Travel Behavior Quotes

Even on holidays, I wake up early, and by 7 A.M., I am out sightseeing.

For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.

I remember how, when I lived in Paris, there was a McDonald's, and I'd always see Americans eating there and think, 'Why do they come all the way to Paris and eat at McDonald's?'

Why is it that traveling Americans are always so dreadful?

I spend far too much on taxis. Now, if anyone suggests we get the Tube I say, 'The Tube! I'd forgotten about that.'

My travel habit is usually to visit somewhere I have never been rather than develop a consistent relationship with a place.

People who sit for hours in a beach chair or an airplane seat without any reading material simply baffle me: What is going on between their ears, I wonder?

Moral restrictions tend to become lax in a foreign country, since the fear of social opinion disappears.

You would think with me living in Los Angeles I would go to the beach all the time, but we don't. It's the same as visiting the Statue of Liberty. If you don't live in N.Y.C., it's the first stop on your family vacation, but if you live there, you only go if you have relatives visiting from out of town!

A lot of Americans don't really leave the country.

I used the bus when I was growing up in Brazil. I don't want to diminish anyone who travels on the bus, but I haven't done that for a long time.

I travel in so many different ways; I travel high, I rough it... it all depends on who I travel with.

I don't eat anything on an airplane.

At least inside the city of Seattle, driving is going to be a hobby in 2035. It's not going to be a mode of commuting the same way hunting is a hobby for some people, but it's not how most of us get our food.

I have a driver's licence, but the truth is that I hardly ever drive. I prefer to get around by taxi.

When people are away from home, they do things they might not normally do.

I am an obsessive flyer, myself.

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

The reader need not be told that John Bull never leaves home without encumbering himself with the greatest possible load of luggage. Our companions were no exception to the rule.

All good hotels tend to lead people to do things they wouldn't necessarily do at home.

I'm an over-packer 100 percent. I can't do it; I physically can't under-pack.

Every mode of travel has its signature mental aberration.

There's a saying that when you go on traveling tours, you get to know whom the designated jerk is going to be within three days, and if you don't know it by then, you're the jerk.