Travel Inspiration
Around here at Collette Vacations HQ when I am looking for a little inspiration I turn to the great Mark Twain. Like a lot of people my love of travel began with reading about far off places. There’s a certain inherent romance that words deliver that other forms of media can not.
I am huge fan Twain’s 1869 work, The Innocents Abroad. Pulled and revised from newspaper columns sent back home, it chronicles his steamship voyage to Europe, Egypt, and the Holy Land. To read it today is to see just how far the world has come. We’ve all grown closer. It’s a great book for anyone considering a trip. Once you read it, you can’t help but adopt Twain’s unique way of looking at the world. Your experiences will be richer for it.
Google “Mark Twain travel quotes” and you are bound to come up with dozens of great lines, including:
“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.”
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
And this last one still gives me chills no matter how many times I come across it.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that 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.”
posted by John Geysen
Collette Vacations
Tags: Europe, Travel Quotes
