Is there anything more wonderful than a great travel experience? It seems to re-invigorate you, jot you right out of a rut, and enliven the senses.
And if you are lucky when you return home, you’ll see your home through new eyes and really appreciate it.
The best thing about learning Spanish is you have so many options from Caribbean Islands to almost all the continent of South America, in fact almost everywhere south of the Rio Bravo is Spanish speaking.
And let’s not forget Spain with the great food, lively culture and more than their share of fútbol and tennis talent of late.
So, if you are planning a trip to a Spanish speaking country, here’s some travel inspiration with my 25 favorite quotes about travel…
“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine
“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain
“For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller
“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain
“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber
“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru
“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu
“There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner
“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener
“I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain
“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien
“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou
“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe” – Anatole France
“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca
“What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley
“Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art.” – Freya Stark
“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.” – G. K. Chesterton
“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman
“A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni
