Dan Chaon Quotes

I really like to just jump in a truck with your backpack and just drive and go somewhere.

What's your road, man? - holyboy road, madman road, rainbow road, guppy road, any road. It's an anywhere road for anybody anyhow. Where body how?

Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.

Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

I love my passport. I plan trips very last minute, so I always carry it with me.

When you're on a road trip, anything goes.

I'm always ready to go back on the road.

I love the freedom of the road.

I don't just hop in the car. I have destinations. I drive to relax. I'll be gone for two weeks, hit four or five major cities. I don't like being nowhere for more than two or three days. I just go. I don't have a schedule.

Being on the road is very inspiring.

The road is the best spot to drive - just anywhere.

The open road still softly calls.

We don't know where we're going, but isn't is fun to go?

Travelling's not something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.

I like to drive and I like to travel. When I drive on the open road, it's like sometimes the car turns into a pen and the road is a piece of paper.

Roll down the window and let the wind blow back your hair. The night's busted open. These two lanes will take us anywhere.

The Rom believe you should take the road that calls to you, and never turn back. Because you never know what adventures await." ... "So we're going to take this road," he murmured, "and see where it leads.

Stuart rose from the ditch, climbed into his car, and started up the road that led toward the north...As he peeked ahead into the great land that stretched before him, the way seemed long. But the sky was bright, and he somehow felt he was headed in the right direction.

When I travel, I feel more like a nomad than a tourist.

The best of life is to embark on an adventure with a woman interested in having an adventure with you.

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

I try to travel as much as I can... I'm always looking for a reason to.

I went to my room and packed a change of clothes, got my banjo, and started walking down the road. Soon I found myself on the open highway headed east.

Driving is a spectacular form of amnesia. Everything is to be discovered, everything to be obliterated.