Hunter S. Thompson Quotes

Over the years, I've covered 22,000 miles.

I went to Alaska as a young man just looking for adventure. And like so many of us in the '70s, we found it.

When I graduated from college in the spring of 1970, I decided to hitchhike around Europe with my guitar and my backpack. I was gone for about four months.

I had a lot of romantic notions about what it would mean to cross Asia by foot.

At 17, I traveled to Mexico in a lemon yellow Mustang and saved money by bunking down in cheap, cockroach-infested flophouses. In my early 20s, I went on to thumb rides through Europe, readily sleeping in train stations, my backpack as a pillow. Once I even hunkered down for a night on a sidewalk grate - for warmth - in Paris.

I sailed around Europe and lived with the Karen tribe in Thailand for a month.

I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases.

I'm used to hitch-hiking.

At the age of 14, I ran away from home for four days and hitchhiked around western Pennsylvania and southern Ohio.

I love voyaging - the longest has been 3,000 miles to Hawaii. I've also spent weeks all over the Caribbean.

I'm passionate about travel.

I'd really like to visit India and South America. I think India will be a great mix of sightseeing and relaxing, and I've got a feeling it will also be good for one's soul and spirit. And I'd love to go backpacking around South America at some point. I did that in Australia when I was younger, and the camaraderie was great fun.

I find age such a foreign concept. I have to be reminded. I still have the extraordinary feeling of adventure, striking out into unknown fields.

In 1990 we ran across Europe through 13 countries and covering 7,130 miles.

I've traveled more than any human being who's ever lived.

My best travelling experience lasted several years: between 1971 and 1974 when I bummed around the East. All I had with me was a cooking pot, a stove, a map and blankets and a couple of dhotis.

Spending time on 18th-century ships in Tahiti when I was 17 was quite unusual.

Consultant: any ordinary guy more than fifty miles from home.

My three-year ride by horse from Mongolia to Hungary was the most difficult, most revealing, and interesting of any of my travels. Travelling by horse, you're far more engaged and dependent on the land and other people than by any other means.

I never travelled when I was younger.

I've got a lot of miles on my legs.

I may not have trekked through the galaxies in reality. But I have trekked all over this planet: Australia, Asia, Latin America, Europe.

I love to travel. I want to do India by road, the entire length and breadth.

I spent about a year traveling overland from Egypt through Sudan and Ethiopia, and eventually into East Africa.

There's always another adventure if you keep your head above water and I don't have any desire to slow down because it keeps you young.