New things
“For mine is a generation that circles the globe and searches for something we haven't tried before. So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite and never outstay the welcome. Just keep your mind open and suck in the experience. And if it hurts, you know what? It's probably worth it." -- Alex Garland, "The Beach"
Internal discoveries
"One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things." -- Henry Miller, "Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch."
Packing
"Packing up. The nagging worry of departure. Lost keys, unwritten labels, tissue paper lying on the floor. I hate it all. Even now, when I have done so much of it, when I live, as the saying goes, in my boxes. Even to-day, when shutting drawers and flinging wide a hotel wardrobe, or the impersonal shelves of a furnished villa, is a methodical matter of routine, I am aware of sadness, of a sense of loss. Here, I say, we have lived, we have been happy. This has been ours, however brief the time. Though two nights only have been spent beneath a roof, yet we leave something of ourselves behind. Nothing material, not a hair-pin on a dressing-table, not an empty bottle of aspirin tablets, not a handkerchief beneath a pillow, but something indefinable, a moment of our lives, a thought, a mood. This house sheltered us, we spoke, we loved within those walls. That was yesterday. To-day we pass on, we see it no more, and we are different, changed in some infinitesimal way. We can never be quite the same again." -- Daphne du Maurier, "Rebecca."
http://www.cnngo.com/explorations/escape/literary-travel-quotes-292552
2. Fame
“The cool thing about being famous is traveling. I have always wanted to travel across seas, like to Canada and stuff.” -- Britney Spears, American pop star
3. American tourists
"There's nothing American tourists like more than the things they can get at home." -- Stephen Colbert, talk show host
10. Passport photos
“Airplane travel is nature’s way of making you look like your passport photo.” -- Al Gore, environmental activist
12. Taking photos
“When you hand someone a camera, why do they act like you just asked them to dissemble a bomb? They take it and they're like, 'What do I do … I don’t really ... ha-huh ...' Yeah, it’s the button on the top right where it always is since the beginning of #*@! time!” -- Dane Cook, comedian
