Travel

If you look like your passport photo, you’re too ill to travel. –Will Kommen

Most of Hugh’s and my travel arguments have to do with pace. I’m a fast walker, but he has longer legs, and likes to maintain a good twenty-foot lead. To the casual observer, he would appear to be running from me, darting around corners, intentionally trying to lose himself. When asked about my latest vacation, the answer is always the same. In Bangkok, in Ljubljana, in Budapest, and Bonn: What did I see? Hugh’s back, just briefly, as he disappeared into a crowd. … The only [travel] book I’ll ever need is “Where’s Waldo?” All my energy goes into tracking Hugh, and as result I don’t get to enjoy anything. –David Sedaris

The very rich seem to move around too much, for reasons of both business and pleasure. ... Travel is exhausting. Travel can also be dangerous. The rich should remember that nobody every risked his neck by staying in one place. If you're rich enough, let them come to you. --Paul Johnson

I have traveled widely in Concord. –Henry David Thoreau

Buy the things your gut tells you to because you won’t regret buying it, but you will regret not buying it. … Be prepared to spend more money than you planned. The world is designed to separate you from your money, and there are always surprises. –Janet Eastman

Sometimes the low road can take you places that the high road can’t. –Jake Pearson, played by Willie Nelson on a classic episode of Miami Vice

All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost. –J. R. R. Tolkien