“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” - Mark Twain
Wednesday, July 08, 2009
Top 10
Leslie, the Fulbrighter currently at Temasco in Ghana has posted top-10 lists of things she'll most and least miss about Ghana. I tend to think that I will agree with her #1 least missed.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. ~Mark Twain
The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway. ~Henry Boye
The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see. ~G.K. Chesterton
I met a lot of people in Europe. I even encountered myself. ~James Baldwin
If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home. ~James Michener
Travelers never think that they are the foreigners. ~Mason Cooley
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
It is not down in any map; true places never are. ~Herman Melville
The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes "sight-seeing." ~Daniel J. Boorstin
A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. ~Lao Tzu
Thanks to the Interstate Highway System, it is now possible to travel across the country from coast to coast without seeing anything. ~Charles Kuralt, On the Road With Charles Kuralt
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 World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. ~St. Augustine
2 comments:
eeeew. the bugs sound kinda nasty! when do you leave?
We depart the morning of September 1st !
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