Dar Williams Quotes

I didn't do very well when I was at school, so my dad gave me the opportunity to travel in Africa. I drove from London to Nairobi. It was incredible.

I loved going on the road... I think that's something everybody ought to experience one day - not necessarily as an artist, but just to get out and see the country.

Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

The summer I finished my first novel 'Ghana Must Go,' I drove across west Africa: from Accra to Lome to Cotonou to the deliciously named Ouagadougou.

I quit my job. I bought myself a real cheap, like, around-the-world flight ticket, and I went to 16 countries for six months just backpacking, living in cheap hostels, looking for stories with a camera and my ex-girlfriend.

I like going to places that are so different than where I'm from.

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

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.

After college, I drove across the country twice with friends. It was one of the most fascinating experiences of my life. I find it really inspiring seeing the country that way.

We're not just making 'Marco Polo,' we're living it. Because we traveled to Venice... Kazakhstan... into the jungles of Malaysia.

I don't enjoy traveling in America. I don't like the food, the cars. It is not exotic enough. It all tastes a bit like airline food.

I wanted to know what it would be like to get on a horse and ride all the way west to Europe and take a look back at my own culture through the eyes of a nomad.

Whether it's in America, Quebec, or France, if I can tell a story that takes me out of my comfort zone, then I'm surfing.

One day, I would like to go over to Spain to play just to see what it's like and to experience that.

I've been travelling around the U.K., actually getting to see places. I'm so lucky that I am able to travel with work, but you don't often get to experience them properly.

I spent my whole life in Maryland, but I wanted to experience more - fighting to get to urban areas where there was culture.

There is something so different and empowering about travelling solo. It's a unique experience and one that is so self-educating.

The only time I travelled solo was when I did a 40-day trip visiting America for the first time.

Getting to see new places, their culture, and getting away from what I am used to is so rewarding.

To me, traveling in the United States isn't that much fun. I like to go elsewhere and experience different cultures.

That was quite an adventure, stopping at a different house each night, seeing new country,.

Collect adventures and experiences to reminisce about…go to far places, meet new people, eat exotic foods, enjoy all varieties of women, look on unfamiliar landscapes, see new things.

Everybody needs adventure, and everybody needs something to enlarge his or her lives.

To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are.