Travel Culture Quotes

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.

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 think everyone just goes to London and says like, oh I went international!

Being stuck in airports, you always end up buying perfume and sunglasses.

I basically grew up on the road with my dad, on a tour bus every summer since I was a kid.

Traveling is, and has always been, more popular than the traveler.

When I'm on the road, museums end up being a place I go to in different cities that is always interesting. Museums and independent record stores.

I can't choose one favorite place because all destinations have something different to offer. My favorite city to explore is Paris; I love the culture of Morocco and the waterfalls in St. Lucia. I just can't choose one. I would like to go back to New Zealand to see more of what it has to offer.

When I travel I always try to see shows from a local group, and with the Internet it's important to have a global vision of music.

I do a lot of cultural material that's based on my traveling around the world. I basically just report what I've seen and where I've been.

Slow travel now rivals the fly-to-Barcelona-for-lunch culture. Advocates savour the journey, travelling by train or boat or bicycle, or even on foot, rather than crammed into an airplane. They take time to plug into the local culture instead of racing through a list of tourist traps.

The tourist may complain of other tourists, but he would be lost without them.

Germany is made to travel in, Italy to sojourn in,… and France to live in, [but England was made] to think in.

It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.

Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels.

My father suffered from chronic wanderlust. When I was 14, he set out on a yearlong road trip across Europe and Asia - and decided to take me along for company.

It's just good that Detroit is coming back. I'm so happy it's coming back because it needs to come back. When I do my trips around the world, and I can be anywhere, but I always see somebody from Detroit or Chicago. Those guys are world travelers.

Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn't know it.

While my trips are most often focused on business, I always try to take some time to experience the local culture.

Exploration belongs to the Renaissance, travel to the bourgeois age, tourism to our proletarian moment.The explorer seeks theundiscovered, the traveler that which has been discovered by the mind working in history,the tourist that which has been discovered by entrepreneurship and prepared for him by the arts of mass publicity.If the explorer moves toward the risks of the formless and the unknown, the tourist moves toward the security of pure cliché. It is between these two poles that the traveler mediates.

But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in ever-louder English. I was going to be one of those Americans who traversed Italy with my forehead knit in concentration, divining wordsw from their Latin roots and answering by wedging French cognates into Italian pronunciations spliced onto a standard Spanish verb conjugation.

It was a secular cathedral, dedicated to the rites of travel.

My best friend growing up was a truck driver, and it was big in truck stops. He'd have his 'Deadwood' DVDs, and they'd watch them in the lounge.

We're really creating a whole different kind of travel experience. One that really celebrates the different places, different cultures, the different cities and immerses you in that culture.

When the bus or the plane rolled or flew through the night, they sang songs of their own composition about Mr Nixon and the Republicans in chorus with the Kennedy staff and felt that they, too, were marching like soldiers of the Lord to the New Frontier.