adventure on Travel

Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you start...

The "flight to nowhere" sold out in just ten minutes, with Qantas Airways declaring it the fastest-selling ticket in the airline's history. By nature, humans are constantly on the move, ...

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.

In the novel The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R. Tolkien, there is a poem called the “Riddle of Strider.” One stanza goes like this:  All that is gold does not glitter;  Not all who wan...

I will go anywhere, provided it is forward.

Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.

Happiness is essentially a state of going somewhere, wholeheartedly, one-directionally, without reservation or regret.

For an occurrence to become an adventure, it is necessary and sufficient for one to recount it.

An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered. An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

I once was significantly lost. When I was a college student in northern Wisconsin, my dad and I were hiking on a trail that was somewhat familiar to me. I had been on this trail just a few weeks befor...

"The most beautiful adventures are not those we go to seek."

Journalist Eric Severeid recalls a valuable lesson he learned at seventeen while preparing for an ambitious journey. He and a friend had set out to canoe from Minneapolis to the historic fur-trading p...

The Christian experience, from start to finish, is a journey of faith.

To reach a port we must set sail – Sail, not tie at anchor Sail, not drift.

“I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for...

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

I mean, in the last few months alone, I've been pinned in a big set of white-water rapids, been bitten by an angry snake in a jungle, had a close escapewith a big mountain rockfall, narrowly avoid...

“You are my greatest adventure.”

Every day God invites us on the same kind of adventure. It's not a trip where He sends us a rigid itinerary, He simply invites us. God asks what it is He's made us to love, what it is that cap...

“Never fear quarrels, but seek hazardous adventures.”

Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either ...

“Why O why did I ever leave my hobbit-hole?" said poor Mr. Baggins, bumping up and down on Bombur's back.”

Sometimes in our adolescence what we need most is just someone to stick by our side, even if we make some rather hasty decisions. In this short excerpt, Bob Goff tells a story from his own teenage yea...

Every now and then a man’s mind is stretched by a new idea or sensation, and never shrinks back to its former dimensions.

When we keep purchasing, keep consuming, and keep envying and coveting, we are pining for what the objects represent: peace, ease, meaning, beauty, stability, adventure, knowledge, renown, connection,...

I’ve decided if I had my life to live over again, I would not only climb more mountains, swim more rivers, and watch more sunsets. . . . I would not only go barefoot earlier in spring and stay out lat...

Life is pure adventure, and the sooner we realize that, the quicker we will be able to treat life as art.