Transformative Travel Quotes

I loved going along with Alice Steinbach as she goes off on this rare, wonderful adventure, an escape into discovering herself and some of the truly magical places in this world.

We have had an unspeakably delightful journey, one of those journeys which seem to divide one's life in two, by the new ideas they suggest and the new views of interest they open.

Adventure with a purpose is what we do.

Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.

Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.

For me, my travels have been the chance to go to a place that already exists in my imagination.

There were times, especially when I was traveling for 'Eat, Pray, Love,' when, I swear to God, I would feel this weight of my female ancestors, all those Swedish farmwives from beyond the grave who were like, 'Go! Go to Naples! Eat more pizza! Go to India, ride an elephant! Do it! Swim in the Indian Ocean. Read those books. Learn a language.'

There has been a real influence on young people, whose travel is experiential. For them, their values change when their experiences change; travel is like a university without walls.