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
I think I caught this so-called travel bug when I took my first trip overseas as a one year old. And I continued to travel during my school years with my family almost every summer.
Then when I turned 17, we took traveling to another level: long-term traveling. My mom, dad, younger brother and I took a two year trip around the world. We sold our home and most of our belongings and slowly traveled through South America then to Europe and to Asia via the Transmongolian Railway, New Zealand then back to the US. By the time I was 21, I’d been to over 30 countries.
I learned valuable lessons through traveling as a kid and teenager that I don’t think I could’ve learned any other way. There were so many lessons like learning to appreciate the world and people of all cultures, to appreciate and be thankful for what I have, to learn to go with the flow and to value experiences over material things. I also picked up Spanish and a basic amount of Mandarin Chinese by attending intensive classes and interacting with locals. But most importantly, I learned the importance of family and how traveling can enrich those relationships.
This is why I always encourage families to travel together. When I tell my story, I hear parents tell me that they wish they could also travel with their kids. I tell them to do everything they can to make it happen. I will always be grateful to my parents for introducing me to travel at a young age because it made me who I am today.
So if you need a little inspiration, here’s a list of family travel quotes to inspire the whole family to travel.
Travel Quotes About Making Memories Together
As mentioned, one of the main things I learned from traveling as a kid and teenager is to value experiences over material things. I don’t remember much about what I was wearing, what I bought or what I brought with me on my two year around the world trip, but there are countless memories I can recall, laugh about and reminiscence together with my parents and brother like when we took a helicopter over the Iguazu Falls, went horseback riding in Mongolia and ate guinea pig in Ecuador.
In the end, kids won’t remember that fancy toy you bought them, they will remember the time you spent with them. – Kevin Heath
Every day we make deposits in the memory banks of our children. – Charles R Swindoll
People forget the years and remember moments. – Ann Beattie
Teaching kids to count is fine, but teaching them what counts is best. – Bob Talbert
The greatest legacy we can leave our children is happy memories. – Og Mandino
I have found out that there ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them. – Mark Twain
Two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings. – Hodding Carter
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
Traveling in the company of those we love is home in motion. – Leigh Hunt
Travel Quotes About Learning and Alternative Education
I took a non-traditional route for my education. I went to high school part time and did extra classes online to graduate early so I could take a two year gap year and travel. I remember more things I learned during my time of traveling than I did from sitting down within four walls of a classroom.
The best education you will ever get is traveling. Nothing teaches you more than exploring the world and accumulating experiences. – Mark Paterson
The best education I have ever received was through travel. – Lisa Ling
Travel in the younger sort is a part of education; in the elder, a part of experience. – Francis Bacon
Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning. – Harvey Lloyd
Travel teaches as much as books. – Youssou N’Dour
With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding. – Sandra Lake
Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all. – Aristotle
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page. – Saint Augustine
Travel is like knowledge. The more you see the more you know you haven’t seen. – Mark Hertsgaard
Travel is the best teacher. The only way to an open mind is by taking a plane out into the open world. – C. JoyBell C.
Experience, travel – these are an education in themselves. – Euripides
Quotes About Curiosity
On a similar note, travel helps us become more curious and want to learn more and understand the world better. This is something valuable for children to have and makes life more fun.
Travel sparks our imagination, feeds our curiosity, and reminds us how much we all have in common. – Deborah Lloyd
Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures. – Lovelle Drachman
Curiosity is the wick in the candle of learning. – William Arthur Ward
Beware of monotony; it’s the mother of all the deadly sins. – Edith Wharton
I am neither clever nor especially gifted. I am only very, very curious. – Albert Einstein
Travel Quotes from Children’s Books and Authors
As a bibliophile, I had to include some of these travel quotes that are found in children’s books like Winnie the Pooh and Peter Pan and from other authors too.
To move, to breathe, to fly, to float, to gain all while you give. To roam the roads of lands remote: To travel is to live. – Hans Christian Andersen (The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography)
It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy… Let’s go exploring! – Bill Watterson (It’s a Magical World, Calvin and Hobbes)
From there to here, and here to there, funny things are everywhere. – Dr. Seuss (One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish)
Leave no path untaken. – Neil Gaiman (The Graveyard Book)
One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind. – Charles Dickens (Little Dorrit)
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease forever to be able to do it. – J. M. Barrie (Peter Pan)
As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen. – A. A. Milne (Winnie the Pooh)
Oh the places you’ll go. – Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You’ll Go!)
Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures. – Lewis Carroll (Alice in Wonderland)
It is not down in any map; true places never are. – Herman Melville (Moby Dick)
There are far, far better things ahead than any we leave behind. – C.S. Lewis (author of The Chronicles of Narnia)
San Francisco has only one drawback. ‘Tis hard to leave. – Rudyard Kipling (author of The Jungle Book)
Not all those who wander are lost. – J.R.R. Tolkien (The Fellowship of the Ring)
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