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Lisa St. Aubin de Terán quote: Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I...

Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.

Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.

Memories are who we are. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you. Love and Memories are what last.

I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage.

Lost luggage is just an opportunity to start afresh.

Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.

When it comes to luggage, I am an underpacker.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

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.

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the view from the top of Machu Picchu probably doesn't make up for the hassle of lost luggage. (More often than not, I need a holiday after my holiday.) We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.

Orville Wright said to his brother, "Wilbur, you were only in the air for 12 seconds. How could my luggage be in Cleveland?"

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

The federal government said today they've begun training sessions for airport security workers to provide what they call more customer satisfaction to the travels, they want to make it easier for us. They're instructing security guards to glance at your luggage tags so that they can call you by your first name. Isn't that creepy? The guy touching your wife, calling her by her first name.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under the pressure of my step, I want the streets to emit the precise odor of a diamond necklace. I want the newspapers I read to smell like the violins left in pawnshops by weeping hobos on Christmas Eve. I want to carry luggage that reeks of the neurons in Einstein's brain. I want a city's gases to smell like the golden belly hairs of the gods. And when I gaze at a televised picture of the moon, I want to detect, from a distance of 239,000 miles, the aroma of fresh mozzarella.

Although he travels all day, the sage never loses sight of his luggage carts.

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24 Quotes to Inspire You to Pack Your Bags and Travel the World

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Traveling has been my one true passion in life. It keeps you on your toes, forces you to open your eyes and see the world from a different perspective, and accept things as they come. It also reminds you about what truly matters in life – the people you surround yourself with and the joy that comes from living in the moment.

It is so easy to get swept away in the routine of things and, before you know it, weeks, months or even years have passed by, and you have nothing to show for it. I’ve heard so many people in my life saying “Yeah, I’ll go travel, but first I need to __________.” But once you accomplish whatever that is, then there’s always another obstacle, another goal. That’s human nature.

But if you keep putting it off, one day you’ll wake up realizing that you missed your opportunity. Sure, perhaps you can go traveling once you’ve saved up a lot of money or are retired, but will those experiences be the same as if you had gone while you were still young and able-bodied? Traveling takes courage, especially if you want to do it long-term. But it is worth it.

I spent my first two years abroad making next to nothing, and yet I visited 10 new countries and met some amazing people along the way, including my husband. I will hold these memories forever in my heart, and I look forward to exploring the world even more – there’s still so much left to see! Each country I visit teaches me something new, both about the world and about myself, and these experiences and lessons are invaluable – I wouldn’t trade them for anything.

So, what are you waiting for? Read through some of my favorite travel quotes to motivate you to take the plunge and live your life the way you’ve always wanted it to be!

“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, “man is born to live, not to prepare to live.” – boris pasterna, “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, “be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – jennifer lee, “a journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. and all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. we find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” – john steinbeck, “a good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – lao tzu, “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, “traveling is a brutality. it forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort 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, “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, “travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – paolo coelho, “our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – lawrence block, “unexpected travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god.” – kurt vonnegut, jr., “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, “during the first period of a man’s life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.” – soren kierkegaard, “i can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. suddenly you are five years old again. you can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” – bill bryson, “if you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – james michener, “i may not have gone where i intended to go, but i think i have ended up where i needed to be.” – douglas adams, “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, “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, “life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – neale donald walsch, “the difference between a tourist and a traveler is that a tourist doesn’t know where he’s been and a traveler doesn’t know where he’s going.”, “you must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” – thoreau, “a ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.” – william shedd, “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, do you have any other quotes that inspire you share them below i’d love to hear about all of your experiences, happy travels i hope this inspired you to work towards the things that truly matter in life. your happiness is the most important thing in this world – go find it ., other articles you might enjoy:.

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50 Travel Quotes that will inspire you to pack your bags

01/09/2024 By Traveling Canucks 62 Comments Categories: Featured Reflections Travel Stories Travel Tips

Travel Quotes for Travel Inspiration

Sometimes a few simple travel quotes or phrase is all it takes to spark action in our lives.

We always welcome inspirational words, so we thought it would be fun to share some quotes that have inspired us in the past. Hopefully one or two of them give you the push you need to plan that next adventure. Enjoy!

50 Inspirational Travel Quotes

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. – Mark Twain

A wise traveler never despises his own country. – Carlo Goldoni

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

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

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

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

You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down. – Zig Ziglar

Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride. – Anthony Bourdain

The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. – Saint Augustine

We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. – John Hope Franklin

Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better. – Simon Raven

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

Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey. – Barbara Hoffman

Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right! – Henry Ford

More famous travel quotes to inspire you

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. – aldous huxley.

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

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. – Robert Frost

Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. – Ferris Bueller

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. – Benjamin Franklin

Promise me you’ll always remember: you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.” – A.A. Milne, Winne the Pooh

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

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

Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. – Asian Proverb

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

When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out. – Anthony Bourdain

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

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. – Robert Louis Stevenson

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one. – Elbert Hubbard

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

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

There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it. – Charles Dudley Warner

We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way. – Gloria Gaither

An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching. – Gandhi

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. – Gustav Flaubert

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

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

A traveling fool is better than a sitting wise person. – Mongolian Proverb

You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take. – Wayne Gretzky

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

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

You can do anything, but not everything. – David Allen

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

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

If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move. – Anthony Bourdain

Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. – Dalai Lama

What is your favourite travel quotes?

Share your favourite travel quotes in the comments section below.

05/15/2012 at 6:21 pm

The following is from the first paragraph of Moby Dick. There are times when “normal” life no longer cuts it, when I have to go somewhere far away where the language, food, people and sights and smells are different. This quote describes the feeling that spurs me to travel…

“… Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off – then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.”

06/16/2012 at 1:28 pm

Thanks for sharing Jane!

05/15/2012 at 8:02 pm

Great quotes, I love them all. Thanks for sharing.

06/16/2012 at 1:29 pm

You’re welcome Kim! Good luck on your future travels – you have quite the adventure in front of you!

05/16/2012 at 3:54 am

Thanks for the great tips! I just hope a lot of people would benefit from these tips.. Anyway, thanks a lot for the thoughts!

06/16/2012 at 1:32 pm

You’re welcome Jenny! I hope 1 or 2 of these quotes inspires you to take on a new adventure

10/02/2019 at 2:25 am

Thanks jeny

05/16/2012 at 10:27 am

Great collection of inspirational quotes. Thanks for posting! Here’s one of our favorites: “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” ― Dorothy Parker

I like that Marla – thanks for sharing! 🙂

05/16/2012 at 10:37 am

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

06/16/2012 at 1:33 pm

Hah! That’s a good one Donna

05/16/2012 at 11:35 am

Great selection! Here’s my fav:

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. – Benjamin Disraeli

08/01/2012 at 5:12 pm

Great contribution Micki – thanks! 🙂

05/16/2012 at 11:44 am

Great quotes! I have a few that inspire me:

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad. -Jane Austin

“To move, to breath, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…” — Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You’ll Go!)”

“Travel is like adultery; one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live…in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.” – Anatole Broyard

08/01/2012 at 5:13 pm

Awesome quotes Stacey – thanks for contributing!

05/16/2012 at 2:34 pm

Other great quotes:

“The earth is round, we shall meet” – African Proverb

“If a diploma can famously be a passport, a passport can be a diploma” – Pico Iyer. Read the rest of his wonderful essay on travel here: http://www.cmi-gear.com/tim/travels/chapter12-travel.asp

Thanks Sarah – we appreciate the contributions! 🙂

05/16/2012 at 3:02 pm

These are wonderful quotes. I like this one the best: “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. – Freya”

It reminds me of some silly movie I once saw where the actress said she loved finding herself in a city or town where she couldn’t speak the language, knew nobody, and didn’t know where she was. That defined what a good day for her was.

I liked that quote. I feel the same way.

08/01/2012 at 5:14 pm

Thanks for sharing Barbara!

05/17/2012 at 9:45 am

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

love all of these!

Thanks Britany! 🙂

05/18/2012 at 4:57 am

I love the Barbara Hoffman quote. Anyone who has driven in Kazakhstan or Senegal knows this to be so true!

Love the blog, kind regards, Si

08/01/2012 at 5:15 pm

Cheers Si! Appreciate the kind words 🙂

05/18/2012 at 9:36 am

When I think of the word travel, I don’t always associate it with exploring and being active geographically speaking but more a state of mind – a curiosity for people, life and culture.

One of the things I enjoyed whilst on the road was collecting memorable quotes from people I met in each Country. It doubled as a great trigger to remind me of the moments and people I connected with also.

05/18/2012 at 9:43 pm

Number four is my favourite. I try to remember that all the time

05/18/2012 at 10:21 pm

Great list. I love travel inspiration quotes and there’s quite a few here that are new to me. This is one I’ll have to come back to. thanks

05/19/2012 at 8:12 am

My favorite: “Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free” from The Shawshank Redemption.

05/21/2012 at 1:39 pm

Love quotes! My favorite one is the Mark Twain – Explore, Dream, Discover. I’m also a huge fan of “Not all of those who wander are lost.” 🙂

Thanks for sharing!

05/21/2012 at 8:54 pm

I love this post. Some of these are quotes that I live by, while others were completely new. One of my favorite quotes (not exclusive to travel) is by Oscar Wilde, “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” I truly feel the most alive when I’m traveling.

05/22/2012 at 5:28 pm

These are great quotes — I like the Zig Ziglar one, you seldom get lucky just sitting down. So true.

05/22/2012 at 8:03 pm

I love collecting travel quotes. There was a Banana Republic store in Boulder with five of the most famous travel quotes. Every time I’d walk by I’d linger and dream.

05/25/2012 at 7:27 am

Great list of quotes! Sometimes all you need is something simple and inspirational to give you a push and keep going. Thanks for sharing these!

05/25/2012 at 8:20 pm

Great collection of quotes, but that photo stole the show…incredible…

05/26/2012 at 5:02 am

These are rather nice .. Truly this are inspiring .. i travel a lot but the problem is i don’t find people who are free to go alone ..

05/26/2012 at 10:52 am

I love reading travel quotes. Thanks for introducing me to a few new ones. I like this one, “We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.”

05/28/2012 at 8:51 am

Great quotes! Reading these is getting me excited for my summer travel plans.

06/01/2012 at 1:21 pm

I do agree with Mark Twain in the first quote above. And I like this post generally. I actually had a really great time reading this. What’s your favorite travel quote? Anyway, thanks a lot for sharing this.

06/03/2012 at 2:44 pm

A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles. (Tim Cahill in the book Road Fever)

06/12/2012 at 6:11 am

Everybody would be inspired to travel reading this collection of travel quotes.

07/05/2012 at 1:15 am

That is true Christina…. For sure everyone will definitely inspire to travel after reading these travel quotes.

06/16/2012 at 1:57 pm

Love all your choices!

Another one:

“It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world: cut adrift from every connection; uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it.” – Jane Eyre

06/22/2012 at 1:38 am

I love reading travel quotes. Truly this are inspiring … i travel a lot but the problem is i don’t find people who are free to go alone …

06/29/2012 at 8:05 am

I love traveling and those wonderful quotes make me excited to go somewhere beautiful place 🙂 Thnx for the delightful quotes!

07/04/2012 at 8:57 am

Thanks for sharing this! Loved reading the quotes… makes us excited for our travels! Happy travel and we hope to read more great content from you guys.

07/18/2012 at 6:49 am

May I add a couple of more from Mark Twain?

Mark Twain wrote:

…nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

– Letter to San Francisco Alta California newspaper, dated May 18th, 1867; published June 23, 1867

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.

– Innocents Abroad

07/18/2012 at 7:32 am

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Hope, one feels once more happy. The blood flows with the fast circulation of childhood. . . . A journey, in fact, appeals to the Imagination, to Memory, to Hope,—the three sister Graces of our moral being.

—Sir Richard Burton, Zanzibar (London, 1872), vol. 1, pp. 16-17

08/13/2012 at 6:32 pm

Great quotes! Very inspiring.

08/16/2012 at 12:26 pm

“A traveling fool is better than a sitting wise person.” Old Mongolian Proverb

09/20/2012 at 12:18 pm

Actually, #27 is my favorite travel quote! 🙂

09/15/2013 at 10:12 am

My favourite quotes are from an Italian Travel writer: Tiziano Terzani. If you get the chance to read one of his books you’ll love him!

10/12/2013 at 9:32 pm

Thanks for sharing! My favorite: Though we tavel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

03/27/2014 at 5:07 am

I love the quote from St. Augustine : “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”

04/09/2015 at 6:28 pm

I am so inspired to travel! I love number 2, its so blunt but so very true.

04/19/2017 at 1:36 pm

Mark Twain has always been a writer I’ve thoroughly enjoy and aspire to become like. His thoughts are timelines. His stories are thought provoking. And most of all he lived a life well-lived. So, out of this list his quote is the one that I find the best when it comes to living not just traveling.

04/30/2019 at 12:53 am

Really inspirational and motivational. Specially like “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”.

05/11/2019 at 11:46 pm

Thanks for the great tips! I just hope a lot of people would benefit from these tips. I appreciate your effort.

06/12/2019 at 8:31 am

A compilation of best travel quotes. My favorite one is by – Simon Raven “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” Looking forward to hearing from you more

04/28/2020 at 2:42 am

07/15/2020 at 1:35 am

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. Its my favourite one. I have it on my profile on worldee.com. Thank you for article.

08/06/2020 at 1:48 am

Great post there had fun reading it. anyway my favourite is It’s good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end

09/30/2022 at 10:07 am

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 It’s my favorite quotation. I always try to follow it. It gives me a lot of inspiration.

Most Inspirational Travel Quotes

Travel quotes are there to express the feeling you experienced while traveling. Combine the best travel quotes with the power of an image and instantly let people have a taste of your travel feelings. This collection of travel quotes is made to inspire and motivate you and others to pack your bags and go explore! Or simply to add as a travel caption under your brand new Instagram post or to pin to your Pinterest . Also read our adventure quotes to spark your wanderlust !

Top 50 Best Travel Quotes

1. “Jobs fill your pockets, adventures fill your soul.” 2. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel, not a destination.” 3. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” 4. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.”

5. “Travel is my therapy. ” – Travel Quote

6. “ In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take ” In 2017, we took an exciting and scary step. We decided to turn our travel blog from a hobby into our full-time job. We would’ve had so much regret if we didn’t take this opportunity. Now, each of these travel quotes fit the stories we’ve made.

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7. “My goal is to run out of pages in my passport.” 8. “Not all those who wander are lost.” 9. “Travel is an investment in yourself.”

10. “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.”

11. “Life is short, and the world is wide.” 12. “It’s not what you look at that matters. It’s what you see.” 13. “The goal is to die with memories not dreams.” 14. “Sandy Toes sunkissed nose.”

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15. “Dare to live the life you’ve always wanted. ”

16. “Travel. Your money will return. Your time won’t.” 17. “Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.” 18. “Collect Moments, Not Things.” 19. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret.”

20. “Adventures are the best way to learn.”

21. “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.” 22. “We have nothing to lose and a world to see.” 23. “We don’t need objects; we need adventures.” 24. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.”

25. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Popular Travel Quote

26. “Of all the books in the world. The best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” 27. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat.” 28. “Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell.” 29. “I love places that make you realize how tiny you and your problems are.”

30. “Have stories to tell not stuff to show. ”

31. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” 32. “At the end of the day your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” 33. “Don’t let fear get in the way of the life you are meant to live.” 34. “I travel because I become uncomfortable being too comfortable.”

35. “Leave nothing but footprints, take nothing but photos, kill nothing but time. ”

36. “Always take the scenic road.” 37. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” 38. “Go where you feel most alive.”

39. “I want to make memories all over the world” Every destination you’ll visit leaves its own unique memory. Our travels through Sri Lanka , Myanmar , or Petra in Jordan already give us goosebumps. As this travel quote says: Make memories all over the world!

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40. “Travel is the healthiest addiction ”

40. “Doing what you like is freedom, liking what you do is happiness.” 41. “Happiness is planning a trip with the ones that you love.” 43. “I don’t know where I’m going but I’m going. Are you coming with me?” 44. “Let’s get lost.”

45. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams”

46. “Beach please.” 47. “Don’t call it a dream. Call it a plan.” 48. “Don’t be that person who is too busy when you are young and then too tired when you are old.” 49. “Travel makes you realize that no matter how much you know, there’s always more to learn.”

50. “Ocean air, salty hair.”

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150 Best Travel Quotes To Inspire You To See The World

We’ve been putting together some of our favorite inspirational travel quotes as we continue to travel the world and experience new places and things abroad.

What follows is a complete collection of 150 of the best travel quotes, complete with adventure travel quotes from famous figures like Anthony Bourdain, John Muir, and Mark Twain.

Warning: some of these quotes may give you the travel itch! In any case, I hope you’ll find some of these short travel quotes inspirational for your own journey!

Table of Contents show 150 Best Travel Quotes • Famous Travel Quotes • Mark Twain Travel Quotes • Funny Travel Quotes • Short Travel Quotes • Misc Travel Quotes • Inspirational Travel Quotes • Travel With Friends Quotes • Adventure Travel Quotes • Solo Travel Quotes • Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes More Travel Content & Tips

150 Best Travel Quotes

• famous travel quotes.

The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. — Unknown

Take only memories, leave only footprints. — Unknown

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world. — Gustave Flaubert

Not all those who wander are lost. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Every man dies, but not every man really lives. — William Wallace

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all. — Oscar Wilde

Life is a journey. Make the most of it. — Unknown

I’ve traveled every road in this here land… I’ve been everywhere, man, I’ve been everywhere. — Johnny Cash

Paris is always a good idea. — Audrey Hepburn

Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer. — Unknown

Collect moments, not things. — Unknown

Today is your day, your mountain is waiting. So get on your way. — Dr Seuss

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the things you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. — Unknown

I’m shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet and I’m gonna see the world. — George Bailey in It’s A Wonderful Life

It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door. You step onto the road, and if you don’t keep your feet, there’s no knowing where you might be swept off to. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. — Lao Tzu

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. — John Muir

The mountains are calling and I must go. — John Muir

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature’s peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves. — John Muir

To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give, to roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. — Hans Christian Andersen

Oh the places you’ll go. — Dr. Seuss

I shall be telling this with a sigh, Somewhere ages and ages hence: Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. — Robert Frost

When one is alone at night in the depths of the woods, the stillness is at once awful and sublime. — John Muir

Nature gives to every time and season some beauties of its own. — Charles Dickens

• Mark Twain Travel Quotes

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.

To do something, say something, see something, before anybody else — these are the things that confer a pleasure compared with which other pleasures are tame and commonplace, other ecstasies cheap and trivial. Lifetimes of ecstasy crowded into a single moment.

It is the loveliest fleet of islands [ Hawaii ] that lies anchored in any ocean.

No alien land in all the world has any deep strong charm for me but that one [ Hawaii ], no other land could so longingly and so beseechingly haunt me, sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime, as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides; other things change, but it remains the same. For me the balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded crags, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore, its remote summits floating like islands above the cloud wrack; I can feel the spirit of its wildland solitudes, I can hear the splash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago.

• Funny Travel Quotes

Airplanes may kill you, but they ain’t likely to hurt you. — Leroy Satchel Paige

Two great talkers will not travel far together. — George Borrow

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

I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine. — Caskie Stinnett

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone? — Erma Bombeck

Toto, I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore. — Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz

• Short Travel Quotes

Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before. — Unknown

Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times. — Asian Proverb

Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. — Ibn Battutah

We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us. — Unknown

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

Half the fun of travel is the esthetic of lostness. — Ray Bradbury

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

There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign. — Robert Louis Stevenson

Life begins at the end of your comfort zone. — Neale Donald Walsh

I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list. — Unknown

And I think to myself, what a wonderful world. — Louis Armstrong

They say travel broadens the mind, but you must have the mind. — G.K. Chesterton

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. — Anita Desai

Life is short and the world is wide. — Unknown

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

A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. — Lao Tzu

If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere. — Vincent van Gogh

The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness. — John Muir

A wise traveler never despises his own country. — Carlos Osvaldo Goldoni

You know more of a road by having traveled it than by all the conjectures and descriptions in the world. — William Hazlitt

I love to travel, but hate to arrive. — Albert Einstein

And into the forest I go, to lose my mind and find my soul. — John Muir

A great way to learn about your country is to leave it. — Henry Rollins

Live your life by a compass, not a clock. — Stephen Covey

Some experiences simply do not translate, you have to go to know. — Kobi Yamada

I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world. — Mary Anne Radmacher

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

Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage. — Paulo Coelho

Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost. — Erol Ozan

Travel far enough, you meet yourself. — David Mitchell

The journey itself is my home. — Matsuo Basho

Live, travel, adventure, bless and don’t be sorry. — Jack Kerouac

The saddest journey in the world is the one that follows a precise itinerary. — Guillermo del Toro

A good traveler leaves no tracks. — Lao Tzu

It’s in those quiet little towns, at the edge of the world, that you will find the salt of the Earth people who make you feel right at home. — Aaron Lauritsen

It is better to travel well than to arrive. — Unknown

The impulse to travel is one of the hopeful symptoms of life. — Agnes Repplier

• Misc Travel Quotes

Autumn is a second spring when every leaf is a flower. — Albert Camus

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world. — John Muir

When we contemplate the whole globe as one great dewdrop, striped and dotted with continents and islands, flying through space with other stars all singing and shining together as one, the whole universe appears as an infinite storm of beauty. — John Muir

I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana, it is love. — John Steinbeck

Yosemite Park is a place of rest, a refuge from the roar and dust and weary, nervous, wasting work of the lowlands, in which one gains the advantages of both solitude and society. — John Muir

The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever. — Jacques Cousteau

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The Mediterranean has the color of mackerel, changeable I mean. You don’t always know if it is green or violet, you can’t even say it’s blue, because the next moment the changing reflection has taken on a tint of rose or gray. — Vincent van Gogh

I go to nature to be soothed and healed, and to have my senses put in order. — John Burroughs

No pain here, no dull empty hours, no fear of the past, no fear of the future. These blessed mountains are so compactly filled with God’s beauty, no petty personal hope or experience has room to be. — John Muir

On earth there is no heaven, but there are pieces of it. — Jules Renard

Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better. — Albert Einstein

Lighthouses are not just stone, brick, metal, and glass. There’s a human story at every lighthouse. — Elinor DeWire

To almost every man and woman there is something about a lighted beacon which suggests hope and trust and appeals to the better instincts of all mankind. — Edward Rowe Snowe

• Inspirational Travel Quotes

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all. — Helen Keller

Never let your memories be greater than your dreams. — Douglas Ivester

All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity. But the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. — Lawrence of Arabia

Do not dare not to dare. — C.S. Lewis

Everything you’ve ever wanted is on the other side of fear. — George Adair

Wherever you go, go with all your heart. — Unknown

It seems to be a law of nature, inflexible and inexorable, that those who will not risk cannot win. — John Paul Jones

This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. We strain to renew our capacity for wonder to shock ourselves into astonishment once again. — Shana Alexander

I beg young people to travel. If you don’t have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you’re going to see your country differently, you’re going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. — Henry Rollins

Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in an office or mowing your lawn. Climb that damn mountain. — Jack Kerouac

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find the globe granite underfoot and strewn with cutting flints. — Robert Louis Stevenson

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

We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place. We stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there. — Pascal Mercier

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

Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground. — Judith Thurman

Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. — Pat Conroy

No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet. — Patrick Rothfuss

It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling. — Gustave Flaubert

The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown. — Paul Theroux

Although I deeply love oceans, deserts and other wild landscapes, it is only mountains that beckon me with that sort of painful magnetic pull to walk deeper and deeper into their beauty. They keep me continuously wanting to know more, feel more, see more. — Victoria Erickson

• Travel With Friends Quotes

A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles. — Tim Cahill

You will never be completely at home again, because part of your heart always will be elsewhere. That is the price you pay for the richness of loving and knowing people in more than one place. — Miriam Adeney

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend. — Robert Louis Stevenson

• Adventure Travel Quotes

Adventure is worthwhile in itself. — Amelia Earhart

If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal. — Paulo Coelho

Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis. — Tim Cahill

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter. — John Muir

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. — Edward Abbey

Once a journey is designed, equipped, and put in process, a new factor enters and takes over. A trip, a safari, an exploration, is an entity, different from all other journeys. It has personality, temperament, individuality, uniqueness. A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us. Tour masters, schedules, reservations, brass-bound and inevitable, dash themselves to wreckage on the personality of the trip. Only when this is recognized can the blown-in-the glass bum relax and go along with it. Only then do the frustrations fall away. In this a journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it. — John Steinbeck

What is that feeling when you’re driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? – it’s the too-huge world vaulting us, and it’s good-bye. But we lean forward to the next crazy venture beneath the skies. — Jack Kerouac

A ship is safe in harbor, but that’s not what ships are for. — J.A. Shedd

It’s a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you’re ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any. — Hugh Laurie

Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the Earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white. — Mark Jenkins

The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. — Christopher McCandless

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else – above all, a travel bureau – arrange everything before-hand? — Richard Aldington

Be careful because Cambodia is the most dangerous place you will ever visit. You will fall in love with it, and eventually it will break your heart. — Joel Brinkley

• Solo Travel Quotes

To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world. — Freya Stark

Do not go where the path may lead; go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. — Unknown

I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses. — Bill Bryson

The true fruit of travel is perhaps the feeling of being nearly everywhere at home. — Freya Stark

When you’ve managed to stumble directly into the heart of the unknown – either through the misdirection of others, or better yet, through your own creative ineptitude – there is no one there to hold your hand or tell you what to do. In those bad lost moments, in the times when we are advised not to panic, we own the unknown, and the world belongs to us. The child within has full reign. Few of us are ever so free. — Tim Cahill

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

He travels the fastest who travels alone. — Rudyard Kipling

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection. — Lawrence Durrell

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself. — Liberty Hyde Bailey

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

I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more. — Thomas Jefferson

Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you and you hold your life in your hands all alone, you are more master of yourself than at any other time. — Hannah Arendt

Personally I like going places where I don’t speak the language, don’t know anybody, don’t know my way around and don’t have any delusions that I’m in control. Disoriented, even frightened, I feel alive, awake in ways I never am at home. — Michael Mewshaw

I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. — Paulo Coelho

Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road. Healthy, free, the world before me. The long brown path before me leading me wherever I choose. — Walt Whitman

• Anthony Bourdain Travel Quotes

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.

Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you. Most of the time, those marks — on your body or on your heart — are beautiful. Often, though, they hurt.

It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu , for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and what’s happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there — with your eyes open — and lived to see it.

Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.

I’m a big believer in winging it. I’m a big believer that you’re never going to find the perfect city travel experience or the perfect meal without a constant willingness to experience a bad one. Letting the happy accident happen is what a lot of vacation itineraries miss, I think, and I’m always trying to push people to allow those things to happen rather than stick to some rigid itinerary.

Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? … I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

It seems that the more places I see and experience, the bigger I realize the world to be. The more I become aware of, the more I realize how relatively little I know of it, how many places I have still to go, how much more there is to learn. Maybe that’s enlightenment enough – to know that there is no final resting place of the mind, no moment of smug clarity. Perhaps wisdom, at least for me, means realizing how small I am, and unwise, and how far I have yet to go.

I think food, culture, people and landscape are all absolutely inseparable.

Food is everything we are. It’s an extension of nationalist feeling, ethnic feeling, your personal history, your province, your region, your tribe, your grandma. It’s inseparable from those from the get-go.

Southeast Asia has a real grip on me. From the very first time I went there, it was a fulfillment of my childhood fantasies of the way travel should be.

I wanted adventures. I wanted to go up the Nung river to the heart of darkness in Cambodia . I wanted to ride out into a desert on camelback, sand and dunes in every direction, eat whole roasted lamb with my fingers. I wanted to kick snow off my boots in a Mafiya nightclub in Russia. I wanted to play with automatic weapons in Phnom Penh, recapture the past in a small oyster village in France, step into a seedy neon-lit pulqueria in rural Mexico. I wanted to run roadblocks in the middle of the night, blowing past angry militia with a handful of hurled Marlboro packs, experience fear, excitement, wonder. I wanted kicks – the kind of melodramatic thrills and chills I’d yearned for since childhood, the kind of adventure I’d found as a little boy in the pages of my Tintin comic books. I wanted to see the world – and I wanted the world to be just like the movies.

Without experimentation, a willingness to ask questions and try new things, we shall surely become static, repetitive, and moribund.

If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.

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.

70+ of the BEST Travel Quotes [2023]

If you love to travel as much as me, you’ll also love a great travel quote. After all who doesn’t love travel quotes?!

For me, and for many others, they provide a source of inspiration every single day, motivating me to explore more of the world, go deeper into communities and fall in love with cultures.

Whether you are planning a trip or looking for some inspiration I have pulled together my favourite quotes on travel and some of the most famous travel quotes, by people such as Anthony Bourdain and Paul Coelho.

Considering the situation in the world right now, I think we could all use some of the most inspirational quotes on travel for 2021. There are so many amazing quotes about travel and quotes to inspire travel, these are some of my favourites.

There are 50 of the best travel quotes listed here, but if I have missed any please do send them my way and I will add them to this list. The quotes range on topics such as adventure, journeys, self-discovery and more.

I hope you love this list of the best travel quotes…

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50+ quotes on travel , 1. “not all those who wander are lost.” – j.r.r. tolkien.

A favourite of the best short traveling quotes.

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

3. “a journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” – tim cahill, 4. “if you think adventures are dangerous, try routine: it’s lethal.” – paul coelho, 5. “it seems that the more places i see and experience, the bigger i realize the world to be. the more i become aware of, the more i realize how relatively little i know of it, how many places i have still to go, how much more there is to learn.” – anthony bourdain.

Which of these quotes on travel is your favourite?

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

Another of my favourite short travel quotes.

7. “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.” – Sarah Frances Brown

8. “live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” – oscar wilde, 9. “remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – roy m. goodman, 10. “the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes” – marcel proust.

11. “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life — and travel — leaves marks on you.” – Anthony Bourdain

Another favourite of my quotes about wanderlust.

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

13. “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, 14. “life was made for good friends and great adventures.” – unknown.

15. “The journey is part of the experience — an expression of the seriousness of one’s intent. One doesn’t take the A train to Mecca.” – Anthony Bourdain

16. “take only memories, leave only footprints.” – chief seattle.

One of the best adventure travel quotes…

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

18. “once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – dalai lama, 19. “the most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – wallace stevens, looking for more quotes check out these wilderness quotes you need to read.

20. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – John Green

But which of these famous travel quotes is the best??

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

22. “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, 23. “with age, comes wisdom. with travel, comes understanding.” – sandra lake, 24. “the world makes way for the man who knows where he is going.” – ralph waldo emerson.

I used to have these travelling quotes on a necklace when I was backpacking in 2017.

25. “For there is nothing greater than becoming lost”

26. “wherever you go, go with all your heart” – confucius , 27. “oh the places you’ll go.” – dr. seuss.

Another favourite inspirational quote for travel.

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

29. “to travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries” – aldous huxley, looking for more quotes check out quotes about waterfalls.

30. “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

31. “we travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – ray bradbury, 32. “life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – helen keller , 33. “adventure is worthwhile.” – aesop.

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

35. “where we travel, is where our soul stays”, 36. “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, 37. “i once found myself whilst travelling, i left a part of my heart there”.

I adore these wanderlust quotes.

38. “Paris is always a good idea” – Audrey Hepburn

39. “If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.” – Anthony Bourdain

40. “two roads diverged in a wood and i – i took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference” – robert frost, 41. “wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – anita desai.

This is the best quote about travel.

42. “Wanderlust: n. a strong desire for or impulse to wander or travel and explore the world”

43. “see the line where the sky meets the sea, it calls me. and no one knows, how far i’ll go” – moana, 44. “never go too long without watching a sunset” – atticus, 45. “collect moments, not things.”, 46. “the gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.” – sir richard burton.

46. “Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown.” – Anthony Bourdain

47. “go where you feel most alive”, 48. “traveling’s not something you’re good at. it’s something you do. like breathing.” – gayle foreman, 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. “we travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.”.

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

52. “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, tom sawyer abroad, 53. “i read; i travel; i become” ― derek walcott, 54. “the traveler sees what he sees. the tourist sees what he has come to see.” ― g.k. chesterton, 55. “travel makes one modest. you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – gustave flaubert, 56. “travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – anonymous, 57. “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, 58. “travel brings power and love back into your life.” ― jalaluddin rumi, 59. “i address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. you are the true dreamers.” ― brian selznick, the invention of hugo cabret, 60.“ i travel not to go anywhere, but to go. i travel for travel’s sake. the great affair is to move.” ― robert louis stevenson, travels with a donkey in the cevennes, 61. “travel brings power and love back into your life.” ― jalaluddin rumi, 62. “the world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” ― augustine of hippo, 63. “the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” ― marcel proust, 64. “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ― lao tzu, 65. “adventure is worthwhile.” – aesop, 66. “it is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” ― ursula k. le guin, the left hand of darkness, 67. “once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – anonymous, 68. “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, a hat full of sky, 69. “the journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ― lao tzu, 70. “books are the plane, and the train, and the road. they are the destination and the journey. they are home.” ― anna quindlen, how reading changed my life, my travel tips and recommendations.

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Arrivederci! 70 Travel Quotes That'll Have You Packing Your Bags

Grab your bags and your passport — we’re going… somewhere! OK, OK, we might not be jetting anywhere right this minute, but we can probably agree that we all wish we were headed to an exciting locale for new adventures . Because even when we can’t travel (example: basically all of 2020), we’re thinking about it. And planning it. We’re building up our Pinterest boards, mentally packing our suitcases , and dreaming about all of the incredible food we’re going to try. Oh, and we’re poring over epic travel quotes that further serve to fuel our wanderlust. Anyone who has been “bitten by the travel bug” understands that it isn’t just a hobby; it’s a way of life.

You may be thinking, But wait, how can we afford all of this hypothetical travel? Well, fortunately, travel doesn’t have to be expensive. There are myriad ways to save money on a vacation (yes, even on a trip to Disney with your kids ). Or, hey, if you’re in desperate need of a new skyline, you could consider cracking into your rainy day fund . That’s to say nothing of local, low-cost travel opportunities, like hitting the beach .

So, don’t let worry deter you from your travel dreams. Instead, let the following curation of travel quotes remind you that travel is always worthwhile.

Short Travel Quotes

“Cover the earth before it covers you.” — Dagobert Runes
“People don’t take trips, trips take people.” — John Steinbeck
“The journey matters more than the destination.” — Tony Fahkry
“I travel because I become uncomfortable being too uncomfortable.” — Carew Papritz
“Go where you feel most alive.” — Unknown
“ Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” — Stephen Covey
“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” — David Mitchell
“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” — Dalai Lama
“It is better to travel well than to arrive.” — Buddha
“Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” — Confucius
“Life is short, and the world is wide.” — Unknown
“Paris is always a good idea.” — Audrey Hepburn
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” — Susan Sontag
“My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” — Diane Arbus
“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” — Anita Desai
“Not all those who wander are lost.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
“So much of who we are is where we have been.” — William Langewiesche
“Travel is my therapy .” — Unknown
“We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” — Ray Bradbury
“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” — Hilaire Belloc

Travel with Friends Quotes

“A journey is best measured in friends , rather than miles.” — Tim Cahill
“I have found out that there is no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” — Mark Twain
“There is a whole world out there. Pack your backpack, your best friend, and go.” — Unknown
“There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.” — Kristen Sarah
“You can pack for every occasion, but a good friend will always be the best thing you could bring!” — Unknown
“We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
“The more I traveled, the more I realized fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” — Shirley MacLaine
“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” — Izaak Walton
“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all people 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
“Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.” — Unknown
“Good friends follow you anywhere.” — Winnie the Pooh
“In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.” — Charles M. Schulz
“If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” — African proverb
“A good friend listens to your adventures. Your best friend makes them with you.” — Unknown
“No road is long with good company.” — Turkish proverb

Inspirational Travel Quotes

“A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
“Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” — Gustave Flaubert
“Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” — Unknown
“Traveling: It leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” — Idb Battuta
“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart . But that’s OK. 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
“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” — Augustine of Hippo
“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” — Unknown
“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. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain
“I’m shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet, and I’m gonna see the world.” — It’s a Wonderful Life , George Bailey
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block
“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” — Susan Heller
“I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly, you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” — Bill Bryson
“All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” — Martin Buber
“Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” — Unknown
“I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” — Douglas Adams
“The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” — Christopher McCandless
“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.” — Lao Tzu
“A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.” — Pico Iyer
“I travel because I’d rather look back at my life, saying, ‘I can’t believe I did that,’ instead of, ‘if only I had.’” — Florine Bos
“Travel doesn’t become an adventure until you leave yourself behind.” — Marty Rubin
“If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” — Angelina Jolie
“If you are 32, physically fit, hungry to learn to 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 cook. Learn from them… wherever you go.” — Anthony Bourdain
“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” — Henry Miller
“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” — Anais Nin
“Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honors its laws.” — Ogwo David Emenike
“True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.” — Seth Brown
“I am not the same, having seen the moonshine on the other side of the world.” — Mary Anne Radmacher
“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent in the office or mowing your lawn.” — Jack Kerouac
“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” — Gustave Flaubert
“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” — Chief Seattle
“The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.” — Sir Richard Burton
“Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” — Jennifer Lee
“You need not even listen, just wait… the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.” — Franz Kafka
“Travel expands the mind and fills the gap.” — Sheda Savage

This article was originally published on Jan. 8, 2021

14 travel quotes that will make you want to pack your suitcase immediately

Let these wonderfully wanderlusty quotes take you on a journey and inspire your next international adventure . There’s just too much of the world to see to stay at home in front of the computer screen all day. Remember: “Reading is the journey of those who cannot take a train” . (F. Croisset)

14 amazingly inspirational travel quotes

1. “i haven’t been everywhere but it’s on my list.” –susan sontag, 2. “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, 3. “not all those who wander are lost.” –j.r.r. tolkien, 4. “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, 5. “to travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” -aldous huxley, 6. “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, 7. “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, 8. “to travel is to take a journey into yourself.” –danny kaye, 9. “we travel, initially, to lose ourselves; and we travel, next, to find ourselves. we travel to open our hearts and eyes and learn more about the world than our newspapers will accommodate. we travel to bring what little we can, in our ignorance and knowledge, to those parts of the globe whose riches are differently dispersed. and we travel, in essence, to become young fools again- to slow time down and get taken in, and fall in love once more.” ―pico iyer, 10. “it is better to travel well than to arrive.” -buddha, 11. “our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” —lawrence block, 12. “i am not the same having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” ―mary anne radmacher, 13. “please be a traveler, not a tourist. try new things, meet new people, and look beyond what’s right in front of you. those are the keys to understanding this amazing world we live in.” -andrew zimmern, 14. “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, to have the travel adventure of a lifetime while boosting your career, apply now .

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95 most inspirational travel quotes ever penned

Our favourite inspirational travel quotes have encouraged us to travel with abandon over the years. Perhaps they will do the same for you…

For us, there is no such thing as luxury travel; travel is, by default, a luxury. It is a privilege provided by the country of our birth, a privilege that many are not as fortunate to enjoy.

Sometimes, we have to pinch ourselves at just how ridiculous our lives have become: an ex-teacher and jobbing writer travelling the world for a living. It is absurd, it is astonishing, it is luxury.

When I first went travelling at 21 years old, my father gave me this quote scrawled on a piece of card.

It infused me with wanderlust. It encouraged me to get out of my comfort zone, make the most of my time, see the world and enjoy the freedom that comes with being on the road. It remains one of the most inspirational travel quotes I’ve read (even if Twain did not actually say it).

Today, 20 years and almost 100 countries later, it’s still in my wallet. Despite its tattered and dishevelled appearance, it’s every bit as important to me now as it was then.

With that in mind, we’ve collated our most beloved inspirational travel quotes to encourage readers to “explore, dream and discover” for themselves.

inspirational travel quotes

1. “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

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

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

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

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

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

7. “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” – Paul Brandt

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

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

10. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” – Lao Tzu

A journey of a thousand miles... inspirational travel quotes

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

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

13. “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.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

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

A good traveler... inspirational travel quotes

15. “There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

16. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships were built for.” – John A. Shedd

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

18. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

Not all those who wander are lost... inspirational travel quotes

19. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

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

21. “Once a year, go somewhere you’ve never been before.” – The Dalai Lama

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

How beautiful it is to travel... inspirational travel quotes

23. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re travelling, 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

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

25. “Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.” – Paul Theroux

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

Moslih Eddin Saadi inspirational travel quotes

27. “Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty-his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.” – Aldous Huxley

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

29. “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

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

31. “I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” – Ricky Skaggs

32. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” – Hilaire Belloc

33. “People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home.” – Dagobert D. Runes

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

James Michener inspirational travel quotes

35. “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

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

37. “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

38. “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – Martin Buber

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

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

41. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort 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

42. “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

Once the travel bug bites inspirational travel quote

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

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

A journey is like marriage... inspirational travel quotes

45. “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

46. “There are far, far better things ahead than we leave behind.” – C.S. Lewis

47. “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

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

49. “All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveller learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.” – Paul Fussell

50. “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

Mark Twain Quote about travelling with friends

51. “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

52. “Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.” – Elizabeth Drew

Travel broadens the mind inspirational travel quotes

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

54. “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

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

56. “The journey not the arrival matters.” – T. S. Eliot

57. “Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator.” – Robert Orben

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

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

60. “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

I travel for travel’s sake... inspirational travel quotes

61. “If an ass goes travelling, he’ll not come home a horse.” – Thomas Fuller

62. “Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions.” – Peter Hoeg

63. “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, To gain all while you give, To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

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

A strange town... inspirational travel quotes

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

66. “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

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

68. “A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni

A wise traveler... inspirational travel quotes

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

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

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

72. “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

Travel is deep and permanent inspirational travel quotes

73. “The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

74. “A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.” – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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

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

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

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

Inspirational travel quote by Stephen Covey

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

80. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle – or Si’ahl

A man walking in the sand featuring the travel quote about footprints

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

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

83. “We live in a 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.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

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

inspirational travel quote by Wallace Stevens over the blur hole in Belize

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

86. “Paris is always a good idea.” – Julia Ormond (although it is often wrongly attributed to Audrey Hepburn)

A photo of the Eiffel Tower featuring the travel quote, Paris is always a good idea

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

88. “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

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89. “Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

90. “It is in our nature to explore, to reach out into the unknown. The only true failure would be not to explore at all.” – Sir Ernest Shackleton

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91. “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

92. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

93. “Live with no excuses and travel with no regrets.” – Oscar Wilde

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

95. “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 (or possibly H Jackson Brown Jr )

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65 Luggage Quotes On Success In Life

These luggage quotes will inspire you. Luggage, suitcases, or other bags in which to pack personal belongings for traveling.

A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging luggage quotes, luggage sayings, and luggage proverbs.

Best Luggage Quotes

“Traveling 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 Terán
“Let your memory be your travel bag.” ~ Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“Memories are who we are. In the end, that’s all the luggage you take with you. Love and Memories are what last.” ~ Kristin Hannah
“Don’t let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.” ~ Shane Koyczan

“I love flying. I’ve been to almost as many places as my luggage.” ~ Bob Hope

“Lost luggage is just an opportunity to start afresh.” ~ Chris Evans
“I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.” ~ Oscar Wilde
“When it comes to luggage, I am an under packer.” ~ Pharrell Williams
“To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” ~ Aldous Huxley

“Running through airports with pounds of luggage – that’s a good workout.” ~ Rachel McAdams

“If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.” ~ William McDonough
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” ~ Susan Sontag
“Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.” ~ Karen Finerman
“The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.” ~ Mark Russell

“Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?” ~ Erma Bombeck

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.” ~ Alton Brown
“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
“So let’s not pretend that travel is always fun. We don’t spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the view from the top of Machu Picchu probably doesn’t make up for the hassle of lost luggage. (More often than not, I need a holiday after my holiday.) We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.” ~ Jonah Lehrer , Luggage quotes travel
“The federal government said today they’ve begun training sessions for airport security workers to provide what they call more customer satisfaction to the travels, they want to make it easier for us. They’re instructing security guards to glance at your luggage tags so that they can call you by your first name. Isn’t that creepy? The guy touching your wife, calling her by her first name.” ~ Jay Leno

“The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.” ~ Thomas S. Monson

“I’ve learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.” ~ Maya Angelou
“Orville Wright said to his brother, “Wilbur, you were only in the air for 12 seconds. How could my luggage be in Cleveland?”” ~ Red Buttons
“I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under the pressure of my step, I want the streets to emit the precise odor of a diamond necklace. I want the newspapers I read to smell like the violins left in pawnshops by weeping hobos on Christmas Eve. I want to carry luggage that reeks of the neurons in Einstein’s brain. I want a city’s gases to smell like the golden belly hairs of the gods. And when I gaze at a televised picture of the moon, I want to detect, from a distance of 239,000 miles, the aroma of fresh mozzarella.” ~ Tom Robbins
“Life is a journey, and one thing’s for sure: You don’t see many hearses with luggage racks on them. We’re privileged to be here, so instead of just using God’s resources, we should leave the place a little better than we found it – or at least leave it the same.” ~ Joel Cunningham

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

“There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. – Mark Twain, author Making the team is one thing, becoming a team is another.” ~ Graham Lowe
“Although he travels all day, the sage never loses sight of his luggage carts.” ~ Laozi
“At the other end of the scale I was there with a whole lot of young British athletes so I was getting to see them take their first steps on the international ladder. I’d like to think maybe in five years time I’ll look back and I’ll forget all about the lost luggage and I’ll forget about the horrible hotel, but I’ll remember these wonderful athletes stepping onto the track for the first time.” ~ Jill Douglas
“Time is the only luxury. It’s the only thing you can’t get back. If you lose your luggage – I’m not gonna say the obvious brand of luggage that I’d normally say because I’ve got a meeting with them soon – if you lose your expensive luggage at the airport, you can get that back. You can’t get the time back.” ~ Kanye West

“Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.” ~ Yogi Berra

“I used to think that nails-down-a-chalkboard was the worst sound in the world. Then I moved on to people-eating-cereal-on-the-phone. But only this week did I stumble across the rightful winner: it’s the sound of a baggage carousel coming to a grinding halt, having reunited every passenger on your flight with their luggage, except for you.” ~ Sloane Crosley
“The extra luggage of indiscriminate dreams, desires and attachments will make your life’s journey miserable.” ~ Mata Amritanandamayi
“Believe me, I’ve done my time travelling the world in cramped conditions and carrying my own luggage. Now my leisure is summers in the south of France or the Hamptons, walking in Connemara, and year-round shopping in Manhattan and Paris.” ~ Anne Robinson
“How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents … and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.” ~ Vita Sackville-West

“Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.” ~ Carlos Santana

“The Concorde is great. It gives you three extra hours to find your luggage.” ~ Bob Hope
“The avarice of the old: it’s absurd to increase one’s luggage as one nears the journey’s end.” ~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
“The Prime Minister has an absolute genius for putting flamboyant labels on empty luggage.” ~ Aneurin Bevan

“Aphorisms are literature’s hand luggage. Light and compact, they fit easily into the overhead compartment of your brain.” ~ James Geary

“How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!” In reality, “How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!” were probably not Simon Bolivar’s last words (although he did, historically, say them). His last words may have been “Jose! Bring the luggage. They do not want us here.” The significant source for “How will I ever get out of this labyrinth!” is also Alaska’s source, Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s The General in his Labyrinth.” ~ John Green
“Kids didn’t have huge backpacks when I was their age. We didn’t have backpacks at all. Now it seemed all the kids had them. You saw little second-graders bent over like sherpas, dragging themselves through the school doors under the weight of their packs. Some of the kids had their packs on rollers, hauling them like luggage at the airport. I didn’t understand any of this. The world was becoming digital; everything was smaller and lighter. But kids at school lugged more weight than ever.” ~ Michael Crichton
“You think when someone you love passes away, everything becomes clearer, that your priorities and perspectives align in a way they’ve never aligned before because of the sobriety of it all. But it doesn’t. Those revelations just become skewed and distorted until you’re forced to rewrite them entirely. You can’t walk straight on a new path when you have too much luggage on your back. You just keep swerving, trying to find a way to accommodate the weight, but it’s all dead and you know it’s going to take you down. The only answer is to reroute.-Emma” ~ Rachel Wade
“Talk about meeting your soul mate … I truly feel I have been given that gift. And believe me, I wasn’t some lightweight package. I’m, like, the package that didn’t just come with luggage – I had trunks.” ~ Demi Moore
“So many people always try to help me carry my luggage and help me do things I can do myself. If I can do it myself, I’m going to do it myself. I’m not going to let other people do it for me, and I think that’s a big part of where I came from. I’m not a real prissy girl.” ~ Carrie Underwood

“Frank once slipped something into the pocket of a luggage handler at the airport and said: “Have a drink on me.” The luggage handler later found out it was a tea bag.” ~ Frank Carson

“Dearest Charles– I found a box of this paper at the back of a bureau so I must write to you as I am mourning for my lost innocence. It never looked like living. The doctors despaired of it from the start… I am never quite alone. Members of my family keep turning up and collecting luggage and going away again, but the white raspberries are ripe. I have a good mind not to take Aloysius to Venice. I don’t want him to meet a lot of horrid Italian bears and pick up bad habits. Love or what you will. S.” ~ Evelyn Waugh
“I think that the history of rock could be recycled in a different way and brought back into focus without the luggage that comes along with it.” ~ David Bowie
“My grandmother refused to concede that any member of the family died of natural causes. An uncle’s cancer in middle age occurred because all the suitcases fell off the luggage rack onto him when he was in his teens, and so forth. Death was an acquired characteristic.” ~ Renata Adler

“A lively faith will bear aloft the mind, and leave the luggage of good works behind.” ~ John Dryden

“My fascination with images open 24 hrs. is based on the complex interlocking if disparate facts heated pool that have no respect for grammar. The form then Denver 39 is second hand to nothing. The work then has a chance to electric service become its own cliché. Luggage. This is the inevitable fate fair ground of any inanimate object freightways by this I mean anything that does not have inconsistency as a possibility built in.” ~ Robert Rauschenberg
“I know every time I fly, I get checked twice: they stop me at security, and then, they get me again at the gate. And last time, it was so bad, they actually made me go through the machine with the luggage.” ~ Wanda Sykes
“Whenever I say I made a record in the garage, people just assume that I have, like, a Lear jet parked in there or something. But really there’s old luggage, a couple of bikes. It’s big enough to put one minivan in. That’s it. No dartboard. I’m so not macho.” ~ Dave Grohl
“I’ve been racking my brain. I’ve been trying to figure out how Bob Dole’s luggage got on my airplane…I told the doctor, I said, ‘Look, I’m worried about the next election.’ … A misunderstanding.” ~ Rush Limbaugh

“Christian is going to be the strongest man in the NBA next year, because all he’s been doing all summer is carrying around the luggage for 11 guys.” ~ Charles Barkley

“I personally go to the airport looking like a homeless person, because I think people will leave me alone. But I dress myself with my luggage – all my luggage matches.” ~ Andre Leon Talley
“Humor is not about problems with airline luggage handlers. It’s about our lives in America and it’s about the ends of our lives and it’s about everything that happens after that and everything that happened before.” ~ Garrison Keillor
“It’s always a happy day when YYZ appears on our luggage tags.” ~ Neil Peart

“United Airlines: Passengers are our worst enemy. We’re not too fond of luggage either.” ~ David Letterman

“Things on the whole are faster in America; people don’t stand for election, they run for office. If a person says he’s sick, it doesn’t mean regurgitating, it means ill. Mad means angry, not insane. Don’t ask for the left-luggage; it’s called a checkroom.” ~ Jessica Mitford
“I think I sort of realized it was an international thing when we went to South Korea for The Fast [and the Furious] 6 premiere. We knew nothing about South Korea, and we came through the sliding doors [at the airport] with my luggage and there were like 60 fans with Luketeer banners: “We’re your Korea Luketeers.” It was like, wow, this is amazing.” ~ Luke Evans
“I was in China this year and I spent three weeks there with no luggage, in a really not very nice place and without anything except my passport and my wallet. You’re a long way from home and you’ve got no phone and you can’t get in touch with anybody.” ~ Jill Douglas
“I was in Antwerp – which, I had about 20 shows left at that point – and a guy said, “That’s Dave Attell’s.” Also, Antwerp was my smallest audience, so the guy was right there. I was like, “What?” He said, “Dave Attell does a bit about, ‘Why are there luggage stores in the airport?'” I had never seen that, and I would never ever, ever, ever – please believe me – I would never lift material from somebody ever, and certainly not knowingly.” ~ David Cross

“Travelling, I worry about luggage, prices, and strange food. At home, I am free to broaden my mind by thinking about the higher things.” ~ Mason Cooley

“I love Tumi because of the lifetime guarantee. And their luggage is just so solid. Looks good. Versatile. My carry-on bag is Tumi. My hanging bag is Tumi. My big suitcase is Tumi. All black. Love it.” ~ Mark Teixeira
“US Airways made an $8 billion bid for Delta, including $4 billion in cash and $4 billion in lost luggage.” ~ Andy Borowitz

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The 100 Most Inspirational Travel Quotes Of All Time

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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!

150 Best & Inspirational Travel Quotes to Fuel Your Wanderlust

Last Updated on: Sep 21, 2023

Are you looking for travel quotes and travel captions for Instagram? You have come to the right place. Everyone needs a bit of motivation and inspiration now and then. Words have the power to make changes and shift perspectives. A wonderful travel quote is sometimes the best way to get inspired. We love to read travel quotes! The explorers and adventurers of yore have given us much food for thought in the form of best travel quotes, Instagram captions and inspirational travel quotes!

Here are some inspirational travel quotes about journey, adventure, friends and destinations and some famous travel quotes from movies. From explorers of the past to modern-day gurus, we have tried to cover a few of our favourite and best travel quotes. It might make you pack your bags and set out to see the world around you. For those who have already been bitten by the travel bug, some extra stimulation doesn’t hurt! Finally, even if not travel, these sayings might inspire you to come out of your comfort zone and do something that you are born to do!

And yes, you can use these awesome travel captions for Instagram as well!

Inspirational Travel Quotes & Captions for Instagram

Inspirational Travel Quotes -When was the last time you did something for the first time

1. When was the last time you did something for the first time. – John C. Maxwell

This travel quote inspires us to do all the crazy stuffs we have done. I am very scared of water. Agni simply inspires me with this quote before I go all out for any water sports. Before doing the scuba diving at Andaman , I was out of my wits. But I did it. Be it playing with the snow at Tsomgo Lake near Gangtok or shouting at top of our lungs at the Rupin Pass summit, we try to do things that we have not done before.

2. 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

Travel for the simple joy of it. Not for the reasons like peer pressure, getting the best social media posts or simply because everyone is doing so. There is a subtle joy in the journey. Travel without prejudice and without being judgmental .

3. 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 - Famous travel quotes

Only when you see the mighty mountains, the vastness of the seas and the magnanimity of nature, only then you can truly understand our place in the world. Travel has made us grow, it has made us grateful and humble – something no other thing could have done.

5. 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

This is perhaps one of the best quotes by Bourdain . It portrays all that is true about travelling without glorifying the glamour that is associated with travel these days. Travel is not about the perfect Instagram pictures where ladies sway around in their beautiful looking dresses and men looks perfect in with their six-pack abs. Travel is not only about taking the perfect sunset photos. Travel is not about glamour and fashion. Travel is anything but all these.

The photographs that you see everywhere are the best ones. Even this blog puts up only the best ones. But there are moments in travel that are not that great. There are long queues, missed flights, no sleep, dirty toilets and other mishaps. But whatever the experience is, good or bad, it shapes us into the person we are .

6. 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 harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails.

Explore. Dream. Discover.― Mark Twain

Yes, I had been waiting long for the perfect moment to do what I loved to. That moment actually never came until I realized that each moment is perfect for doing the thing I love. You just have to start off, begin the journey. Rest all will fall into place. This happens to be one of my favourite travel quotes.

7. 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

8. 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

9. 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

10. We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey. – John Hope Franklin

11. Every man’s life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another. – Ernest Hemingway

12. All men dream, but no equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible. -T.E. Lawrence

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

14. Travelling is brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it. – Cesare Pavese

15. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime. – Mark Twain

You cannot really sit at a corner and learn about the world and its people. Mark Twain has such great insight into travel and it shows in his quotes.

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

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

18. 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

Do not lose you sense of wonder. Marvel in the little joys of life. Not only it will mak you travel better, but also your life. Nothing can beat the thrill of travelling for us. We are happiest when we are travelling and exploring the world.

19. 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

20. There is freedom waiting for you, on the breezes of the sky. And you ask “What if I fall?” Oh but my darling, what if you fly? – Erin Hanson

21. The traveller sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see. -Gilbert K. Chesterton

22. The purpose of life, after all, is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for a newer and richer experience. – Eleanor Roosevelt

23. Take the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what’s there in front of you. – Erick Widman

The quote by Erick Widman is directed to all those who have forgotten the simple joys of travelling while trying to capture and document the destinations. Once in a while, put away the camera or phone, stop taking down notes, and simply soak in the place.

24. If we travel imply to indulge ourselves we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer. – Unknown

25. Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

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

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

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

29. Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better. – Simon Raven

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

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

We totally agree with Michener. If we do not meet new people, reject their customs and traditions, we better remain at home. If e choose to live in our own castle, then it is no point in travelling to a new place. You can simply do that by a flick of a channel nowadays. We travel to meet new people, experience a new culture and taste various cuisine. And of course, in all our explorations, respect the people and their traditions .

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32. Wherever you go, go with all your heart. – Confucius

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33. Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. – Ibn Battuta

The famous Moroccan scholar and explorer had widely travelled the medieval. His thirty years of journey has been chronicled in A Gift to Those Who Contemplate the Wonders of Cities and the Marvels of Travelling.

While travelling, we are often wonderstruck at the beauty of the nature or cultural heritage of the place. There are times we think that that we can neither express these feelings by words, nor can capture the marvel on camera. But travelling has its own way of expression. It finds its way through the words of the traveller and we, ordinary people become extraordinary storytellers .

Travelling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller. – Ibn Battuta travel quotes

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

35. The most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself. – Wallace Stevens

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36. Jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul. – Jamie Lyn Beatty

37. The world makes way for the man who knows where he is going. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

38. To travel isto take a journey into yourself. – Danny Kaye

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

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40. The tans will fade, but the memories will last forever.

41. One travels more usefully when alone, because he reflects more. – Thomas Jefferson

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

43. Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit. – Frank Borman

44. Travel expands the mind and fills the gap. – Sheda Savage

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45. Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator. – Robert Orben

46. Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. – Anita Desai

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

48. The life you have led doesn’t need to be the only life you have – Anna Quindlen

49. All you need to know is that it’s possible. – Wolf, an Appalachian Trail Hiker

50. It feels good to be lost in the right direction. – Anonymous

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51. Don’t listen to what they say. Go see. – Anonymous

52. The goal is to die with memories not dreams

53. Live your life by a compass not a clock. – Stephen Covey

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54. Collect moments, not things. – Anonymous

55. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. – Lao Tzu

56. Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry. – Jack Kerouac

57. Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go. – T. S. Eliott

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58. What is life but one grand adventure? – Unknown

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

We love this quote by Coelho. Well, money does make things easier and we need it to visit places. But even with all the money in the world we will not be able to travel if don’t have the courage to go out of our comfort zone.

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59. It is better to travel well than to arrive. – Buddha

60. Backpacking is money spent on Education.

61. Veni Vidi Amavi. We came, we saw, we loved. – Roman proverb.

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

63. There are seven days in a week and “someday” isn’t one of them. – Benny Lewis

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64. The journey, not the arrival matters. – T.S. Eliot

65. Spontaneity is what travel is all about. – Zach Anner

66. Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret. – Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde has summarized life and travel so well in this small line.

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67. Travel far enough, you meet yourself. – David Mitchell

68. Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure. – Bob Bitchin

69. I’m in love. Again. How on earth do people pick a favourite travel spot? – Jen Malone.

70. The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. – W.B. Yeats

71. I love to travel but hate to arrive. – Albert Einstein

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

This is perhaps one of the most appropriate quote of current times. With so much political confusion and religious hatred all around, it is very easy to form an opinion about a place and its people. Travel, because it is by visiting the place, you will come to know how wrong an opinion you had of that country!

73. I always want to wear flip flops, but my boss doesn’t like it…guess, I’ve to travel then!

74. Girls don’t wait for the prince anymore, they pack and travel the world.

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

76. There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children. – Robert Benchley

77. I crossed a time zone and I feel younger already. If I keep traveling west, I can become immortal! – Jarod Kintz

78. You define a good flight by negatives: you didn’t get hijacked, you didn’t crash, you didn’t throw up, you weren’t late, you weren’t nauseated by the food. So you are grateful. – Paul Theroux

79. All you need is love a passport.

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80. There is nothing safer than flying – it’s crashing that is dangerous. – Theo Cowan

81. Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place and very little different from becoming a parcel. – John Ruskin

82. Getting to the top is optional. Getting down is mandatory. – Ed Viesturs

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83. When travelling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee. – Helen Hayes

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

85. All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveller is unaware. – Martin Buber

This is the motto that we follow while travelling. We do have a rough plan in mind, but we are always flexible. Who knows that there might be one more beauty just round the corner that is not written in the guidebooks? When we travelled to Nepal, we completely overhauled our travel itinerary only to see the BistekJatra and SindurJatra at Bhakatpur. And believe me, it was an amazing experience.

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86. Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

87. A person susceptible to “wanderlust” is not so much addicted to movement as committed to transformation. – Pico Iyer

88. Travel doesn’t become adventure until you leave yourself behind. – Marty Rubin

89. What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do — especially in other people’s minds. When you’re travelling, 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

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

If we had to worry about the mishaps that might happen on road, then we probably could never have travelled. Even when we started travelling together, I never used to worry much about what might happen on the road. The joy of discovering the new path, crazier experiences always made me excited before a trip. Hoffman has just hit the nail on head with this quote.

91. 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

93. Travelling’s not something you’re good at. It’s something you do. Like Breathing. – Gayle Foreman

94. You need not even listen, just wait…the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself. – Franz Kafka

95. Take only memories, leave only footprints. – Chief Seattle

The quote by Seattle holds true even more nowadays. This one should be followed by all. Travelling is about making memories and not throwing your trash; Clean and green environment always helps

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

Though we do not believe in lists, but we totally agree with Susan Sontag. We do not know whether we will be ever able to complete our list in this lifetime, but we do not lose hope. Given a chance, we will visit everywhere!

97. I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met. – John Green

John Green just resonates my feeling. Agni and I totally love to meet new people, talk to them and share life stories with each other.

98. 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

99. I have loved her, my little wanderer, with a mind full of wild forests and eyes that await adventures. – Conny Cernik

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100. Carpe Diem. Seize the Days boys. Make your lives extraordinary. – Dead Poets Society

101. Live moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. – Ferris Bueller, Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

102. So, do you want to take a leap of faith, or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone. – Saito, Inception

103. You get only one life. Its actually your duty to live it as fully as possible. – Will Traynor, Me Before You

104. The core of man’s spirit comes from new experiences. – Christopher McCandless, Into the Wild

105. I think if you wanted to you could board the train. And where it would take me? On. – Dumbledore and Harry Potter, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

106. I didn’t know where I was going until I got there. – Cheryl Strayed, Wild

107. To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life. – Walter Mitty, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

108. I was amazed that what I needed to survive could be carried on my back. And most surprising of all, that I could carry it. – Wild

109. I would rather have 30 minutes of “wonderful” than a lifetime of nothing special. – Shelby, Steel Magnolias

110. Life is about courage and going into the unknown. – The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

111. As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen. – Winnie the Pooh

Winnie the Pooh just steals my heart with this quote. And I always keep telling this to Agni while reminiscing the first time we met!

112. I love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s gonna happen or who I’m gonna meet, where I’m gonna wind up. – Jack Dawson, Titanic

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113. Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport. – Unknown

114. If you want to succeed you should strike out new paths, rather than travel the worn paths of accepted success. – John D. Rockefeller

115. Adventure, yeah. I guess that’s what you call it when everybody comes back alive. – Mercedes Lackey

116. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. – Walt Disney

117. The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams. – Oprah Winfrey

118. Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you. – Ewan McGregor

119. Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken. – Frank Herbert

120. 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

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

122. There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage. – Mark Twain

123. 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

124. To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change. – Charles Horton Cooley

125. A wise traveller never despises his own country. – William Hazlitt

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126. I’ve always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it’s also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world. – Laurel Clark

127. Once you have travelled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey. – Pat Conroy

128. You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself. – Ella Maillart

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

130. Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels. – Nikos Kazantzakis

131. You get educated by travelling. – Solange Knowles

133. Travelling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents. – Italo Calvino

134. People travel to faraway places to watch, in fascination, the kind of people they ignore at home. – Dagobert D. Runes

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

135. 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

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

137. The more we travelled, the more we learnt new things. More boundaries were broken, horizons broaden. Once you have travelled, you cannot go back to the confined cubicle of yours.

138. The more I travelled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. – Shirley MacLaine

139. 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

140. Travel like Gandhi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind. – Rick Steves

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

142. Life is an experiment in which you may fail or succeed. Explore more, expect least. – Santosh Kalvar

143. 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. – T. S. Eliot

144. 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

145. I like different places. I like any places that isn’t here. – Edna Ferber

146. TRAVEL!! Before you run out of time…

147. Travel far enough to meet yourself – David Mitchell

148. An investment in travel is an investment into yourself – Matthew Karsten

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

150. Cover the earth before it covers you. – Dagobert D. Runes

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Short quotes about travel are the easiest way to get travel inspiration since they pack a lot of meaning into very few words. Sometimes, all you need is a short and sweet simple travel quote to start thinking about your next adventure.

This collection of short travel sayings has something for just about every travel lover. You’ll find some of the best short travel phrases , of course, but I’ve also included some short travel quotes with friends , short travel quotes for couples , short adventure quotes , and more. Get ready to be inspired by these incredible short travel quotes !

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As you’re reading through this list of short vacation quotes , don’t forget to save your favorites and share them with your friends and family to pass the inspiration along. If you’re interested in checking out some longer travel sayings, our collection of the top 100 quotes about travel has exactly what you’re looking for .

Best Short Travel Quotes

The best short quotes on travel exemplify the idea of quality over quantity: you’ll get tons of inspiration from just a few words!

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

As this short holiday quote points out, you don’t have to be rich to travel. You can have a fantastic trip on a budget as long as you’re brave enough to get out there!

2. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

This short travel saying is a fantastic reminder of how impactful exploring can be on our lives.

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

This simple travel quote shows that attitude is everything. The way we approach life, especially when it comes to travel, can make the difference between having a decent trip and having the trip of a lifetime.

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

These wise words from the famous Irish writer are the perfect inspiration for an adventure. Ready to start planning your next getaway?

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

As this quick trip quote wisely points out, travel enriches our lives in many ways: culturally, gastronomically, emotionally, and more.

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

This adventure short quote reminds us that we travel for many different reasons. Whether you travel because you’re curious about the world or because you want to find yourself, any and all travel reasons are valid!

7. “Once the travel bug bites, there is no known antidote.” – Michael Palin

Anyone who loves travel will relate to this wanderlust short travel quote . I know we do!

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

This short quote on travel is simple but effective: travel really is a key part of truly living life to its fullest.

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

This famous short travel saying is well-known for a reason. The metaphor of the world being a book works so well for expressing the idea that travel expands our minds.

10. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.” – Chinese Proverb

This short travel caption provides the ultimate travel inspiration. It’s great to hear other people’s travel stories, but if you’re curious about what’s out there, why not go see it for yourself ?

Short Adventure Quotes

These incredible adventure quotes will inspire you to see the world and keep exploring!

11. “Then one day, when you least expect it, the great adventure finds you.” – Ewan McGregor

This short travel saying reminds us that we don’t always need to go looking for adventure to find it.

12. “Adventure is not outside man; it is within.” – George Eliot

As this short travel quote argues, we all have the spirit of adventure within us. We just have to embrace it!

13. “Attitude is the difference between an ordeal and an adventure.” – Bob Bitchin

This short vacation quote makes it clear that a positive attitude can turn a mishap into a grand adventure. Try it the next time you’re traveling!

14. “Adventure is out there!” – Up

This short and simple travel quote from the beloved Pixar movie is the perfect inspiration for your next big getaway. Go find that adventure!

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

This short adventure saying will resonate if you feel like exploring is in your DNA.

16. “The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure.” – Christopher McCandless

This short trip quote encourages us to see adventure as an important part of being alive. Maybe, deep down, we’re all explorers.

17. “Oh, the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss

As this famous short quote about travel reminds us, it’s so exciting that there are tons of amazing places in the world to see. Why not get started on seeing them all?

18. “If happiness is the goal – and it should be – then adventures should be a top priority.” – Richard Branson

This simple travel quote has one basic message: adventures equal happiness. If you have an incurable case of wanderlust, this saying will probably resonate with you.

19. “You must go on adventures to find out where you truly belong.” – Sue Fitzmaurice

Travel can be crucial for helping us understand more about ourselves. Let your adventures be your guide!

20. “Jobs fill your pockets, but adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn

As this life is short travel quote shows, adventures fulfill us in ways that money simply cannot.

Short Solo Travel Quotes

If you’re planning a solo adventure and need some motivation, these short travel alone quotes are just what you need!

21. “I wondered why it was that places are so much lovelier when one is alone.” – Daphne du Maurier

If you’re a frequent solo traveler, you’ll probably relate to the idea that places seem more beautiful when you’re by yourself. After all, solo travel gives you the chance to fully appreciate the sights around you.

22. “To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” – Elizabeth Gilbert

I love this short vacation quote because I really relate to it. To me, travel is absolutely priceless and always worth it.

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

As this travel short caption points out, sometimes travel has to get put on the back burner, but that doesn’t mean we have to stop dreaming about or planning where we’ll go next!

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

Anyone who likes to stay in motion and keep exploring will relate to this short quote about adventure . Routines definitely aren’t for everyone!

25. “Not I, nor anyone else, can travel that road for you. You must travel it for yourself.” – Walt Whitman

This short quote on travel is all about discovering the beauty of the world for ourselves.

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

As this short travel phrase shows, travel can and should change us forever. Enjoy the unforgettable memories you make along your journey!

27. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the most pleasant sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

This short solo travel quote points out the pleasures of traveling alone, including having a whole bed to yourself!

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

The best thing about traveling solo is that you can easily make friends along the way. Take the opportunity to spend time with new people so you can turn strangers into friends!

29. “I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” – Thomas Jefferson

This short trip quote reminds us that one huge advantage of traveling alone is the chance to be introspective and think deeply about your trip. It might even be helpful to keep a journal or jot down some notes to keep track of your thoughts.

30. “Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” – Anonymous

This quick trip caption is a great reminder that not everyone travels well together. The best travel buddy will always be yourself!

Short Travel Quotes for Couples

These short travel quotes for couples will help set the mood for a romantic getaway. After all, love and travel make the perfect pair!

31. “Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt

This romantic short travel quote makes a great point that traveling with loved ones can turn any place into somewhere that feels like home.

32. “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.” – A. A. Milne

If you’ve ever looked at someone and known you were in for a lifetime of adventures together, then this short travel saying is for you. It doesn’t get any better than having a partner who’s also a fantastic travel buddy – take it from us!

33. “A couple who travels together, grow together.” – Ahmad Fuadi

Travel is not only an incredible way to achieve personal growth, but also a fantastic way to grow as a couple. Spending day after day together in an unfamiliar place can really bring you closer together.

34. “I would not wish any companion in the world but you.” – William Shakespeare

Trust one of the world’s most famous poets to have written a beautiful short travel phrase about love. Be sure to share this romantic quote with your travel soulmate!

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

As this short quote for travel reminds us, our travel companions can make all the difference in how we feel about our journey. Traveling with a loved one is sure to make your trip that much more fun!

36. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – An African Proverb

This short holiday quote shows that love and support can take us far, both in life and as travelers.

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

This short holiday quote is great advice for anyone planning a vacation. Traveling involves spending a lot of time together, so it’s always best to go on a trip with someone you already know you like!

38. “I would go everywhere and anywhere with you.” – Cassandra Clare

This short travel saying perfectly captures the excitement of exploring the world with the person you love.

39. “Will you give me yourself? Will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?” – Walt Whitman

I love this short trip quote because it’s so beautiful and poetic. These lines would make perfect wedding vows for a travel-loving couple!

40. “It’s wonderful to travel with someone you love and we never travel without one another.” – Roger Moore

This simple travel quote is a straightforward expression of the joy and beauty that come from traveling with your partner.

Short Travel Quotes with Friends

Good friends will always have your back, so it makes sense to bring them along on your biggest adventures. These short travel quotes with friends capture all the highs of traveling with your best pals.

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

As this short vacation saying expresses, in addition to the friends you bring with you, you’ll often make friends along the way as you travel.

42. “A good friend listens to your adventures. A best friend makes them with you.” – Unknown

Share this short trip quote with a best friend you’ll be traveling with soon, and get ready to have the time of your life together!

43. “There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.” – Kristen Sarah

As this short adventure saying points out, traveling together is a great way to strengthen a friendship and grow even closer. After all, every night will be like a sleepover!

44. “It’s the friends we meet along the way that help us appreciate the journey.” – Anonymous

Sometimes, you don’t realize how far you’ve come until you look back and see all the friends you’ve made along the way.

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

In other words, time flies when you’re having fun! This short travel phrase shows how much joy friends can add to an adventure.

46. “You can pack for every occasion, but a good friend will always be the best thing you could bring!” – Unknown

This short quote for travel reminds us that good friends will always make a trip better.

47. “Good friends follow you anywhere.” – A.A. Milne

This short travel saying offers some great advice about friendship: quality friends will always support you, no matter what.

48. “Life was meant for great adventures and close friends.” – Unknown

This short unique travel quote is all about priorities. If you love going on trips with your closest friends, this saying will definitely resonate with you.

49. “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.” – Thelma & Louise

As this short road trip quote points out, it doesn’t take much to go on an adventure. Grabbing your best friend and hopping in the car is all you need.

50. “A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face.” – Maya Angelou

This short quote about travel offers a beautiful way of looking at the world: seeing everyone as a potential friend rather than as a stranger or enemy.

Short Family Travel Quotes

These short family vacation quotes are just what you need to get the whole family excited for some time away together.

51. “Don’t just tell your children about the world. Show them.” – Anonymous

This short travel quote with family reminds us that traveling is the best way for kids to learn more about the world around them. Exploring is a valuable part of any child’s education.

52. “My ideal travel companions are my family.” – Pharrell Williams

This short, simple travel quote is a very sweet way of expressing your appreciation for traveling with family. Share this with your family so they know how much you enjoy exploring together!

53. “Travel is rich with learning opportunities, and the ultimate souvenir is a broader perspective.” – Rick Steves

This travel short caption applies not only to family, but also to any traveler looking to expand their worldview.

54. “Travel is not reward for working; it’s education for living.” – Anthony Bourdain

This iconic quick trip quote shows how travel and learning more about the world can make us all better human beings. Traveling allows us to make the world our classroom.

55. “Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience.” – Francis Bacon

As this short journey quote expresses, children and parents can experience travel a little differently. After all, seeing a place for the very first time is very different from a repeat visit.

56. “Build traditions of family vacations and trips and outings. These memories will never be forgotten by your children.” – Ezra Taft Benson

This short unique travel quote is a great reminder that your kids will cherish the wonderful memories of family vacations.

57. “Vacations are meant to be shared with the people we love the most.” – Unknown

There’s no better feeling than sharing an incredible view or new experience with the people you love the most. Luckily, family vacations are the perfect time to create new memories together.

58. “There are no seven wonders of the world in the eyes of a child. There are seven million.” – Walt Streightiff

As this short travel caption points out, children are so curious and excited about the world around them that anything new will seem wonderful.

59. “A family vacation is a good time to bond and make memories that last a lifetime.” – Steve Harvey

This short trip quote sums up the best reasons to plan a trip as a family.

60. “Family traveling together means a little bit of crazy, a little bit of loud. A whole lot of love.” – Anonymous

I love this short vacation quote because it captures the many facets of going on an adventure as a family. The crazy and the loud moments are all part of the fun, too!

I hope these short travel quotes have sparked your wanderlust and gotten you ready to start planning your next trip! Whether you’re a solo traveler who’s just found inspiration or one half of a couple trying to find the perfect caption for a vacation photo, be sure to save and/or share your favorite short unique travel quotes .

Let me know in the comments which short travel sayings resonated with you the most. Happy travels!

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60 Backpacking quotes – BEST captions for backpackers

The best decision of my life was to quit my job and backpack in Asia. It was a hard decision. Leaving everything behind is certainly not easy but traveling full-time has taught me so many things!

I learned to appreciate more the things I have, to be more patient and to have the courage to always follow my dreams. My journey led me to incredible places such as Indonesia , the Philippines , Vietnam , Japan and many others and the memories I created are priceless.

I met incredible people and even though sometimes things don’t go as expected, those memories are the funniest after all. Who can forget having no accommodation in Jakarta or getting lost in Myanmar ?

As a fellow backpacker I want to share with you my all-time favorite backpacking quotes. This is my go-to list when I’m looking for inspiration. Enjoy these awesome captions about backpacking!

Note – When there is no author specified it means that the quote’s author is unknown.

1. Short Backpacker Quotes

You know what they say – strong essences are kept into small bottles. I’ve handpicked the most inspiring short captions about backpacking. Enjoy reading!

1. Keep calm and backpack the world.

2. Don’t be a tourist, be a traveler.

3. Backpacking is the cure of greediness.

4. “You might be poor on money, but rich on life” – Kasper Raunholst

5. I would gladly live out of a backpack if it meant I could see the world.

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6. “Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take.” – Sheridan Anderson.

7. There’s no greater adventure than backpacking to unknown places.

8. Grab your backpack and go. The destination is not important, the journey is!

9. “Everything you own must be able to fit inside one suitcase; then your mind might be free.” – Charles Bukowski

10. “See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream.” – Ray Bradbury

11. “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” – Jack Kerouac

12. “To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.” – Tenzing Norgay

13. “I don’t know where I’m going, but I promise it won’t be boring.” – David Bowie

14. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

2. Funny Backpacking Quotes

If you’re looking for funny backpacking captions, you’re in the right place. These quotes will definitely brighten your day and make you smile.

15. My backpack is my best friend. We’ve been through a lot together.

16. Backpacking is a luxury. Not everyone can afford to leave everything behind and travel the world.

17. “Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.” – Eckhart Tolle

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

19. People told me I was crazy to travel the world with a backpack. I told them they were crazy to spend their lives between 4 walls.

20. Screw the map – travel and get lost!

21. “I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.” – Christopher Fry.

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

3. Love Backpacking Quotes

Backpacking with your loved one is not always easy. A lot of communication and patience is needed to make it work. However, I’m sure that love wins after all! Enjoy reading these backpacking quotes and captions about love.

23. “When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.” – Helen Hayes

24. If all you want is luxury hotels and private pools, I’m not the guy for you!

25. “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, Tom Sawyer Abroad

4. Backpacking Captions for Instagram

Are you looking for inspiring captions about backpacking for your Instagram? These quotes work perfectly with any photo about backpacking. I always find something to use for my captions in this list.

26. “That’s the difference between backpackers and holidaymakers. The former can’t help but invite hassle whilst the latter pays to escape it.” – Harry Whitewolf

27. Lost buses, street food, hostels and lost stuff – the best memories of any traveler.

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

29. “Carry as little as possible but choose that little with care” – Earl Shaffer

30. Backpacking makes you realize how little you really need to be happy.

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

32. “Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience – buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello – become new all over again.” – Anthony Doerr

33. “I am a traveler. I am a nomad. I rarely sleep in the same bed more than three or four nights. And I know hotel life better than anyone.” – Diane von Furstenberg

34. “The moments you have experienced are the only possession that nobody can take away from you.” – Unknown

35. “If at some point you don’t ask yourself, ‘What have I gotten myself into?’ then you’re not doing it right.” – Roland Gau

36. “Traveling is brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.” – Cesare Pavese

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

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

39. “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

40. “I’m gonna tell my momma that I’m a traveler. I’m gonna follow the sun.” – Parov Stelar

41. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

42. “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton

43. “Long-term travel doesn’t require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.” – Rolf Potts.

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44. “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

45. “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

46. “Home is where the heart is, and my heart is wherever I am at the moment.” – Lily Leung

47. “I love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s gonna happen or who I’m gonna meet, where I’m gonna wind up.” – Jack Dawson

48. “I travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations.” – Nyssa P. Chopra

5. Inspirational Backpacking Captions and Quotes

Here are a few other inspirational backpacking quotes. These words of wisdom will make you want to book your next trip asap. After all, being spontaneous is the best part of backpacking.

49. “Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.” – Rick Steves

50. “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

51. “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

52. “The tourists come here to stay put in their hotels, with their holiday-friendly staff, private beaches, private bars and private sunshine. And yet still, when they get back home, they’ll claim they’ve been to Egypt.” – Harry Whitewolf

53. “They’re the fakes… Those who travel to exotic places, but never walk the streets or meet the people. Preferring instead their cosy interiors of buses, hotels and holiday bars.” – Harry Whitewolf

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

55. “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

56. “Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that’s the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.” – Daniel Gilbert

57. “Nobody warned me about this part. When I envisioned my trip, I imagined exciting adventures, exotic locales, a jet-set lifestyle. I never thought grief and doubt would climb into my backpack and come with me. I pictured standing at the top of the Sun Gate, looking down at Machu Picchu, without ever thinking about the steps it would take to get there. This is the curse of wanderlust, when the postcard image becomes a brutal reality.” – Maggie Downs

58. “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

59. “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.” – Mark Twain

60. “I can’t think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.” – Bill Bryson.

6. Final thoughts

Backpacking is one of the most incredible experiences one can have. You’ll meet incredible people, you’ll see amazing places and you’ll return home a different yet better person.

I hope that you liked these backpacking quotes and you found inspiration in them. Tell me in the comments section below which one is your favorite!

For other awesome quotes, check out these posts:

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75 Funny Beach Quotes
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May the travel bug bite you!

Aurelia Teslaru is a professional travel blogger and the writer behind Daily Travel Pill. With a 4-year experience as a travel writer and photographer, Aurelia only shares travel guides about destinations that she visited.

She has been to more than 40 countries during the past 10 years and aims to explore 50 countries before turning 30 years old. Aurelia is a digital nomad who transformed her passion for travel into a lifestyle. Read more about her here .

To follow her adventures, check out her Instagram and Facebook pages!

28 Cute Captions For Suitcase Pics & Showing Off Your Travel Style

Whether you're a frequent or occasional traveler, you can't go anywhere without your suitcase. Next to your best friends, it's your go-to buddy when you need to navigate an airport or head to a nearby city for a weekend getaway. TBH, you don't know what you'd do without its spacious pockets and brightly-colored luggage tag. You're probably thinking, "It's about time to gather some cute captions for suitcase pics ," and show off your travel style on the 'Gram.

I couldn't agree more, because like the trendy sneakers and fringe jeans you wear on the reg, your travel style is a glimpse into your personality. When you're standing in line to grab a chicken caesar wrap and a bottle of water at the food court in the airport, it may tell fellow travelers that you're prepared for adventure, or totally hyped to check into your luxe hotel, pour yourself a glass of wine, and straight-up relax.

Just think about all the times you were waiting to board a flight and saw a group of friends rocking tropical-printed shirts. In that moment, you may have thought they were headed to an island. Like those shirts, your suitcase or carry-on bag is part of your entire look. That's why I also think it's time to scroll through these cute captions for suitcase pics and make a wanderlust-y post on the 'Gram.

1. "I like this one. It suit(case)s me."

2. "This traveler is going places."

3. "Let's go everywhere."

4. "O n my way to unknown things."

5. "All you need is a suitcase."

6. "Doing this sweet thing called traveling."

7. "Thank u, next destination."

8. "Overpacking is what I do best."

9. "All she does is travel, travel, travel."

10. "My wanderlust made me do it."

11. "Never met an adventure I didn't like."

12. "Suitcases > carry-on bags."

13. "Sorry for what I said when I was packing my suitcase."

14. "TBH, my best friend is my suitcase."

15. "Always have a suitcase packed in case adventure shows up."

16. "More than ready for take-off."

17. "Lugging around a ton of memories."

18. "Adventure is what happens while you scroll through Instagram."

19. "It'll be magical if my suitcase is under the weight limit."

20. "In my experience, most adventures start with a good suitcase."

21. "Taking all of my clothes wherever I go."

22. "Do you want to come? I think you'd fit in my suitcase!"

23. "Stress doesn't really go with my travel style."

24. "So, this is me and my suitcase."

25. "Dear, suitcase. Let's not get lost."

26. "Time to rock 'n roll my suitcase to the gate."

27. "Rolling with it."

28. "Snacks, passport, suitcase."

Aside from a few captions, you should also gather up the best hacks and little tricks for packing your suitcase . Whether you're taking a weekend trip to New England during the fall or jet-setting to Europe, it's necessary that you only bring what you actually need.

So, here are my suggestions: Make piles on your bed of all the clothes and electronics you want to bring, and then challenge yourself to take a few items out from each. After filling up your suitcase, make sure there's a little room left for souvenirs before tossing out a few more items and then zipping the suitcase shut. Keep your camera, a few beauty products that are in line with the TSA regulations, and a charger in your carry-on bag. Then, bon voyage.

This article was originally published on 10.04.19

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67 Inspiring Backpacking quotes that will make you want to travel

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Looking for inspiring backpacking quotes? Perfect! That’s exactly what you are going to get!

Backpacking is one of the most wonderful things in the world .

There is a huge difference between being a tourist and being a traveller. A backpacker takes the time to explore and learn more about the local culture.

As the name suggests, a backpacker also carries a backpack instead of a suitcase. This may not seem important but it actually makes all the difference.

Backpackers leave behind useless material things and focus on life and experience. They fill their hearts with memories instead of goods!

Taking the leap is the hardest part when it comes to backpacking.

There is nothing harder than wanting to travel but being scared of dropping everything we know.

In this article, you will discover inspiring backpacking quotes that will make you want to take the leap!

Making the decision is the hardest part! Everything that comes after that is pure happiness!

Of course, there will be some adventures but remember, no matter what comes your way, you will figure it out!

Travelling makes you resourceful. You will discover that you have way more in you than you thought. So, are you ready to go on an adventure and discover the best quotes about backpacking?

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Famous Backpacking Quotes

In this first section, you will discover the most famous backpacking quotes!

These quotes are from famous artists, singers, actors and TV presenters. They are so inspiring and will make you want to back your bag right now!

“I don’t know where I’m going, but I promise it won’t be boring” – David Bowie

“ Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” – Jack Kerouac

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

“ Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you’ve never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.” – Judith Thurman

“ The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

“If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” – Paulo Coelho

“What I love most about this crazy life is the adventure of it.” – Juliette Binoche

Juliette Binoche is a famous French actress. She had the lead role in “Chocolat”, one of the most famous movies and books about France.

“Not all those that wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

“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.” – Mark Twain

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

“Travel teaches toleration.” – Benjamin Disraeli

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

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

The Most Inspiring Backpacking Quotes

If you are looking for inspiring backpacking quotes that will make you want to take the leap, this is for you!

Making the decision of going backpacking is the hardest part.

You will probably be debating for months, torn between the idea of discovering the world and the fear of leaving behind your comfortable life.

These moments of doubts are tough but here is the good news, once you do make the decision, everything will be just fine. You quickly realise that the hardest part is not doing it. It’s to decide to do it!

“I love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s gonna happen or who I’m gonna meet, where I’m gonna wind up.” – Jack Dawson

“ 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

“Say yes, and you’ll figure it out afterwards”. – Tina Fey

“ Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.” – Eckhart Tolle

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

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

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

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

“A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step” – Lao Tzu

“Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that’s the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.” – Daniel Gilbert

“There’s a whole world out there, right outside your window. You’d be a fool to miss it.” – Charlotte Eriksson

“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

“There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage.” – Mark Twain

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

Quotes about Backpackers

Whether you are a backpacker or a backpacker wannabe looking for cool quotes, this part is for you. Backpackers discover the world in a unique way.

They don’t go from tourist spot to tourist spot, they want to discover the soul of the country they are visiting.

They take time to wander around, talk to locals and learn.

“That’s the difference between backpackers and holidaymakers. The former can’t help but invite hassle whilst the latter pay to escape it.” – Harry Whitewolf

“You might be poor on money, but rich on life” – Kasper Raunholst

“The traveller sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton

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

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

“Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.” – Rick Steves

“I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.” – Christopher Fry

“Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience—buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello—become new all over again.” – Anthony Doerr

“When I travel, people say ‘Yet another place in this world’. But I see ‘Another world inside every place I go.” – Vivek Thangaswamy

“Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.” – Jack Kerouac

“I’m in love. Again. How on earth do people pick a favorite travel spot?” – Jen Malone

“One day you will wake up & there won’t be any more time to do the things you’ve always wanted. Do it now!” – Paulo Coelho

“Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Have the courage to follow your heart.” – Steve Jobs

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

Funny Backpacking Quotes

Now is time to have some fun! Backpacking is not only an enriching experience, it’s also good fun! If there is one thing you can be sure of it’s that you will have a great time! This is why we selected these funny backpacking quotes!

“When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.” – Helen Hayes

“Everything you own must be able to fit inside one suitcase; then your mind might be free.” – Charles Bukowski

“Traveling 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

“Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark

“I can’t control the wind but I can adjust the sail.” – Ricky Skaggs

“Adventure without risk is Disneyland.” – Doug Coupland

“Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take.” – Sheridan Anderson

Short Backpacking quotes and Instagram Captions for backpackers

If you are looking for some Instagram captions for backpackers, this is for you! Here is a selection of short backpacking quotes that will go perfectly with your Insta photos!

“My favorite thing to do is to go where I’ve never been.” – Diane Arbus

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

“There is a whole world out there”

“Collect moments not things.”

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

“We do not remember the days; we remember moments.” – Cesare Pavese

“You only live once”

“Every trip is a journey.”

“Wander often, wonder always.”

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

“Dream Big. Start Small. Act Now.” – Robin Sharma

“All good things in life are wild and free.”

“Carpe Diem” (meaning Seize the day) – Latin Saying

Solo backpacking quotes

Thinking of travelling alone and looking for amazing solo backpacking quotes? This section is for you!

Solo backpacking is a great thing to do. It’s a unique opportunity to learn more about yourself and how resourceful you actually are.

If you are looking for some quotes to inspire you to go backpacking alone, these will definitely do the job!

“There are some places in life where you can only go alone. Embrace the beauty of your solo journey.” -Mandy Hale

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

“I am never happier than when I am alone in a foreign city; it is as if I had become invisible.” – Storm Jameson

“Travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” – The Dhammapada

“I think one travels more usefully when they travel alone, because they reflect more.” -Thomas Jefferson

“Don’t be scared to walk alone. Don’t be scared to like it.” — John Mayer

Now that you know everything about the best backpacker quotes, it’s time to go and explore our beautiful world.

Best Luggage for International Travel to Make Your Trip Abroad Easy and Enjoyable

Travelers with luggage using smart phones while waiting in line for boarding at airport

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More Americans are traveling abroad with over “one-in-five Americans planning on vacationing in a foreign country in the near future,” according to Reuters . I myself head to Sweden for a few weeks every summer to visit my in-laws, and packing our suitcases with clothes—both sweaters and bathing suits because Swedish weather can be unpredictable—along with gifts for relatives is a days-long undertaking.

When traveling internationally, most people focus on important stuff like updating passports, understanding customs requirements, making hotel reservations, and planning exciting itineraries, but choosing the right luggage for your long-haul trip ranks up there in ensuring you and yours have a fun and hassle-free trip.

“Choosing the right luggage helps to keep your trip smooth and uncomplicated,” says Ivette Manner s, a travel and bridal writer who goes around the globe for her job several times a year. “I travel often for work and leisure and like to keep things simple. You don’t want to rush through airports, customs, taxis, and public transport being bogged down with a lot of baggage—and you don’t want to make the mistake of leaving anything crucial behind.” she says.

What to consider when choosing luggage for international travel

Situation equals size.

Whether you’re jetting off for a weekend wedding or embarking on a multi-city trip will help you decide which type of suitcase you need: carry-on, mid size, oversized, weekender, and more. Also, how many are in your party? Traveling solo or with family, friends, or loved ones?

Visiting Europe with my family for two or three weeks means we need larger, checked luggage paired with smaller carry-on backpacks and totes for the flights. When traveling for work, Manners takes “one roomy, zip-top tote bag and a medium-size suitcase.” The length of stay, and purpose of travel will help determine the size and type of luggage you need.

Airline compliance

It is zero fun to have to check your carry-on last-minute or pay extra exorbitant fees because you overstuffed your luggage and exceeded weight and size limits. “As soon as you book your flight, check the airline’s baggage allowance and restrictions policy,” cautions Manners, so you can stay within the baggage dimensions. “It’s a good idea to invest in a bag within the baggage dimensions allowed by the airline(s) you frequently travel on, so you’re not surprised at the airport with extra baggage charges,” she adds.

According to TravelPro , while most domestic airlines allow you up to 35 pounds for carry-on baggage for domestic flights and 50 pounds max for checked luggage (though you can pay extra for up to 70 pounds), international travel often caps carry-ons at 18 pounds. The exception being British Airways which allows a whopping 51 pounds for carry-on bags! Kayak says that a carry-on bag should be no longer than 21.5 inches long, though this does vary airline by airline and I have friends who swear they fly everywhere with their 22-inch long carry-on. To be safe, and avoid trouble, always check ahead to know your baggage allowance before your trip!

To stay in compliance—and if you’re someone who tends to overpack (insert raised hand emoji)—Manners recommends getting a luggage scale to keep yourself in check. “Some people also swear by packing cubes,” adds Manners, which some say allows you to pack even more while keeping clothing sorted and wrinkle-free. If you’re new to, but interested in packing cubes, Manners recommends purchasing inexpensive options on Amazon to see if they would work for you before your next big trip.

Luggage should last years and is a worthy investment, but with many high-quality and low-cost options on the market you don’t have to break the bank. Legacy names like Samsonite keep innovation and quality high while still being fairly priced. “Look at a brand’s warranty,” advises Manners, which safeguards against wear, tear, and damages that happen frequently with luggage. For instance, the premium brand, Briggs and Riley , comes with a higher price tag but a lifetime guarantee. I chose bags for this list from around $100 to several hundred dollars to meet all your price points and needs.

Materials and mobility

“People love those fancy aluminum suitcases ,” says Manners. “But while they look super chic, they’re not always practical, not to mention super expensive.” They get banged up and scratched and you have to take them to the brand to get repaired. “But polycarbonate hard shell suitcases can take more wear,” she says. Other things to consider in a suitcase are the materials: are you looking for soft or hardshell? Also, pay attention and test out zippers, locks, roomy interior compartments that can expand, and the durability and quality of wheels.

Our picks for the best luggage for international travel

Best carry-on luggage for international travel: away the carry-on.

The Carry-On in Sorbet Orange

With its signature design, bright colors, and compact design that fits most overhead bins, this popular carry-on luggage from Away checks all the boxes. The hardside carry-on is made from a 100% polycarbonate shell that is durable and lightweight, weighing in at 7.5 pounds. Fans love the interior organization that features zipped mesh compartments, a hanging pocket, and a waterproof laundry bag great for keeping wet—or dirty—clothes separate. The 360 gliding wheels can traverse most terrains, and the sturdy handle has two adjustable heights for ideal comfort. At under $300, it’s a great deal.

Specifications:

Dimensions: 21.7 x 14.4 x 9 inches
Weight: 7.5 pounds
Material: 100% polycarbonate shell
Capacity: 39.8 liters
Warranty: Limited lifetime
Price on publish: $275

What we like:

Meets carry-on requirements for most airlines
Comes with a TSA-approved lock
Comes with compression straps to fit more in

What we don't Like:

It’s on the smaller side for carry-ons

The bottom line:

An accessible-priced and well-designed carry-on that fits on most airlines.

Get it here: Away The Carry-On

Best lightweight luggage for international travel: Samsonite Proxis Spinner

Samsonite Proxis Spinner

I own this large Proxis Spinner from Samsonite, and it’s a piece my whole family loves. We can pack so much stuff in and it’s still incredibly lightweight luggage . My husband loves the technical aspects like the resilient outer shell made from a Samsonite-patented material called Roxkin™ (a multi-layered propylene combined to make one single sheet) that is incredibly durable and will bounce back into shape when dented. The easy-to-handle ergonomic aluminum telescoping handle and the dual 360 spinner wheels help us breeze through planes, trains, and automobiles. I like the interior fabric dividers, compression cross straps, and zipper pockets that help to keep all our clothes organized and in place. And my kids like the mod and metallic colors (like honey gold). The light Proxis line includes a carry-on, medium, large, and extra-large.

Dimensions: 30.7 x 21.5 x 11.4 inches
Material: Roxkin™ outer shell
Capacity: 98 liters
Warranty: Limited 10-year Global Warranty
Price on publish: $600
Incredibly lightweight but durable
Dual rubber wheels for fluid and quiet travel
On the pricier side for Samsonite

A surprisingly lightweight and durable suitcase with dual wheels that can zip through the airport and beyond.

Get it here: Samsonite Proxis Spinner

Best large luggage for international travel: Briggs & Riley Baseline Extra Large Expandable Spinner

Briggs & Riley Baseline Extra Large Expandable Spinner

My Australian friend turned me on to the premium brand, Briggs & Riley, and this expandable suitcase might have one of the largest capacities of any suitcase on the market. The softside suitcase features a patented CX® expansion release hinge that allows you to expand the bag for up to 34% more packing capability and then compress it back down to its original size when needed.

Everything about this suitcase is quality from its self-repairing zippers, 360 spinning wheels, and genius interior design that features a built-in garment folder to keep clothes wrinkle-free. Plus, all Briggs & Riley bags are backed by their unconditional lifetime guarantee , which doesn’t ask for a proof of purchase or a lengthy explanation.

Dimensions: 31 x 22 x 13.8-16.8 inches
Weight: 15.6 pounds
Material: Ballistic nylon
Capacity: 141-167 liters
Warranty: Unconditional lifetime guarantee
Price on publish: $949
One suitcase can accommodate multiple travelers
No-questions-asked lifetime of repairs
Optional monogram
You might go over weight limits if you fill it to capacity

A high-quality suitcase that can hold tons with a lifetime guarantee.

Get it here: Briggs & Riley Baseline Extra Large Expandable Spinner

Best medium size luggage for international travel: Away Medium Flex

The Medium Flex in Coast Blue

For those that need more room than a carry-on, but still need something maneuverable, the Away Medium Flex is for you. The newer flex model can expand for an extra 1.75” of space, which can make all the difference when traveling for weeks and allows for the fun souvenirs and duty-free goodies you’ll bring home. The Flex comes with all the details. Away is known for great interior organization that includes zippered compartments, snap-in-place straps, a laundry bag, and quiet 360 wheels that smoothly glide over tough terrains like cobblestones.

Dimensions: 26 x 18.5 x 11 inches
Weight: 10.8 pounds
Material: Polycarbonate shell
Capacity: 68.8-75.7 liters
Warranty: Limited lifetime warranty
Price on publish: $395
Nine fun colors
Expandability
TSA-approved combination lock
Reviewers say the lighter colors scuff easily

A pretty and expandable suitcase ideal for longer travel.

Get it here: Away Medium Flex

Best affordable luggage for international travel: Amazon Basics 24-Inch Hardside Spinner

Amazon Basics 24-Inch Hardside Spinner, Orange

With over 34,000 five-star Amazon ratings, this 24-inch spinner features many of the qualities of other suitcases on this list, but is priced at under $100. Available in carry-on, medium, large, and a luggage set, the budget spinner has an extra-tough thermoplastic exterior that can handle the bumps that come with travel. It has double wheels for easy gliding, a telescoping handle, and can expand up to 15% to hold more clothing—or souvenirs.

Dimensions: 24.7 x 11.4 x 18.3 inches
Weight: 9.63 pounds
Material: ABS Thermoplastic
Capacity: 69 liters
Warranty: One-year limited, but you can add a three to four-year protection plan at an extra cost
Price on publish: $78.35
Limited warranty

A durable and highly-rated suitcase that won’t break the bank.

Get it here: Amazon Basics 24-Inch Hardside Spinner

Best soft luggage for international travel: Travelpro Platinum Elite Medium Check-In Spinner

Travelpro Platinum Elite Medium Check-In Spinner

“In my opinion, TravelPro makes great softside suitcases and they last for years.” says Manners. “I like to use these best for international travel because I don’t have to worry about them getting banged up or scratched. They’re economical and lightweight.”

Travelpro is used by many flight crews around the globe, so they know the qualities that you want in a bag. This medium size spinner is the ideal size with 97 liters of capacity and a two-inch expansion capability to last you for days (and weeks) of travel. The Travelpro comes in nine pretty colors, is lightweight at under 10 pounds, and easily glides with magnetically-locking wheels that can rotate a full 360 degrees for smooth transport through airports and city streets.

Dimensions: 28 x 18.5 x 11.75 inches
Weight: 9.8 pounds
Material: High-density nylon fabric with DuraGuard coating
Capacity: 97 liters
Warranty: Limited lifetime coverage, but must register it first
Price on publish: $365.49
Bin tested to be compliant with most airlines
Built-in suiter to reduce wrinkles
100-day money-back guarantee
Haven’t found it yet

Affordable, high-quality suitcase favored by frequent fliers that comes with a limited lifetime warranty.

Get it here: Travelpro Platinum Elite Medium Check-In Spinner

Best hardside luggage for international travel: Samsonite Freeform Medium Spinner

Samsonite Freeform Medium Spinner

Garnering thousands of reviews, this Samsonite Freeform spinner line is a perennial hardside luggage favorite because it can handle major wear and tear. The hard shell is made from polypropylene (a thermoplastic) known to handle high stress. The double wheels add extra durability, even when other luggage is placed on top and 360 mobility, so there’s less strain on your body when traversing through airports and destinations. It has an expanding capability of 1.5 inches for packing on longer trips and the interior features lots of dividers and zippers to store accessories and keep everything neat and organized. Coming in at under $200 with a 10-year warranty, this is a solid suitcase for your travels and it’s available in carry-on and large versions.

Dimensions: 27.9 x 19.6 x 13.4 inches
Weight: 8.5 pounds
Material: Polypropylene
Capacity: N/A
Price on publish: $179.99
Lots of color choices
TSA-approved lock
Would like a more expansive warranty
Height on the Medium Spinner makes it too big for carry-on

Affordable and resilient luggage with high packing capacity from a name brand you can trust.

Get it here: Samsonite Freeform Medium Spinner

Best luggage set for international travel: Béis Create Your Perfect Luggage Set

Béis Create Your Perfect Luggage Set

Béis, the luggage line founded by actor Shay Mitchell, allows you to mix and match two or three of your favorite rollers, creating your own personalized luggage set —and you get a discount. You can choose from any of their cases: from their best-selling 21-inch Front-Pocket Carry-On to their Medium, Large, and kid-friendly Mini Roller. I love that the Front-Pocket Carry-On and Mini Roller meet most international airline requirements, and all the hard cases are made from sturdy polycarbonate with vegan-leather details. Choose two suitcases and save 10% and pick three pieces for 15% off.

Dimensions: Front-Pocket Carry-On: 21.5 x 3.5" x 9 inches, Carry-On: 22.8 x 15.7 x 9.8 inches, Medium Check-In Roller: 28.3 x 17.7 x 11 inches, Large Check-In Roller: 31.3 x 19.6 x 12.6 inches, and the Mini Roller: 17 x 9 x 16.5 inches
Weight: Front-Pocket Carry-On: 8.6 pounds, Carry-On: 8.36 pound, Medium Check-In Roller: 10.2 pounds, Large Check-In Roller: 11.84 pounds, Mini Roller: 7 pounds
Material: Polycarbonate, vegan leather trim
Capacity: Front-Pocket Carry-On: 47 liters, Carry-On: 49-61 liters, Medium Check-In Roller: 78-94 liters, Large Check-In Roller: 112 liters
Warranty: Limited lifetime warranty when purchased from Béis or authorized Béis retailer
Price on publish: Two rollers 10% discount, three rollers 15% discount
Female-founded
Calming color options
Cute kid rollers
Limited warranty (though it is lifetime)

A fun and flexible mix-and-match luggage set that allows you to choose the cases that best suit your travel needs.

Get it here: Béis Create Your Perfect Luggage Set

Best trunk for international travel: July Checked Trunk

July Checked Trunk

“I love using a trunk suitcase when I am traveling for an extended time or when I’m going to a cold-weather place and need to pack lots of bulky coats and sweaters,” says Manners. Traveling with a trunk suitcase has a fun, sophisticated feeling, and the old-world trunks of the past have now made way for lightweight and playful options like this one from July. Available in 11 pleasing colors and with personalization options, this chic trunk with 360 spin wheels, comfy rubber handles, and roomy 80/20 split compartments might be your new favorite travel go-to.

Dimensions: 28.35 x 16.34 x 14.5 inches
Weight: 13.2 pounds
Material: Glazed polycarbonate shell
Capacity: 95 liters
Warranty: Lifetime warranty on manufacturing faults
Price on publish: $595
Lightweight
Can be personalized
Reviewers suggest going with matte finish, as scratches on shiny colors are more noticeable

This sturdy and sleek trunk is extra roomy for bulky items.

Get it here: July Checked Trunk

Best backpack for international travel: Cotopaxi Allpa 35L Travel Pack

Cotopaxi Allpa 35L Travel Pack in Wine

I own this colorful and lightweight backpack from Cotopaxi that can fit the packing needs of an overhead-compliant carry-on with the ease of a backpack. It zips open to reveal a suitcase-like interior with mesh, zippered pockets and compartments to keep everything organized. It comes with a waist belt, in addition to adjustable straps for better weight distribution, and it comes with four grab handles so you can carry it from every angle. I especially like the laptop space and compartment at the top for quick access to essentials like money, your passport, and sunglasses. For additional backpack options, read our guide on travel backpacks .

Dimensions: 22 x 12 x 10 inches
Weight: 3.5 pounds
Material: TPU-coated 1000D polyester, 840D ballistic nylon paneling
Capacity: 35 liters
Warranty: Guaranteed for Good limited lifetime warranty
Price on publish: $200
Carry-on compliant with most airlines
Comes in so many fun colors
Certified B-Corp company
Made from 94% recycled materials
Included rain cover
Straps can be loose on smaller shoulder frames

On the pricier side of backpacks, but it has a lot of wonderful features and organization.

Get it here: Cotopaxi Allpa 35L Travel Pack

Best duffel bag for international travel: CALPAK Luka Duffel

CALPAK Luka Duffel in Cobalt

This best-selling Luka duffel from CALPAK can pack everything you need for a weekend—and still counts as a personal item, fitting comfortably under your seat. It has a trolley sleeve that slides through suitcase handles so it can rest comfortably on your luggage as you zip through the airport. It has nine pockets, including one for your shoes, and it’s made of water resistant polyester, so like most duffel bags it looks good and lasts for years to come.

Dimensions: 12 x 16 x 8 inches
Weight: 2 pounds
Material: Polyester
Capacity: 25 liters
Warranty: One-year limited
Price on publish: $128
Comes in 19 eye-catching colors
Has both handle and strap options
Can fit under airline seat
Some colors are final sale, so check the fine print

Lightweight and roomy personal bag that can still fit under your seat.

Get it here: CALPAK Luka Duffel

Best weekender bag for international travel: shortyLOVE Friday Weekender Travel Bag

shortyLOVE Friday Weekender Travel Bag

“I highly recommend the shortyLOVE Friday Weekender bag” says Manners.“ It’s super roomy and streamlined, not bulky at all, and the straps are super comfortable, you hardly feel it’s on your shoulder.” Though it has a sleek design, it can fit all of your important documents, jewelry, and clothes for any quick trip. The water-resistant nylon bag comes in five colorways and is easy to clean.

Dimensions: 15 x 27.5 x 9 inches
Weight: 1.8 pounds
Material: Water-resistant nylon twill
Warranty: None
Price on publish: $298
Roomy yet streamlined
No warranty

Roomy and stylish weekender that is sturdy and comfy.

Get it here: shortyLOVE Friday Weekender Travel Bag

Best size luggage for international travel

“I like medium-size check-in suitcases,” says Manners.” It helps keep you from overpacking, but allows you to take what you need for a week of travel. And you’ll be able to move around easier in transit.” If traveling alone or sharing a suitcase, we find medium size suitcases (usually around 26-28 inches in length) to be ideal. Look for suitcases that can expand and compress for extra packing needs. Weighing around 10 pounds empty, you can pack a lot, but make sure you don’t go over the airline weight limits.

Tips for buying a suitcase for international travel

Online retailers and outlet stores are both great places to buy luggage , especially during major shopping days. But you should first check the baggage requirements of the airline you intend to fly, including restrictions, and extra charges, so you’re not met with any surprises.

Once you’ve determined your right size, Manners suggest “finding one with well-made spinning wheels and a comfortable, sturdy retractable handle.” Another thing to consider is the material, like soft side, hard side, waterproof, etc. And don’t forget important details, like durable zippers, solid locks, and lots of room and interior compartments to pack everything you need. Many brands offer 60-100-day free trials and money-back guarantees, so utilize these policies to try out the luggage before you invest.

How we selected the best luggage for international travel

As a former travel writer and editor myself, I have zig-zagged continents for work and leisure. I also tapped jet-setting friends, colleagues, and experts who weighed in on their favorite luggage. I tested different brands, read through customer reviews and looked at certain criteria.

Luggage size and type

Whether you’re jetting off for a swanky girls weekend or a longer trip abroad, the type of trip you’re taking will help determine which luggage to choose, so I rated them all (weekender, duffel, backpack, carry-on, larger checked suitcases, and trunks), examining their storage capacity, expandability, organizational features, weight, and construction.

Features and materials

Luggage these days offer so many high-tech features, like charging ports and nearly-indestructible thermoplastic exteriors, as well as fun extras including laundry bags, TSA-approved locks, multiple storage capabilities, along with lifetime guarantees that will help your luggage last a lifetime.

International airline compliance

I found international baggage allowance to differ slightly from American domestic, so be sure and check your airline baggage requirements first before travel. That said, for carry-ons, the general rule of thumb is for an international carry-on to be no bigger than 21.5-21.7 inches long and weigh 18 pounds. Again, while rules (and adherence) vary from airline to airline, to be safe, I chose carry-ons that meet these requirements.

I chose luggage at every price point and chose the best in class across the board from budget to luxe in all types of luggage.

Frequently asked questions (FAQs)

Which luggage brand is best for international travel.

Well-known luggage brands like Samsonite and Travelpro have earned reputations for both quality and affordability, so they made my list. “I really recommend Away and TravelPro suitcases,” adds Manners. I also included more expensive options like Briggs & Riley, because their no-questions-asked lifetime guarantee on all of their luggage is unmatched industry wide.

Is hard luggage better than soft for international travel?

“Some people love hard case bags, but I find that you can pack more things in a softside suitcase.” says Manners. Hardside versus softside is really a preference. Softside seems to scuff less because of the treated materials, while hardside suitcases can also handle wear and tear and seem to be more trendy these days.

What is the best material for checked luggage?

“That depends on preference, but a nylon with coating to prevent scuffs and scratches for softside luggage, and polycarbonate-shell or thermoplastic are incredibly durable If you like hard case suitcases,” says Manners.

How many suitcases can you take on an international flight?

This often depends on the type of airplane ticket you purchase. Some tickets include your first checked bag for free, then you have to pay a fee for additional bags. Other tickets don’t include baggage, so you’ll have to pay a certain fee for the first checked-in bag, plus fees for additional bags. Look into bag allowances before you buy your tickets, warns Manners, so you can factor the cost of your checked bags into your flight—and avoid surprises at the airport.

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The Best Carry-On Luggage and Weekender Bags for Spring Travel: Away, Samsonite, Calpak and More

The right luggage or carry-on bag for spring break travel can help make any trip as smooth as possible.

If you're gearing up for your spring travel plans, you may be searching for the perfect luggage to accompany you on your upcoming getaway. Carry-on luggage — including weekender bags and spinners — is probably the best way to travel if you want to beat the lines at busy airports, especially if you're traveling on a Friday.

No matter where your travel destinations are, one thing's for sure: the right luggage will make all the difference. We've found the best luggage to shop for all of your travels, from spacious duffle bags and practical backpacks to large and luxurious carry-ons for your next flight.

Need a new tote bag to toss everything in for an upcoming Memorial Day weekend getaway or a bigger carry-on for a tropical vacation? The Beis Weekender Bag will fit all your essentials and help you travel in style. Need a new go-to suitcase for every travel situation? Away’s standard carry on traveler bag has plenty of packing space while still fitting in the overhead bin. Trying to avoid the checked baggage fees and long bag drop line? The Samsonite Underseat Carry-On Luggage helps you save money and time by going straight to TSA.

Below, we've rounded up the best carry-on luggage and weekender bags this year to take along on your next trip.

The Best Carry-On Suitcases for 2024

Samsonite freeform carry-on spinner.

Not only is the Samsonite Hardside Spinner perfectly sized and extremely durable, it's also incredible lightweight so you won't have to strain putting it in the overhead airplane compartment. With all kinds of pockets, you can easily organize all your belongings confidently.

$200 $150

Away The Carry-On

This Away bag boasts flashy features such as a durable polycarbonate hard shell, spinner wheels and a TSA-approved, ejectable USB charger. The classic rolling hardside luggage with a retractable handle is designed to fit in most major airlines' overhead compartments, making it a great go-to Carry-On bag for travel, regardless of your destination.

Take OFF Luggage Personal Item Suitcase 2.0

The perfect-sized luggage that doubles as a personal item — just pop off the wheels and slide it under your seat.

Rockland Melbourne Hardside Expandable Spinner Wheel Luggage

This Rockland Melbourne Spinner Luggage makes traveling easier by being extremely lightweight. While protecting your items, the wheels rotate 360 degrees for a smooth and seamless stride in the airport. Although it is compact, this carry-on luggage has the ability to hold everything you need for a short vacation.

Travelpro Platinum Elite Hardside Expandable Spinner

Travelpro is a pilot-founded brand that you've likely seen used by flight crews. Travel stress-free with the Travelpro hardside carry-on luggage that effortlessly fits in the overhead bins of major domestic airlines, thanks to rigorous sizer bin testing and enhanced packing capacity. The PrecisionGlide System delivers impeccable control and a seamless rolling experience, so you can get through the airport with ease.

$370 $314

Samsonite Underseat Carry-On Spinner with USB Port

Compact and convenient, this soft-sided luggage can slide smoothly under the seat in front of you or be tucked away in an overhead bin. The bag's main compartment can fit several outfits and a spare pair of shoes. Interior pockets lining the compartment will keep your toiletries organized. The telescoping handle and rolling wheels make this bag easy to navigate around a crowded airport, making it a great choice for the frequent flyer looking to pack light.

$145 $100

Monos Carry-On

Traveling is a breeze with the minimalist Monos carry-on, designed to fit in the overheard bin of almost any flight.

Travelpro Maxlite 5 Softside Expandable Luggage

This Travelpro Maxlite softside luggage has spinner wheels and is lightweight, making it easy to maneuver airport terminals and your flight's overhead storage bins.

$170 $144

The Best Travel Backpacks and Totes for 2024

Samsonite detour travel backpack.

Built to protect your belongings from the elements, the Detour Travel Backpack has enough capacity for your business, overnight or weekend trips.

$150 $105

Béis Travel Tote

The Beis Travel Tote, from Shay Mitchell's baggage line, can conveniently slot into place atop a suitcase with its trolley sleeve, but can also be carried on its own with a detachable shoulder strap, and top handles designed to rest comfortably on your shoulder. This bag boasts a bottom zip shoe compartment, padded tech sleeve and multiple exterior and interior pockets.

Calpak Luka Backpack

With multiple storage compartments including a separate laptop sleeve and a space to store your shoes that has its own exterior access, this lightweight Luka backpack will help you stay organized on the go.

Cotopaxi Allpa 35L Travel Pack

This travel backpack comes with a weight-distributing, low-profile harness system and a 35L capacity, making it suitable for carry-on use. It is designed with a full-wrap zipper opening on the main compartment, along with large and subdivided zippered mesh compartments on the sides, providing convenient packing options. Additionally, its attractive design ensures you can easily identify your bag wherever you go.

Troubadour Featherweight Tote

A modern classic and easy-access bag. This Featherweight Tote features a light and waterproof fabric with vegan leather handles, and is perfect for gym trips or a day out!

Dagne Dover Jemi Puff Tote

Whether you're traveling to work or a weekend getaway, this lightweight tote is perfect with pockets for days to keep all your belongings organized.

The Best Weekender Bags for 2024

Lululemon go getter bag 2.0.

This sleek, modern bag looks like a tote and duffel rolled into one. There's also a little strap in the back that you can attach to your luggage.

Away The Everywhere Bag

Away Travel's The Everywhere Bag lives up to its name: you can take it everywhere from work to the gym to a weekend away. It also pairs nicely with The Carry-On and The Bigger Carry-On.

Calpak Stevyn Duffel

Enjoy the benefits of a large bottom compartment, ideal for stowing shoes or enhancing the organization of your items.The roomy main compartment comes with interior pockets, ensuring you have plenty of space to store your belongings in a well-arranged manner.

SwissGear Apex Travel Duffle Bag

This duffle bag will come in handy during your next vacation. You can wear it multiple ways and it has reinforced sides to keep your belonging secure.

Dagne Dover Landon Carryall Bag

For weekends away, this extra-large duffle includes a laptop sleeve, shoe bag and plenty of space for all your essentials.

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For the last 15 years (with a brief exception for the COVID-19 pandemic), my family and I have celebrated Christmas and New Year’s abroad in Africa or Asia. From Madagascar, Indonesia, and Tanzania to Vietnam, Thailand, and Singapore, I’ve gotten used to spending two weeks during the holidays in warm, muggy climates, swapping coats and boots for sandals and flowy dresses .

This year, my family and I spent two weeks bouncing around India’s southwestern state of Kerala, nicknamed “God’s own country” for the richness of its natural beauty . From misty mountain towns and river-framed cities to urban metropolises and the roaring sandy coast of the Arabian Sea, the a trip filled with constant movement and changing climates, requiring gear, accessories, and clothing that could accommodate everything (think: versatile travel bags , one-and-done outfits , and more).

And, as someone who is prone to overpacking, I wanted to challenge myself to only bring a carry-on suitcase and a personal item in an effort to travel light — a skill that I have yet to master since becoming a travel writer. These are the 14 travel essentials that topped my packing list, and ensured that my whirlwind ,two-week trip was smooth and effortless – even with just a carry-on.

R. Vivimos Women’s Long-sleeve Midi Dress

I had three requirements when packing my wardrobe for my trip: stylish, breathable, and modest. These Amazon long-sleeved bohemian-style dresses (thankfully) satisfied them all. As someone just under 5 feet, 1 inches, I was initially worried that the length and oversized style would dwarf my small frame, but I was pleasantly surprised when they only came up to mid-shin. I purchased three styles and colors, and wore them while exploring the city of Kochi and the mountain town of Munnar.

Despite being long-sleeved, they were breathable and comfortable, and they helped me survive the oppressive Indian heat with optimal sun coverage. The dress comes in 35 different color and print variations that can be worn during the summer, fall, or spring, so it’s a versatile wardrobe staple for any traveler.

Topbag Family Passport Holder

I’m a triple citizen of Italy, Ireland, and the United States, and, as an anxious flier, I always travel with all three of my passports, just in case. That’s why I use this family passport holder to safely secure my three passports and other important documents in one easy-to-reach place.

It can hold up to six passports, which is convenient for families or friends traveling together. The passport holder also comes with a cash pocket and six card slots, which I use to stash away my other forms of identification, bills, loose change, past flight tickets, and my Italian SIM card for when I return home to Rome. But that’s not all: it also has a strap that you can wear around your wrist and a back pocket large enough to fit an iPhone, so you can have all of your major belongings on you in one place (and it doubles as a secure sling bag if you're not a fan of big purses). It helps make the chaos of traveling just a little more organized.

Prite Corduroy Tote Bag

I collect tote bags, especially for when I travel, so when I received this large, olive-green corduroy one for Christmas, it was a match made in tote heaven. It has a zippered closure that I appreciated for keeping my valuable items from tumbling out. And, for those who love pockets – well, you’re in luck: The tote has a large outside pocket that can close magnetically, two interior slip pockets, and one ample interior zippered pocket which I used to secure my wallet, passports, and keys.

I carried this tote around with me everywhere during my trip, and was able to fit my passports, sunglasses, Kindle Fire, lip balms, earphones, chargers, mints, a 32-ounce HydroJug tumbler, and deodorant, all with plenty of room to spare. The large 18-inch by 15-inch by 4-inch tote is made with durable corduroy and is sturdy enough to carry heavier items like books and laptops, which is what I’ve been using it for since my trip.

VibiVenezia Women's Timeless Rosso Velvet Slippers

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Friulane, or furlane, are popular Venetian velvet slippers that date as far back as the 19th century. They’re a staple in every Italian woman’s closet and add a pop of color and playful elegance to any outfit, which is why I wear mine all the time when I travel. They’re also very comfortable, especially since I had my favorite cobbler in Rome add another layer of rubber to the soles for extra cushioning.

I love the burst of color that they give my outfits, and my orange pair paired especially well with one of the long-sleeved dresses that I purchased for my trip in shades of yellow and orange. I buy most of my friulane from small boutiques when I’m home in Italy, but VibiVenezia is a popular Italian brand that offers the slippers in a literal rainbow of colors and styles. No need to worry – they ship to the United States, so you can wear a small piece of Italy on your feet, too.

HydroJug 32-ounce Tumbler

I’m especially horrible at remembering to drink water during long flights, which is likely why I always feel like a wretched, dried husk after traveling. I’ve gotten better at hydrating myself since purchasing a mini, 32-ounce HydroJug tumbler. I usually fill it using water fountains at the airport to ensure that I have enough to keep my body happy while up in the air. This was especially important during my many long flights to India, and even more so upon arriving, as my family and I had to be careful of the drinking water we consumed.

The hotels we stayed at provided bottles of purified drinking water, which I used to fill up my HydroJug while we were out exploring. This not only ensured that I was staying hydrated in the unforgiving heat, but also that I was consuming safe drinking water. HydroJugs come with the option to purchase a sleeve and strap that can be worn around your person for a hands-free experience, which is especially useful for trips where you’re moving around a lot.

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Longbida Women's Cropped Denim Jacket

While the majority of my trip called for a summer wardrobe, there was one occasion that required slightly warmer attire. My family and I spent two days in Munnar, a mountain town nestled between sprawling emerald-green tea plantations and lush forests. The higher altitude was pleasantly chilly, especially at night and in the early morning. Although it was a welcome respite from the heat, I needed to stay warm, and my cropped, faded denim jacket did just the trick.

Although mine can technically be classified as “vintage,” as it was passed down to me from my mother, I found this affordable version at Amazon that comes in 16 different colors and patterns and is easy to pack (or wear on a plane if you're trying to save luggage space).

Havaianas Mini Bag

I spent a week soaking up some much-needed vitamin D rays in the coastal town of Kovalam, and this water-resistant Havaianas mini bag was wrapped around my wrist every day. Made with durable silicone, this small, colorful bag is a staple of mine for any beach outing. I mostly use it to safely store my iPhone from sand and water, but it’s also doubled as a no-frills purse for my wallets, keys, and lip balms. It was gifted to me by my Brazilian friend nearly a decade ago, and it’s accompanied me all over the world, from Greece and Sardinia to Thailand and Indonesia – and it still looks brand new.

Sun Bum Lip Balm SPF 30 3-pack

As someone who is unfortunately prone to lip blisters after prolonged exposure to the sun, I always have SPF lip balms on deck. Sun Bum’s lip balms have recently become a favorite of mine, not just for their high protection, but also for their tropical flavors that release a burst of summer whenever I twist off their caps. Each gluten-free and vegan lip balm is packed with aloe vera, cocoa butter, and vitamin E, so they roll on super smooth and keep my lips soft and hydrated throughout the day.

I bought this three-pack ahead of my trip, and almost used them all down to the nub. Part of my excessive use may have been because of how nice they smelled (and tasted), but regardless, I was relieved that my laying in the sun like a lizard didn’t result in any sun blisters.

Anrabess Women’s Loose Spaghetti Strap Jumpsuit

Jumpsuits are one of my favorite go-to summer outfits for a breathable, comfortable, and stylish look. I have a bordeaux-colored one that I purchased years ago from Urban Outfitters that I wear to near tatters every summer for these reasons. I, of course, brought this jumpsuit on my trip with me and paired it with black lace-up sandals for more formal events such as New Year’s Eve. For most of my trip, however, flip-flops were my standard footwear.

While the exact jumpsuit I own can’t be found online anymore, there is this affordable Amazon option that has more than 2,000 five-star ratings. Available in 25 colors and patterns with sizes ranging from S to 2XL, it's an especially versatile and traveler-loved staple that I’m looking into trying myself once summer comes around.

Miady Dual USB Portable Chargers 2-pack

These pocket-sized dual USB chargers have been a boon during my travels, and my trip through India was no exception. There were a couple of days when my family and I spent hours traveling between cities, so these portable chargers helped juice up our phones throughout the day. I’ve also used them to power up other devices such as my Kindle Fire and iPad, so it's an especially helpful travel essential to always have on you.

Available in a variety of colors, each charger has two USB ports that can charge two devices at the same time, so they’re useful for traveling with friends and family. But don’t just take it from me — these durable, slim portable chargers have over 75,000 five-star ratings at Amazon.

Tessan Universal Travel Adapter

Any frequent flier knows the value of a good travel adapter, and this Amazon one is one of my favorites. The plug works in over 150 countries, from Italy and Dubai to China and New Zealand — so you know that you’ll always be covered no matter how far you travel. It also comes with four USB ports that can charge up to five devices at a time. Because of its versatility, I was able to easily share it with members of my family, which significantly cut down the amount of arguments over outlets that we had during our trip. Compact and lightweight, it can easily fit into any carry-on or personal item, which is why it’s always one of the travel essentials I pack first.

Twelve South AirFly Bluetooth Wireless Audio Transmitter

I can never sleep on airplanes, so watching movies is one of the best ways for me to pass the long hours. The earphones they hand out on the airplanes have always bothered my ears, not to mention the subpar audio quality they provide that makes watching anything a frustrating experience. That’s why I was intrigued when I came across this traveler-loved, pocket-sized bluetooth audio transmitter . The Airfly device seamlessly connects your wireless earphones to the airplane’s seatback television (and can also be used to connect to tablets, hotel gym TVs, etc.), which has vastly improved my international flight experience.

The many flights and hours it took to reach India literally flew by (pun intended) because of this small but mighty device. I currently have the device that can only connect one pair of headphones, but I’m looking into purchasing the dual AirFly version for when I travel with my partner.

Béis The Mini Weekender Bag

This Mini Weekender has quickly become my favorite carry-on for international trips since I received it for Christmas. Durable, compact, and sleek, it’s perfect for maximizing your limited packing space when only traveling with carry-on items — there’s a reason why it’s universally loved by flight attendants .

It especially came in handy when returning from India, as it was able to hold the majority of the souvenirs that I had purchased during my two weeks there. Its structured bottom shoe compartment, which is trimmed with stylish vegan leather, was useful for holding all of my sandals, slippers, and flip-flops, which freed up much-needed space in my carry-on suitcase. I have trips to Ireland, Italy, Portugal, and Morocco planned within the next few months, and I’m looking into using compression packing cubes to maximize the Mini Weekender’s potential.

Ray-Ban Classic Aviator Sunglasses

The Ray-Ban classic aviators have been my go-to pair of sunglasses since I was 13, so it should come as no surprise that they came to India with me. They’re lightweight, easy to pack, and stylish — and, not to mention, great at shielding my eyes from the harsh sunlight. I have the gold-tinted shades that I chose to match my coloring and the gold jewelry that I always wear (us Italians really do love our gold).

Based on my experience, Ray-Ban sunglasses are worth the investment. I’ve had my pair for the last 13 years, and aside from a few small nicks, they still look brand new. But for those who don’t want to splurge, there’s this affordable Amazon-loved pair from the brand Pro Acme that’ll give you that same "Top Gun" feel.

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Roomy enough to carry everyday essentials, the best crossbody bags for travel give you the freedom to explore without having to lug your suitcase around. We researched the best crossbody bags for travel that offer both storage and style and selected the MZ Wallace Small Sutton Deluxe as our top pick. We also found other great options for different travel styles, like a spacious crescent bag for beach trips and a sleek sling bag for organization.

The best crossbody bags for travel give you the freedom to explore without having to lug your ... [+] suitcase around.

A solid crossbody bag is versatile and provides convenient hands-free storage for every situation. This 4-in-1 leather bag from Lo & Sons stylishly transitions from day to night, while Lululemon’s popular Everywhere Belt Bag can be worn on the hip or across the body. Meanwhile, active travelers will get great use out of the Nomatic Navigator Sling , which features a water bottle holder and a stabilizer strap. Below, the best crossbody bags for travel in a variety of price points, styles and materials.

Best Crossbody Bag For Travel Overall: MZ Wallace Small Sutton Deluxe
Best Affordable Crossbody Bag For Travel: Travelon Anti-Theft Classic Mini Shoulder Bag
Best Crossbody Bag For Organization: Aer Day Sling 3
Best Crossbody Bag For Parents: Hobo Sheila Large Satchel
Best Crossbody Bag For Beach Trips: Baggu Large Nylon Crescent Bag
Best Crossbody Bag For Active Trips: Nomatic Navigator Sling 6L
Most Versatile Crossbody Bag For Travel: Lo & Sons Waverley 2 in Nappa Leather
Best Belt Bag For Travel: Lululemon Everywhere Belt Bag 1 L
Best Crossbody Bag For Men: Cotopaxi Coso 2L Hip Pack
Best Leather Crossbody Bag For Travel: Quince Italian Leather Triple Compartment Crossbody

Best Crossbody Bag For Travel Overall

Lightweight, stylish storage, mz wallace small sutton deluxe.

Dimensions: 9.8 × 5.5 × 10.20 inches | Weight: 1.08 pounds | Materials: Recycled oxford (polyester, nylon), leather

With a handy key ring strap and five interior pockets, this versatile bag is perfect for staying organized during travel. It can be worn as a crossbody or top handle tote and its water-resistant oxford fabric won’t weigh you down on your journey. There’s an easy-to-adjust nylon strap for a customized fit and the detachable interior pouch is big enough to hold a pair of shoes, plus the ample pockets provide plenty of space for your phone, keys, tickets and more. It weighs only a pound but can fit a surprising amount of items, plus its plush fabric folds down for packing.

Best Affordable Crossbody Bag For Travel

Security features plus many pockets, travelon anti-theft classic mini shoulder bag.

Dimensions: 8.5 x 8.5 x 2.25 inches | Weight: 0.7 pounds | Materials: Polyester, nylon

Travelon’s Anti-Theft Classic Mini Shoulder Bag packs an impressive punch for being so small. Its six pockets keep everything where you need it—including an RFID-blocking passport and card interior organizer—while a tethered key caddy with an LED light eliminates that dreaded “can’t-find-it-in-my-bag” feeling. The 5-Point Anti-Theft security system protects against theft threats with slash-resistant fabric, lockable straps and secure zipper pulls. Not only will you feel safe wearing this bag, but thanks to its 13 colors and prints, you’ll also look stylish anywhere your trip may take you.

Best Crossbody Bag For Organization

A compact sling bag with room to spare, aer day sling 3.

Dimensions: 11.5 x 6 x 3 inches | Weight: 0.8 pounds | Materials: Cordura nylon

With a ballistic nylon exterior and a unique design that zips open for easy access, Aer’s Day Sling 3 is one of the more durable crossbody options out there. It has a 3L capacity that fits a surprising amount of items and its 8 pockets ensure everything stays in its place. There are multiple loops for strapping onto your luggage or storage and a handy front pocket with a key leash and cool security features like a secret back pocket. There’s also a sneaky Fidlock clasp that makes it harder for a pickpocket to snatch your bag.

Best Crossbody Bag For Parents

Extra space and storage for the whole family, hobo sheila large satchel.

Dimensions: 13.5 x 14 x 5.5 inches | Weight: 1.6 pounds | Materials: Raffia, leather

For parents or travelers who need to tote a lot of stuff on the go, a larger bag might be in order. Hobo’s Sheila Large Satchel offers nice organizational features and high style points. It’s made of a lightweight woven raffia with leather trim for added durability, plus its six interior pockets, key lanyard and accessible side exterior pocket are perfect for storing smaller items you may need throughout the day. Its main compartment is quite roomy, easily fitting a laptop, kid’s tablet, diaper wipes, snacks, toys, a backup outfit and more. The flexibility of its 3-in-1 styling really stands out—the adjustable strap can be worn as a crossbody, shortened for a shoulder bag or simply removed to transform into a classy top handle bag for a night out after the kiddos go to sleep.

Best Crossbody Bag For Beach Trips

Large and easy to wear for sandy days in the sun.

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Baggu Large Nylon Crescent Bag

Dimensions: 10.5 × 19.5 × 5.25 inches | Weight: N/A (not listed) | Materials: 100% recycled nylon

A beach bag calls for some pretty specific features: it needs to be durable and water-resistant, it should be big enough to hold bulky towels and ideally, it has a simple shape so sand won’t get lodged in the nooks and crannies. After much research, the Baggu Crescent Bag fits the bill. Its adjustable strap can be worn across the chest or as a tighter-fitting shoulder bag, the large size is roomy enough for a couple towels and a change of clothes and the zippered interior pocket keeps your wallet and keys secure. The quick-drying ripstop nylon is not only recycled, it’s also durable enough to withstand the windiest—and wettest—of beach days. Consider adding a few of Baggu’s fun printed flat pouches for additional organization.

Best Crossbody Bag For Active Trips

A durable sling with no detail spared, nomatic navigator sling 6l.

Dimensions: 13.5 x 9 x 4 inches | Weight: 1.3 pounds | Materials: 80% nylon, 20% polyester

Whether you’re hiking, biking or riding the metro, the Navigator Sling from Nomatic offers durability, storage and some impressive features. There’s a water bottle holder that zips away when not in use, a molded EVA back panel for wearable comfort and breathability, a tamper-resistant zipper and tech features like built-in tablet storage, an RFID-blocking pocket for your cards and a cord-pass through for charging your devices in different pockets. If you’re running or moving around a lot, there’s also a stabilizer strap that clips on to keep the sling even more secure to your body. Unlike some sling styles, this bag has multiple zippered storage compartments, the main one opening extra wide for easier access.

Most Versatile Crossbody Bag For Travel

Four ways to wear it.

Lo & Sons

Lo & Sons Waverley 2 in Nappa Leather

Dimensions: 5.6 x 8 x 2 inches | Weight: 0.6 pounds | Materials: Nappa, Saffiano or cactus leather

When you’re on the go, sometimes the last thing you want is to ruin the flow of the day by making a pit stop at the hotel to change out a bag before dinner. We like the Lo & Sons Waverley for its inventive versatility that adapts to your needs. The minimal leather design has an adjustable strap that can be worn 4 ways: as a hands-free belt bag, a longer crossbody, a casual shoulder bag or an elevated clutch with (or without) a wristlet. The main compartment is large enough for the essentials and the zippered inner pocket keeps smaller items secure no matter where your day—or night—takes you.

Best Belt Bag For Travel

Hands-free storage in a slim profile, lululemon everywhere belt bag 1 l.

Dimensions: 7.5 x 2 x 5 inches | Weight: N/A (not listed) | Materials: Nylon, recycled polyester

Over 22,500 reviewers agree: the Lululemon Everywhere Belt Bag is sleek, lightweight and versatile enough to be worn just about anywhere your travels take you. It has a water-repellant nylon exterior and one main compartment, three mesh interior pockets for added organization and a back zipper for your phone or cards. Its adjustable strap can tighten for comfortable wearing around your waist or it can be extended as a crossbody sling. With a 1L capacity, this bag is definitely on the smaller side, so you might want to consider their larger 2L size if you need more space.

Best Crossbody Bag For Men

Rugged looks for when you're on the go, cotopaxi coso 2l hip pack.

Dimensions: 11 x 7 x 3 inches | Weight: 10 ounces | Materials: Recycled nylon, recycled polyester

This easy-wearing hip pack from Cotopaxi combines an urban rugged look with smart storage solutions. The recycled nylon exterior is durable with a matte TPU coating, making it water-resistant and easy to clean, while a fleece interior pocket stores your phone or other small devices without any scratch risk. There’s multiple grab handles for easy carrying, secure pockets for smaller items and in addition to the main zippered compartment, the exterior front flap pocket can store a rolled-up lightweight jacket when you get warm on the go. G-hooks on both sides can be adjusted for customized storage and it can be comfortably worn as a crossbody on the front or back, or around the waist as a belt bag.

Best Leather Crossbody Bag For Travel

Three storage sections in a minimal package, quince italian leather triple compartment crossbody.

Dimensions: 7.8 x 9.5 x 3 inches | Weight: 1.54 pounds | Materials: Leather

Quince’s smooth Italian leather crossbody might look simple from the outside, but there’s actually a lot of unexpected storage inside. The bag has three main compartments—two zippered sections flanking one open area that closes with snaps—plus three internal zippered pockets to take your organization a step further. It also comes with two detachable straps that allow for crossbody or wristlet wear. Quince is known for its fair prices and ethical manufacturing process, and if that’s not impressive enough, the brand also offers a generous 365-day return policy.

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WorldTrips is the best cheap travel insurance company of 2024 based on our in-depth analysis of the cheapest travel insurance plans. Its Atlas Journey Preferred and Atlas Journey Premier plans offer affordable travel insurance with high limits for emergency medical and evacuation benefits bundled with good coverage for trip delays, travel inconvenience and missed connections.

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WorldTrips tops our rating of the cheapest travel insurance with two plans:

Atlas Journey Preferred is the cheaper travel insurance plan of the two, with $100,000 per person in emergency medical benefits as secondary coverage and an optional upgrade to primary coverage. It’s also our pick for the best travel insurance for cruises .
Atlas Journey Premier costs a little more but gives you $150,000 in travel medical insurance with primary coverage . This is a good option if health insurance for international travel is a priority.

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Atlas Journey Preferred is the cheapest of our 5-star travel insurance plans.
Atlas Journey Premier offers $150,000 in primary medical coverage.
Both plans have top-notch $1 million per person in medical evacuation coverage.
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Worldwide Trip Protector offers $1 million in emergency evacuation coverage per person and a rare $150,000 in non-medical evacuation per person. It also has primary coverage for travel medical insurance benefits, which means you won’t have to file medical claims with your health insurance first.
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Hurricane and weather coverage after a common carrier delay of any amount of time.
Only $50,000 per person emergency medical coverage.
Baggage delay coverage is only $200 and requires a 12-hour delay.

Best cheap travel insurance for seniors

Evacuation limit per person

Nationwide has the best cheap travel insurance for seniors — its Prime plan gets 4 stars in our best senior travel insurance rating. However, Nationwide’s Cruise Choice plan ranks higher in our best cheap travel insurance rating.

Cruise Choice has a $500 per person benefit if a cruise itinerary change causes you to miss a prepaid excursion. It also has a missed connections benefit of $1,500 per person after only a 3-hour delay, for cruises or tours. But note that this coverage is secondary coverage to any compensation provided by a common carrier.
Coverage for cruise itinerary changes, ship-based mechanical breakdowns and covered shipboard service disruptions.
Non-medical evacuation benefit of $25,000 per person.
Baggage loss benefits of $2,500 per person.
Travel medical coverage is secondary.
Trip cancellation benefit for losing your job requires three years of continuous employment.
No “cancel for any reason” (CFAR) upgrade available.
Missed connection coverage of $1,500 per person is only for tours and cruises, after a 3-hour delay.

Best cheap travel insurance for add-on options

AIG offers the best cheap travel insurance for add-on options because the Travel Guard Preferred plan allows you to customize your policy with a host of optional upgrades.

Travel Guard Preferred upgrades include “cancel for any reason” (CFAR) coverage , rental vehicle damage coverage and bundles that offer additional benefits for adventure sports, travel inconvenience, quarantine, pets, security and weddings. There’s also a medical bundle that increases the travel medical benefit to $100,000 and emergency evacuation to $1 million.
Bundle upgrades allow you to customize your affordable travel insurance policy.
Emergency medical and evacuation limits can be doubled with optional upgrade.
Base travel insurance policy has relatively low medical limits.
$300 baggage delay benefit requires a 12-hour delay.
Optional CFAR upgrade only reimburses up to 50% of trip cost.

Best cheap travel insurance for missed connections

TravelSafe has the best cheap travel insurance for missed connections because coverage is not limited to cruises and tours, as it is with many policies.

Best-in-class $2,500 per person in missed connection coverage.
$1 million per person in medical evacuation and $25,000 in non-medical evacuation coverage.
Generous $2,500 per person baggage and personal items loss benefit.
Most expensive of the best cheap travel insurance plans.
No “interruption for any reason” coverage available.
Weak baggage delay coverage of $250 per person after 12 hours.

Cheapest travel insurance comparison

How much does the cheapest travel insurance cost.

The cheapest travel insurance in our rating is $334. This is for a WorldTrips Atlas Journey Preferred travel insurance plan, based on the average of seven quotes for travelers of various ages to international destinations with a range of trip values.

Factors that determine travel insurance cost

There are several factors that determine the cost of travel insurance, including:

Age and number of travelers being insured.
Trip length.
Total trip cost.
The travel insurance plan you choose.
The travel insurance company.
Any add-ons, features or upgraded benefits you include in the travel insurance plan.

Expert tip: “In general, travelers can expect to pay anywhere from 4% to 10% of their total prepaid, non-refundable trip costs,” said Suzanne Morrow, CEO of InsureMyTrip.

Is buying the cheapest travel insurance a good idea?

Choosing cheaper travel insurance without paying attention to what a plan covers and excludes could leave you underinsured for your trip. Comparing travel insurance plans side-by-side can help ensure you get enough coverage to protect yourself financially in an emergency for the best price.

For example, compare these two Travelex travel insurance plans:

Travel Basic is cheaper but it only provides up to $15,000 for emergency medical expense coverage. You’ll also have to pay extra for coverage for children.
Travel Select will cost you a bit more but it covers up to $50,000 in medical expenses and includes coverage for kids aged 17 and younger traveling with you. It also offers upgrades such additional medical coverage, “cancel for any reason” (CFAR) coverage and an adventure sports rider that may be a good fit for your trip.

Reasons to consider paying more for travel insurance

Make sure you understand what you’re giving up if you buy the cheapest travel insurance. Here are a few reasons you may consider paying a little extra for better coverage.

Emergency medical. The best travel medical insurance offers primary coverage for emergency medical benefits. Travel insurance with primary coverage can cost more than secondary coverage but will save you from having to file a claim with your health insurance company before filing a travel insurance claim.
Emergency evacuation. If you’re traveling to a remote location or planning a boat excursion on your trip, look at travel insurance with a high medical evacuation insurance limit. If you are injured while traveling, transportation to the nearest adequate medical facility could cost in the tens to hundreds of thousands. It may make sense to pay more for travel insurance with robust emergency evacuation coverage.
Flexibility. To maximize your trip flexibility, you might consider upgrading your travel insurance to “ cancel for any reason” (CFAR) coverage . This will increase the cost of your travel insurance but allow you to cancel your trip for any reason — not just those listed in your policy. The catch is that you’ll need to cancel at least 48 hours before your trip and will only be reimbursed 50% or 75% of your trip expenses, depending on the plan.
Upgrades. Many travel insurance plans have optional extras like car rental collision and adventure sports (which may otherwise be excluded from coverage). These will cost you extra but may give you the coverage you need.

How to find the cheapest travel insurance

The best way to find the cheapest travel insurance is to determine what you’re looking for in a travel insurance policy and compare plans that meet your needs.

“Travel insurance isn’t one-size-fits-all. Every trip is different, and every traveler has different needs, wants and concerns. This is why comparison is key,” said Morrow.

Consider the following factors when comparing cheap travel insurance plans.

How often you’re traveling. A single-trip policy may be the most cost-effective if you’re only going on a single trip this year. But a multi-trip travel insurance plan may be cheaper if you’re going on multiple international trips throughout the year. Annual travel insurance policies cover you for a whole year as long as each trip doesn’t exceed a certain number of days, usually 30 to 90 days.
Credit card has travel insurance benefits. The best credit cards offer perks and benefits, and many offer travel insurance-specific benefits. The coverage types and benefit limits can vary, and you must put the entire trip cost on the credit card to use the coverage. If your trip costs more than the coverage limit on your card, you can supplement the rest with a cheaper travel insurance plan.
The coverage you need. When looking for the best travel insurance option at the most affordable price, only buy extras and upgrades you really need. A basic plan may only provide up to $500 in baggage insurance, but if you only plan to take $300 worth of clothes and accessories, you don’t need to pay more for higher coverage limits.

Is cheap travel insurance worth it?

Cheap travel insurance can be worth it, as long as you understand the plan limitations and exclusions. Taking the time to read your policy, especially the fine print, well before your trip can ensure there won’t be any surprises about what’s covered once your journey begins.

“If a traveler is looking for coverage for travel delays, cancellations, interruptions, medical and baggage — a comprehensive travel insurance policy will provide the most bang for their buck,” said Morrow. But if you’re on a tight budget and are only worried about emergency medical care and evacuation coverage while traveling abroad, stand-alone options are cheaper.

Before buying travel insurance, you should also consider what your health insurance will cover.

“Most domestic health insurance plans, including Medicare, will not cover medical bills abroad,” said Morrow. Even if you’re staying stateside, you may find value in an affordable travel insurance plan with medical coverage if you have a high-deductible health plan (HDHP).

A cheap travel insurance plan is better than none at all if you end up in a situation that would have covered some or all of your prepaid, nonrefundable trip expenses.

Methodology

Our insurance experts reviewed 1,855 coverage details and 567 rates to determine the best travel insurance . From those top-scoring travel insurance plans, we chose the most affordable for our rating of the cheapest travel insurance.

Insurers could score up to 100 points based on the following factors:

Cost: 40 points. We scored the average cost of each travel insurance policy for a variety of trips and traveler profiles.
Medical expenses: 10 points. We scored travel medical insurance by the coverage amount available. Travel insurance policies with emergency medical expense benefits of $250,000 or more per person were given the highest score of 10 points.
Medical evacuation: 10 points. We scored each plan’s emergency medical evacuation coverage by coverage amount. Travel insurance policies with medical evacuation expense benefits of $500,000 or more per person were given the highest score of 10 points.
Pre-existing medical condition exclusion waiver: 10 points. We gave full points to travel insurance policies that cover pre-existing medical conditions if certain conditions are met.
Missed connection: 10 points. Travel insurance plans with missed connection benefits of $1,000 per person or more received full points.
“Cancel for any reason” upgrade: 5 points. We gave points to travel insurance plans with optional “cancel for any reason” coverage that reimburses up to 75%.
Travel delay required waiting time: 5 points. We gave 5 points to travel insurance policies with travel delay benefits that kick in after a delay of 6 hours or less.
Cancel for work reasons: 5 points. If a travel insurance plan allows you to cancel your trip for work reasons, such as your boss requiring you to stay and work, we gave it 5 points.
Hurricane and severe weather: 5 points. Travel insurance plans that have a required waiting period for hurricane and weather coverage of 12 hours or less received 5 points.

Some travel insurance companies may offer plans with additional benefits or lower prices than the plans that scored the highest, so make sure to compare travel insurance quotes to see your full range of options.

Cheapest travel insurance FAQs

When buying travel insurance, cheapest is not always the best. The most affordable travel insurance plans typically offer fewer coverages with lower policy limits and few or no optional upgrades. Add up your total nonrefundable trip costs and compare travel insurance plans and available features that cover your travel expenses. This strategy can help you find the cheapest travel insurance policy that best protects you from financial loss if an unforeseen circumstance arises.

Get the coverage you need: Best travel insurance of 2024

According to our analysis, WorldTrips , Travel Insured International and Travelex offer the best cheap travel insurance. Policy coverage types and limits can vary by each travel insurance provider, so the best way to get the cheapest travel insurance plan is to compare several policies and companies to find the right fit for your budget.

A good rate for travel insurance depends on your budget and coverage needs. The most comprehensive travel insurance plan is usually not the cheapest. But cheap trip insurance may not have enough coverage or the types of coverage you want. Comparing different levels of coverage and how much they cost can help you find the best cheap insurance for travel.

The average cost of travel insurance is between 5% to 6% of your total travel expenses for one trip, according to our analysis of rates. However, you may find cheaper travel insurance if you opt for a plan with fewer benefits or lower coverage limits. How much you pay for travel insurance will also depend on the number of travelers covered, their ages, the length of the trip and any upgrades you add to your plan.

Travel insurance covers nonrefundable, prepaid trip costs — up to the policy coverage limits — when your trip is interrupted or canceled for a covered reason outlined in your plan documents. Even the cheapest travel insurance policies usually provide coverage for:

Medical emergencies.
Trip delays.
Trip interruption.
Trip cancellation.
Lost, stolen or damaged luggage.

However, if you’re looking to save on travel insurance, you can shop for a policy that only has travel medical insurance and does not include benefits for trip cancellation .

Even when you buy cheap travel insurance, you can often use upgrade options to customize your policy to meet your specific needs.

Some common travel insurance add-ons you may want to consider include:

Rental car damage coverage.
Medical bundle.
Security bundle.
Accidental death and dismemberment coverage.
Adventure sports bundle.
Pet bundle.
Wedding bundle.
“Cancel for work reasons” coverage.
“Interruption for any reason” (IFAR) coverage.
“Cancel for any reason” (CFAR) coverage .

Blueprint is an independent publisher and comparison service, not an investment advisor. The information provided is for educational purposes only and we encourage you to seek personalized advice from qualified professionals regarding specific financial decisions. Past performance is not indicative of future results.

Blueprint has an advertiser disclosure policy . The opinions, analyses, reviews or recommendations expressed in this article are those of the Blueprint editorial staff alone. Blueprint adheres to strict editorial integrity standards. The information is accurate as of the publish date, but always check the provider’s website for the most current information.

Mandy is an insurance writer who has been creating online content since 2018. Before becoming a full-time freelance writer, Mandy spent 15 years working as an insurance agent. Her work has been published in Bankrate, MoneyGeek, The Insurance Bulletin, U.S. News and more.

Heidi Gollub is the USA TODAY Blueprint managing editor of insurance. She was previously lead editor of insurance at Forbes Advisor and led the insurance team at U.S. News & World Report as assistant managing editor of 360 Reviews. Heidi has an MBA from Emporia State University and is a licensed property and casualty insurance expert.

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