John Prendergast Quotes

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'm always ready to go back on the road.

I like to move around. I travel. I've driven across country by myself.

I left home at 17 and I've been on the road ever since.

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

I'm still good for hitting the road. I'll be doing that a fair bit.

Being on the road is very inspiring.

I love traveling. I've been doing it since I was 16.

I've been travelling all my life.

So I started out for God knows where. I guess I'll know when I get there.

For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.

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

Ah! Young people, travel if you can, and if you cannot - travel all the same!

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.

If I weren't doing what I'm doing today... I'd be traveling around the world on the back of a motorcycle.

I do love traveling, so I've been able to travel a lot.

I like driving. A lot. I think that's something I just enjoy the most. I can, at a moment's notice, drive across the country if, you know, I had to.

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 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 never subscribe to the stay-at-home policy. I'm not sick of the road or sick of eating in good restaurants around the country. I like to travel.

I'm a vagabond. I have a suitcase that is ready to go at a moment's notice. The thought of being in one place for a long time, or playing one character for a long time, is terrifying for me.

I love traveling, I love waking up in a new city every day.

I see my path, but I don't know where it leads. Not knowing where I'm going is what inspires me to travel it.

My normal life is, I love to travel and I travel as often as I can. I don't stay in one place too long. But I'm an avid reader; I guess you could say I'm a bit of a bookworm.

I was a college dropout, hitchhiking across the Midwest. That was part of the old, adventurous spirit.