Modern Travel Quotes

In the Space Age, man will be able to go around the world in two hours—one hour for flying, and one hour to get to the airport.

People say there's delays on flights. Delays, really? New York to California in five hours, that used to take 30 years, a bunch of people used to die on the way there, have a baby, you would end up with a whole different group of people by the time you got there. Now you watch a movie and [go to the toilet] and you're home.

One does not travel by plane. One is merely sent, like a parcel.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

When the plane is delayed, it's not the fault of the girl at the desk. I'm resigned to the fact that everything is out of my control and that air travel nowadays is barbaric.

I fear that I can no longer travel without technology. Twenty years ago, I loved getting on a bus in West Africa and taking off for a city I'd never been to before, relying on advice from out-of-date travel books and fellow passengers on the bus. Now, I end up using TripAdvisor, Yelp, and Google Maps. I probably eat and sleep better when I'm on the road, but I miss the mystery of travel when it was more random and unpredictable.

Nowadays you can go anywhere in the world in a few hours, and nothing is fabulous any more.

Nowadays, if you have a journey, albeit a simple one, you consider yourself lucky if nothing happens.

Modern air travel means less time spent in transit. That time is now spent in transit lounges.

I am on the road all the time. Whether I'm in Paris or in a small college town in Texas, I can't tell the difference, and that's good. You don't have to leave where you were born to be cool anymore.