Simple Travel Quotes

I'm not much of a hectic packer and prefer to travel light.

The thing I've learned is less is more. I travel as light as possible.

When walking, you see things that you miss in a motor car or on the train. You give your mind space to ponder.

I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.

The cheapest way to travel, and the way to travel the farthest in the shortest distance, is to go afoot, carrying a dipper, a spoon, and a fish line, some Indian meal, some salt, and some sugar.... Any one of these things I mean, not all together. I have traveled thus some hundreds of miles without taking any meal in a house, sleeping on the ground when convenient, and found it cheaper, and in many respects more profitable, than staying at home. So that some have inquired why it would not be best to travel always. But I never thought of traveling simply as a means of getting a livelihood.

With only one bag, you can change your outfit completely.

There comes . . . a longing never to travel again except on foot.

Once, as an experiment, I travelled around the world with a single suit. Before I left, I went to a tailor in Savile Row and asked him to make me a suit that I could wear in any climate and which I could use as a tuxedo, a dinner jacket, a lounge suit and a blazer.

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

One should travel as light as possible. I can organize myself to go on a ten-day trip with just hand luggage.

For me, it's about taking things that do not take a lot of space. Don't take a lot of shoes. I tend to pack a lot of dresses, for instance, because they take up less space.

Ah! These commercial interests -- spoiling the finest life under the sun. Why must the sea be used for trade -- and for war as well?...It would have been so much nicer just to sail about, with here and there a port and a bit of land to stretch one's legs on, buy a few books and get a change of cooking for a while.