“Anyone who travels also understands that this world is impossibly big while being surprisingly small and interconnected all at the same time. We’re humbled by what we’ve seen, and we know full-well that we’re not the biggest fish in the sea.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“We know it’s rude to point the bottom of your feet at someone in Thailand, we understand how to shake someone’s hand in Southern Africa, and we grasp that it’s important to say, ‘Bonjour’ when entering a store in France.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“Corporations negotiate with millions and travelers do so with dollars and cents – volume is really the only difference.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“The place to find the perfect out-of-the-box thinkers, problem solvers, and movers and shakers is the arrivals hall at an international airport.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“I don’t see ‘settling down’ as the end goal for my life. Maybe I’ll get married and have children and maybe I won’t.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“These days I spend more time in countries that are statically safer by a long-shot than the USA, so by leaving home I am actually decreasing the chances of something sinister happening.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“Each time I walk into a hostel I make five new friends, each time a local takes interest in why I’m alone, I get invited to a family dinner or a cool local ceremony.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“Maybe those around you expressed concern or tried to talk you out of it, because the idea of a girl traveling on her own still, unfortunately, draws some skepticism.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“America, we need more cities organized like those in Europe. Sorry, BP, you (and your profits) can suck an egg.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“But though I had an anchor, I did not think to bring a compass.”— Alex R. Jones, narrativemagazine.com
“Ah, you hate to see another tired man Lay down his hand like he was giving up the holy game of poker And while he talks his dreams to sleep you notice there's a highway That is curling up like smoke above his shoulder It is curling just like smoke above his shoulder”— Leonard Cohen, amazon.com
“I want to touch every grain of sand on every beach and swim in every ocean so I can tell you how different the waters are. I want to learn to say hello in every language and sleep under different skylines so I can tell you how different the stars are. I want to the hear the magic that I know is in t…”— Claire Windsor, thoughtcatalog.com
“Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease.”— Naguib Mahfouz, pinterest.com