Solo Adventure Quotes

[Responding to repeated questions about traveling in Africa without a husband:] I am looking for him.

London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.

When I am not working, I love travelling, especially solo trips where I can pack my bag and go somewhere and explore new food, culture, and people.

I spent two weeks in Paris by myself. That was my first time in Europe.

It'll be really cool to do, like, a solo film, a Firefist movie. I don't know if it would happen.

I've been on my own and traveling for years now.

If you travel alone, you can probably go faster. But the journey will never be as rewarding, and you probably won't be able to go as far.

Are you kidding?" She looked at me as if I'd just dropped from the moon. Her cheeks were bright red. "What's the problem now?" I demanded. "Me, go with you to the...the 'Thrill Ride of Love'? How embarrassing is that? What if somebody saw me?" "Who's going to see you?" But my face was burning now, too. Leave it to a girl to make everything complicated. "Fine," I told her. "I'll do it myself." But when I started down the side of the pool, she followed me, muttering about how boys always messed things up.

One of the pleasantest things in the world is going on a journey; but I like to go by myself.

When I was 23, I went to Alaska by myself into the glaciers of the coast range and climbed a mountain by myself. It was incredibly reckless, incredibly stupid. But I was lucky. And I survived, and I came back to tell my story.

The first private space of my own wasn't a dorm room; it was a hotel room in Tulsa, Oklahoma.

It's a lovely experience walking around a museum by yourself.

Traveling alone offers the chance to test the limits of what you think you know about yourself.

When I was 9, my parents let me take a cab to the mall all by myself. I had hardly any money to spend, but I did have a very specific list of things I wanted to do: buy cookies and sit on the furniture at Sears.

I was not a popular little girl. I played Robinson Crusoe in a small wooden fort that my parents built for me in the back yard. In the fort, I was neither ostracized nor ill at ease - I was self-reliant, brave, ingeniously surviving, if lost.

Seven years ago, when I started free soloing long, hard routes in Yosemite - climbing without a rope, gear or a partner - I did it because it seemed like the purest, most elegant way to scale big walls. Climbing, especially soloing, felt like a grand adventure, but I never dreamed it could be a profession.

Alpinism means you go by yourself with your own responsibility, knowing that you could die. But Everest now is more like ski tourism: preparing the piste, helping people go up, setting oxygen bottles near the summit.

'Tracks' is based on the book by Robyn Davidson who, in the mid-Seventies, decided to leave the city, go to the outback, learn to train camels and walk across the Australian desert to the ocean: a journey that is about two thousand miles and will take about six or seven months.

Hiking alone lets me have some time to myself.

I rode all around Hollywood listening to Donna Summer, looking out the window - all by myself - just going, 'I'm number one!' It's a pretty extraordinary feeling.

With 'Journey,' we created an emotional arc for two different scenarios. So, if you play alone, it's a good game. You have what we think is a complete emotional arc. You will feel, I guess, a sense of transformation in the single-player. Because it's a hero's journey.

But I think there's something wonderful and extraordinary about climbing on your own and just that kind of relationship to the environment. I'm very addicted to the mountains. You know, so, I do like that solitude.

Everyone traveling alone is just on their phones the whole time.

I do a lot of solo work in Europe and the Far East, and my main passion is traveling.

It may be true that he travels farthest who travels alone, but the goal thus reached is not worth reaching.