Alberta Hunter Quotes

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand?

We don't take a trip. A trip takes us.

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out and the satisfaction. I always get a little disappointed when I know too well where I'm going, or when I've lived in a place so long that there's no chance I could possibly get lost.

I just go with the flow, I follow the yellow brick road. I don't know where it's going to lead me, but I follow it.

Life drew me and I followed it.

I never know where I am going, though. That is part of what makes it so wonderful. And after all, who does?

Strong I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived.

Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.

A good traveller is one who does not know where he is going to, and a perfect traveller does not know where he came from.

Especially on unexpected journeys, you have time; you can figure certain deeper things out, like who you are and what you want. That's why I enjoy journeys.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Never in my life have I thought, 'What's next?' It's just like 'Finding Dory.' Things just happen.

I like going into places that you never know what you're going to find because you can go in with no ideas and leave with thousands.

I am always living in the now, so I like what fate brings to you. That's always fun for me. To have a process and someone be like, 'How about this?' And you just grab onto that and see where it takes you.

Some people are born to trains, and some have trains thrust upon them. Fortunately, I can be included in this latter category.

I like to be surprised by life; it's a good thing to search for the puzzle pieces.

When you don't know where you're headed, you find places no one else would ever explore.

Real travel requires a maximum of unscheduled wandering, for there is no other way of discovering surprises and marvels, which, as I see it, is the only good reason for not staying at home.

If you're feeling fancy free, come wander through the world with me, and any place we chance to be, will be a rendezvous. Two for the road, we'll travel through the years, collecting precious memories, selecting souvenirs and living life the way we please.

The least planned part of the journey, however, was the journey itself.

If you can’t decide what to do, get on the road. You won’t find the answer. It will find you.

But the true voyagers are only those who leave Just to be leaving; hearts light, like balloons, They never turn aside from their fatality And without knowing why they always say: "Let's go!