Adventure Travel Quotes

“You can handle just about anything that comes at you out on the road with a believable grin, common sense and whiskey.”
― Bill Murray, Common Sense and Whiskey: Travel Adventures Far from Home

“Just because I am paranoid does not mean that someone is not out to get me”
― Don Darkes, 6692 Pisces the Sailfish

“Giving up on the drive to succeed is a good part of what being an expat is all about. If you travel all the way to the Caribbean Sea, you probably have already decided to trade the dog-eat-dog competition of modern living for a hammock on the sand.”
― Anthony Lee Head, Driftwood: Stories from the Margarita Road

“Every man holds inspiration, you have to have a seeing eye.”
― Dheeraj Kumar

“Oh no, princess. I would never carry out anything which could harm your being. This was just something I was told to say. I'm not sure what is planned, if, you go against their wishes. But, I'm sure you're smart and won't test them.”
― Chayada Welljaipet, The Adventures of Luciana

“It wasn’t hard to understand. Mexican women are something special. They learn early on that men are subservient to them. They are trained by their mothers in the use of this power over these lowly creatures.”
― Anthony Lee Head, Driftwood: Stories from the Margarita Road

“We should follow every supply that runs into the particular lake below, going upstream in terms of we can. When we do not find Drakes’ path, or even an additional, we should come back straight along,look yourself upward an additional way to obtain foods,and then do a similar for the next water for the south.”
― Chayada Welljaipet, Hill's Adventure

“As I got to know my new neighbors, I found saints and sinners of every degree of good, bad, and strange. These aging adolescents thought of themselves as Peter Pan’s lost children, and the beach was their Neverland. Having run away from home, they now were refusing to grow up.”
― Anthony Lee Head, Driftwood: Stories from the Margarita Road

“What if we are all simply lost souls blown off course, just trying to get home?”
― Anthony Lee Head, Driftwood: Stories from the Margarita Road

“Life down here is kind of a permanent Halloween where you choose a costume more fitting for your self-image than reality could ever offer. Do you want to be a captain or a cowboy? No problem. People will call you by whatever title or name you choose. You say you’re a reincarnated pirate queen or the abandoned love child of a famous entertainer? That’s fine with me. We believe each other’s stories about who we were and who we are. Being an expat means you can have a whole new life. It’s a little like being in the Witness Relocation Program only with flip flops and margaritas.”
― Anthony Lee Head, Driftwood: Stories from the Margarita Road

“We do not save nature, nature saves us.”
― Linda Ballou, Lost Angel Walkabout: One Traveler's Tales

“Even our most misguided adventures were some of the best experiences of my life.”
― Darcy Luoma, Thoughtfully Fit: Your Training Plan for Life and Business Success

“For some people, the lure of travelling and exploration is just too strong to resist. I have jokingly called this the ‘Itchy Feet Syndrome’. Years ago, you would have been able to spot this person easily, as their passport would have been filled with exotic stamps and visas. Today, they are likely to have a mass of photos and travel stories uploaded onto their Facebook page or blog.

So what makes some people reach for their passport at every opportunity? What inspires them to leave home and travel the world on a sailboat or in a converted van? Is it simply a need to explore and see what is around the next corner? Or is it a deeper desire to be free, to live a simpler life?

On talking to many of the authors who have contributed their travel story to this anthology, it became clear that having ‘Itchy Feet’ is a real thing. Many have described how they felt this way from a young age, or even inherited this from their parents or grandparents. What is clear is that their desire to travel is so strong they cannot resist the attraction of the next new place or experience.”
― Alyson Sheldrake, Itchy Feet - Tales of travel and adventure: An anthology of travel stories

“Remember: this is not a guidebook, it is a map. Wander at your whimsy.”
― Toby Israel, Vagabondess: A Guide to Solo Female Travel

“Most of the pilgrims I met in Mexico were running from something: financial woes, a pissed-off spouse, or a life that hit a dead end. Regardless of the reasons for the journey, the Margarita Road will take you far from all those problems. Still, there are no guarantees. A funny thing about the past--it can catch up to you even on a remote tropical seashore. Sometimes you bring it with you.”
― Anthony Lee Head, Driftwood: Stories from the Margarita Road

“It didn’t take me long to settle into my new life as a beach bar owner in paradise. Truthfully, it wasn’t a demanding career. Trust me when I say that serving rum drinks to girls in tiny bikinis isn’t that big of a chore.”
― Anthony Lee Head, Driftwood: Stories from the Margarita Road

“For some time now, people like me had been drifting south, ending up in Mexico with Jimmy Buffett songs playing in their heads. They left behind mortgages, failed marriages, and a lifetime of disappointments. Some of them came looking for a fresh start, and some were searching for a place to hide. A few were pulled by a dream they could never quite understand, until they walked down the beach to that crystal-clear water for the first time.”
― Anthony Lee Head, Driftwood: Stories from the Margarita Road

“Oh sure, there was a gringo gulch where the sunbirds lived in the winter months. But if you avoided them, you might hook up with the small community of Margarita Road refugees: a group of wanderers from up north; a crazy Irish sailor; a few Italians; some young, fast-living kids from Mexico City; and one beautiful girl from Brazil. All in all, it was a nice place to stay—or hide, if that’s what you needed.”
― Anthony Lee Head, Driftwood: Stories from the Margarita Road

“The Margarita Road isn’t just about flip flops and late-night beach parties. Running away can be hard work.”
― Anthony Lee Head, Driftwood: Stories from the Margarita Road

“He kept ordering beers and making what he thought were humorous jokes about how Mexicans sleep all day, all the while telling me how great my life was without a ‘real job.’ After an hour or so of this, I was ready to pour the next drink over his head.”
― Anthony Lee Head, Driftwood: Stories from the Margarita Road

“My fear traveled alongside me as an almost constant companion. It caused me to doubt myself all the time, to hesitate, to second-guess my decisions. Every day, I waged war against my mind and the fear that plagued it. I fought to live a life of my own choosing rather than a life dictated by fear and comfort. I fought the impulse to close, to numb, or to seek some form of escape. Every day, over and over, I chose to see, to stay open, to remain open.”
― Summer Shultz, Stuck Wide Open

“You know, I went to Berlin to have relax—' I stopped. Should I tell him about my magic sunglasses? Would that make my whole story even more fantastic? I decided to keep quiet about it; my frankness had some limits.”
― Mariia Manko, Through the Magic Sunglasses

“Choosing to continue feeling disappointment about lost joys keeps us from experiencing new ones. We just need to stay afloat during the hard times so that we are ready when good times come again. This is one of the chief lessons we have learned from life on a boat, though not the first...”
― Tanya Hackney, Leaving the Safe Harbor: The Risks and Rewards of Raising a Family on a Boat

“I consider stubbornness to be one of my most endearing personality traits.”
― Toby Israel, Vagabondess: A Guide to Solo Female Travel

“I don’t like guidebooks. I don’t like self-help-style “you must do this to be happy” rhetoric. I really don’t like dogmatic, authoritative injunctions of any kind telling me how to live my life. And if my intuition about you, dear reader, is at all accurate, neither do you.”
― Toby Israel, Vagabondess: A Guide to Solo Female Travel

“Either she’d gain control over her powers,” he said slowly, “or lose whatever little she had in the first place.”
― V. Ananya, The Young Foreigner: One Journey Can Decide Fate

“When you saw different parts of the world, you saw different parts of yourself. And when you stayed home, where it was safe, those parts of yourself also stayed hidden.”
― Elise Broach, Masterpiece

“Constable Watson waived my apology off. He had a better alternative for me. “You seem like a decent young feller. I’m gonna arrange for you to spend the night at my daughter’s house.”
― Jeff Rasley, Jeffrey Rasley, A Hitchhiker’s Big Adventure: On the road from Indiana to Key West and New Orleans for Mardi Gras 1972

“Ideal for women across generations, this book speaks to those questioning their relationships, yearning for adventure, or seeking strength in adversity. Audrey's journey is a testament to the power of making heart-breaking yet soul-healing decisions.”
― Audrey C Amos

“Although Balboa is in the American-controlled zone, it’s a suburb of Panama City, which ranks along with New York as one of the world’s most dangerous places. Be that as it may, the girls bully their parents into letting them go out for the evening if Jerry and I take responsibility—a commitment I have doubts about.”
― Michael Chapman Pincher, Long Lost Love: Diary of a Rambling Romeo: Outclassing the Men: Fearless females take the lead on this Epic Voyage