“The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.”
“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
“I know I am planning to visit a "land" that is not entirely foreign, only foreign to me. As an adventurer, I am on a journey that I believe will last me my whole life. A new relationship, discovery, or awareness excites me.”
“Life is a journey through a foreign land.”
“Foreign lands never yield their secrets to a traveller. The best they offer are tantalising snippets, just enough to inflame the imagination. The secrets they do reveal are your own - the ones you have kept from yourself. And this is reason enough to travel, to leave home.”
“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.”