TRAVEL LADY VACATIONS

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

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

It is better to travel well than to arrive. Buddha

One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. Thomas Jefferson

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

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. Confucius

It is not down on any map; true places never are. ~Herman Melville  

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience.  The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him.  He goes “sight-seeing.” ~Daniel J. Boorstin

Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind. ~Seneca    

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, Blue Highways

I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full. ~Lord Dunsany

“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

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” ~ Saint Augustine

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

“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

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

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

“May all your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view… where something strange and more beautiful and more full of wonder than your deepest dreams waits for you.” ~ Edward Abbey

“Don’t simply seek interesting surroundings, but be continually interested in whatever surrounds you. It is fatal to know too much at the outset. Boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as to the novelist who is over certain of his plot.” ~ Paul Theroux

“Tourists see the world, travelers experience it.” ~ unknown

“The man who follows the crowd will usually get no further than the crowd. The man who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever been.” ~ Alan Ashley-Pitt

“No one ever travels so high as he who knows not where he is going.” ~ Cromwell

“Most people don’t see the world as it is… they see it as they are.” ~ unknown

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

“There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.” ~ Albert Einstein

“The average tourist wants to go to places where there are no tourists.” ~ Sam Ewing

“What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

“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.” ~ Sadi Gulistan

“Travel, in the younger sort, is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” ~ Francis Bacon

“Travelers are just commuters with a wider perspective.” ~ William G. Taylor

“Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined — how is it that this safe return brings such regret?” ~ Peter Mathiesson

“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.” ~ Stephen Wright

“The country of the tourist pamphlet always is another country, an embarrassing abstraction of the desirable that, thank God, does not exist on this planet, where there are always ants and bad smells and empty Coca-Cola bottles to keep the grubby finger-print of reality upon the beautiful.” ~ Nadine Gordimer

“The routines of tourism are even more monotonous than those of daily life.” ~ Mason Cooley

Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision.” ~ James Thurber

“A man who leaves home to mend himself and others is a philosopher; but he who goes from country to country, guided by the blind impulse of curiosity, is a vagabond.” ~ Oliver Goldsmith

“The fastest way to travel is to be there already.” ~ Terry Pratchett

“Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.” ~ Italo Calvino

Destination is merely a byproduct of the journey.” ~ Eric Hansen            

Origin of: “Fair Winds and Following Seas.” The origin of the quote “Fair Winds and Following Seas” is unknown.  It is often  said to have been lifted from a poem, phrase, or literary work, but to the best  of this researcher’s knowledge, it wasn’t.  Over the last century at least, the  two quotes “Fair Winds” and “Following Seas” have evolved, by usage, into a  single phrase which is often used as a nautical blessing. “Fair Winds”: The Dictionary of American Regional English defines “Fair  Wind” as “safe journey; good fortune.” An early example of the phrase’s use is  in Herman Melville’s Moby Dick, published in 1851, where it says near the end  “Let me square the yards, while we may, old man, and make a fair wind of it  homeward.” In other words, let me square the yards (add on all sail) and make a  safe journey home. “Following Seas”: Defined by Bowditch’s American Practical Navigatoras “A sea  in which the waves move in the general direction of the heading.” It further   defines “Tide” as “the periodic rise and fall of the water resulting from  gravitational interactions between the sun, moon, and earth. . . . the  accompanying horizontal movement of the water is part of the same phenomenon.”  In simple terms: the movement of the water, the waves, and the surface,  correspond with the movement of the tide. “Fair Winds and Following Seas” is really two quotes originating from different  sources.  The two quotes are a nautical phrase of good luck–a blessing as it  were–as the person, group, or thing it is said to departs on a voyage in life.   It is often used at a “beginning” ceremony such as a commissioning ceremony of a  ship or people, as well as in retirement, change of command, or farewell ceremonies. Source: Researched by Samuel Loring Morison.