I’ve been to Uganda and to North Korea and to Eritrea, countless horror spots around the world.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

Buy the ticket, take the ride.

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

The penalty for getting mugged in an American city and losing your ID is that you can’t fly home.

Here ends my forever memorable first High Sierra excursion. I have crossed the Range of Light, surely the brightest and best of all the Lord has built. And, rejoicing in its glory, I gladly, gratefully, hopefully pray I may see it again.

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

There is no way I would ask others to go on a Virgin Galactic flight if I didn’t feel it was safe enough for myself.

Fifty years of isolating Cuba had failed to promote democracy, setting us back in Latin America. That’s why we restored diplomatic relations, opened the door to travel and commerce, and positioned ourselves to improve the lives of the Cuban people.

I like to combine visits to more than one place when I go on my international tours in order to get more done. I’m from Ahmedabad where we have a saying, ‚Single-fare, double journey.‘

I’ll bring my grits when I travel, because I get so hungry on the road.

A man who has not been in Italy, is always conscious of an inferiority.

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.

Adventures are to the adventurous.

In Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.

I don’t watch television and I rarely go to the cinema, but I recently watched ‚The King’s Speech‘ on a flight. It was so beautiful and so simple.

I have been on the road and visited numerous places and met people from all over the globe. I can say that it looks nearly the same everywhere I have been: The climate crisis is ignored by people in charge, despite the science being crystal clear.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

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.

I went by myself to Hollywood, I spoke no English, every day I had to go to school.

Wherever I go, as long as I get a hot vegetable dish, I am okay. If I am in Gujarat, I have Gujarati food. If it’s Shillong, it’s northeastern.

I can’t even speak Hawaiian, but if you go there and listen to a Hawaiian song, you get captured because it’s so beautiful, like the melody is just gorgeous and you know Bob Marley is on the radio every single day. It’s very reggae-influenced down there. Basically, you haven’t been to paradise if you haven’t been to Hawaii.

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur’s cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master’s car.

Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.

No place is better than Akron.

A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it.

When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.

However, because Britain is young and exciting, I did show my second line here once or twice.

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

I love traveling all over the world; but it’s true: there’s nothing like home.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

When good Americans die they go to Paris.

On vacations: We hit the sunny beaches where we occupy ourselves keeping the sun off our skin, the saltwater off our bodies, and the sand out of our belongings.

I once went on the most grueling radio tour. Living in hotel rooms, sleeping in the backs of rental cars as my mom drove to three different cities in one day.

Big stuff and little: learning how to order breakfast in a country where I don’t speak the language and haven’t been before – that’s really satisfying to me. I like that.

If I’m in Rome for only 48 hours, I would consider it a sin against God to not eat cacio e pepe, the most uniquely Roman of pastas, in some crummy little joint where Romans eat. I’d much rather do that than go to the Vatican. That’s Rome to me.

Sometimes the greatest meals on vacations are the ones you find when Plan A falls through.

I make good music for long journeys.

The worst way of flying, I think, is standby. It never works. That’s why they call it standby. You end up standing there going, ‚Bye!‘

I really miss having a routine because now I’ve been on the road constantly for several months. I like routines, so it would be nice to get those routines back.

When I have been travelling around to speak in different countries, I am always offered help to write about the specific climate policies in specific countries. But that is not really necessary. Because the basic problem is the same everywhere.

The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small dug-outs without a sail. Such are their canoes. I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango.

I’ve always been a bit of a gypsy.

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about – having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

I’ll live in Puerto Rico until the day I die.

I’ve been everywhere in the world, seen everything, had everything a man can have.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

I’ve been to those places where it’s ‚poor, pitiful me.‘

More understand China, then more people will have interest in China and more people will come to China to visit us because I am a tourist ambassador.

Over the last 15 months, we’ve traveled to every corner of the United States. I’ve now been in 57 states? I think one left to go.

Capitalism has worked very well. Anyone who wants to move to North Korea is welcome.

You’d have a hard time finding anything better than Barcelona for food, as far as being a hub. Given a choice between Barcelona and San Sebastian to die in, I’d probably want to die in San Sebastian.

Let me recommend the best medicine in the world: a long journey, at a mild season, through a pleasant country, in easy stages.

There is nothing more miserable in the world than to arrive in paradise and look like your passport photo.

Any East Coast road trip we have is very exciting, just being on the road, taking it all in.

Hong Kong is a wonderful, mixed-up town where you’ve got great food and adventure. First and foremost, it’s a great place to experience China in a relatively accessible way.

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

As I got older, my pops tried to keep me involved with the culture by telling me the stories of the conflict between Ethiopia and Eritrea, how he came to America, and about our family back home, because all that side of my family – my aunties, grandparents – is in Africa.

I became a beach bum.

Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time.

I think it’s a very good thing to leave your country and look at it from afar.