Why I Travel

I can't express very well in my own words how much I value travel and the experience and knowledge it brings to me.  I feel that until I moved abroad, I was missing part of myself.  Travel is now an essential piece of who I am.

These quotes say it best.  

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."
- Augustine of Hippo

"Ones destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."
- Henry Miller

“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

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

“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

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

“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? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria's mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.” 
- Anthony Bourdain

“See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.” 
- Ray Bradbury

“It’s funny. When you leave your home and wander really far, you always think, ‘I want to go home.’ But then you come home, and of course it’s not the same. You can’t live with it, you can’t live away from it. And it seems like from then on there’s always this yearning for some place that doesn’t exist. I felt that. Still do. I’m never completely at home anywhere.” 
- Danzy Senna