“Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn’t block traffic.”
– Dan Rather
“Patience is something you admire in the driver behind you and scorn in the one ahead.”
— Mac McCleary
"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."
“When going on a vacation, I wish I could load my wallet with money as much as I can overpack my luggage.”
“This is the first year I’m not going to Fiji because of COVID-19. Normally, I do not go because I am poor.”
— Brooke Miller
“How is it that the first piece of luggage on the airport carousel never belongs to everyone?”
— George Roberts
“Kilometers are shorter than miles. Save gas, take your next trip in kilometers.”
– George Carlin
"Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo."
- Al Gore
"Summer vacations are a time when parents realize that teachers are grossly underpaid."
"Okay, we’re all like 90% happy and 10% sunburnt."
"By 35, if I’m not engaged or already starting a family, I declare myself the aunt who’s always traveling & comes to family events tipsy."
"I crossed a time zone and I feel younger already. If I keep traveling west, I can become immortal."
- Jarod Kintz
Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.
"Why do we love the sea? It is because it has some potent power to make us think things we like to think."
- Robert Henri
“Life is like pocket money. You shouldn't spend it all in one place.”
― Julian Talbot
“Straight roads are for fast cars, turns are for fast drivers.”
— Colin McRae
"When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee."
– Helen Hayes
“A car’s weakest part is the nut holding the steering wheel.”
"I don't run a car, have never run a car. I could say that this is because I have this extremely tender environmentalist conscience, but the fact is I hate driving."
- David Attenborough
"How can people my age plan spontaneous trips to Thailand, I can barely afford a spontaneous soft pretzel."
“Forget champagne and caviar – taste the world instead!”
"Only on a cruise shiip will you pay hundreds of dollar a day to sleep in a closet."
“Never underestimate the therapeutic power of driving and listening to very loud music.”
"We travel, initially, to lose ourselves, and we travel, next to find ourselves."
- Pico Iyer
"People that insist upon drinking and driving, are putting the quart before the hearse."
– Gilbert K. Chesterton