Travel Perception Quotes

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

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

A man must generally get away some hundreds or thousands of miles from home before he can be said to begin his travels. Why not begin his travels at home? Would he have to go far or look very closely to discover novelties? The traveler who, in this sense, pursues his travels at home, has the advantage at any rate of a long residence in the country to make his observations correct and profitable. Now the American goes to England, while the Englishman comes to America, in order to describe the country.

After a day and a half or so the traveler will realize that crossing the continent by Interstate he gets to know the country about as well as a cable messenger knows the sea bottom.

Travel magazines are just one cupcake after another. They're not about travel. The travel magazine is, in fact, about the opposite of travel. It's about having a nice time on a honeymoon, or whatever.

If we go somewhere on foot, we know the way perfectly, whereas if we go by car or airplane, we are hardly there at all. It becomes merely a dream.

I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle.

Working in Tokyo has convinced me that, contrary to what people think, it is actually one of the world's most beautiful cities.

He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.

There's no neutral language about travel. Either travel is described in ways that make it sound kind of shallow or just glossy or silly or a way for rich people to spend their time; or else travel is often described in quite derogatory ways, you know, like immigrants swarming across borders, for instance.

It's not a question that people have a very negative image of Chicago. They just don't think about it.