the well-being of mothers.

Somerstein illuminates the capitalistic drive to rush birth in American hospitals facing infrastructural and staffing deficiencies: “Compared with vaginal births, C-sections are more efficient. Particularly if they are scheduled, a hospital can do far more of them … in a day.”

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The medicalization of childbirth, including the C-section, undoubtedly saves lives. But the dehumanization of those giving birth, and the erasure of their well-being and experience, hurts everyone. As “Invisible Labor” shows, the lack of attention and communication in the hospital setting can be fatal.

Somerstein delves into the history of the C-section, which was devised to help save both mother and child. It was quickly adapted by enslavers, however, in “a push to bring about more slaves. In the U.S., most early caesareans took place in the South, and they still do today; a disproportionate number of Black and enslaved women made up the subjects.”

The history of birthing in the U.S. becomes a means of grappling with the history of slavery, racism and eugenics. Once the C-section was in practice, doctors realized that they could also sterilize women of color and those deemed disabled without their consent. “ ‘ Acabó la canción ,’ said one woman sterilized at L.A. County Hospital in the 1970s. My song has ended.”

Relying on essential feminist texts such as Adrienne Rich’s “Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution,” Somerstein amplifies the role of the midwife — and her removal from the delivery room, taking away a library’s worth of knowledge about birth and birthing people and placing them in largely inexperienced, male hands.

“Just as land gets colonized, so does knowledge,” Barbara Katz Rothman, a sociologist, told Somerstein. “By laying claim to birth, medicine established boundaries over who has authority to attend it.”

Shockingly, Somerstein’s research shows that the electronic fetal monitoring technology used in hospitals, known as EFM, is “notoriously unreliable.” Often, it reports a falling fetal heart rate or stalled labor when the baby and mother are perfectly healthy. But it allows doctors and nurses to tend to many patients, running from room to room and leaving patients alone. Doctors and nurses are trained in the technology instead of the skills of midwives, who know what to look for from extensive experience.

“When used on mothers who have not previously had a caesarean,” Somerstein writes, “EFM, according to one study, makes a person up to 81 percent more likely to have a C-section than mothers monitored intermittently.”

The C-section rate has grown and grown — to about 1 in 3 U.S. births — and “a C-section mom is about 80 percent more likely to have a serious complication, like needing a blood transfusion or an emergency hysterectomy.” Women of color and particularly Black women are more likely to have caesareans.

Speaking to Rei Shimizu, a social work researcher, Somerstein relates: “There’s an assumption in the health system … that nonwhite female bodies cannot give birth safely without intervention.”

“Obstetric racism is about white doctors being racist, but it’s also about doctors, white, Black, whatever, that when you’re expressing your concerns, they just don’t listen,” said Nicole Carr, a professor who spoke to Somerstein about losing her baby after her concerns about her pregnancy were ignored. “It’s a system that makes it so that when you go in and talk about your concerns, it’s almost like you’re not an expert in your own body.”

“Invisible Labor” does not claim that doctors or even medicalized childbirth is the problem. Rather, it’s a system that decenters our humanity and relies on technology and statistics.

“We believe this visual omniscience will fix the problem,” Somerstein writes. “And we discard or forget that events take place outside the frame, including what subjective, embodied knowledge can reveal.”

Women who experience traumatic childbirth are far more likely to suffer from postpartum depression, anxiety or both. Perhaps “attending to women’s pain could be rectified by the simple but radical decision to ask women how they feel and listen to the answer,” Somerstein writes. Instead of telling her “You’ll feel pressure” when he made the incision, her doctor could have asked, “Do you feel pressure?” or, even better, “Do you feel pain?”

Then again, what do we expect in a country whose Supreme Court struck down women’s bodily autonomy? As it stands now, an unborn fetus has more rights than a woman or girl in many states. To create a better system of childbirth for mothers, we have to believe that the rights and indeed the lives of pregnant people matter.

“Invisible Labor” clearly and compassionately blends scientific research and reportage with the personal stories of Somerstein and other women. Childbirth is painful, but with the right care, it can also ground us in our humanity.

Some of the most moving accounts of birth in “Invisible Labor” come from women who had the support of a doula or midwife. When Somerstein writes that “every woman deserves the touch of a midwife,” she is communicating that every person deserves someone who will listen to and validate their experience. This should be the first standard of care.

Jessica Ferri is the owner of Womb House Books and the author, most recently, of “Silent Cities San Francisco.”

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Canadian delegation will travel to France to commemorate the 80 th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy

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To mark the 80th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy, the Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, will lead an official Government of Canada delegation to Normandy, France.

Remembering those who fought for peace and freedom.

30 May 2024 – Ottawa, ON – Veterans Affairs Canada

For the Canadians who landed on Juno Beach on 6 June 1944, it was a day they would never forget.

To mark the 80 th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy, the Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence, will lead an official Government of Canada delegation to Normandy, France. The delegation will leave Canada in early June and return on 9 June 2024, following events and ceremonies commemorating this significant milestone.

The delegation will include Second World War Veterans and their families, including those who fought on D-Day and during the Battle of Normandy, representatives of Veterans’ organizations and Indigenous groups, as well as parliamentarians. Members of the Canadian Armed Forces will also participate in events and ceremonies in France. As part of the delegation selection process, Veterans Affairs Canada worked with Veterans organizations to identify Canadian Veterans to serve as delegates.

The signature commemorative ceremony, taking place at Juno Beach on 6 June 2024, can be watched by Canadians at home through Canadian broadcasters, as well as through Veterans Affairs Canada’s “ Canada Remembers ” Facebook page.

All Canadians share a responsibility to keep Veterans’ stories alive, recognize the cost of war and honour their sacrifice which allow us the privileges and peace we know today. 

Join the conversation on social media by using the hashtags #CanadaRemembers and #DDay80, or visit veterans.gc.ca/CanadaRemembers . 

“The men and women who made D-Day possible came from all walks of life. From small towns to big cities, from farming communities to fishing villages. Giants of industry and factory workers. As we approach the 80th anniversary of D-Day and the Battle of Normandy, it is my honour to stand alongside some of Canada’s Second World War Veterans as we revisit the beach, towns, and fields where so many Canadians fought side by side. The thousands of Veterans who served during the Normandy Campaign have thousands of stories. It is our duty to keep these stories alive.” The Honourable Ginette Petitpas Taylor, Minister of Veterans Affairs and Associate Minister of National Defence 

Quick facts

On 6 June 1944, the Allies launched Operation Overlord, a massive amphibious assault on the coast of occupied France intended to secure a beachhead in Western Europe. 

More than 14,000 Canadians landed at Juno Beach, among the roughly 150,000 Allied forces who came ashore in Normandy, and charged fortified German positions. By the end of D-Day, 359 Canadian soldiers had been killed but an Allied foothold in France had been established.

More than 90,000 Canadian soldiers who had volunteered to serve Canada during the Second World War saw action in the Normandy Campaign. 

The Battle of Normandy lasted for 11 weeks. Fighting through the dust and heat of the French summer, more than 5,000 Canadian soldiers were killed and another 13,000 wounded before the campaign officially came to a close in late August 1944. 

The Canadians who fought on D-Day and throughout the Battle of Normandy were among the more than one million Canadians and Newfoundlanders who served in uniform during the Second World War. 

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