“Embrace the prospect of being a tourist. Some snooty types will tell you that they’re ‘travelers’, not tourists. But if being a tourist means wanting to see all the attractions that make a town unique, then what’s so bad about that?”

~ Pico Iyer, in 10 Things Every Traveler Should Do

 “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

 

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

~ Mary Anne Radmacher Hershey