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You Don’t Have To Be Rich To Travel Well

“You don’t have to be rich to travel well”

This quote is true for so many travellers and backpackers today. And many people that don’t travel don’t believe this. But where does the quote come from and what does it mean?

The Quote Source

The quote is by Eugene Fodor, often referred to as ‘the spy who travelled’. He was born in Hungary, raised in Czechoslovakia and educated in France and England. He eventually became a travel writer and revolutionized the travel publishing industry. He had a passion for learning the local cultures and interacting with the people.

What This Travel Quote Means To Me

I feel that this quote is so true. Many travellers and backpackers travel on a ‘shoestring’ around the world day after day. Yes, travel costs money, but it doesn’t have to cost the world if you know how to. Don’t stay in a private room or a five star hotel, don’t travel first class, don’t go to the most expensive restaurant. There’s plenty to enjoy and experience without breaking the bank!

In fact, some of the best experiences don’t have to cost a penny. Talk to locals, just walk around a city and get a ‘feel’ for the place.

Money is not an excuse not to travel. Although many people I know use it as an excuse (that and ‘it’s not the right time’). You can sacrifice to make enough money to travel . Stop buying lunch every day, make it yourself, work more hours, reduce the drinking or smoking. You’ll be amazed how quickly you can save up with just a few little changes.

You can also work as you travel or Wwoof . You can stay on the road for as long as you want if you’re clever about it. It’s not about having loads of money, it’s how you do it and your attitude!

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The CIA Spy Who Reinvented the Travel Guide

For decades, Eugene Fodor wrote and edited the travel books that introduced middle-class travelers to the world—when he wasn’t moonlighting as a spook.

David Farley

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The year 1936 was a momentous year for global travel . The RMS Queen Mary made her maiden voyage from Southampton, England, to New York City. Aer Lingus took its first flight (from Dublin to Bristol). H.R. Ekins, a reporter for the New York World-Telegram , won a race around the world using only commercial airlines (it took him 18 days, 11 hours, 14 minutes, and 55 seconds). And Eugene Fodor published his first guidebook, 1936 … On the Continent , a 1,200-page doorstop on Europe, the world’s first annually updated travel guidebook.

The guidebook, which for the first time was aimed at middle-class travelers and not necessarily upper-class “grand tourists,” included all the typical sights, but also for the first time encouraged interacting with locals whose worldview might be different from those of readers. “Rome contains not only magnificent monuments and priceless art treasures,” Fodor wrote in the foreword to the 1936 guide, “but also Italians.”

Eugene Fodor, who died at 85 in 1991, profoundly influenced the way Americans traveled in the 20th and 21st centuries; the company he founded, today called Fodor’s Travel, currently publishes 150 titles per year and its website gets 2.75 million visitors a month. (Full disclosure: I have at times in the last decade updated and written the restaurant section for Fodor’s New York City guidebook.)

What most people don’t know was that Fodor was a CIA spy, on their payroll for years. After this secret became public in 1974, Fodor downplayed it and outright shut down questions about it in interviews, groaning, for example, when a reporter from Conde Nast Traveler brought it up to him in in the late ’80s and saying, “Everyone seems to have forgotten what the Cold War was like. The Soviets were a real threat. As an American, you did what you could.”

Fodor was born in 1905 in the small town of Losonc, then in the Kingdom of Hungary (now in Slovakia). He eventually became a naturalized American and he was in the United States when the Munich Pact was signed (ceding the Sudetenland, the western parts of Czechoslovakia, to Hitler). He insisted he would only return to Europe in a military uniform.

Thanks to his language skills (he spoke five languages fluently), he ended up in the Research & Analysis Branch of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the World War II precursor to the CIA led by the legendary General William “Wild Bill” Donovan. The unit, innocuously named First Mobile Radio Broadcasting Company, was designed with psychological warfare in mind to spread disinformation and undermine enemy morale.

Fodor interrogated prisoners of war and wrote propaganda leaflets that were dropped in enemy territory. The unit was also responsible for working with resistance groups to carry out acts of sabotage in enemy territory. In spring 1945, he became part of an OSS operation that had him smuggled into Prague to help direct an uprising of the Czech Resistance against the occupying Germans. During that time, he also traveled to Plzen, a town in western Czechoslovakia, helping to liberate the region from the Nazis, as Russian troops advanced from the East, doing the same as they moved toward Prague and, eventually Berlin.

After the war, Fodor’s involvement with the CIA continued. Starting in the 1950s, the CIA began tapping artists, musicians, writers, and journalists abroad for propaganda purposes or for information collecting. “Travel writer” seemed like a good cover for an undercover agent in enemy territory. And a travel writer who formerly worked for the OSS was ideal. A declassified internal OSS assignment from 1946 stated that Eugene Fodor would now have the title “Intelligence Officer.” His location: Prague. His job: “gather[ing] intelligence through overt and covert means as he has in the past. He will not be expected to develop extensive agent chains, but he will be called upon to deal with local nationals on a secure basis.”

One of Fodor’s later assignments was to help foment an uprising in Hungary in 1956. The uprising happened, but the revolution that the CIA hoped would topple the Communist government did not. Fodor claimed that after 1956, he gave up the spy business.

According to documents I obtained in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request, this is not true. It just depends how much you want to believe the source—E. Howard Hunt, a veteran CIA agent and, infamously, a convicted Watergate burglar.

On Dec. 31, 1974, The New York Times published an exposé by Seymour Hersh who had obtained classified transcripts from a Senate investigation hearing in December 1973. The article publicly revealed Fodor’s involvement with the agency for the first time.

“My staff ran a media operation known as Continental Press out of the National Press Building in Washington,” Hunt said during his 1973 testimony. “We funded much of the activities of the Frederick D. Praeger Publishing Corporation in New York City. We funded, to a large extent, the activities of Fodor's Travel Guides, distributed by the David McKay Corporation.”

In his 2007 memoir American Spy: My Secret History in the C.I.A., Watergate, and Beyond , Hunt claimed that the CIA, starting in the late ’50s or early ’60s, had bankrolled Fodor’s guidebook company: “We… even published a popular series of travel books—the Fodor Travel Guides. Our reasoning behind the guides was that typically most foreigners only got to know Americans through touristic ‘Ugly American’ stereotypes. So, we hoped to change that impression by people in other countries to come visit ours, enjoy life in the United States, and get to know America better.”

“We’d undergo his losses,” Hunt said of Fodor in the 1973 Senate hearing, “and he was on the CIA payroll and may still be for all I know.”

But that wasn’t the only reason that the CIA wanted to use Fodor and his company as a covert weapon in the Cold War. It was not unusual for the C.I.A. to use artists, writers, journalists, musicians and others for their own gain during the Cold War—both covertly and overtly. Three years after George Orwell’s death, a film version of Animal Farm was released in 1954. It was a fairly faithful rendition of the book, but instead of Orwell’s finale, in which both the humans and pigs are left in egregious light, the film removed the humans, leaving only the dirty pigs, i.e., the fascists. The silent producer of the film was, in fact, the CIA, and it was none other than E. Howard Hunt who visited Orwell’s widow to successfully wrest the rights from her so they could make the more overtly anti-Soviet version.

The agency saw in the abstract art of modern artists like Pollock, de Kooning, and Rothko a kind of very American assertive individualism and so promoted their work abroad, often funding exhibitions. The CIA first funded the Paris Review , and one of its founding editors, the novelist and naturalist Peter Matthiessen , was a spy. Jazz greats Dave Brubeck and Louis Armstrong, among others, were sent around various parts of the planet on CIA-funded tours. Sometimes the artists knew the U.S. government was paying for it. Other times, as in the case of Nina Simone, who was sent on a 1961 tour of Nigeria underwritten by the agency, the performer had no clue.

So it wasn’t surprising to learn from Seymour Hersh’s New York Times exposé that the CIA’s involvement with Fodor went even deeper. When Hersh interviewed Hunt for his Times story, the former agent revealed that the travel books had provided “cover” for CIA agents eager to travel in foreign countries disguised as travel writers. Fodor would later admit this was true, saying, “I told them to make sure to send me real writers, not civil engineers. I wanted to get some writing out of them, and I did too.” In fact, in 1956 Fodor sent some travel writers/CIA agents to Hungary to help rouse a potential revolution against the ruling Communist government.

In a declassified letter that Hunt sent to Fodor on Jan. 13, 1975, two weeks after the Times article appeared, Hunt tried to make amends. “I want you to know that I greatly regret the embarrassment caused you by the New York Times’ revelation of my executive session testimony given in confidence to the Ervin Committee more than a year ago… and I did so on the assumption it would not be publicly revealed.”

And then he added, “The UPI story of today’s date quotes you as stating that you and I never met, or had any dealings, and that of course is not accurate…. There should be a record of at least one meeting between you and me at a CIA office in Washington.”

In an internal CIA memo dated Jan. 24, 1975 that I obtained through a FOIA request, about four weeks after the revelations became public, Fodor called one of his contacts at the agency to express a worst-case-scenario situation that could come from being exposed as an agent. Fodor was from a Hungarian town that is now in Slovakia and his Czech-born wife, Vlasta, still had family in the Soviet-controlled Eastern Bloc. “I feel like I should let [Hunt] know how he endangered the safety of my family with his revelations, if only to prevent further disclosures and public controversy,” Fodor is quoted in the memo, implying there was possibly more information on his involvement that could come out.

In the memo, it states that the agency recommended to Fodor that he just “give a simple, sterile acknowledgement” of his past activities with the agency and leave it at that.

After that, Fodor downplayed his involvement with the CIA, chalking it up to a patriotic duty, even going so far to say that during the early Cold War nearly every American in Europe had been approached by the agency.

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The 100 Most Inspirational Travel Quotes Of All Time

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November 8, 2020 November 17, 2020
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If you’re planning a holiday, fighting post-trip blues, or just scrolling through instagram travel photos, you can be sure there’s a quote about traveling out there that hits the spot for you.

Travel quotes to discover yourself, travel quotes to motivate your next journey, fantastic travel quotes to drive you to live your best life and more. We can all relate to inspirational travel quotes, making them so fun to read.

In this article, I gathered some of the most popular travel quotes (and my personal favourites). I hope you’ll find these incredible travel quotes inspiring, and they’ll make you want to go out and see the world.

Famous travel quotes

1. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”–Andre Gide

2. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all” – Helen Keller

3. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

4. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled.” – Mohammed

5. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” –Mark Twain

6. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” – Freya Stark

7. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain

8. “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

9. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson

10. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” –Saint Augustine

11. “Life is meant for good friends and great adventures” – Anonymous

12. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” –Susan Sontag

13. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by” —Robert Frost

14. “Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” –Dalai Lama

15. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” –Tim Cahill

16. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai

17. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”-Anonymous

18. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

19. “Collect Moment, Not Things.”-Anonymous

20. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman

21. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” — Hilaire Belloc

22. “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

23. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” ― Melody Truong

24. “This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.” – Paulo Coelho

25. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet” – Rachel Wolchin

26. “Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life.” – Michael Palin

27. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury

28. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.” ― Mark Twain

29. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

30. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

31. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

32. “I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.” – Carew Papritz

33. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

34. “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 started is not the same as never leaving.” – Terry Pratchett

35. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

36. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

37. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”― David Mitchell

38. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

39. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu

40. “Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” – Caroline Myss

41. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous

42. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” ― Jack Kerouac

43. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

44. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” – Oscar Wilde

45. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

46. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” –Randy Komisar

47. “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth, then I ask myself the same question.” –Harun Yahya

48. “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” –Unknown

49. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain

50. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

51. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

52. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

53. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

54. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

55. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

56. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

57. “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

58. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

59. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

60. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

61. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous

62. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg

63. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

64. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

65. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

66. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

67. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

68. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

69. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

70. “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

71. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block

72. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

73. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

74. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things — air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky. All things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

75. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar

76. “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

77. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

78. “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

79. “Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller

80. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller

81. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

82. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

83. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai

84. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury

85. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

86. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” -Antoine de St. Exupery

87. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar

88. No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

89. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” -Jack Kerouac

90. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” -Benjamin Disraeli

91. “Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag” -Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

92. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” -Susan Heller

93. “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

94. “Conventional wisdom tells us… we take our baggage with us. I’m not so sure. Travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home. Sometimes we do leave our baggage behind, or, even better, it’s misrouted to Cleveland and is never heard from again.” -Eric Weiner

95. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” -Robert Frost

96. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac

97. “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” – Anthony Bourdain

98. “At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.” –Arthur Frommer

99. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.” -Oscar Wilde

100. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” -Oscar Wilde

It’s not a matter of where, but when. Time is precious and my time spent living and experience the cultures of this world is what I lust for. This is why I created this website, to share true, genuine experiences and not just typical touristy info. Travel, the love of coffee , and food!

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Every Travel Quote Ever

Say goodbye to scouring the internet in search of inspirational travel quotes to keep you focussed on saving for that next big trip. Instead take a read through our list of every travel quote ever. We dare you to try and not be inspired.

Are we missing one of your favs? Share your own travel quote in the comments and we might just include it!

Inspirational Travel Quotes

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

“We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Unknown

“I am not a great book, I am not a great artist, but I love art and I love food, so I am the perfect traveller.” – Michael Palin

“I am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.” – Moorish proverb

not all those who wander are lost travel quote

“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

“The best journeys in life are those that answer questions you never thought to ask.” ― Rich Ridgeway

“To travel is to evolve.” – Pierre Bernardo

Take the first step, the rest will follow. Book the ticket, apply for the job, send the email, jump into the water. The rest gets easier from there. – Abi from http://www.insidethetravellab.com/

“A person does not grow from the ground like a vine or a tree, one is not part of a plot of land. Mankind has legs so it can wander.” ― Roman Payne, The Wanderess

“Certainly, 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

“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

“He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch Proverb

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

paris is always a good idea travel quote

“He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

“It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

It’s never too late to have a life you love. Don’t ever feel like you’ve missed the boat, don’t have what it takes or can’t achieve your dreams. Instead of removing your dreams, remove the doubts and fears keeping you from them. It’s never, ever too late. – Phoebe from https://littlegreybox.net

“Without travel I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.” – Lauren Hutton

“I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself.” – James Baldwin

wherever you go, go with all your heart travel quote

“I was not born for one corner. The whole world is my native land.” – Seneca

“Travelling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block

“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – Confucius

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Scott Cameron

“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” – Oscar Wilde

“The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – Rudyard Kipling

“Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to.” – Alan Keightley

“Tourists visit. Travellers explore.” – Unknown

If you don’t do it now, when will you do it? -Monica from http://thetravelhack.com/

“Travelling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.'” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

“I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on Earth. Then I ask myself the same question.” – Harun Yahya

“Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

“Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Unknown

time flies. It's up to you to be the navigator travel quote

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

“Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

“NOT I – NOT ANYONE else, can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

“You don’t choose the day you enter the world and you don’t chose the day you leave. It’s what you do in between that makes all the difference.” – Anita Septimus

the life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have travel quote

“Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

“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

“I haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

Adventure Travel Quotes

“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

“My life is shaped by the urgent need to wander and observe, and my camera is my passport.” ― Steve McCurry

“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

The biggest addiction a person can have is discovering the unknown. Once it takes hold, there is no getting out and the only way to get your fix is by pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and exploring new horizons, cultural, and places. – Stephen from A Backpacker’s Tale

“Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”― Andre Gide

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

“If you’re not living on the edge, you’re taking up too much space.” ― Unknown

“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” ― John A. Shedd

“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

“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

“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware.” ― Martin Buber

“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” ― Trenton Lee Stewart

“Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure.” ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

“Make voyages! Attempt them… there’s nothing else.” – Tennessee Williams

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” ― 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

The more borders you cross, the more your mind opens — Paul from Global Help Swap

“One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.” – Ella Maillart

“Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

“When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Babs Hoffman

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

“Every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – Irving Wallace

“A traveller without observation is a bird without wings.” — Moslih Eddin Saadi

“I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

“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

“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown (thanks to Melissa Bond for the contribution!)

“Investment in travel is an investment in yourself.” – Matthew Karsten

“It is better to travel well then to arrive.” – Buddha

“Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle

“We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.” – Mignon McLaughlin

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

“Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” – Doug Coupland

“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears.” – Cesare Pavese

“How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.” – R. Buckminster Fuller

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalia de Castro

“I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment” – Hilaire Belloc

“If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather

“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

“Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” – Al Gore

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travellers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

“It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.” – William Hazlitt

“You develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – Shakuntala Devi

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Eugene Fodor feted as the spy who loved travel

This 1986 file photo shows Eugene Fodor in his office in Litchfield, Conn. This year, Random House is marking the 75th anniversary of Eugene Fodor's first travel guide with an e-book version.

In 1936 Europe, before Hitler rolled into Poland but civil war on in Spain, a unique guidebook offered a different slant on the Continent for foreign travelers tired of traipsing to ancient monuments during whirlwind grand tours.

"We have proceeded on the assumption that your thirst for historical knowledge is nothing like so great as your thirst for the beer of Pilsen or the slivovitsa of Belgrade," the foreword reads, pointing out that Rome not only contains famous architecture and priceless art, "but also Italians."

The writer was Eugene Fodor, hardly a travel industry mainstay when his book, "On the Continent," launched his namesake brand 75 years ago. Back then, the Hungarian-born Fodor was a young anti-fascist who had worked as an interpreter for a French shipping line, studied at the Sorbonne and spoke six languages.

His trajectory as head of a fledgling guidebook company took a shadowy turn once war broke out. In 1942, he added spy to his resume — specializing in psychological warfare for the Americans and later providing cover for CIA operatives masquerading as travel writers for his guides.

$This book cover courtesy of Fodor's shows the cover of Eugene Fodor's \"1936 On The Continent: Reissued for Fodor's 50th Anniversary 1986.\" This year, Random House is marking the 75th anniversary of Eugene Fodor's first travel guide with an e-book version. (AP Photo/Fodor's) NO SALES$

Fodor's Travel is now an imprint of Random House, which is feting the founder this month as "The Spy Who Loved Travel," reissuing the original 1936 guide as an e-book on Fodors.com.

Fodor's spy past remained a secret for years after his 1,200-page tome on Europe helped transform guidebooks from stuffy lists of famous sites to often-cheeky narratives on cultures and people — while also dishing up places to stay, eat and wander in a variety of price ranges. Little more than rarely updated books for academics and the privileged existed before that.

Fodor employed top writers (the real kind) to spin each of the 26 countries covered in the book, first published in Britain. They provided on-the-ground advice on everything from tipping to train travel while encouraging tourists to mingle with the locals.

Fodor fact-checked every word and wrote chapters on Bulgaria and Monte Carlo himself. He updated the book for a U.S. audience in 1937. Another revision followed in '38 and hit The New York Times best-seller list.

It was the same year Hitler took control of the northern section of Czechoslovakia — Fodor's home area — under the Munich Agreement. Fodor was in the United States promoting his guidebook when he learned of the Munich pact. Outraged, he cabled the magazine office in London where he was employed and vowed never to return to Europe — "except in uniform." He made good on the promise when he joined the U.S. Army in 1942, becoming a U.S. citizen soon after.

Secret spy He was recruited by CIA precursors because of his language skills, doing prisoner interrogations and helping write leaflets dropped on the enemy during the Italian campaign. He also broadcast propaganda from Algiers and created the system of "Eisenhower Passes" that rewarded Nazi soldiers who surrendered with good treatment.

After the war, Fodor lived in Prague for a year. He met and married his wife, Vlasta, there and they later settled in Litchfield, Conn.

In 1974, The New York Times revealed his spy secret — Fodor's franchise long established with several dozen guides in what had become a competitive business after a '50s boom in overseas travel by Americans. Watergate operative E. Howard Hunt, at the height of Senate hearings on the scandal that brought down President Nixon, spilled Fodor's past and other CIA secrets during testimony.

According to Hunt, Fodor had worked as a spy in Austria when the Office of Strategic Services became the CIA and continued in intelligence for 12 to 15 years. Fodor tried to keep the lid on in late 1974 and early '75, fearing relatives of his Czech-born wife could be put in danger. But pressed by the paper's expose, he acknowledged his covert work — and his hiring of many guidebook writers who were CIA spies during the Cold War.

"But I told them to make sure and send me real writers, not civil engineers. I wanted to get some writing out of them. And I did, too," Fodor told the Times in June 1975.

Fodor died in 1991 of a brain tumor at age 85. He retired from the company in 1978 following a heart attack after a stressful reshuffling of publishers. Random House bought the company in 1986 and Fodor returned in a smaller role.

"This was a man who had deep curiosity and loved travel," said Tim Jarrell, publisher of Fodor's Travel. "He really felt that travel was a form of international diplomacy. He was a strong advocate of tourism and travel because he felt that when you meet people from different cultures, it's extremely hard to start a war."

Updated guidebooks Before there was a Frommer's or a Lonely Planet, Fodor dedicated himself to annual updates. "That was a huge factor," said Meg Rushton, a Fodor's Travel publicist who spent six months researching Fodor's life for the reissue. "You didn't have things like hotels or restaurants listed because the books wouldn't be updated for 15 or 20 years."

Fodor's regular updates allowed for more detailed logistical information to be included for the first time.

A constant traveler himself, Fodor was also dedicated to encouraging foreigners to interact with the people of the countries they visit. "He was very interested in talking about the modern culture, seeing their lives the way they lived them then, not just visiting artifacts of the past," Rushton said.

He also thought guidebooks should be entertaining, unlike the Baedekers and Blue Guides that dominated when he broke into the industry. "He thought travel guides should be inspirational," Rushton said.

The Fodor's brand now includes about 300 titles, a website with nearly 2 million unique visitors each month and a complement of iPhone apps and e-books.

Pat Carrier, who owns the Globe Corner travel bookstore in Cambridge, Mass., said the Fodor's brand has ceded ground to competitors over the last 15 years, allowing Lonely Planet, Moon and DK to chip away at its base.

But, he said, the brand has stayed true to its mission: "They provide a refined, filtered set of recommendations across the board. They've curated the destination a bit more than some of the other guide series, which kind of throw everything at you without a filter. That's also why some people don't like Fodor's, because it's a filtered view of the place."

One competitor, Arthur Frommer, came along a generation later and gives Fodor his due: "That was the beginning of the effort to begin describing the entire travel experience," said the founder of Frommer's Travel Guides.

Fodor, he said, "didn't lead the movement but he joined the movement to change travel guides from simply a dry recitation of sightseeing attractions into books that dealt with the entirety of the travel experience."

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NEW YORK — In 1936 Europe, before Hitler rolled into Poland but civil war was on in Spain, a unique guidebook offered a different slant on the Continent for foreign travelers tired of traipsing to ancient monuments during whirlwind grand tours.

Fodor's Travel is now an imprint of Random House, which is feting the founder this month as "The Spy Who Loved Travel," reissuing the original 1936 guide as an e-book on Fodors.com .

He was recruited by CIA precursors because of his language skills, doing prisoner interrogations and helping write leaflets dropped on the enemy during the Italian campaign. He also broadcast propaganda from Algiers and created the system of "Eisenhower Passes" that rewarded Nazi soldiers who surrendered with good treatment.

After the war, Fodor lived in Prague for a year. He met and married his wife, Vlasta, there and they later settled in Litchfield, Conn.

"But I told them to make sure and send me real writers, not civil engineers. I wanted to get some writing out of them. And I did, too," Fodor told the Times in June 1975.

Before there was a Frommer's or a Lonely Planet, Fodor dedicated himself to annual updates. "That was a huge factor," said Meg Rushton, a Fodor's Travel publicist who spent six months researching Fodor's life for the reissue. "You didn't have things like hotels or restaurants listed because the books wouldn't be updated for 15 or 20 years."

Fodor's regular updates allowed for more detailed logistical information to be included for the first time.

The Fodor's brand now includes about 300 titles, a website with nearly 2 million unique visitors each month and a complement of iPhone apps and e-books.

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Eugene Fodor: Travel Writer and Spy

By Eugene Nielsen

Monument “Thank you America” to remember freedom from Nazis by US Army in May 1945. This monument takes place at important Pilsner crossing “U Práce”. Photo: Ondrej.konicek. CC BY-SA 3.0.

All warfare is based on deception. ” — Sun Tzu

Eugene Fodor was a travel guide pioneer. Fodor’s was the first company to publish annually updated guidebooks for middle-class travelers who wanted to explore the world and interact with different cultures. His guidebooks were innovative and influential, covering not only the typical sights and attractions, but also the social and political aspects of the countries he visited. He wrote with a witty and engaging style, encouraging his readers to be curious and adventurous. He was also a naturalized American who served in the Office of Strategic Services (OSS), the precursor to the CIA, during World War II, and later had connections to the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

Fodor was born in 1905 He grew up in a city called Léva, which was part of Hungary at that time, but is now known as Levice and belongs to Slovakia. The city was under the control of Austria-Hungary when he was born. Fodor pursued his education in France, where he studied political economics at two prestigious universities: the Sorbonne and the University of Grenoble. H e also worked as an interpreter for a French shipping company. He traveled extensively in Europe, Africa and Asia, learning six languages along the way. He settled in London in 1934 and started his own travel agency.

He had a passion for travel, and he noticed that the travel guides available in his time were not very interesting or engaging. He wanted to write a different kind of travel book, one that would entertain and inform the readers. He wrote On the Continent—The Entertaining Travel Annual, which was a guide to Europe that included anecdotes, humor and cultural insights. The book was published in 1936 by Francis Aldor, Aldor Publications, London, and it was well-received by the public. It was different from other travel guides at that time, which were mostly directories of hotels and attractions. It was also reprinted as an e-book by Random House in 2011.

When the war broke out, Fodor moved to New York. He joined the US Army1942 and became a naturalized US citizen soon after. His language skills drew the attention of the Office of Strategic Services (OSS). The OSS was formed as an agency of the Joint Chiefs of Staff to coordinate espionage activities behind enemy lines for all branches of the United States Armed Forces.

Fodor was recruited for a special assignment by Colonel William Paley (the founder of CBS) and General William “Wild Bill” Donovan, the head of the OSS. The mission of Fodor’s team, called the First Mobile Radio Broadcasting Company, was to spread false information and lower the enemy’s morale through radio, leaflets and loudspeakers on the front. In 1945, Fodor, led a team of OSS operatives to assist General Patton’s army in freeing the strategic city of Plzeň (Pilsen), Czechoslovakia from the Nazi occupation. The liberation of Plzeň by Patton’s Third Army was a fact that was suppressed by the communists during the country’s communist era. After the war ended, Fodor spent a year in Prague. While there, he fell in love and married Vlasta, a Czech woman.

His spy status was kept a secret for a long time, until E. Howard Hunt, a former CIA officer and a co-conspirator in the Watergate scandal, revealed it in the late 1970s. According to Hunt, Fodor had worked as a spy in Austria and continued in intelligence for 12 to 15 years during the Cold War era. Hunt did not disclose the details of Fodor’s missions or the agency he worked for. The New York Times reported that CIA money was used to underwrite Fodor’s travel guides. Fodor denied that he was an undercover agent and that the CIA helped to found and fund his organization.

He founded his own travel guide company, Fodor’s Modern Guides, in Paris, France, in 1949. He created Fodor Modern Guides, which were innovative and comprehensive guides that covered various destinations around the world. He moved his company headquarters to Connecticut in 1964, where he continued to produce and publish his guides. He lived there until his death in 1991.

Today, Fodor’s is one of the leading travel guide publishers in the world, with over 8,000 destinations covered across more than 300 guidebooks and a website that attracts millions of visitors every month. Fodor’s Travel also publishes an annual “Go List” of recommended places to visit and a “No List” of places that tourists may want to avoid due to environmental or ethical concerns.

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36 Short Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Adventures

These short travel quotes will have you packing your bags to discover somewhere new in no time.

Welcome wanderlusters. When it comes to travel, sometimes less is more – especially when it comes to words. A snappy, short travel quote can inspire, motivate or even change the way you see the world.

Celebrate your next adventure with these succinct and impactful travel quotes .

The Best Short Travel Quotes

These short quotes about travel might be bite-sized, but they pack a punch in significance for your next trip — regardless of the location.

“If it scares you, it may be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin

Travel experiences that push you beyond what’s ordinary and predictable are worth exploring; go boldly and fearlessly.

“My favourite thing to do is go where I’ve never been.” – Unknown

This quote speaks to a broader life philosophy: staying open-minded and embracing the unknown.

“When was the last time you did something for the first time?” – John C. Maxwell

Nothing beats the first time you travel somewhere enchanting.

“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

With a few travel hacks and expert tips, it’s possible to see the most amazing places in the world… without breaking the bank.

“Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

Remember what I said about food for the soul? Travel pours into your sense of being abundantly.

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

Sometimes, new travel experiences require you to try things outside of your norm, and that’s okay.

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Short Unique Travel Quotes

It’s the unique, short inspirational quotes about travel that are most fitting when the journey takes you somewhere unusual. These unique sayings are perfect for rare travel opportunities.

“Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

Outside the cost of jet setting, being brave enough to travel makes all the difference.

“Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” – Freya Stark

Travel is your opportunity to satisfy your inherent sense of wonder, intrigue, and curiosity.

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anaïs Nin

When you travel, part of the journey is finding something new — even within yourself.

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

The more of the world you see, the better you’ll get to know the essence of who you are.

“The world is big, and I want to get a good look at it before it gets dark.” – John Muir

Life is brief and unpredictable; you ought to travel as much and as far as possible while you still can.

“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown

The essential things you get from travel aren’t material; they’re deeply gratifying over and above what’s tangible.

Short Travel Quotes for Instagram

When the travelling quotes are short and witty, you better believe they deserve a spot on your Instagram posts. This is especially useful when you’re in luxury destinations and only want short aesthetic travel quotes to accompany breathtaking snaps.

Here are some of my favourite Insta-ready travel quotes.

“The goal is to die with memories, not dreams.” – Unknown

Travel guarantees memories and can be part of fulfilling your wildest dreams.

“To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

Travel unlocks more ways to enjoy the act of living itself.

“The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens

The entire world is an astonishing wonder worth seeing and exploring.

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

Like many other areas in life, risk-taking makes travel much more enriching.

“Don’t listen to what they say, go see.” – Unknown (Chinese Proverb)

Nothing beats travelling to a destination and being there in person for visceral experiences.

“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

Soak up all the richness in new lands, but always tread carefully and respectfully.

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Short Travel Quotes for Couples

Looking for short cute travel quotes to symbolise your couple’s trips? Take your pick from the ones below.

“In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.” – Charles M. Schulz

Sometimes, the destination is simple, but your partner can elevate the travel experience beyond measure.

“We’d rather have a passport full of stamps than a house full of stuff.” – Unknown

Worldly goods aren’t bad, but travel offers a different kind of wealth.

“A couple who travels together grows together.” – Ahmad Fuadi

If you want to get to know someone, live, work, or travel with them.

“All you need is love and a passport.” – Unknown

With the right person on your arm, discovering the world always feels right.

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“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton

You won’t feel the miles and hours when embarking on thrilling journeys with a loved one.

“We have nothing to lose and a world to see.” – Rainie Navarro

In romantic partnerships, you can’t lose as long as you keep finding new places to make memories in together.

Short Travel Quotes With Friends

It takes a little practice to master how to travel alone before you become a pro, making some of the best quotes about travel those celebrating time spent with your favourite crew. These endearing short travel quotes are apt for your group adventures.

“Life is short, and the world is wide.” – Simon Raven

There’s a massive planet to behold; share its discovery with special people.

“Life is meant for good friends and great adventures.” – Unknown

Go encounter phenomenal places with treasured people to truly enjoy the fullness of life.

“Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman

The more curious you and your travel companions are about the world, the more you’ll reap in return.

“Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends” – Shirley MacLaine

When you travel, you interact with different people and often make new lifelong friends in the most fascinating parts of the world.

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“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

Meeting people and forming genuine connections are central to your biggest travel takeaways.

Short Funny Travel Quotes

I love travel memes and find funny short-trip quotes just as amusing. There will be travel escapades that feature unexpected, unplanned, or hilarious quirks. They’re part of the stories you’ll share over and over. So why not use clever short quotes to capture the humour?

“Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark

Approach each trip with enduring enthusiasm and energy.

“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein

Always try to enjoy every aspect of the full journey, not just the final destination.

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

You might not be able to see it all, but you can certainly try.

“A hangover suggests a great night, jet lag suggests a great adventure.” – J.D. Andrews

While partying is fun, don’t let it hinder the full scope of your travel experiences.

“I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – Melody Truong

This is one of the most poetic ways to describe what wanderlust means for some people.

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw

Embrace trips that are nothing like what you’re used to at home; put the comfort zone on the back burner.

“A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

Let spontaneity drive all the elements of the voyage from start to finish.

Short Travelling Quotes | The Final Say

There it is, some of the best, unique, funny, inspirational, and Insta-worthy short quotes about travelling the world. With this fun list of what to say to inspire an unforgettable vacay, it’s time to let your passport do all the talking.

Whether your next dream destination is an island escape, a trip to a flashy city, or a desert retreat, you’ve got meaningful short quips to capture all your memorable moments.

If your upcoming journey involves exciting, action-packed activities, here are winning adventure quotes to match your one-of-a-kind holiday exploits.

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Remembering Violinist Eugene Fodor

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In the 1970s, violinist Eugene Fodor was a sensation. He was called the "Mick Jagger of classical music" and a "cowboy fiddler." Young, handsome and extremely talented, Fodor became the first American to win the top prize in the Soviet Union's prestigious Tchaikovsky Competition. Eugene Fodor died last week at his home in Arlington, Va. He was 60 years old.

Fodor grew up on a ranch near Denver. His widow, Susan Davis, says he had a special connection with horses.

"He could stand on a horse," Davis says. "He could play violin on a horse. He would just ride like he lived on a horse."

Davis says Fodor was also born to play the violin. It started with his parents, both serious music lovers. Fodor began playing violin when he was a little boy, and his father was very strict about practicing. Fodor once complained he was never allowed to date in high school.

Fodor ended up going to Juilliard, and he won all kinds of awards, including the international Paganini Competition in Italy. But then he did something no Westerner had ever done before: He shared second place with two Soviets at the Tchaikovsky Violin Competition in Moscow in 1974. There was no first place prize that year. Still, at the time, during the Cold War, it made him a star.

"He came home to a ticker tape parade," Davis remembers. "He was on Johnny Carson 15 times, and you had people attending classical music concerts who'd never been before."

Eugene Fodor performs Antonio Bazzini's La Ronde des Lutins

But Fodor had his critics. He was a flashy player, and some thought he was more style than substance. By his own admission, he could be cocky and rebellious. And he struggled with addiction to opiates and alcohol. His career and his family disintegrated.

Fodor and Davis divorced in 1985. But just last fall, they remarried. Fodor had recently been released from the hospital where he was treated for liver failure. Davis says he had stopped playing violin.

"He had great pain around his music," she says. "I couldn't play violin music around him without him crying. He felt his life had no value without music and without the great venues he'd performed in. He felt it had been ripped away from him ... it was extremely painful."

Fodor died of cirrhosis last week. Today would have been his 61st birthday.

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Eugene Fodor, the Hungarian-born travel guru whose guidebooks gave tourists insight into both the sights and the sense of 170 lands around the world, has died.

Fodor was 85 when he died of a brain tumor Monday at a hospital in Torrington, Conn.

Robert Fisher, a business associate and publisher of Fisher’s Travel Guides, said his longtime friend had lived in nearby Litchfield for the past 26 years.

A pioneer in travel guides when few existed, Fodor visited more than 130 of the countries of which his firm wrote. The first guide, in 1936, was “On the Continent.”

The 1,212-page comprehensive guide revolutionized the industry with segments written by major playwrights and journalists familiar with both the highways and folkways of Europe.

Expanded to include Britain, it became “Europe 1938” when it was published in the United States.

That volume became the signature of Fodor’s future efforts, providing visitors with a love of travel that he said should not be exclusive to “the sights” of a land but of meeting “peoples whose customs, habits and general outlook are different from your own.”

The books, which now sell about 200 million copies a year, still are noted for detailed and entertaining descriptions of places and people.

Videotapes now augment the original pictorial guides to places such as Bangkok, Great Britain, Hawaii, Mexico, Singapore and Hungary, where Fodor was born Jenoe Fodor in Leva.

As a young man, he toured Europe and attended college in France.

“I wanted to see the world and I didn’t have the wherewithal,” he once said. “So I wrote all the shipping lines in those days and offered my services as an interpreter and got a job with the French line.”

That led to work as a travel writer, and eventually to the travel books.

After his 1938 guide to Europe became a success, he came to the United States at about the time Nazi Germany annexed the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia. He remained here, becoming an intelligence officer in the U.S. Army. By then he could speak and write in six languages and said he was “adequate” in four others.

Out of that came an accusation from E. Howard Hunt in the 1970s that Fodor had been an agent of the Central Intelligence Agency. Hunt was the former CIA spy linked to the Watergate scandal.

Fodor denied personal involvement with the CIA but refused to comment on whether his travel guides provided cover for U.S. intelligence operatives abroad who were acting as writers.

At the end of World War II, Fodor returned to Europe, which he used as a base while often spending 10 months a year on the road.

As Eastern countries began to seek Western currency, his list of titles grew rapidly. At one point, Albania was the only country not the subject of at least one chapter.

“I had a chapter, but they protested against it,” he told the Reuters news agency in 1988.

In 1986, Fodor’s Travel Guides were sold to Random House, but Fodor had reduced his role in the firm years earlier.

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Eugene Fodor, Creator of Guides For Worldwide Travel, Dies at 85

By Glenn Fowler

Feb. 19, 1991

Eugene Fodor, whose travel guides have been carried by tourists to the far corners of the world for more than half a century, died last night at the Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington, Conn. He was 85 years old and lived in Litchfield, Conn.

He died of a brain tumor, said a business associate, Robert Fisher.

Mr. Fodor's approach to travel writing was set forth in his first book, "1936 . . . On the Continent," a guide to Europe for British travelers that he published in London. The joy of travel, he wrote, should not be derived solely from seeing "the sights," but from mingling with "peoples whose customs, habits and general outlook are different from your own."

Between "On the Continent" and Mr. Fodor's retirement a decade ago, the number of Fodor guides grew to more than 140 titles, many in languages other than English. Roughly 200 million Fodor guides, now published in the United States by Random House, are sold each year. Spoke 5 Languages

In his spare time he wrote articles for the line's in-house magazine about life aboard ship and visits to exotic ports. Soon he was selling articles to newspapers in Hungary and France.

In 1934, while working for the Aldor Publishing Company in London, he suggested a guidebook to the Continent that would contain the "human element" he found lacking in guides of the day.

The book was a success, and in 1938, when it was published for American travelers, it became a best seller. He was in the United States on a business trip that year, and when Nazi Germany annexed the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia, he concluded that World War II was imminent.

He stayed in the United States, went into the Army in 1942 and served five years in the intelligence branch, emerging a captain. A C.I.A. Link Charged

Three decades later E. Howard Hunt Jr., the former Central Intelligence Agency operative who figured in the Watergate scandal, asserted that Mr. Fodor had been a C.I.A. agent, which Mr. Fodor denied. He declined to comment, however, on Mr. Hunt's contention that the Fodor guides had provided operating cover for American intelligence agents abroad.

In 1950 the David McKay Company in New York began publishing a series of Fodor guides to individual countries, and Mr. Fodor set up a Paris headquarters. The first four guides covered France, Switzerland and Italy and, in a move that angered the Irish, combined Britain and Ireland in a single book. Subsequent guides dealt separately with Ireland.

Mr. Fodor returned to the United States in 1964 to live in Litchfield, Conn., and began compiling travel books about this country.

"America is still a little-known and little-understood country, and we don't do much to promote ourselves abroad," he said at the time. "We may go to Europe to visit our past, but the rest of the world comes to America to see their future."

Mr. Fodor is survived by his wife, the former Vlasta Zobel, whom he married in 1948.

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GLENN FOWLER

Eugene Fodor, whose travel guides have been carried by tourists to the far corners of the world for more than half a century, has died at 85. He died Monday (Feb. 18, 1991) at the Charlotte Hungerford Hospital in Torrington, Conn., of a brain tumor.

Mr. Fodor's approach to travel writing was set forth in his first book, 1936 .

. On the Continent, a guide to Europe for British travelers that he published in London. The joy of travel, he wrote, should not be derived solely from seeing "the sights," but from mingling with "peoples whose customs, habits and general outlook are different from your own."

Between On the Continent and Mr. Fodor's retirement a decade ago, the number of Fodor guides grew to more than 140 titles, many in languages other than English. Roughly 200-million Fodor guides, now published in the United States by Random House, are sold each year.

In his spare time he wrote articles for the line's in-house magazine about life aboard ship and visits to exotic ports. Soon he was selling articles to newspapers in Hungary and France.

In 1934, while working for the Aldor Publishing Co. in London, he suggested a guidebook to the Continent that would contain the "human element" he found lacking in guides of the day.

He stayed in the United States, went into the Army in 1942 and served five years in the intelligence branch, emerging as a captain.

Three decades later E. Howard Hunt Jr., the former Central Intelligence Agency operative who figured in the Watergate scandal, asserted that Mr. Fodor had been a CIA agent, which Mr. Fodor denied.

He declined to comment, however, on Hunt's contention that the Fodor guides had provided operating cover for American intelligence agents abroad.

In 1950 the David McKay Co. in New York began publishing a series of Fodor guides to individual countries, and Mr. Fodor set up a Paris headquarters.

The first four guides covered France, Switzerland and Italy and, in a move that angered the Irish, combined Britain and Ireland in a single book. Subsequent guides dealt separately with Ireland.

He returned to the United States in 1964 to live in Litchfield, Conn., and began compiling travel books about this country.

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Best travel quotes to inspire wanderlust.

by The Travel Sisters | Feb 24, 2018 | Travel Inspiration | 9 comments

Best Travel and Vacation Quotes to Inspire Wanderlust

1. “i travel not to go anywhere, but to go. i travel for travel’s sake. the great affair is to move.” – robert louis stevenson.

Best Inspirational Travel and Vacation Quotes: “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

2. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

3. “if you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” – james michener, 4. “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” – lao tzu, 5. “wherever you go, go with all your heart.” – confucius, 6. “the more i traveled the more i realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – shirley maclaine, 7. “travel makes one modest. you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – gustave flaubert.

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” one of the best Inspirational travel quotes of all time

8. “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

9. “travel isn’t always pretty. it isn’t always comfortable. sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. but that’s okay. the journey changes you; it should change you. it leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. you take something with you. hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – anthony bourdain, 10. “remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – roy m. goodman, 11.”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, 12. “live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – stephen covey.

Best Quotes about Adventure and Travel 2019: “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” Stephen Covey is a great short travel quote

13. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

14. “i am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” -mary anne radmacher, 15. “i’m in love with cities i’ve never been to and people i’ve never met.” – melody truong.

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16. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

17. “our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – lawrence block, 18. “not all those who wander are lost.” – j.r.r. tolkien, 19. “take only memories, leave only footprints.” ― chief seattle, 20. “we travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” — anais nin.

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21. “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

22. “when preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. then take half the clothes and twice the money.” -susan heller, 23. “one’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” ― henry miller, 24. “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, 25. “stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. see the world. it’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” -ray bradbury, 26. “all travel has its advantages. if the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. and if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” -samuel johnson, 27. “travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” -seneca, 28. “i have wandered all my life, and i have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” -hilaire belloc, 29. ”the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” -marcel proust, 30. “to travel is to take a journey into yourself.”― danny kaye, 31. “the journey not the arrival matters.” – t.s. eliot, 32. “the gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.” – sir richard burton, 33. “do not follow where the path may lead. go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – ralph waldo emerson.

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“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.”

This quote is so true!

I love these!! A few old favorites and a few new ones I have never heard, and loved!

I personally love 12. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” Stephen Covey but I also love #20 by Anais Nin and #29 by Proust because they perhaps describe the items on my Travel Bucket list. Its not always about a vacation from life but rather to learn and discover life.

Love reading quotes, they definitely are inspiring and humbling. Great list!

Amazing Quotes. I love this one “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” ― Henry Miller I believe that “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

*sigh* I love travel quotes.

Hi, your list of quotes is really very impressive. Thanks for sharing.

My favourite is ‘Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer’. So true and a great reply to those who think you should travel less!

My favorite travel quote is an unintentional one: “No one goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.”

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Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures. Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland

Think back to a happy moment.

Let me guess, the first thought that came to your mind is… A holiday , a honeymoon, a travel destination.

Many people assume that spending money on material possessions will increase happiness .

Nevertheless, research has shown that spending money on experiences (or memories ) will make us happier. Source

At the end of our lives, it is NOT the things we own that matter. It is not even the years that count; it is the memories .

Memories are made from experiences. And experiences are best made when traveling!

Below are the best quotes on traveling so you can be inspired to take that first step out into the unknown and explore.

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The same thing you have always been doing and the same places you have always been going?

NOTHING worth pursuing is comfortable initially. Fear is inevitable in the pursuit of one’s dream .

Many people merely exist in this world.

Life is too short to waste your time on things you are not meant to do and be someone you are not meant to be.

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