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24 Quotes to Inspire You to Pack Your Bags and Travel the World

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Traveling has been my one true passion in life. It keeps you on your toes, forces you to open your eyes and see the world from a different perspective, and accept things as they come. It also reminds you about what truly matters in life – the people you surround yourself with and the joy that comes from living in the moment.

It is so easy to get swept away in the routine of things and, before you know it, weeks, months or even years have passed by, and you have nothing to show for it. I’ve heard so many people in my life saying “Yeah, I’ll go travel, but first I need to __________.” But once you accomplish whatever that is, then there’s always another obstacle, another goal. That’s human nature.

But if you keep putting it off, one day you’ll wake up realizing that you missed your opportunity. Sure, perhaps you can go traveling once you’ve saved up a lot of money or are retired, but will those experiences be the same as if you had gone while you were still young and able-bodied? Traveling takes courage, especially if you want to do it long-term. But it is worth it.

I spent my first two years abroad making next to nothing, and yet I visited 10 new countries and met some amazing people along the way, including my husband. I will hold these memories forever in my heart, and I look forward to exploring the world even more – there’s still so much left to see! Each country I visit teaches me something new, both about the world and about myself, and these experiences and lessons are invaluable – I wouldn’t trade them for anything.

So, what are you waiting for? Read through some of my favorite travel quotes to motivate you to take the plunge and live your life the way you’ve always wanted it to be!

“and then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – randy komisar, “man is born to live, not to prepare to live.” – boris pasterna, “i see my path, but i don’t know where it leads. not knowing where i’m going is what inspires me to travel it.’ – rosalia de castro, “be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” – jennifer lee, “a journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. and all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. we find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.” – john steinbeck, “a good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – lao tzu, “we live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm, and adventure. there is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – jawaharial nehru, “traveling is a brutality. it forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. you are constantly off balance. nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – cesare pavese, “travel isn’t always pretty. it isn’t always comfortable. sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. but that’s okay. the journey changes you- it should change you. it leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. you take something with you… hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – anthony bourdain, “travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – paolo coelho, “our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – lawrence block, “unexpected travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god.” – kurt vonnegut, jr., “because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. climb that goddamn mountain.” – jack kerouac, “during the first period of a man’s life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.” – soren kierkegaard, “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. suddenly you are five years old again. you can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” – bill bryson, “if you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – james michener, “i may not have gone where i intended to go, but i think i have ended up where i needed to be.” – douglas adams, “to my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – bill bryson, “perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – maya angelou, “life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – neale donald walsch, “the difference between a tourist and a traveler is that a tourist doesn’t know where he’s been and a traveler doesn’t know where he’s going.”, “you must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment.” – thoreau, “a ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not what ships are for.” – william shedd, “twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. so throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. catch the trade winds in your sails. explore. dream. discover.” – mark twain, do you have any other quotes that inspire you share them below i’d love to hear about all of your experiences, happy travels i hope this inspired you to work towards the things that truly matter in life. your happiness is the most important thing in this world – go find it ., other articles you might enjoy:.

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Traveling is like flirting with life. It's like saying, 'I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.

Don't let your luggage define your travels, each life unravels differently.

Memories are who we are. In the end, that's all the luggage you take with you. Love and Memories are what last.

I love flying. I've been to almost as many places as my luggage.

Lost luggage is just an opportunity to start afresh.

Running through airports with pounds of luggage - that's a good workout.

When it comes to luggage, I am an underpacker.

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.

If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.

I haven't been everywhere, but it's on my list.

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.

The scientific theory I like best is that the rings of Saturn are composed entirely of lost airline luggage.

Never have anyone else carry your luggage. Pack only what you need.

Did you ever notice that the first piece of luggage on the carousel never belongs to anyone?

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Watch your step.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with a cash advance.

So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the view from the top of Machu Picchu probably doesn't make up for the hassle of lost luggage. (More often than not, I need a holiday after my holiday.) We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.

Orville Wright said to his brother, "Wilbur, you were only in the air for 12 seconds. How could my luggage be in Cleveland?"

I've learned that you can tell a lot about a person by the way (s)he handles these three things: a rainy day, lost luggage, and tangled Christmas tree lights.

The federal government said today they've begun training sessions for airport security workers to provide what they call more customer satisfaction to the travels, they want to make it easier for us. They're instructing security guards to glance at your luggage tags so that they can call you by your first name. Isn't that creepy? The guy touching your wife, calling her by her first name.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

I want to travel on a train that smells like snowflakes. I want to sip in cafes that smell like comets. Under the pressure of my step, I want the streets to emit the precise odor of a diamond necklace. I want the newspapers I read to smell like the violins left in pawnshops by weeping hobos on Christmas Eve. I want to carry luggage that reeks of the neurons in Einstein's brain. I want a city's gases to smell like the golden belly hairs of the gods. And when I gaze at a televised picture of the moon, I want to detect, from a distance of 239,000 miles, the aroma of fresh mozzarella.

Although he travels all day, the sage never loses sight of his luggage carts.

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54 Travel Quotes That Will Inspire You To Pack Your Bags

From funny to inspirational, these quotes will fuel your wanderlust.

Whether you're an avid traveler or dreaming of your first big trip, these travel quotes reflect the spirit of travel, offering insights and motivations for your next journey from authors, poets, and philosophers.

Short Travel Quotes

• "Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow." — Anita Desai
• “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen
• "Travel brings power and love back into your life." — Rumi Jalalud-Din
• “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” ― St. Augustine
• “The journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step.” ― Lao Tzu
• "I read; I travel; I become." ― Derek Walcott
• "Adventure is worthwhile." — Aesop
• "To travel is to evolve." — Pierre Bernardo
• "Not all those who wander are lost." — J.R.R. Tolkien
• "Travel far, travel often, and travel without regrets." — Oscar Wilde
• "An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered." — G.K. Chesterton
• "To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice." — Elizabeth Gilbert
• “Oh, the places you’ll go!” – Dr. Suess 
• “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller
• “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Erica Jong
• “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” ― Anita Desai

Related: 40 Happiness Quotes To Make You Smile

Inspirational Travel Quotes 

• "Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world." — Gustave Flaubert
• “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” ― David Mitchell
• "I am one of those who never knows the direction of my journey until I have almost arrived." — Anna Louise Strong
• "The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself." — Wallace Stevens
• "One’s destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things." — Henry Miller
• "Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest." — Freya Stark
• "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not." — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• "This is what holidays, travels, vacations are about. It is not really rest or even leisure we chase. “We strain to renew our capacity to wonder, to shock ourselves into astonishment once again." — Shana Alexander
• "Happiness is not a station you arrive at, but a manner of traveling." — Margaret Lee Runbeck
• "We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls." —Anaïs Nin
• “Do not follow where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust
• “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

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Vacation Quotes 

• “No man needs a vacation so much as the man who has just had one.” ― Elbert Hubbard
• “After all, the best part of a holiday is perhaps not so much to be resting yourself, as to see all the other fellows busy working.” ― Kenneth Grahame 
• “When all else fails, take a vacation.” ― Betty Williams
• “In matters of healing the body or the mind, vacation is a true genius!” ― Mehmet Murat ildan
• “Here's to a vacation of no regrets!” ― Joan Rylen
• "I can lie around and relax at home. A vacation is a chance for doing.”― Tessa Bailey
• “Well, I think every day’s a vacation for me. When you really, really like what you’re working on, it’s like always being on vacation.” ― Andy Warhol
• “Reading is just a vacation you pay less for, with an agenda you have no control over.” ― J.S. Wik
• “What I needed in the moment was a family vacation.” ― Deena Kastor

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Funny Travel Quotes 

• "Jet lag is for amateurs." — Dick Clark
• "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
• “Don’t tell me the sky’s the limit when there are footprints on the moon.” – Paul Brandt
• “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux
• “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck
• “There is nothing safer than flying—it’s crashing that is dangerous.” –Theo Cowan
• “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” –Paulo Coelho
• “Don’t live the same year 75 times and call it a life.” –Robin S. Sharma
• “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” –Susan Sontag
• “Boy, those French. They have a different word for everything.” –Steve Martin
• “Adventure, yeah. I guess that’s what you call it when everybody comes back alive.” –Mercedes Lackey
• “Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia.” – Charles M. Schulz
• “Drink heavily with the locals whenever possible.” – Anthony Bourdain
• “The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” – Russell Baker

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15 Best Packing Quotes to Remind you to Pack Light and Smart

Last Updated on: May 16, 2024  

There are some who loves packing for a trip and usually excel at it. They can actually utilize the space in the suitcase or bag with nicely folded clothes and compartments for different types of articles. And then there are people like me who are absolutely terrible at packing! But whatever you pack for a trip, it is always advised to pack light. So here is a list of packing quotes that might help with your packing woes.

Yes, sometime I take a look at them when I really do not want to do the packing, the trip starts the next day.

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Best Packing Quotes

1 . “just in case” is the curse of packing. – alexandra potter.

2. If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness and fears. – Cesare Pavese

3. when preparing to climb a mountain – pack a light heart. – dan may, 4. let your memory be your travel bag. – alexander solzhenitsyn, 5. when preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. then take half the clothes and twice the money – susan heller.

6. Travel light. Live light. Spread the light. Be the light. – Yogi Bhajan

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7. I’m very bad at packing. It ends up being a circus, throwing everything in there. You never want to come up short. – Drew Storen

8. on a long journey even a straw weighs heavy. – spanish proverb.

9. If I’d known how much packing I’d have to do, I’d have run again. – Harry S Truman

10. i have learnt that i am incapable of packing the right amount of clothing, probably because i start 10 minutes before i’m supposed to leave, and that i truly hate airports. – marcus brigstocke, 11. he who would travel happily must travel light. – antoine de saint-exupéry.

12. I enjoy the preparatory elements of travel – packing my bags and choosing my outfits – but my favourite part is getting there. – Dominic Monaghan

13. i took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but i was worried about books. solitude is all right with books, awful without. – martha gellhorn, 14. packing for a trip can be exciting. but unpacking is always depressing. – unknown.

15. Excess baggage is a symptom of something we are missing on the inside – a fear that we won’t be accepted for what we are, as if our selves are not enough. We bring too much of our past experience, the clutter of our emotions. These things get in the way and keep us from getting close to others. Then we are left with the task of having to find someone else to carry it, whether it is our luggage or our loneliness. – Mary Morris

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Travel Quotes for Travel Inspiration

Sometimes a few simple travel quotes or phrase is all it takes to spark action in our lives.

We always welcome inspirational words, so we thought it would be fun to share some quotes that have inspired us in the past. Hopefully one or two of them give you the push you need to plan that next adventure. Enjoy!

50 Inspirational Travel Quotes 

“a ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” –  john a. shedd.

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

“Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.” – Ferris Bueller

“A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay at home.” – James Michener

“Jobs fill your pocket but adventures fill your soul.” – Jamie Lyn Beatty

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman

“You seldom, if ever, get lucky sitting down.” – Zig Ziglar

“Don’t wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great.” – Orison Swett Marden

“A wise traveler never despises his own country.” – Carlo Goldoni

“Your body is not a temple, it’s an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.” – Anthony Bourdain

“We must go beyond textbooks, go out into the bypaths and untrodden depths of the wilderness and travel and explore and tell the world the glories of our journey.” – John Hope Franklin

“Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” – Simon Raven

“Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe.” – Anatole France

“Stop worrying about the potholes in the road and enjoy the journey.” – Barbara Hoffman

“Whether you think you can or whether you think you can’t, you’re right!” – Henry Ford

“Since life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better” –  Simon Raven

“A journey is best measured in friends, not in miles.”  – Tim Cahill

More famous travel quotes to inspire you 

“to travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – aldous huxley.

“If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel: as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” – Anthony Bourdain

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” –  Robert Frost

“Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today.” – Benjamin Franklin

“Promise me you’ll always remember: you’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think” – A.A. Milne, Winne the Pooh

“It’s Better to Travel Well than to Arrive” – Buddha

“I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it”. – Rosalia de Castro

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

“Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” – Asian Proverb

“Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller

“When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out.” – Anthony Bourdain

“Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will make one.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other. We may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou

“Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

“There is no moment of delight in any pilgrimage like the beginning of it.” – Charles Dudley Warner

“We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.” – Gloria Gaither

“An ounce of practice is worth more than tons of preaching.” – Gandhi

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustav Flaubert

“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” – Terry Pratchett

“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

“A traveling fool is better than a sitting wise person.” – Mongolian Proverb

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.” – Wayne  Gretzky

“No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

“You can do anything, but not everything.” – David Allen

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

“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

“If I’m an advocate for anything, it’s to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else’s shoes or at least eat their food, it’s a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off the couch, move.” – Anthony Bourdain

“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama

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05/15/2012 at 6:21 pm

The following is from the first paragraph of Moby Dick. There are times when “normal” life no longer cuts it, when I have to go somewhere far away where the language, food, people and sights and smells are different. This quote describes the feeling that spurs me to travel…

“… Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever I find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet; and especially whenever my hypos get such an upper hand of me, that it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people’s hats off – then, I account it high time to get to sea as soon as I can.”

06/16/2012 at 1:28 pm

Thanks for sharing Jane!

05/15/2012 at 8:02 pm

Great quotes, I love them all. Thanks for sharing.

06/16/2012 at 1:29 pm

You’re welcome Kim! Good luck on your future travels – you have quite the adventure in front of you!

05/16/2012 at 3:54 am

Thanks for the great tips! I just hope a lot of people would benefit from these tips.. Anyway, thanks a lot for the thoughts!

06/16/2012 at 1:32 pm

You’re welcome Jenny! I hope 1 or 2 of these quotes inspires you to take on a new adventure

10/02/2019 at 2:25 am

Thanks jeny

05/16/2012 at 10:27 am

Great collection of inspirational quotes. Thanks for posting! Here’s one of our favorites: “The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.” ― Dorothy Parker

I like that Marla – thanks for sharing! 🙂

05/16/2012 at 10:37 am

“If you’re not walking on the edge, you’re taking up too much space”.

06/16/2012 at 1:33 pm

Hah! That’s a good one Donna

05/16/2012 at 11:35 am

Great selection! Here’s my fav:

Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen. – Benjamin Disraeli

08/01/2012 at 5:12 pm

Great contribution Micki – thanks! 🙂

05/16/2012 at 11:44 am

Great quotes! I have a few that inspire me:

If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad. -Jane Austin

“To move, to breath, 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

“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go…” — Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You’ll Go!)”

“Travel is like adultery; one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one’s own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live…in our wanderlust, we are lovers looking for consummation.” – Anatole Broyard

08/01/2012 at 5:13 pm

Awesome quotes Stacey – thanks for contributing!

05/16/2012 at 2:34 pm

Other great quotes:

“The earth is round, we shall meet” – African Proverb

“If a diploma can famously be a passport, a passport can be a diploma” – Pico Iyer. Read the rest of his wonderful essay on travel here: http://www.cmi-gear.com/tim/travels/chapter12-travel.asp

Thanks Sarah – we appreciate the contributions! 🙂

05/16/2012 at 3:02 pm

These are wonderful quotes. I like this one the best: “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world. – Freya”

It reminds me of some silly movie I once saw where the actress said she loved finding herself in a city or town where she couldn’t speak the language, knew nobody, and didn’t know where she was. That defined what a good day for her was.

I liked that quote. I feel the same way.

08/01/2012 at 5:14 pm

Thanks for sharing Barbara!

05/17/2012 at 9:45 am

“Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

love all of these!

Thanks Britany! 🙂

05/18/2012 at 4:57 am

I love the Barbara Hoffman quote. Anyone who has driven in Kazakhstan or Senegal knows this to be so true!

Love the blog, kind regards, Si

08/01/2012 at 5:15 pm

Cheers Si! Appreciate the kind words 🙂

05/18/2012 at 9:36 am

When I think of the word travel, I don’t always associate it with exploring and being active geographically speaking but more a state of mind – a curiosity for people, life and culture.

One of the things I enjoyed whilst on the road was collecting memorable quotes from people I met in each Country. It doubled as a great trigger to remind me of the moments and people I connected with also.

05/18/2012 at 9:43 pm

Number four is my favourite. I try to remember that all the time

05/18/2012 at 10:21 pm

Great list. I love travel inspiration quotes and there’s quite a few here that are new to me. This is one I’ll have to come back to. thanks

05/19/2012 at 8:12 am

My favorite: “Fear can hold you prisoner. Hope can set you free” from The Shawshank Redemption.

05/21/2012 at 1:39 pm

Love quotes! My favorite one is the Mark Twain – Explore, Dream, Discover. I’m also a huge fan of “Not all of those who wander are lost.” 🙂

Thanks for sharing!

05/21/2012 at 8:54 pm

I love this post. Some of these are quotes that I live by, while others were completely new. One of my favorite quotes (not exclusive to travel) is by Oscar Wilde, “To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.” I truly feel the most alive when I’m traveling.

05/22/2012 at 5:28 pm

These are great quotes — I like the Zig Ziglar one, you seldom get lucky just sitting down. So true.

05/22/2012 at 8:03 pm

I love collecting travel quotes. There was a Banana Republic store in Boulder with five of the most famous travel quotes. Every time I’d walk by I’d linger and dream.

05/25/2012 at 7:27 am

Great list of quotes! Sometimes all you need is something simple and inspirational to give you a push and keep going. Thanks for sharing these!

05/25/2012 at 8:20 pm

Great collection of quotes, but that photo stole the show…incredible…

05/26/2012 at 5:02 am

These are rather nice .. Truly this are inspiring .. i travel a lot but the problem is i don’t find people who are free to go alone ..

05/26/2012 at 10:52 am

I love reading travel quotes. Thanks for introducing me to a few new ones. I like this one, “We may run, walk, stumble, drive, or fly, but let us never lose sight of the reason for the journey, or miss a chance to see a rainbow on the way.”

05/28/2012 at 8:51 am

Great quotes! Reading these is getting me excited for my summer travel plans.

06/01/2012 at 1:21 pm

I do agree with Mark Twain in the first quote above. And I like this post generally. I actually had a really great time reading this. What’s your favorite travel quote? Anyway, thanks a lot for sharing this.

06/03/2012 at 2:44 pm

A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles. (Tim Cahill in the book Road Fever)

06/12/2012 at 6:11 am

Everybody would be inspired to travel reading this collection of travel quotes.

07/05/2012 at 1:15 am

That is true Christina…. For sure everyone will definitely inspire to travel after reading these travel quotes.

06/16/2012 at 1:57 pm

Love all your choices!

Another one:

“It is a very strange sensation to inexperienced youth to feel itself quite alone in the world: cut adrift from every connection; uncertain whether the port to which it is bound can be reached, and prevented by many impediments from returning to that it has quitted. The charm of adventure sweetens that sensation, the glow of pride warms it.” – Jane Eyre

06/22/2012 at 1:38 am

I love reading travel quotes. Truly this are inspiring … i travel a lot but the problem is i don’t find people who are free to go alone …

06/29/2012 at 8:05 am

I love traveling and those wonderful quotes make me excited to go somewhere beautiful place 🙂 Thnx for the delightful quotes!

07/04/2012 at 8:57 am

Thanks for sharing this! Loved reading the quotes… makes us excited for our travels! Happy travel and we hope to read more great content from you guys.

07/18/2012 at 6:49 am

May I add a couple of more from Mark Twain?

Mark Twain wrote:

…nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.

– Letter to San Francisco Alta California newspaper, dated May 18th, 1867; published June 23, 1867

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.

– Innocents Abroad

07/18/2012 at 7:32 am

Of the gladdest moments in human life, methinks, is the departure upon a distant journey into unknown lands. Shaking off with one mighty effort the fetters of Habit, the leaden weight of Routine, the cloak of many Cares and the slavery of Hope, one feels once more happy. The blood flows with the fast circulation of childhood. . . . A journey, in fact, appeals to the Imagination, to Memory, to Hope,—the three sister Graces of our moral being.

—Sir Richard Burton, Zanzibar (London, 1872), vol. 1, pp. 16-17

08/13/2012 at 6:32 pm

Great quotes! Very inspiring.

08/16/2012 at 12:26 pm

“A traveling fool is better than a sitting wise person.” Old Mongolian Proverb

09/20/2012 at 12:18 pm

Actually, #27 is my favorite travel quote! 🙂

09/15/2013 at 10:12 am

My favourite quotes are from an Italian Travel writer: Tiziano Terzani. If you get the chance to read one of his books you’ll love him!

10/12/2013 at 9:32 pm

Thanks for sharing! My favorite: Though we tavel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not. – Ralph Waldo Emerson

03/27/2014 at 5:07 am

I love the quote from St. Augustine : “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”

04/09/2015 at 6:28 pm

I am so inspired to travel! I love number 2, its so blunt but so very true.

04/19/2017 at 1:36 pm

Mark Twain has always been a writer I’ve thoroughly enjoy and aspire to become like. His thoughts are timelines. His stories are thought provoking. And most of all he lived a life well-lived. So, out of this list his quote is the one that I find the best when it comes to living not just traveling.

04/30/2019 at 12:53 am

Really inspirational and motivational. Specially like “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it. – Rosalia de Castro”.

05/11/2019 at 11:46 pm

Thanks for the great tips! I just hope a lot of people would benefit from these tips. I appreciate your effort.

06/12/2019 at 8:31 am

A compilation of best travel quotes. My favorite one is by – Simon Raven “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” Looking forward to hearing from you more

04/28/2020 at 2:42 am

A compilation of best travel quotes. My favorite one is by – Simon Raven “Life is short and the world is wide, the sooner you start exploring it, the better.” Looking forward to hearing from you more

07/15/2020 at 1:35 am

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. Its my favourite one. I have it on my profile on worldee.com. Thank you for article.

08/06/2020 at 1:48 am

Great post there had fun reading it. anyway my favourite is It’s good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters in the end

09/30/2022 at 10:07 am

I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it. – Rosalia de Castro It’s my favorite quotation. I always try to follow it. It gives me a lot of inspiration.

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The 100 Most Inspirational Travel Quotes Of All Time

• Quotes , Travel Tips
• November 8, 2020 November 17, 2020
• 12 min read

If you’re planning a holiday, fighting post-trip blues, or just scrolling through instagram travel photos, you can be sure there’s a quote about traveling out there that hits the spot for you.

Travel quotes to discover yourself, travel quotes to motivate your next journey, fantastic travel quotes to drive you to live your best life and more. We can all relate to inspirational travel quotes, making them so fun to read.

In this article, I gathered some of the most popular travel quotes (and my personal favourites). I hope you’ll find these incredible travel quotes inspiring, and they’ll make you want to go out and see the world.

Famous travel quotes

1. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”–Andre Gide

2. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all” – Helen Keller

3. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

4. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have travelled.” – Mohammed

5. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” –Mark Twain

6. “Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” – Freya Stark

7. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain

8. “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu 

9. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign” – Robert Louis Stevenson

10. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” –Saint Augustine

11. “Life is meant for good friends and great adventures” – Anonymous

12. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” –Susan Sontag

13. “Two roads diverged in a wood, and I – I took the one less traveled by” —Robert Frost

14. “Once a year, go somewhere you have never been before.” –Dalai Lama

15. “A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” –Tim Cahill

16. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”  – Anita Desai

17. “Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.”-Anonymous

18. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

19. “Collect Moment, Not Things.”-Anonymous

20. “Blessed are the curious for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman

21. “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” — Hilaire Belloc

22. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

23. “I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” ― Melody Truong

24. “This wasn’t a strange place; it was a new one.” – Paulo Coelho

25. “If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet” – Rachel Wolchin

26. “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

27. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury

28. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did.” ― Mark Twain

29. “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

30. “Travel is never a matter of money but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

31. “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust

32. “I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.” – Carew Papritz

33. “A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

34. “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.” – Terry Pratchett

35. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

36. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

37. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”― David Mitchell

38. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

39. “A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step” – Lao Tzu

40. “Do you really want to look back on your life and see how wonderful it could have been had you not been afraid to live it?” – Caroline Myss

41. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous

42. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” ― Jack Kerouac

43. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

44. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” – Oscar Wilde

45. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

46. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all – the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” –Randy Komisar

47. “I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth, then I ask myself the same question.” –Harun Yahya

48. “Fill your life with experiences, not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.” –Unknown

49. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain

50. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

51. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

52. “No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

53. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

54. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert

55. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” – Antoine de St. Exupery

56. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

57. “The use of traveling is to regulate imagination with reality, and instead of thinking of how things may be, see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson

58. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

59. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

60. “With age, comes wisdom. With travel, comes understanding.” – Sandra Lake

61. “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Anonymous

62. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg

63. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

64. “When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

65. “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – Shirley MacLaine

66. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

67. “Remember that happiness is a way of travel – not a destination.” – Roy M. Goodman

68. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

69. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

70. “For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

71. “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block

72. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

73. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” – Jack Kerouac

74. “Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comforts of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things — air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky. All things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.” – Cesare Pavese

75. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar

76. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson

77. “To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

78. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do — especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon

79. “Travel makes a wise man better but a fool worse.” – Thomas Fuller

80. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller

81. “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

82. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Stephen Covey

83. “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai

84. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury

85. “Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind.” – Seneca

86. “He who would travel happily must travel light.” -Antoine de St. Exupery

87. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar

88. No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

89. “Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.” -Jack Kerouac

90. “Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” -Benjamin Disraeli

91. “Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag” -Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

92. “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.”   -Susan Heller

93. “What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.” – William Least Heat Moon

94. “Conventional wisdom tells us… we take our baggage with us. I’m not so sure. Travel, at its best, transforms us in ways that aren’t always apparent until we’re back home. Sometimes we do leave our baggage behind, or, even better, it’s misrouted to Cleveland and is never heard from again.”   -Eric Weiner

95. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” -Robert Frost

96. “There was nowhere to go but everywhere, so just keep on rolling under the stars.” – Jack Kerouac

97. “If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go.” – Anthony Bourdain

98. “At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.” –Arthur Frommer

99. “I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read on the train.” -Oscar Wilde

100. “Live life with no excuses, travel with no regret” -Oscar Wilde

It’s not a matter of where, but when. Time is precious and my time spent living and experience the cultures of this world is what I lust for. This is why I created this website, to share true, genuine experiences and not just typical touristy info. Travel, the love of coffee , and food!

Arrivederci! 70 Travel Quotes That'll Have You Packing Your Bags

Grab your bags and your passport — we’re going… somewhere! OK, OK, we might not be jetting anywhere right this minute, but we can probably agree that we all wish we were headed to an exciting locale for new adventures . Because even when we can’t travel (example: basically all of 2020), we’re thinking about it. And planning it. We’re building up our Pinterest boards, mentally packing our suitcases , and dreaming about all of the incredible food we’re going to try. Oh, and we’re poring over epic travel quotes that further serve to fuel our wanderlust. Anyone who has been “bitten by the travel bug” understands that it isn’t just a hobby; it’s a way of life.

You may be thinking, But wait, how can we afford all of this hypothetical travel? Well, fortunately, travel doesn’t have to be expensive. There are myriad ways to save money on a vacation (yes, even on a trip to Disney with your kids ). Or, hey, if you’re in desperate need of a new skyline, you could consider cracking into your rainy day fund . That’s to say nothing of local, low-cost travel opportunities, like hitting the beach .

So, don’t let worry deter you from your travel dreams. Instead, let the following curation of travel quotes remind you that travel is always worthwhile.

Short Travel Quotes

• “Cover the earth before it covers you.” — Dagobert Runes
• “People don’t take trips, trips take people.” — John Steinbeck
• “The journey matters more than the destination.” — Tony Fahkry
• “I travel because I become uncomfortable being too uncomfortable.” — Carew Papritz
• “Go where you feel most alive.” — Unknown
• “ Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” — Stephen Covey
• “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” — David Mitchell
• “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” — Dalai Lama
• “It is better to travel well than to arrive.” — Buddha
• “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.” — Confucius
• “Life is short, and the world is wide.” — Unknown
• “Paris is always a good idea.” — Audrey Hepburn
• “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” — Susan Sontag
• “My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.” — Diane Arbus
• “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” — Anita Desai
• “Not all those who wander are lost.” — J.R.R. Tolkien
• “So much of who we are is where we have been.” — William Langewiesche
• “Travel is my therapy .” — Unknown
• “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” — Ray Bradbury
• “We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” — Hilaire Belloc

Travel with Friends Quotes

• “A journey is best measured in friends , rather than miles.” — Tim Cahill
• “I have found out that there is no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” — Mark Twain
• “There is a whole world out there. Pack your backpack, your best friend, and go.” — Unknown
• “There is an unspoken bond you create with the friends you travel with.” — Kristen Sarah
• “You can pack for every occasion, but a good friend will always be the best thing you could bring!” — Unknown
• “We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
• “The more I traveled, the more I realized fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” — Shirley MacLaine
• “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” — Izaak Walton
• “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all people cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” — Maya Angelou
• “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.” — Unknown
• “Good friends follow you anywhere.” — Winnie the Pooh
• “In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.” — Charles M. Schulz
• “If you want to go quickly, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” — African proverb
• “A good friend listens to your adventures. Your best friend makes them with you.” — Unknown
• “No road is long with good company.” — Turkish proverb

Inspirational Travel Quotes

• “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” — Oliver Wendell Holmes
• “Travel makes one modest, you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” — Gustave Flaubert
• “Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life.” — Unknown
• “Traveling: It leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” — Idb Battuta
• “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart . But that’s OK. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” — Anthony Bourdain
• “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” — Augustine of Hippo
• “Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” — Unknown
• “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” — Mark Twain
• “I’m shaking the dust of this crummy little town off my feet, and I’m gonna see the world.” — It’s a Wonderful Life , George Bailey
• “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block
• “When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” — Susan Heller
• “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. Suddenly, you are five years old again. You can’t read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can’t even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.” — Bill Bryson
• “All journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” — Martin Buber
• “Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” — Unknown
• “I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.” — Douglas Adams
• “The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” — Christopher McCandless
• “A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.” — Lao Tzu
• “A traveler is really not someone who crosses ground so much as someone who is always hungry for the next challenge and adventure.” — Pico Iyer
• “I travel because I’d rather look back at my life, saying, ‘I can’t believe I did that,’ instead of, ‘if only I had.’” — Florine Bos
• “Travel doesn’t become an adventure until you leave yourself behind.” — Marty Rubin
• “If you don’t get out of the box you’ve been raised in, you won’t understand how much bigger the world is.” — Angelina Jolie
• “If you are 32, physically fit, hungry to learn to be better, I urge you to travel — as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors, if you have to. Find out how other people live and cook. Learn from them… wherever you go.” — Anthony Bourdain
• “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” — Henry Miller
• “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” — Anais Nin
• “Happy is the soul that has a friend. Happier is the soul that trusts in the truth of the heart of a friend. Happiest is the soul that knows the solemnity of friendship and honors its laws.” — Ogwo David Emenike
• “True friends will always push you towards the great possibilities of your future, false friends will always chain you to the mistakes in your past.” — Seth Brown
• “I am not the same, having seen the moonshine on the other side of the world.” — Mary Anne Radmacher
• “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent in the office or mowing your lawn.” — Jack Kerouac
• “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” — Gustave Flaubert
• “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” — Chief Seattle
• “The gladdest moment in human life is a departure into unknown lands.” — Sir Richard Burton
• “Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.” — Jennifer Lee
• “You need not even listen, just wait… the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself.” — Franz Kafka
• “Travel expands the mind and fills the gap.” — Sheda Savage

This article was originally published on Jan. 8, 2021

36 Short Travel Quotes To Inspire Your Adventures

These short travel quotes will have you packing your bags to discover somewhere new in no time.

Welcome wanderlusters. When it comes to travel, sometimes less is more – especially when it comes to words. A snappy, short travel quote can inspire, motivate or even change the way you see the world. 

Celebrate your next adventure with these succinct and impactful travel quotes .

The Best Short Travel Quotes

These short quotes about travel might be bite-sized, but they pack a punch in significance for your next trip — regardless of the location.

“If it scares you, it may be a good thing to try.” – Seth Godin

Travel experiences that push you beyond what’s ordinary and predictable are worth exploring; go boldly and fearlessly.

“My favourite thing to do is go where I’ve never been.” – Unknown

This quote speaks to a broader life philosophy: staying open-minded and embracing the unknown.

“When was the last time you did something for the first time?” – John C. Maxwell

Nothing beats the first time you travel somewhere enchanting.

“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

With a few travel hacks and expert tips, it’s possible to see the most amazing places in the world… without breaking the bank.

“Jobs fill your pocket. Adventures fill your soul.” – Jaime Lyn Beatty

Remember what I said about food for the soul? Travel pours into your sense of being abundantly.

“Life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – Neale Donald Walsch

Sometimes, new travel experiences require you to try things outside of your norm, and that’s okay.

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Short Unique Travel Quotes

It’s the unique, short inspirational quotes about travel that are most fitting when the journey takes you somewhere unusual. These unique sayings are perfect for rare travel opportunities.

“Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” – Paulo Coelho

Outside the cost of jet setting, being brave enough to travel makes all the difference.

“Surely, of all the wonders of the world, the horizon is the greatest.” – Freya Stark

Travel is your opportunity to satisfy your inherent sense of wonder, intrigue, and curiosity.

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anaïs Nin

When you travel, part of the journey is finding something new — even within yourself.

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – David Mitchell

The more of the world you see, the better you’ll get to know the essence of who you are.

“The world is big, and I want to get a good look at it before it gets dark.” – John Muir

Life is brief and unpredictable; you ought to travel as much and as far as possible while you still can.

“Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer.” – Unknown

The essential things you get from travel aren’t material; they’re deeply gratifying over and above what’s tangible.

Short Travel Quotes for Instagram

When the travelling quotes are short and witty, you better believe they deserve a spot on your Instagram posts. This is especially useful when you’re in luxury destinations and only want short aesthetic travel quotes to accompany breathtaking snaps.

Here are some of my favourite Insta-ready travel quotes.

“The goal is to die with memories, not dreams.” – Unknown

Travel guarantees memories and can be part of fulfilling your wildest dreams.

“To travel is to live.” – Hans Christian Andersen

Travel unlocks more ways to enjoy the act of living itself.

“The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – Wallace Stevens

The entire world is an astonishing wonder worth seeing and exploring.

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing at all.” – Helen Keller

Like many other areas in life, risk-taking makes travel much more enriching.

“Don’t listen to what they say, go see.” – Unknown (Chinese Proverb)

Nothing beats travelling to a destination and being there in person for visceral experiences.

“Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

Soak up all the richness in new lands, but always tread carefully and respectfully.

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Short Travel Quotes for Couples

Looking for short cute travel quotes to symbolise your couple’s trips? Take your pick from the ones below.

“In life, it’s not where you go, it’s who you travel with.” – Charles M. Schulz

Sometimes, the destination is simple, but your partner can elevate the travel experience beyond measure.

“We’d rather have a passport full of stamps than a house full of stuff.” – Unknown

Worldly goods aren’t bad, but travel offers a different kind of wealth.

“A couple who travels together grows together.” – Ahmad Fuadi

If you want to get to know someone, live, work, or travel with them.

“All you need is love and a passport.” – Unknown

With the right person on your arm, discovering the world always feels right.

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“Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton

You won’t feel the miles and hours when embarking on thrilling journeys with a loved one.

“We have nothing to lose and a world to see.” – Rainie Navarro

In romantic partnerships, you can’t lose as long as you keep finding new places to make memories in together.

Short Travel Quotes With Friends

It takes a little practice to master how to travel alone before you become a pro, making some of the best quotes about travel those celebrating time spent with your favourite crew. These endearing short travel quotes are apt for your group adventures.

“Life is short, and the world is wide.” – Simon Raven

There’s a massive planet to behold; share its discovery with special people.

“Life is meant for good friends and great adventures.” – Unknown

Go encounter phenomenal places with treasured people to truly enjoy the fullness of life.

“Blessed are the curious, for they shall have adventures.” – Lovelle Drachman

The more curious you and your travel companions are about the world, the more you’ll reap in return.

“Fear makes strangers of people who should be friends” – Shirley MacLaine

When you travel, you interact with different people and often make new lifelong friends in the most fascinating parts of the world.

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“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

Meeting people and forming genuine connections are central to your biggest travel takeaways.

Short Funny Travel Quotes

I love travel memes and find funny short-trip quotes just as amusing. There will be travel escapades that feature unexpected, unplanned, or hilarious quirks. They’re part of the stories you’ll share over and over. So why not use clever short quotes to capture the humour?

“Jet lag is for amateurs.” – Dick Clark

Approach each trip with enduring enthusiasm and energy.

“I love to travel, but hate to arrive.” – Albert Einstein

Always try to enjoy every aspect of the full journey, not just the final destination.

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

You might not be able to see it all, but you can certainly try.

“A hangover suggests a great night, jet lag suggests a great adventure.” – J.D. Andrews

While partying is fun, don’t let it hinder the full scope of your travel experiences.

“I’m in love with cities I’ve never been to and people I’ve never met.” – Melody Truong

This is one of the most poetic ways to describe what wanderlust means for some people.

“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw

Embrace trips that are nothing like what you’re used to at home; put the comfort zone on the back burner.

“A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

Let spontaneity drive all the elements of the voyage from start to finish.

Short Travelling Quotes | The Final Say

There it is, some of the best, unique, funny, inspirational, and Insta-worthy short quotes about travelling the world. With this fun list of what to say to inspire an unforgettable vacay, it’s time to let your passport do all the talking.

Whether your next dream destination is an island escape, a trip to a flashy city, or a desert retreat, you’ve got meaningful short quips to capture all your memorable moments.

If your upcoming journey involves exciting, action-packed activities, here are winning adventure quotes to match your one-of-a-kind holiday exploits.

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60 Backpacking quotes – BEST captions for backpackers

The best decision of my life was to quit my job and backpack in Asia. It was a hard decision. Leaving everything behind is certainly not easy but traveling full-time has taught me so many things!

I learned to appreciate more the things I have, to be more patient and to have the courage to always follow my dreams. My journey led me to incredible places such as Indonesia , the Philippines , Vietnam , Japan and many others and the memories I created are priceless.

I met incredible people and even though sometimes things don’t go as expected, those memories are the funniest after all. Who can forget having no accommodation in Jakarta or getting lost in Myanmar ?

As a fellow backpacker I want to share with you my all-time favorite backpacking quotes. This is my go-to list when I’m looking for inspiration. Enjoy these awesome captions about backpacking!

Note – When there is no author specified it means that the quote’s author is unknown.

1. Short Backpacker Quotes

You know what they say – strong essences are kept into small bottles. I’ve handpicked the most inspiring short captions about backpacking. Enjoy reading!

1. Keep calm and backpack the world.

2. Don’t be a tourist, be a traveler.

3. Backpacking is the cure of greediness.

4. “You might be poor on money, but rich on life” – Kasper Raunholst

5. I would gladly live out of a backpack if it meant I could see the world.

6. “Backpacking is the art of knowing what not to take.” – Sheridan Anderson.

7. There’s no greater adventure than backpacking to unknown places.

8. Grab your backpack and go. The destination is not important, the journey is!

9. “Everything you own must be able to fit inside one suitcase; then your mind might be free.” – Charles Bukowski

10. “See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream.” – Ray Bradbury

11. “Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.” – Jack Kerouac

12. “To travel, to experience and learn: that is to live.” – Tenzing Norgay

13. “I don’t know where I’m going, but I promise it won’t be boring.” – David Bowie

14. “The biggest adventure you can take is to live the life of your dreams.” – Oprah Winfrey

2. Funny Backpacking Quotes

If you’re looking for funny backpacking captions, you’re in the right place. These quotes will definitely brighten your day and make you smile.

15. My backpack is my best friend. We’ve been through a lot together.

16. Backpacking is a luxury. Not everyone can afford to leave everything behind and travel the world.

17. “Life is an adventure, it’s not a package tour.” – Eckhart Tolle

18. “I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” – George Bernard Shaw.

19. People told me I was crazy to travel the world with a backpack. I told them they were crazy to spend their lives between 4 walls.

20. Screw the map – travel and get lost!

21. “I travel light; as light, that is, as a man can travel who will still carry his body around because of its sentimental value.” – Christopher Fry.

22. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor.

3. Love Backpacking Quotes

Backpacking with your loved one is not always easy. A lot of communication and patience is needed to make it work. However, I’m sure that love wins after all! Enjoy reading these backpacking quotes and captions about love.

23. “When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.” – Helen Hayes

24. If all you want is luxury hotels and private pools, I’m not the guy for you!

25. “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, Tom Sawyer Abroad

4. Backpacking Captions for Instagram

Are you looking for inspiring captions about backpacking for your Instagram? These quotes work perfectly with any photo about backpacking. I always find something to use for my captions in this list.

26. “That’s the difference between backpackers and holidaymakers. The former can’t help but invite hassle whilst the latter pays to escape it.” – Harry Whitewolf

27. Lost buses, street food, hostels and lost stuff – the best memories of any traveler.

28. “Own only what you can always carry with you: known languages, known countries, known people. Let your memory be your travel bag” – Alexandr Solzhenitsyn

29. “Carry as little as possible but choose that little with care” – Earl Shaffer

30. Backpacking makes you realize how little you really need to be happy.

31. “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion and avoid the people, you might better stay home.” – James A. Michener

32. “Leave home, leave the country, leave the familiar. Only then can routine experience – buying bread, eating vegetables, even saying hello – become new all over again.” – Anthony Doerr

33. “I am a traveler. I am a nomad. I rarely sleep in the same bed more than three or four nights. And I know hotel life better than anyone.” – Diane von Furstenberg

34. “The moments you have experienced are the only possession that nobody can take away from you.” –  Unknown

35. “If at some point you don’t ask yourself, ‘What have I gotten myself into?’ then you’re not doing it right.” – Roland Gau

36. “Traveling is brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.” – Cesare Pavese

37. “To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

38. “No one realizes how beautiful it is to travel until he comes home and rests his head on his old, familiar pillow.” – Lin Yutang

39. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman

40. “I’m gonna tell my momma that I’m a traveler. I’m gonna follow the sun.” – Parov Stelar

41. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

42. “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G.K. Chesterton

43. “Long-term travel doesn’t require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.” – Rolf Potts.

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44. “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalia de Castro

45. “I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven’t seen, how much I’m not going to see, and how much I still need to see.” – Carew Papritz

46. “Home is where the heart is, and my heart is wherever I am at the moment.” – Lily Leung

47. “I love waking up in the morning not knowing what’s gonna happen or who I’m gonna meet, where I’m gonna wind up.” – Jack Dawson

48. “I travel not to cross countries off a list, but to ignite passionate affairs with destinations.” – Nyssa P. Chopra

5. Inspirational Backpacking Captions and Quotes

Here are a few other inspirational backpacking quotes. These words of wisdom will make you want to book your next trip asap. After all, being spontaneous is the best part of backpacking.

49. “Travel like Ghandi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.” – Rick Steves

50. “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

51. “Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you. It leaves marks on your memory, on your consciousness, on your heart, and on your body. You take something with you. Hopefully, you leave something good behind.” – Anthony Bourdain

52. “The tourists come here to stay put in their hotels, with their holiday-friendly staff, private beaches, private bars and private sunshine. And yet still, when they get back home, they’ll claim they’ve been to Egypt.” – Harry Whitewolf

53. “They’re the fakes… Those who travel to exotic places, but never walk the streets or meet the people. Preferring instead their cosy interiors of buses, hotels and holiday bars.” – Harry Whitewolf

54. “If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.” – Glenn Clark

55. “To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson

56. “Part of us believes the new car is better because it lasts longer. But, in fact, that’s the worst thing about the new car. It will stay around to disappoint you, whereas a trip to Europe is over. It evaporates. It has the good sense to go away, and you are left with nothing but a wonderful memory.” – Daniel Gilbert

57. “Nobody warned me about this part. When I envisioned my trip, I imagined exciting adventures, exotic locales, a jet-set lifestyle. I never thought grief and doubt would climb into my backpack and come with me. I pictured standing at the top of the Sun Gate, looking down at Machu Picchu, without ever thinking about the steps it would take to get there. This is the curse of wanderlust, when the postcard image becomes a brutal reality.” – Maggie Downs

58. “And then there is the most dangerous risk of all — the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.” – Randy Komisar

59. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

60. “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.

6. Final thoughts

Backpacking is one of the most incredible experiences one can have. You’ll meet incredible people, you’ll see amazing places and you’ll return home a different yet better person.

I hope that you liked these backpacking quotes and you found inspiration in them. Tell me in the comments section below which one is your favorite!

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Best Travel Quotes That Will Inspire You to Pack Your Bags Today

Does a mere thought of leaving the world without exploring your dream destinations haunts you? Do you think travelling is the ultimate form of happiness? Does travel quotes inspire you to see the world? If yes, then you are no different than the great travellers who have seen the world from a different perspective everytime they head out to start a new journey.

Most of us just keep adding places to our bucketlists, but scarcely get chance to strike off those dream destinations from the list. If you need a little motivation to make travel a priority in your life, here are some of the best travel quotes from famous travelers that will spark your wanderlust and help you push the boundaries.

List of Best Travel Quotes

1. “Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

2. “Don’t tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you traveled.” – Mohammed

3. “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.” – Andre Gide

4. “The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine

5. “Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

6. “You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

7. Travel brings power and love back into your life. | Rumi

8. “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

9. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville

10. “Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you’d drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” – Ray Bradbury

11. “The gladdest moment in human life, me thinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton

12. “I am not the same, having seen the moon shine on the other side of the world.” – Mary Anne Radmacher

13. “We travel not to escape life, but for life not to escape us.” – Anonymous

14. “Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all of one’s lifetime.” – Mark Twain

15. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.” – Aldous Huxley

16. “Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Dalai Lama

17. “All travel has its advantages. If the passenger visits better countries, he may learn to improve his own. And if fortune carries him to worse, he may learn to enjoy it.” – Samuel Johnson

18. “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends… The mind can never break off from the journey.” – Pat Conroy

19. “Take only memories, leave only footprints.” – Chief Seattle

20. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aristotle

21. “When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman

22. “People who don’t travel cannot have a global view, all they see is what’s in front of them. Those people cannot accept new things because all they know is where they live.” – Martin Yan

23. “You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.” – Ella Maillart

24. “Our happiest moments as travelers always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” — Lawrence Block

25. “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Scott Cameron

26. “Certainly, travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

27. “Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.” — Peter Hoeg

28. “To awaken alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” —Freya Stark

29. “Hitler didn’t travel. Stalin didn’t travel. Saddam Hussein never traveled. They didn’t want to have their orthodoxy challenged.” — Howard Gardner

30. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

31. “Travel is the frivolous part of serious lives, and the serious part of frivolous ones.” – Anne Sophie Swetchine

32. “Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller

33. “Without travel “I would have wound up a little ignorant white Southern female, which was not my idea of a good life.” – Lauren Hutton

34. “I have wandered all my life, and I have also traveled; the difference between the two being this, that we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc

35. “To travel is to take a journey into yourself.” – Danny Kaye

36. “Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury

37. “I am a passionate traveler, and from the time I was a child, travel formed me as much as my formal education.” – David Rockefeller

38. “Wandering re-establishes the original harmony which once existed between man and the universe. ” – Anatole France

39. “I think that travel comes from some deep urge to see the world, like the urge that brings up a worm in an Irish bog to see the moon when it is full.” – Lord Dunsany

40. “Voyage, travel, and change of place impart vigor” – Seneca

41. “You lose sight of things… and when you travel, everything balances out.” – Daranna Gidel

42. “Experience, travel – these are as education in themselves” – Euripides

If these best travel quotes have inspired you enough, kindle your wanderlust by planning a trip in next two months to a place you have not visited before. All the best!

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25 Travel Quotes

These quotes about travel will soon have you packing your bag..

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This collection of travel quotes from some of the world's greatest thinkers will soon have you planning a trip and packing your bags.

1.. “Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do." - Mark Twain

Mark Twain.

2. “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

3. "Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

4. “A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.” - Lao Tzu

5. "Life is either a daring adventure or nothing." - Helen Keller

6. “Nothing so liberalizes a man and expands the kindly instincts that nature put in him as travel and contact with many kinds of people.” - Mark Twain

7. “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.” - Robert Louis Stevenson

8. "When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money." - Susan Heller

9. "Travel and change of place impart new vigor to the mind." Seneca

10. “Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.” – Robert Frost

11. "The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.” – Marcel Proust.

12. "People don’t take trips; trips take people.” – John Steinbeck

13. "Not all those who wander are lost." - J.R.R. Tolkien

14. When overseas you learn more about your own country, than you do the place you’re visiting.” – Clint Borgen

15. “One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” - Henry Miller

16. "Travel is the only thing you buy that makes you richer" - unknown

17. “Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” - Maya Angelou

18. "I feel about travel the way a happy new mother feels about her impossible, colicky, restless newborn baby - I just don't care what it puts me through." - Elizabeth Gilbert.

19. "Just do it." - Nike.

20. "The most important trip you may take in life is meeting people halfway."- Henry Boye

21. "Paris is always a good idea." - Audrey Hepburn.

22. "Many a trip continues long after movement in time and space have ceased." - John Steinbeck.

23. "For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return." - Leonardo da Vinci

24. "Don't tell me how educated you are, tell me how much you have traveled." - Mohammed

25. "Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection." - Lawrence Durrell

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Warning: These 77 Inspiring Travel Quotes will Fire up your Wanderlust in 2020

“Travel. As much as you can. As far as you can. As long as you can. Life’s not meant to be lived in one place.” Anonymous Tweet

With my sister and I on a two-wheeler (You could do that in India in the 1980s!!) or Sleeping in a Dharamshala or going on budget treks, my parents had perfected the art of traveling and adventuring on a shoestring budget.

I would eagerly wait for the summer holidays to come so that we could head somewhere exciting! 

So if you are awaiting your next adventure and need a boost to your itchy feet, here are the best quotes about travel to fire up your wanderlust. 

It’s surprising how top travel adventure quotes, melodious songs and anecdotes can swing our moods!

Here are 77 best quotes on travel to inspire, motivate, and encourage you. Hope these quotes will ignite your wanderlust and make you pack your bags with essentials and go – Explore!

Browse through them now, reread when you need motivation and re-reread when you need the inspiration to make your travel plans!

 1. “Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.” – Roald Dahl

“And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”

This quote is from  Roald Dahl ‘s last children’s story, The Minpins .

During one of our travels in Meghalaya we found a place called Kongthong where people did not have names but only tunes to be addrssed with! Who would have thought such a place even existed in India?

2. “Half the fun of the travel is the aesthetic of lostness.” – Ray Bradbury

Ray Douglas Bradbury  was an American author and screenwriter. He worked in a variety of genres, including fantasy, science fiction, horror, and mystery fiction.

3. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

John Ernst Steinbeck Jr. was an American author. He won the 1962 Nobel Prize in Literature for his realistic and imaginative writings.

This is such an awesome Family Travel Quote. If you travel with family (like me) here are 10 top tips for Planning (and Surviving) a multigenerational family trip! 

4. “There ain’t no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.” – Mark Twain

Quotes on travel / awesome travel quotes,  5.“he who returns from a journey is not the same as he who left.” – chinese proverb..

For me my trip to Varanasi was a very surreal experience. 

 6. “ In life ,  it’s not where you go ,  it’s who you travel  with.” –  Charles  M.  Schulz  

Charles Monroe “Sparky” Schulz, was an American cartoonist and creator of the comic strip Peanuts.

 7. “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries” – Aldous Huxley

Aldous Leonard Huxley was an English writer and philosopher.

8. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin

Anaïs Nin , was a French-American diarist, essayist, novelist, and writer of short stories and erotica. 

9. “A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.” ―Moslih Eddin Saadi

Moslih Eddin Saadi whose pen-name was Saadi was a Persian poet and literary of the medieval period. He is known for the depth of his social and moral thoughts.

ADVENTURE QUOTES / WANDERLUST QUOTES

 10. “the journey is the reward.”— chinese proverb.

The Journey Is the Reward also happens to be the title of the biography of the life and career of Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. This Chinese proverb often gets attributed to Steve Jobs. 

 11.”Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

The Moroccan traveler  Ibn Battuta  is known as the greatest traveller of premodern times. 

12. “Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

13. “all journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware.” – martin buber, 14. “you develop a sympathy for all human beings when you travel a lot.” – shakuntala devi.

Shakuntala Devi gave us one of the most famous travel quotes.

 15. “Work, Travel, Save, Repeat!” – Unknown

If traveling India is on your mind then fuel your wanderlust by reading about 30 breathtaking places you must visit in India before you die!

 16. “Wherever you go, go with all your heart.”- Confucius

Confucius was a Chinese teacher, editor, politician, and philosopher of the Spring and Autumn period of Chinese history. His philosophy is known as Confucius.

INSPIRATIONAL TRAVEL QUOTES/ INSPIRATIONAL QUOTES

 17. “i haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list” – susan sontag.

Susan Sontag was an American writer, filmmaker, philosopher, teacher, and political activist.

As I draft this Photo Blog, I am reminded of Susan Sontag’s yet another famous quote…

“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.” Susan Sontag Tweet

FAMOUS TRAVEL QUOTES

 18. “the journey not the arrival matters” – t.s.elliot.

Thomas Stearns Eliot was a poet, dramatist and literary critic. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1948.

 This is one of the most awesome trip quotes!

19. “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” ― Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist and a travel writer.

20. “Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

Paul Edward Theroux is an American travel writer and novelist, whose best-known work is The Great Railway Bazaar.

Paul gave us one of the great travel captions and exploring quotes.

 21. Oh, the Places You’ll Go!” – Dr. Seuss

Oh, the Places You’ll Go! is a book written and illustrated by children’s author Dr. Seuss. It is his last book to be published during his lifetime.

From soaring to high heights and seeing great sights to being left in a Lurch on a prickle-ly perch, Dr. Seuss addresses life’s ups and downs with his trademark humorous verse and illustrations, while encouraging readers to find the success that lies within.

22. To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” –Bill Bryson

Bill Bryson is a bestselling American non-fiction author of several travel and academic books.

23. “Travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living.” – Miriam Beard

Mary Ritter Beard  was an American historian and archivist, who played an important role in the women’s suffrage movement. 

Do you agree with this fantastic wander quote

 24.“A ship in harbor is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.” – John A. Shedd

John Augustus Shedd was an American author and professor. He wrote these lines in his book Salt from My Attic (1928), a collection of quotes and sayings he loved and lived by.

TRAVEL TIPS

 25.“take only memories, leave only footprints.” – chief seattle..

Chief Seattle was a Suquamish and Duwamish chief. The city of Seattle, in the U.S. state of Washington, was named after him.

26. “I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.” – Rosalia de Castro.

María Rosalía Rita de Castro , was a Galician romanticist writer, poet with a rebellious spirit . She was one of the first female authors in Spain who published her texts under her real name, rather than under a pseudonym. 

27. “Exploration is really the essence of the human spirit.” – Frank Borman 

Frank Frederick Borman II , is a retired United States Air Force pilot, aeronautical engineer, test pilot, and NASA astronaut, and the Commander of Apollo 8, the first mission to fly around the Moon.

I love exploring the Himalayas and Climbing Mount Kanamo at 19600 feet was a very adventurous trek. 

ADVENTURE TRAVEL INSPIRATION

 28.“the first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.” – rudyard kipling. .

Rudyard Kipling traveled widely and wrote about many places and cultures. So it is not surprising that he is cited as the author of this popular quotation:

The first condition of understanding a foreign country is to smell it.

There is however, no book, poem or essay which can be traced back to say that Kipling indeed write those lines.

Kipling wrote these well known olfactory lines:

Smells are surer than sounds or sights To make your heart-strings crack— They start those awful voices o’nights That whisper, “Old man, come back!”

They are the opening stanza of the poem Lichtenberg.

Set in South Africa during the Boer War, it’s about an Australian trooper who smells the blossoms of a tree called Golden Wattle and is reminded of his home in New South Wales. (Source)

QUOTES TRAVEL

29. “life is like riding a bicycle. to keep your balance you must keep moving” – albert einstein.

Albert Einstein was a physicist who developed the general theory of relativity.

I love this quote and also cycling. If you like cycling perhaps my post on Cycling from Manali to Leh , my TransHimalayan experience will interest you. On that note comes my next quote…

30. “Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage.” — Paulo Coelho

31.“not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves” – henry david thoreau.

This quote is one of the most epic old world traveling quotes!

Henry David Thoreau was an American essayist, poet, philosopher, abolitionist, naturalist, tax resister, development critic, surveyor, and historian. 

Dan Rather has given us one of the best quotes about wanderlust.

32. “If all difficulties were known at the outset of a long journey, most of us would never start out at all.” – Dan Rather

Dan Rather is an American newscaster and author who covered some of the most important historical events of his time, including the civil rights movement, the Vietnam War, and the Watergate scandal, during his four decades with CBS.

33. “A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

Laozi was an ancient Chinese philosopher and writer. He is the reputed author of the Tao Te Ching, the founder of philosophical Taoism.

34. “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.” – Saint Augustine

Saint Augustine of Hippo was a Roman African, early Christian theologian and philosopher from Numidia whose writings influenced the development of Western Christianity and Western philosophy. 

This is such a fantastic quote about travel!

35. “Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.” – Lawrence Durrell

Lawrence George Durrell was an expatriate British novelist, poet, dramatist, and travel writer. Here are ten books by Lawrence Durrell you need to read.

BEST TRAVEL QUOTES

36. “if you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, i urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. sleep on floors if you have to. find out how other people live and eat and cook. learn from them – wherever you go.” – anthony bourdain.

“No Reservations” is Bourdain’s fully illustrated journal of his far-flung travels throughout the world.

The book traces his trips from New Zealand to New Jersey and everywhere in between, mixing beautiful, never-before-seen photos and oddball mementoes.

SHORT TRAVEL QUOTES

37. “if you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, i urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. sleep on floors if you have to. find out how other people live and eat and cook. learn from them – wherever you go.” – anthony bourdain, 38. “jobs fill your pocket, but adventures fill your soul.” – jamie lyn beatty, 39. “the most beautiful in the world is, of course, the world itself.” – wallace stevens, 40. “to my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – bill bryson.

This one is one of my favorite travelling quotes.

Famous travel quotes that Inspire Travellers

I asked Travel Bloggers from around the globe about their favourite famous travel quotes and here is what they had to say…

TRAVEL RESOURCES QUOTES

 41. “if you change the way you look at things, the things you look at change” – wayne dyer .

This famous quote by Wayne Dyer is  Packed Again’s  favourite. She says –

“I believe it says it all in the quote.

We tend to judge and rush around. We already look at things mostly with an opinion already made.

Take more time and REALLY look at something, no matter what.

It can be a view, an object or a person. I am sure you can find the beauty in a lot of things which at first seemed flat, grey and uninteresting.”

 42. “ Traveling – it gives you home in a thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.” – Ibn Battuta

This famous travel quote by Ibn Batuta is Nuraini’s favourite. She says –

“It may be odd to have such a poignant choice for a favourite travel quote, but this is it.

It’s my favourite, because it tells of something inescapable to the traveller. Traveling does both, and beneath this is a deeper truth – when you grow one way, often you must release another.”

 43. “We live to discover beauty. All else is a form of waiting.” – Khalil Gibran

This introspective quote about traveling by Khalil Gibran is Iuliana Marchian’s favourite. She says –

“An old friend had told me this travel quote many years ago.

A few years after that, when I was trying to figure out my life concept, this quote came to my mind right away.

Ever since I’ve been telling this quote to myself whenever I feel confused or without motivation in life.”

 44. “Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.” – Unknown

Or Amir says her favorite travel quote has to be “Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.”

She says, “It captures perfectly one of the main reasons why I love traveling which is creating memories, and collecting beautiful moments and stories.”

 45. “Live your life by a compass, not a clock.” – Dr Stephen Covey

This short travel quote by  Stephen  R.  Covey  about the value of  being wanderlust is Nancie’s favourite. She says –

“This quote inspired me to find a way to make travel a priority in my life. That’s something I have never regretted.”

Gustave Flaubert has coined an amazing travelling caption.

 46.“Travel makes one modest.You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”– Gustave Flaubert.

Of all the travelling quotes, this famous travel quote by Gustave Flaubert is Manon van Schagen’s favourite. She says –

” The reason this is one of my most favourite quotes is that it’s the reality.

This world has billions of people, trillions of animals, plenty of ecosystems and exists out so many more parts than just me.

It’s refreshing.”

 47. “Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.” – Jack Kerouac

Of all the traveller quotes out there, Mario finds this travel quote by Jack Kerouac very inspirational. He says –

“Kerouac is generally considered to be one of the creators of the Beat movement, and with this restless personality, he did a lot of crazy stuff in his life.

To be honest, this quote captures quite exactly the way I feel about challenges – not just while travelling – but in general.

I may not be really prepared, not perfectly informed or have the stamina to tackle a challenge… like going on an exhausting hike or climbing that said mountain…

But heck, I’m here, the adventure is here and I’d regret not doing it.

Yes, I’m stubborn.

Having sore muscles and being tired as hell afterwards have never stopped me – I’ll complain for sure on the way – but will it be worth it?

You bet it will.”

 48. “Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail!” – Muriel Strode

This famous travel quote about adventure by Muriel Strode is Noraly’s favourite. She says – “I love this quote because it captures what I love most about traveling: exploring new territories and having experiences that are incredible and not common! I try to avoid the big crowds and find the travel gems instead 🙂 “

INTERESTINGLY This  famous travel quote is often misattributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson.

A close semblance of the above words were written by a poet named Muriel Strode which first appeared in print in 1903 in a religious publication and then again in her own book titled My Little Book of Prayer published in 1904.

“I will not follow where the path may lead, but I will go where there is no path, and I will leave a trail.”

— Muriel Strode

Source:  Quote Investigator

 49. “It’s bad manners to keep vacation waiting” – Unknown

This fun travel quote is Kimaya’s favourite. She says –

“The quote, even if has a humorous tinge to it, slips right through one of my habits of waiting for someone rather than to keep one waiting.

So if I can do this for a person then why not to a vacation as it is, since the beginning of time, an integral part of homo sapiens’s well being.”

Time for some adventure quotes!

 50. “oh darling, let’s be adventurers” – unknown.

51. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharlal Nehru

52. “if you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.” – jim rohn, 53. “we wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment.” – hilaire belloc,  54. “the journey itself is my home.” – matsuo bashō.

Matsuo Bashō, was the most famous poet of the Edo period in Japan.

55.  “No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time.” – Lewis Carroll

Original, experimental, and unparalleled in their charm, Lewis Carroll’s  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland  and  Through the Looking-Glass  and  What Alice Found There  have enchanted readers for generations.

56. “It is not down in any map; true places never are.” – Herman Melville, Moby Dick.

57. “the more i traveled the more i realised that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.” – shirley maclaine.,  58. “with age, comes wisdom. with travel, comes understanding.” -sandra lake.

59. “A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes

60. “every man can transform the world from one of monotony and drabness to one of excitement and adventure.” – irving wallace, 61. “two of the greatest gifts we can give our children are roots and wings.” – hodding carter.

62. “I travel a lot; I hate having my life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

63. “travel far enough, you meet yourself.” – david mitchell.

The above mentioned inspirational travel quote is by David Mitchell. This wanderlust quote is from his book Cloud Atlas which was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize and is the winner of the Richard & Judy Best Read of the Year.

64. “Adventure is worthwhile.” – Aesop

Aesop was a Greek fabulist and storyteller credited with a number of fables now collectively known as Aesop’s Fables.

65. “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, ‘Around the world in 80 days.’

Michael Palin established his reputation with MONTY PYTHON’S FLYING CIRCUS and RIPPING YARNS. 

‘ Around the world in 80 days ‘, is Michael Palin’s unparalleled tribute to man’s ability to make life difficult for himself.

66. “He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” – Dutch Proverb

67. “to travel is to possess the world.” – burton holmes .

68. When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” —Leonardo Da Vinci

This quotation was created by John H. Secondari who was attempting to portray the thoughts of Leonardo Da Vinci in an educational film in 1965. The statement was incorrectly reassigned directly to Leonardo by 1975. (Source)

69. “Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” – Uzbek Proverb

70. “your true traveler finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. it is the symbol of his liberty – his excessive freedom. he accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.”― aldous huxley, 71. “life begins at the end of your comfort zone.” – neale donald walsch..

Neale Donald Walsch is an American author of the series Conversations with God . He is also an actor, screenwriter, and speaker.

72. “He who lives sees much. He who travels sees more.” – Arab proverb

73. “the real voyage of discovery consists not in seeing new landscapes, but in having new eyes.” marcel proust, 74. “if there is a nice place, and the place does not come to you – you have to come to the place.” – tony wheeler, 75. “don’t listen to what they say. go see.” – chinese proverb..

76. “The wise man’s home is the universe.” – Democritus

77. “travel like gandhi, with simple clothes, open eyes and an uncluttered mind.” rick steves., pin now travel later.

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41 thoughts on “Warning: These 77 Inspiring Travel Quotes will Fire up your Wanderlust in 2020”

Nice quotes with nice pics.we will like to read more and more.

I am so glad to read this 🙂

Well… I don’t know about the sister being a natural writer part being true… but the quotes were definitely inspiring! Although why RK I want to ask. Maybe he’s the answer to ‘who you travel with matters’! 😛

ha ha you have a point there 😉

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What a great compilation of quotes! Never hurts to remind ourselves to be adventurers now and then 🙂

So many beautiful quotes but this has always been my favourite: Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

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Richa! How much time did you spend on this post??? So many amazing quotes, I am thinking of taking print outs of a couple that you have as a vertical image. Thanks for this!

A great collection you have there, and I appreciate your efforts for making pins for them. Keep up the good works!

As someone who loves to travel, these really speak to me. My fav is 25! Keep up the great work inspiring people to follow their dreams :).

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“Half the fun of travel is the aesthetic of lostness”…so true! So many great and true quotes like travelling makes you discover that you’r wrong about other countries. how I felt about Cuba when I visited.

What a wonderful mix of quotes – including lots of my favourites – and yes reading through these has inspired me to travel more. Thanks so much for sharing – I have also shared on twitter and pinterest 🙂

I love Hodding Carter’s quote. I am trying to give my baby wings, and I would love for her to inherit my love of travel. And your post did, in fact, give me wanderlust! 🙂 I really need to plan a vacation for this year.

What a great compilation of quotes. It’s always fun to find some new ones and you have done a great job with your choice of quotes. I enjoyed reading them.

Wowzers! It’s the most beautiful and exhaustive compilation of travel quotes I’ve ever come across. I particularly loved the quote by Dorothy L. Sayers: ‘I have the most … “I always have a quotation for everything–it saves original thinking.” It’s a Show Stopper, you see 🙂

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I love this! “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”

I think to enjoy our travel, we should just totally let go of all our worries and inhibitions and totally bask on the beauty and experience.

Really nice selection! I love Mark twain’s quotes. Oh, and Steinbeck’s quote, comparing travel to marriage, too.

All of quotes are very motivating and tempts me to go again for a trip. I totally believe in T.S. Elliot’s quote that journey matters a lot instead of arrivals.

Wow, what a great list of travel quotes you’ve had in your blog post. Anyway, of everything you’ve shared in your post, this is by far my favorite quote “”Traveling—it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta.

If ever there was a quote that unites the entire community of travel writers… that would be it.

heart touching words thank you for sharing

Thanks for your encouraging words Shivangi 🙂

Such beautiful and inspiring quotes. Loved your hard work and writing style 😄 keep it up 👍🏻🤗

Stay Inspired, Stay Calm and Travel on 🙂

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Great Travel Quotes In Your Blog Post and Images beautiful thanks for sharing with us.

beautiful website and amazing content. keep up the good work 🙂

Aww, thanks Shivangi 🙂

Great blog thanks for sharing

Glad you liked it 🙂

I Like The Way You Are Sharing Your And Travellers Experience On Your Blog. People Are Really Very Excited To Explore New Areas And Funlands. They Are Now Much Aware Of All The Things Related To Travelling And Adventures.

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Glad you found it helpful Riya 🙂

Great post!

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That moment when boarding is complete. And the seat next to you is empty.

Work tip: stand up. Stretch. Take a walk. Go to the airport. Get on a plane. Never return.

Airports: the only place where drinking 8 AM is socially acceptable.

Running to the gate is my cardio.

That moment when you’re asked where you got something and you answer with the name of the country, not the name of the store.

A plane ticket is the answer. Who cares what the question is.

Go to work. Open computer. Scroll for plane tickets for 6 hours. Close computer. Go home.

Vacation calories don’t count.

If you look like your passport picture, you probably need a trip.

I wish I was a postcard. For under 1.5€ you can travel the world to any location in the world. 

It’s bad manners to keep a vacation waiting.

I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.

Live a life you don’t need a vacation from.

Be afraid. And do it anyway.

I’ve got a crush on the world.

People having babies. And I'm like...what country am I going to next?

Physically I’m here. Mentally I’m in a pool in Bali ordering my third mojito. 

Packs 2 hours before leaving for a trip. Unpacks 3 months after coming home.

Ironing boards are surfboards that gave up their dreams and got a boring job. Don’t be an ironing board.

Going on a trip. Need about 5 outfits. I’ve packed 35 just to be safe.

I need a holiday. And by “holiday” I mean I need to move away and find a job. On the beach. With cocktails. 

You can’t buy happiness, but you can buy plane tickets, which is kind of the same thing.

I need 6 months of vacation. Twice a year.

Travelling is like a chocolate box. Don’t matter what you get. All is good.

You can’t make everyone happy. You are not a plane ticket.

I just want to travel the world, overspend at IKEA and drink coffee while cuddling puppies.

Me: I want to travel. My bank account: Like to the park?

Tripophobia (n.) The fear of not having any travel trips currently booked.

Do you ever stress about money and then accidentally book another flight?

All you need is  love a passport.

I wish travel therapy was covered by my health insurance. 

I’m a travel addict on the road to recovery. Just kidding. I’m headed to the airport.

Birds literally just eat, travel, and shit on things they don’t like. I don’t know about you, but that’s the lifestyle I’m striving for.

The temptation to go to the airport, buy a one-way ticket, leave the country and live on my own has never been so real.

I haven’t worn these pants since I bought them. I should definitely pack them for my 3-day vacation. Just in case.

Friend: Let’s go to Bora Bora. Me: Man, I wanna go, but I’m pora pora.

In desperate need of a full body massage, 4 days of sleep and a ticket to the Bahamas.

Me before vacation: "I’m going to be responsible with my money. This is a low budget trip. I’m gonna stay in a hostel and everything."Me on vacation: *orders fancy drinks, rides a camel, goes skydiving, buys souvenirs for the uncle’s new girlfriend and adopts an alpaca.*

Everyone is pregnant, engaged or getting married. I just wanna lose weight and travel.

Normal life: Wears the same top every day for a week. Packing for 3-day vacation: I’ll probably change a few times a day so I’ll take 21 tops.

Imagine falling in love with someone and then finding out they clap their hands when the plane lands.

Have you ever stopped to think, maybe travel is addicted to me?

Can we just skip to the part in my life where I travel the world?

Me getting ready for vacation: manicure and pedicure, buy new Sephora products, spray tan, get waxed, get hair done, work out for a month, live off kale and veggies, try on 30K swimsuits and cry in dressing rooms. Husband getting ready for vacation: packs a bathing suit, flip-flops, a T-shirt, and calls it a day.

Europeans: I drove 40 minutes to spend the weekend in Paris, then popped to Germany to visit family on the way home. Australians: I was in Queensland and drove for 18 hours. Now I’m still in Queensland.

My mom watches a special type of news program that only reports on horrible incidents happening in places I’m about to visit.

Why do airplane tickets have to so expensive?! having separate continents is so stupid.

By 35, if I’m not engaged or already starting a family, I declare myself the aunt who’s always travelling & comes to family events tipsy.

My favourite thing to pack on trips are all the clothes I never wear at home and then find fun, flirty and exciting ways to not wear them while I'm away.

One week into vacation - My body: "please, a vegetable." Me: "a croissant?" My body: "I'm begging you, a single leaf of kale." Me: "So another plate of chips?"

You've never felt true fear until your passport isn't where you think you left it.

The airport is a lawless place. 7 am? Drink a beer. Tired? Sleep on the floor. Hungry? Chips now cost 17$.

Travitude (n.) when you start to feel grump y and sassy cause you haven't travelled in a while.

If anyone is Christmas shopping for me, I wear a size 7-day Caribbean cruise.

TIP: You won't get the holiday blues if you just keep booking holidays.

Yeah, sex is great, but have you ever gotten to the airport with plenty of time to eat, pee, buy a magazine and bottle of water, have a beer, pee again and charge your phone?

Me thinking about how many flights I can book for the cost of a new Iphone XR.

There should be sympathy cards for having to go back to work after vacation.

I googled my symptoms. Turns out I just needed to go on a vacay.

I don't know much about planes, but I know that my watching the wing the entire flight makes sure things are nice and steady.

Me: I'm not going to overpack this time. Inner me: I need this. I will need that as well. I need everything.

Ladies, imagine this. It's 15 years from now, and you have no kids. You're the cool wine aunt that occasionally comes back to the country for a brief visit before leaving for another long exotic vacation. You have no commitments, and a suspicious amount of money.

Me travelling. Person: "Un Cafe?" Me: "Oui" Person: "Sucre" Me: "Non" Person: "You speak very good french" Me: "Gracias"

Holiday? Now that's a word I haven't heard in a long time.

Babies: cry all flight long. Fall asleep during landing.

How can people my age plan spontaneous trips to Thailand, I can barely afford a spontaneous soft pretzel.

Everyone should believe in something. I believe I should be on the beach drinking Margaritas.

All I want for Christmas is you forever vacation.

So, do I live out of a suitcase for the next month? Do I unpack just to repack again? Do I put my toothbrush back in the bathroom? I'm a visitor in my own house what the heck.

I love those days when my only decision is window or aisle.

Bank account nice and empty. Starting the new year on a clean slate.

A passport holder sounds like a great idea until you get to the airport and have to remove it 4 billion times.

I love when people say "just quit your job and travel." Taking an Uber from the bar to my home is the only travel I can afford. 

When you're trying to save money for a house, but end up with a one-way ticket to some tropical island.

"Be right back..." Just running away from Monday and going straight to the airport. 

"You can't buy happiness" Okay, explain travel then...

Watches Netflix happily. Remembers you need to pack. Watches Netflix stressfully.

I don't want a house. I just want to travel and pet a lot of dogs.

I need a reasonably paid job. Something like €2000 an hour. Nothing too wild.

I want to live in the world where searching for plane tickets burns calories.

Worrying you've accidentally packed 3 kilos of cocaine and a dead goat as you walk through "nothing to declare" at the airport.

Some people spend their life searching for "the one". I'm just searching for the one good travel deal.

I'm getting tired of waking up and not being at the beach.

Procrastapacking (n.) the act of thinking about packing a suitcase instead of actually doing it. 

Don't speak the language. Already said 3 times "what". Now just smile and nod and hope for the best.

Should I book another flight to go abroad? Brain: no. W allet: no. M om: no. D og: no. U niverse: no ... I think I'm gonna book the flight.

I love those days when my only decision is whether to go to the beach in the morning or in the afternoon.

What's that medical condition called where you constantly need to have a trip booked?

Me: triple checked packing list Also me: *forgets underwear, contact solution, and favourite chapstick*.

My favourite memory from childhood is my parents paying for my holidays. 

I thought I wanted a career. Turns out I just want a paycheck to buy plane tickets.

Getting out of bed would be 10x easier if there was a Caribbean ocean and 30 degree weather waiting outside for you. 

No one: Me on my way to work: If I quit my job now I can make it to the airport in 2 hours.

Work hard. Travel harder.

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Want to flaunt your hip bag with a picture on social media? Looking for attractive travel bag captions that match your personal style statement?

From my current blog, pick up the most classy, funny and cool bag captions to make your post stand out.

101 Grand Travel Bag Captions for Perfecting Your Pictures!

Let’s start scrolling demanding and classy bag captions for Instagram –

•  Wheels, heels and reels
• Light bag, bright journey
• Travel bag with my swag
• Backpack, snack and travel hack
• Travel buff, packing stuff
•  With my travel pouch I quit my couch
• I brag my bag 
• Trolley bag, jolly swag
• Pack up, wheels up
• Backpack and chase your track
• One day pack for Sunday 
• Two straps and the maps
• Zips are closing their lips, now I’m on my trips
• Packing, snacking, trekking
• Crack the knack of backpack
• Is he carrying my bag? Nope, carrying my swag!
• Bagful of clothes, fulfilling my travel oaths
• Lollygag with my glam bag
• Bagful of hope, I’m on my way to explore every slope
• Bag is filled with a dream; traveling is my mainstream
• Backpacking on a weekend; my new trend
• I’m a travel greedy, my backpack is always ready
• Ouch, for a longer time my hiking pouch is on a couch, it’s high time for a travel vouch
• Bag on my bum, am I looking like a drum?
• Voyage without baggage
• Duffle and muffle
• Packing light for hiking hight
• Chewing gum, big bag on my bum
• Feeling bag, reeling drag
• On my track, with haversack
• Sighing zips; bagful of snacks and chips
• Bag on the bum, I’m high on rum
• With my bag I have an obsession, It makes my travel succession
• Bag+Passion= Travel obsession
• Small size bag, king size swag
• Backpack for weekender, feeling the thunder
• Two straps, nature’s laps
• Hey bag blue, you are my glue
• Packing my pink, wink wink wink 😉
• Green backpack for a travel queen
• Blue is not for mondays, it is for my fundays
• Drink, think, finally pack my pink
• Carrying green, ready to explore the world unseen
• Blue bag, ready to seduce blue sea
• With my blue, it’s travel clue
• Packed lingerie, for reverie
• Is my bag bulky? Nope, it’s very perky
• Swollen suitcase
• Bubbly me, doubly you
• T-shirts, skirts, shorts; All set for resorts
• Don’t forget the condom pack while you backpack 😉
• Backpack is freedom; Backpack with condom pack is wisdom
• Zipper locks, My travel rocks
• Sit back and relax; Backpack and chillax
• Packing two-piece for my inner peace
• Oh dear!! I’m packing my swimwear
• It’s that time of year when I pack my swimwear
• Then she whispered in my ear, “You’ve forgotten to pack your underwear”.
• In rush, don’t forget to pack your toothbrush
• Road and Load
• Knickers, sneakers, backpackers
• Rolling luggage, mind free of baggage
• I miss my backpack, it’s time for travel hack
• Packing of ‘she’ gang, ready for travel bang bang!
• Closing zips; exposing trips
• Happy zips, making hissing sound; my travel plan is around
• Zips of my backpack are sighing; Should I unpack some underwear without worrying?
• Dear zip please grip
• Hey zip, close your lip 
• Zips, chips, trips
• Zip with grip, ready for trip

Catchy Tote Bag Captions for Your Elegant Pictures

• I’m remote with my travel tote
•  I’ve my travel tote and currency note; All I need is a dreamy island which is remote
•  A travel tote is my antidote
•  I emote with my new tote
•  I’m ready with my travel tote; Nature embracing me with its musical note

Attractive Sling Bag captions

• Slings are my travel wings
• Travel swing with my sling
• In the nature, I sing with my sling
• Travel king with my sling
• Sling to keep my thing
• In the mountain I upswing with my sling
• Slings are my travel strings
• With my sling of leather, I’m experiencing new weather
• Sing with sling
• Enjoying spring with a stylish sling
• Far away from a phone ring, enjoying with sling
• On my way, sling and sway
• Bring your sling, let’s travel and fling
• No bling only a sling ️
• Sling style with my smile
• Sling is king ️

New Bag Captions to Make Your IG Post Attractive

• New bag, travel mag, flaunting my swag
• New bag, new journey
• Knitted bag with twisted tag
• Mini bag, minimal travel
• The new bag adds new swag
• I don’t check the tag when I buy a bag
• I love all the new bags that are without price tags
• Big bag on my bum, looking like a drum
• I never lag when it comes to a new bag

I hope you enjoyed reading all the bag captions for Instagram. Let me know which bag caption did you like the most from my list? 

Inspiring Short Travel Quotes & Captions

Happy Wayfaring!

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75 Best Quotes About Traveling With Friends

Because your epic adventures together call for the perfect saying.

It’s no secret that traveling can open your eyes to new experiences, cultures and perspectives. What can make those memorable journeys even better? A companion, of course! Traveling with friends can enhance trips in unimaginable ways. For starters, they can be your personal photographer when selfies won’t suffice. That’s what friends are for, right ?

Exploring the world together can create enlightening experiences that you will look back on for years to come. But, before you embark on your next adventure, we’ve rounded up some of the best traveling with friends quotes to get you excited about the trips that you have yet to take.

From short and sweet to deep and meaningful, these quotes will boost your anticipation for your future travels. If you’ve taken trips together in the past, these travel quotes can help you reflect and reminisce. Text them in your special group chat or post as captions on Instagram . Regardless of how you share them, these quotes and messages are sure to resonate with your travel buddies.

No matter if you’re going with one friend or a group of your closest buds, traveling with friends presents an opportunity to strengthen bonds while having fun. So, pack your bags and get ready to create memories that will last a lifetime.

• “ Sharing adventures means enjoying them 100% more .” – Anonymous
• “ There are no strangers in this world, only friends I haven’t met yet. ” – William Butler Yeats
• “Friends make everything better, vacations included! ” — Anonymous
• “ A friend may be waiting behind a stranger’s face .” – Maya Angelou
• “ Traveling with a friend is like stepping into a storybook adventure together.” – Unknown
• “It’s not the destination, it’s the journey” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
• “Travel far, travel wide, but always travel with a friend by your side. ” – Unknown
• “ Just as the stars shine brighter in the night sky, so do friendships glow stronger amidst the wonders of the world discovered together .” – Unknown
• “ As the road stretches out before us, I’m grateful for the company of my best friend, knowing that no matter where we end up, the journey together is what truly matters. ” – Unknown
• “ No matter where our journey takes us, friendship will always be our guiding light. ” —Anonymous
• “ I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads. ” – Paulo Coelho
• “Good company on a journey makes the way seem shorter.” — Izaak Walton
• “A good friend listens to your adventures. A best friend makes them with you.” — Unknown
• “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” — Tim Cahill
• “No adventure is complete without you by my side.” — Unknown
• “Friends that travel together, stay together.” — Unknown
• “It doesn’t matter where you’re going — it’s who you go with that makes it fun!” — Unknown
• “As soon as I saw you, I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.” — Winnie The Pooh.
• “Life was meant for great adventures and close friends." — Unknown
• “You can pack for every occasion, but a good friend will always be the best thing you could bring!” — Unknown
• "We all have that one friend who is either on a road-trip or planning a road-trip or thinking about a road-trip or talking to people who are on road-trip or posting quotes about road-trip." — Crestless Wave
• “It’s the friends we meet along the way that help us appreciate the journey.” — Unknown
• “You never know where life will take you, but it will always be better with friends.” —Unknown
• “We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
• “The tans will fade but the memories will last forever.” — Unknown
• “Wherever it is you may be, it is your friends who make your world.” — Chris Bradford
• ​​“When traveling life’s journey, it’s good to have a friend’s hand to hold on to.” — Unknown
• “If you want to go fast go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” — African Proverb
• “A good trip is an even better one with your bestie.” — Unknown
• “The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends” —Shirley MacLaine
• “Embarking on new adventures is a million times better with close pals.” — Unknown
• “Life was meant for great adventures and close friends.” —Unknown
• “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
• “Adventure awaits — all you need is your best buddy to make it a reality.” — Unknown

• “Life is a beach, enjoy the waves.” — Unknown
• “Frozen drinks are better with friends.” — Unknown
• “With friends by your side, every journey becomes an opportunity to discover the beauty of the world and the depths of your bond.” — Unknown
• “If you go looking for a friend, you’re going to find they’re very scarce. If you go out to be a friend, you’ll find them everywhere.” — Zig Ziglar
• “On the road, strangers become friends, sharing stories and laughter, creating bonds that last beyond the journey.” — Unknown
• “ The best way to travel is to always pack light, with the exception of a friend . ” —Anonymous
• " If you want to have fun, bring a friend.” — Unknown
• “ Nothing makes the journey more enjoyable than a friend who can make you laugh.” — Unknown
• “ I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the world around us, it goes an equal distance into the world within .” —Lillian Smith
• “ In the tapestry of life, friends are the threads that weave together our most cherished travel stories .” – Unknown
• “ May your travels be filled with the magic of friendship, the wonder of new experiences, and the warmth of shared memories that last a lifetime .” —Unknown
• " T raveling the world is great, but nothing tops going around the world with a friend ." —Unknown
• “ The beach and my besties are all I need to have a good time." —Unknown
• "Travel memories we make alone may fade, but those made with friends will last a lifetime." — Unknown
• “Away is a place where it’s not about the money you spend. It’s about the moments you share.” —Unknown
• “Just grab a friend and take a ride, together upon the open road.” —The Goofy Movie
• Life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.” —Unknown
• “I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once, to see the world. Twice, to see the way you see the world.” —Unknown
• “Everyone needs this friend that calls and says, “Get dressed, we’re going on an adventure.” —Unknown
• “Getting to know new people and gaining new friends is one of life’s greatest pleasures. So, conquer your fears and get out there.” —Tony Clark
• “Traveling with friends is always better.” —Unknown
• “No road is long with good company.” —Turkish proverb
• "Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." —Anais Nin
• "In life, it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with.” — Charles M. Schulz
• “Exploring new places is always sweeter with your favorite people.” — Unknown
• “Getting lost with you is a risk I’m always willing to take.”— Unknown
• “As with any journey, whom you travel with is more important than the destination.” —Unknown
• “At the end of the day, your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.” —Shanti
• “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” — Trenton Lee Stewart
• “I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone.” —Leonardo DiCaprio
• “Travel should make friendships stronger and memories sweeter.” —Unknown
• “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” —Ernest Hemingway
• “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and a tank of gas.” — Thelma & Louise
• “One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” —Edith Wharton
• “We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.” — Paul Coelho
• “Sometimes all you need is a great friend and thirst for adventure.” —Unknown
• “Nothing makes a good trip more memorable than experiencing it with your best friends.” —Unknown
• “Traveling with a pal can be the foundation for a lifelong friendship.” —Unknown
• “Good times and crazy friends make the best memories.” —Unknown
• “The best things in life are the people we love, the places we’ve been, and the memories we’ve made along the way.” —Unknown
• “Don’t be dismayed at good-byes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends.”— Richard Bach

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41 Best Tote Bags for Commuting, Beach Trips, and Souvenir Shopping

By Kristi Kellogg and Paris Wilson

All products featured on Condé Nast Traveler are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission.

Totes are one of the most essential travel items you can own—the best tote bags are endlessly versatile and tend to have room for everything you could need while in transit. For some travelers, a sturdy leather tote is a no-brainer personal item for flights: It's bigger than most purses, so you can more easily fit a laptop, water bottle, and all other plane accessories inside. For others, an easy-to-fold cotton option might be the item you break out mid-trip for a visit to the beach or farmers market.

Whatever your style, a tote bag you love is a must-have piece of luggage , and we're here to help you find the right one. Below, we've pulled together the best tote bags to travel with—from value buys to investment bags you'll get compliments on for years to come—starting with the ones Condé Nast Traveler editors and contributors are carrying these days.

• Editor favorites

Splurge-worthy totes

• Business trip–friendly bags

Packable totes

Everyday totes.

This article has been updated with new information since its original publish date.

Editors' picks

It wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that I’ve used this bag every single day since I bought it. I love the quilted design but the real selling point for me was the size; not only can I carry my daily essentials, but I’ve actually used this as a weekender . I enjoy that it looks cool and slouchy when there’s not a lot in it, but even when I over fill it—which I do, regularly—the quilted strap doesn’t dig into my shoulder or slip off constantly. It also has numerous handy compartments; an inside large pocket, an inside zippered pocket, and two more zippered pockets on the outside that are cleverly hidden. To me, this bag is perfect. — Abigail Malbon , global audience development manager

Baggu’s Nylon shoulder bag is more durable than its canvas tote bags but equally as stylish. It’s slightly slouchy, slightly structured, and comes in the signature Baggu colors and patterns. The adjustable quilted shoulder strap allows for a crossbody fit , a must-have for me when I’m commuting into the office or walking longer distances (nobody needs their laptop sliding off their shoulder onto the sidewalk). The zip closure and interior pockets are handy for organizing miscellaneous goodies and preventing spillage. Plus, the lightweight material can easily be flattened to fit into my suitcase. I find myself continuously reaching for this multipurpose tote on my way to the gym, office, farmers market, and airport. — Hannah Towey , associate editor

Sentimentality may cloud my vision, for the tote in my possession belongs to my late grandmother. And when I tell you I was complimented frequently for it while in Italy, I mean I felt I needed to use the bag to beat back admirers waxing: “Wow, is Vera Bradley back?”; “Is it reversible?!”; “The textiles are so beautiful.” I often caught myself fantasizing about dumping it upside down to perform a “What’s in my bag” for nobody in particular—so capacious is the tote that I was needlessly carrying multiple novels within and rarely remembered to leave my toiletry kit on the hotel bathroom counter where it belonged. Handy pockets ringing the interior are just icing, and would have kept my passport safely inside had I ever been moved to act on the aforementioned dumping. — Charlie Hobbs , associate editor

I have always traveled with some type of packable tote bag. I need it for snack runs at local markets; for souvenir shopping without all the wasteful plastic and paper bags; and especially if I run out of room to get all my souvenirs home in my carry-on . This Junes bag is my favorite, because even though it’s slightly bigger than a nylon packable shopper bag, I love being able to see what’s inside—plus, the two bottle pockets are great for carrying water around, or just separating out important items like my phone or keys to the Airbnb . I love the bright colors they come in, and the brand values (namely, the bags are made of recycled plastic, in partnership with an all-women sewing co-op in Ciudad Juarez , Mexico). — Megan Spurrell , senior editor

My gym is 10 blocks from my apartment, so I try to make the trek count. On my way back, I like to stop by the grocery store and pet supply shop, or grab a bouquet of flowers from the deli. This huge, floppy tote fits all my workout stuff with lots of room to spare for incidentals, and I love the bright color and cute goat print. — Alexandra Sanidad , research director

I love a tote—the size, the shape, the casual ease, the practicality—but the canvas variety that I seem to amass gets dirty so quickly. And, let’s be honest, the logos most sport aren’t always the look I’m going for. I recently splurged on this woven leather tote bag. It was pricey—in the range of what I’d pay for a handbag—but I love that it’s handcrafted (no two are alike) by leather artisans. It’s gorgeous and I plan to use it as an everyday bag. Because of the quality of the leather, it will patina beautifully and get better with age. Plus, it comes with a little St. Christopher medal; he’s the patron saint of travelers, which of course felt like a sign that it was the tote for me. — Rebecca Misner , senior features editor

I’ve gotten so many compliments on this bag since I started using it on my commute to work last fall. I have the eggplant color, which is a beautiful purple-brownish hue; the leather material is truly buttery soft. It’s smaller than my other work bag (a medium-sized Telfar), but still fits all my essentials—a laptop and charger, planner, Kindle Paperwhite, small toiletry bag , sunglasses , wallet, phone, etc.—and I’ve been appreciating the more streamlined look. I like that there is a key leash and interior compartments (both slip sleeves and a zippered compartment) to keep my belongings organized. The tote doesn’t zip closed, but there is a magnetic button closure that keeps items inside secure. My only slight critique: I wouldn’t mind the straps being a tad thicker, especially when the bag is really full. — Madison Flager, senior commerce editor

This bag is all about the pockets. No tote has ever kept me quite as organized as this one from MZ Wallace, a brand known for its signature quilted bags. It offers six interior pockets, five exterior pockets, and a detachable pouch, giving me a dedicated space for all of my essentials plus a whole lot more. I’m always impressed at how much this thing fits; an umbrella , my 13-inch laptop, a full change of clothes, and my lunch. The Medium Metro tote features ultra-soft shoulder straps, making it a go-to for commutes to the office and as a spacious personal item on flights. My favorite thing about this bag is how lightweight it feels even when full—it never digs into my shoulders or hurts my arms. More features that make this roomy tote a smart choice for travelers: a luggage sleeve, protective feet, and a detachable and adjustable crossbody strap. It looks so sleek in black, but it’s also available in over a dozen colors, including red, bright yellow, moss, blue, and white. — Meaghan Kenny , associate commerce editor

Madewell's classic leather tote bag is one of the brand's bestsellers—and it's easy to see why. The thin but sturdy body is made of leather with a lightly waxed finish, so the bag can both fold beneath the seat in front of you and stand up on its own. It has top handles as well as an adjustable shoulder strap. This tote doesn't have a zip closure along the top, but there is an inner pocket perfect for storing valuables (and the large outer pocket is perfect for items you want to take in and out often, like sunglasses). The bag comes in several sizes, but I love how the medium easily converts from a work bag (most laptops can fit inside) to a casual purse you can use every day. —M.S.

This is by far the most functional tote bag I’ve ever used. Whether I’m commuting to the office, heading on a day trip, or going to the airport, I never worry about fitting everything I need (and more). The Transform tote keeps my 15" laptop secure in its own compartment, fits my large reusable water bottle in a side pocket, has protective feet at the bottom so my bag doesn’t touch the ground, and has multiple other pockets for keeping small essentials like my sunglasses, wallet, and earbuds organized. The feature that really sets this tote bag apart from others I’ve used in the past? It can be easily adjusted and worn four different ways depending on what’s on your travel itinerary: It can be worn as a shoulder bag using its handles, as a classic tote bag using the longer adjustable strap, or as a backpack; plus, it fits right on top of your luggage, thanks to the trolley sleeve. — M.K.

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This is my go-to statement tote. Vince Camuto’s bags have special, unique patterns that make them the ultimate statement piece. I usually gravitate toward this one on weekends when I know I’ll be moving around the city and can’t pinpoint one specific atmosphere. The open design allows me to fit my laptop, a change of shoes, a small toiletry bag, and my wallet with ease. Even better, with a flat bottom, I never have to worry about my belongings toppling out, no matter if my bag is filled to the brim or light as a feather. — Paris Wilson , commerce producer

I use this Baggu tote all the time—it's often smushed into my purse or fanny pack when running errands in New York City, and gets tossed into my suitcase on nearly every vacation. It folds up into roughly the size of a deck of cards, but when unfolded, holds a ton; you could put a new stack of books in there or a small load of groceries from a local farmers market. It's great for a day at the beach too, since the material dries quickly and won't be ruined by a wet bathing suit and towel. —M.F.

Lux & Nyx is a small, woman-owned business that makes a range of stylish and functional bags (backpacks, crossbody, clutches), but it’s the Origami Tote that’s the clear winner for travelers. It comes in three different sizes, and the large (15"L x 11.5”H x 6.5”W) is the perfect personal item companion for frequent fliers. The bag is roomy, and the interior construction makes organization easy. The padded laptop sleeve fits my 13-inch computer as well as my 11-inch iPad and even a paperback book. On the opposite side of the bag, two interior pockets are great for smaller items like keys, a portable charger, or a wallet—things you don’t want getting lost in the deep main compartment. There’s another small interior side pocket for your water bottle, too. Both sides of the exterior have a crossed, origami design (hence the name!), and the bottom of one pocket can be unzipped to convert into a trolley sleeve. The bag only comes in one color, black, but there is an option to select silver or gold hardware. — Patrice J. Williams , contributor

Cuyana's ethos centers on owning fewer, more high quality things, and this pebbled leather bag is the perfect example of the only tote you'll ever need. A go-to of associate commerce editor Meaghan Kenny's , it's made of beautiful Italian leather with a microsuede interior, and comes in a handful of neutrals that'll go with everything. It's soft and malleable when you need it to be and fits plenty of essentials. And though the bag comes with just one interior pocket, the brand sells an organization insert that has four pockets, and will ensure you can always find what you need, right when you need it. (Prefer a zipper? You're in luck .)

The Book Tote is a Dior classic that's been revamped several times over the years. This iteration of the embossed tote with the macro-cannage motif gives it an almost quilted appearance. In true Dior fashion, the bag has a bit of bling with two gold-finish metal “Dior” charms on one of the handles. The bag comes with a detachable strap so it can be worn as a crossbody or shoulder bag.

If you’re looking for a statement tote, look no further. The eye-catching design has a likeness to origami and comes in a range of crisp pastels. It features adjustable handles that can be shortened or lengthened and one main compartment is closed by a zipper.

The Prada triangle is recognizable and so chic as it's laid out as an embroidered pattern onto the large tote. The bag comes in four contrasting colors that offer an elevated look to the more minimalistic design. It's made from the brand's iconic Saffiano leather and has a removable leather keychain on the exterior.

Woven from natural palm leaf with a spacious silhouette, this straw tote has vegan leather trim, hand-stitched detailing, and slim braided top handles. The colorful Watermill straw tote brings an elevated, playful look to any beach day with more than enough space for a book, towel , and water bottle.

There is little hesitation when choosing this Christian Louboutin tote bag. Its 12" x 19" dimensions mean you don’t have to sacrifice any of your essentials. The bottom of the bag is made of rubber so you can have some peace of mind when you inevitably need to place it on the floor, in the back of the car, or underneath the seat in front of you on a plane. And with a small wristlet attached, you can keep necessities close if you choose to throw the tote in an overhead bin or trunk.

A more subdued version of the classic Louis Vuitton monogram, the OnThe Go tote adds a chic, sleek spin to any travel outfit. The Twin Toron top handles and two shoulder straps offer extra versatility and comfort.

Business trip–friendly totes

This is the first tote bag the popular luggage brand, SteamLine, has released. Though new to the tote game, SteamLine has crafted an incredibly roomy carry-all with a structured silhouette made from plant-based canvas and metal-free leather. If you're mixing a bit of business with pleasure, it’s an ideal choice for family travel; it’s spacious, deep, and can store Kindles, gaming systems, coloring books, and diapers inside. The detachable pouch alone can easily fit up to six passports.

This sleek, sophisticated tote bag has plenty of room, with a deep, wide interior and side gussets that give you even more interior space. The bottom of the bag is outfitted with metal feet, allowing the bag to stand on its own and keep the fine leather surface protected. Want to customize it? Leatherology will monogram the bag, if you like. Seen here in camel, the classic tote is also available in versatile neutrals including dawn, navy blue, and black onyx.

Say hello to your new business trip tote. This elegant bag is made of leather with a fully lined interior. There are two open compartments and one zip compartment. And if you're looking for both function and form, know that the contrasting luggage tag is an eye-catching addition. Shop the tote in black, tan, gray heron, calendula, shell pink, and brilliant red. (And, if you prefer a more petite bag, the Perry tote comes in a smaller version , as well.)

For straightforward, luxurious leather pieces—all of which you can customize with monogramming and a hearty selection of color options— Leatherology is the place to go. Though the brand makes several larger totes (including zippered options), the vertical bag is a standout. The full-grain leather tote is incredibly versatile so you can use it from day to night. Plus, it's perfect for those who want something more compact: It'll fit your laptop, but maybe not your reusable water bottle, umbrella, and stack of in-flight reading materials .

This gorgeous tote is made of pebbled Italian leather—the kind you just want to run your hand over again and again. It’s got several compartments and pockets, snaps closed, and has lateral ties for additional security. It comes in five core colors, plus rotating seasonal hues. In addition to choosing your color, you can also choose between two sizes so you get the bag that best suits your needs. As for the name, the tote is called the “system” tote because it's made to pair with Cuyana's add-on accessories, including interior flap bags, additional inserts, and a laptop sleeve. These add-on components can be used interchangeably with other Cuyana bags, including satchels, crossbody bags, and more.

Renowned French brand Delsey made this tote with travelers who love to shop in mind. It can easily be folded up in your suitcase or carry-on, so won’t have to limit the number of souvenirs you bring back. Made from recycled water bottles and vegan leather, this bag will come with you on vacation for years to come.

A packable tote is a must-have when traveling, but landing one as cute as this leather tote is hard to find. The large triangular bag is made from durable faux leather and has a soft velvet interior. It can easily be folded and stored in a carry-on or backpack and won’t take up noticeable space. The slouchy bag is the perfect minimalist design that can be dressed up or down depending on the occasion. The tote comes with a slim pouch that holds smaller necessities like a passport, lip balm or sunglasses.

The Catalina Deluxe tote can be many things: a gym bag, diaper bag, or beach bag to name a few. Highlights of this popular tote include a separate shoe compartment, trolley sleeve, and long adjustable straps.

Just when I think I’ve run out of room, I haven’t. The expandable bottom of this Calpak laptop tote adds an extra four inches, allowing me to add last-minute essentials or souvenirs mid-trip. Like all products in the brand’s Luka collection, it’s made of a lightweight, ultra-soft, puffy exterior that makes carrying its handle easy. The material is also easy to clean—simply wipe away dirt or spills without a worry. Inside, there’s a padded 15" laptop sleeve, multiple side pockets, and a zippered section to keep smaller items organized. Another feature I love: There’s a zippered pocket on the outside that keeps my phone or passport secure, while still being easy to access. It’s a great tote for commuters and thanks to its luggage trolley sleeve, an ideal carry-on bag for travelers. —M.K.

Finally, everything has a place. With this Bellroy tote, you can avoid the dreaded rummaging around moments by utilizing all six pockets and the laptop sleeve found inside. The water-resistant, woven material folds up easily too, making this space saver a travel essential.

Most people who grew up on the East Coast know the Boat and Tote—it's an L.L. Bean classic that's been around for decades. (Some have even described it as more of a household object than a bag, noting how much of a mainstay its become, and not just with the boat-loving crowd it was initially geared toward.) And what's not to like? These totes are spacious, the design is classic, and they start at $25, maxing out at $40, depending on which size you go for. The open-top option is great for day trips when you might have beach towels poking out the top, but the zip-top version will hold up best on longer hauls (or if you're traveling with kids who might be prone to tipping the whole thing over). This tote comes in a natural canvas color, with the option to monogram and customize the color on the straps.

With the option of being carried as a backpack or tote, the Borealis tote is a go-to for outdoor adventures. The interior houses a laptop sleeve while the exterior offers two deep water bottle pockets; store drinks, umbrellas, or even a small tripod in there. The durable, water-repellent finish seals the deal for this tote.

Some of the best tote bags serve as a solid backup when you don't want to use your everyday purse or backpack . This minimalist leather and nylon tote from Longchamp comes in several neutral colors. Since it's water-resistant, it's a great bag to bring along if you suspect inclement weather. But the best part about this bag? You can fold it up into a tiny square and snap it closed, making it an easy choice to toss into your checked luggage.

This extra-large tote is big enough to house all your daily essentials and then some. The handmade bag features a cotton lining, one zipped pocket, and one wall pocket, which makes it easy to organize your belongings within. The bag, which is handmade in Bangladesh, is Fair Trade-Certified, too.

The Augustnoa tote makes a difference in your life and for the earth; Each bag has been upcycled from 12 cotton shirts to craft the canvas exterior, plus six plastic bottles for the expansive lining. It features two adjustable shoulder straps, a slim laptop pocket, interior water bottle holders, a luggage sleeve for seamless suitcase attachment, and a convenient key leash.

Modern Picnic is known for its chic lunch bags that look like handbags. The Tote is made from vegan leather that is incredibly easy to spot clean. It features a removable insulated pouch that keeps your food cool and separated from the rest of your essentials.

With a 15-liter capacity, the Executive Work tote is large enough to fit all of your office essentials. Inside you’ll find a laptop compartment and a water bottle pocket while the exterior has a zippered pocket and double drop-in pockets on the back.

The classic canvas tote can be carried in hand or over the shoulder with its 40-inch adjustable straps. It has taped seams in the interior to help combat spills and everyday wear and tear.

Peak Design recently revamped its Everyday Tote, but kept the clean aesthetics. Its thoughtful functionality protects, organizes, and offers quick access to your everyday essentials. Made from an 100 percent recycled weatherproof shell, unexpected showers won’t automatically ruin your commute. Another perk: You’re able to customize the storage inside with stretchy internal FlexFold dividers.

Rag & Bone creates timeless pieces that are built to last, and this Logan leather tote is no exception. Made from imported pebbled leather, the bag is incredibly soft and spacious, with a height of 15 inches and a width of 22 inches. Although roomy, the size doesn’t limit its versatility—the bag is equipped with two sets of handles so it can be carried both over the shoulder or on your forearm.

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Ready, Set, Jet: Shop the Season’s Most-Coveted Travel Bags

By Nicole Kliest and Alexis Bennett Parker

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You’ve booked the flight, scouted the hotel, and assembled a packing list of your very best vacation-ready essentials . But what to put them in? The best travel bags that complement your OOO aesthetic are among the most important investments for those with a penchant for stylish escapes.

The Designer Travel Bag Shopping List

• The Durable Hero: Longchamp Le Pliage 18" travel bag , $160
• The Cool Canvas: Hereu Cala canvas tote bag , $485
• The Timeless Option: Staud Allora tote , $495
• The Luxe Logo Bag: Gucci Jackie 1961 large duffle bag , $3,850
• The Modern Marvel: Saint Laurent chain embellished weekend bag , $3,600
• The Minimalist Magic: Khaite Perre weekender , $3,400
• The Woven Warrior: Bottega Veneta Intrecciato duffle bag , $5,400
• The Investment Piece: The Row George leather & canvas duffel , $6,190
• The Foldable Find: Loewe Puzzle fold tote , $4,250

The season’s very best options check off all the boxes of a luxuriously-crafted bag that can weather even the most far-flung adventures. Saint Laurent’s giant quilted duffle remains a celebrity favorite (Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Olivia Wilde are fans), while Prada’s geometric-pattern trunk will feel exquisite slung over your shoulder en route to somewhere beautiful. And there’s no denying the enduring appeal of The Row’s sleek, streamlined black leather tote bag.

If you’re heading somewhere close to home, an oversized tote might feel more appropriate—we love Totême’s leather-trimmed canvas option for this. And for a budget-friendly pick, Alex Mill’s vintage-inspired canvas bag (aptly named “the perfect weekend tote”) is always a favorite. From luxe leather duffels to timeless utilitarian silhouettes, shop 28 of the season’s best travel bags ahead.

Saint Laurent

chain embellished weekend bag

NET-A-PORTER

NEIMAN MARCUS

Perre weekender

Cala canvas tote bag

BERGDORF GOODMAN

Puzzle fold tote

George leather & canvas duffel

SAKS FIFTH AVENUE

Jackie 1961 large duffle bag

Louis Vuitton

Keepall 55 bag

Brunello Cucinelli

canvas striped duffel bag

Weekend XL leather-trimmed suede tote

Hunting Season

The Weekender bag

OVER THE MOON

Le Pliage 18" travel bag

ES giant YSL travel bag

Caramella Transformable stripe duffle tote bag

Bottega Veneta

Intrecciato duffle

BOTTEGA VENETA

Allora snake-effect trimmed textured-leather tote

large Book tote

Main Line canvas duffel bag

IVY striped tote bag

Gotham duffle bag

large travel bag

Leatherology

Kessler large duffle

LEATHEROLOGY

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The Best Travel Tote Bags Stylishly Hold It All

Picks from Bottega Veneta, Rimowa, Cuyana, and more

Plane, train, or automobile—however you’re planning to head out of town for the weekend, you’ll need the best travel tote with you, to house the essentials. Having used a tote as a carry-on to load up my headphones and neck pillow, and another as my only bag for a long weekend away, I can vouch for the versatility tote bags can provide when you’re on the go. Look in my closet and you’ll find a handful of options, ranging from a luxury Celine carryall to a practical Cuyana bag.

Best Top-Zip Leather Travel Tote Bag

Cuyana classic easy zipper tote.

Best Black Travel Tote Bag

Caraa nimbus medium.

Best Natural-Fiber Travel Tote

Hunting season the tote in woven natural fiber.

With a range of sizes, strap lengths, and materials, the list ahead offers a comprehensive set of options for weekend trips, longer getaways (with a designer suitcase , of course), and anything in between. With summer getaways on the horizon, you’ll be ready to travel in style, without having to worry that your bag will slide under the seat in front of you.

The long, lean profile of this leather travel tote easily slips under a seat without a fight, and it has a top zipper to secure belongings. Plus, it comes in a range of colors and varying silhouettes to suit all preferences.

Dimensions: 12.3" x 21.6" x 5.1"

Colors: Terra-cotta, black, caramel, dark olive, and more

What reviewers are saying: “I’ve been using the original classic zipper tote for years for travel, and decided to give the new tote a try. I like the new straps, which are easier on the shoulder when I’ve got heavy items to carry, and I love the color (Biscuit). I like having the zipper for keeping my belongings in place when passing through airport security machines and for stowing under the seat in front of me on the airplane.”

I fell in love with Caraa’s durable-yet-sleek recycled nylon bags while trying out stylish diaper bags , and ever since, I’ve been a devotee. I love the rounded silhouette of this spacious but not overly large tote. It feels unique, is super luxe-looking, and offers tons of function, from its lightweight padded design to the 10-plus compartments and multiple straps.

Dimensions: 12.5" x 15.75" x 7"

Colors: Black

What reviewers are saying: “Excellent travel bag. I took it on a recent trip and it was perfect. Love the mesh pockets, the passport pocket and lab top pocket. Just a perfect travel companion!”

“Woven by hand and accented with one-of-a-kind tagua seeds, the tote is a master class in modern travel style,” says Corona. The fiber material is lightweight yet durable, great for days when you’re packing relatively light and need a bag that can make it through work and travel with you.

Dimensions: 19.6" x 11.8" x 7"

Colors: Stripe, brown, natural

Paravel Weekender

Timeless elegance meets modern durability and function in Paravel’s consciously crafted canvas carryall. (Note the protective feet.) It’s monogrammable too—so you’ll never mix it up with another traveler’s bag.

Dimensions: 15" x 15" x 8"

Colors: Tan, black, blue

What reviewers are saying: “This bag looks like the Hermès garden bag. I took it to Sardinia and Sicily and was stopped repeatedly to ask who makes it!”

Calpak Luka Duffel

This bag was my introduction to Calpak, and needless to say, I’m obsessed. It’s so lightweight and spacious, with a secure top zipper, side zip pocket, and sleeve to stay put on my roller bag. I tend to be a heavy packer, especially when attempting only to carry on. I can fit so much in this bag, which fits easily under an airplane seat, even when it’s filled to the brim.

Dimensions: 12" x 16" x 7"

Colors: Chocolate, black, rose, oatmeal, and more

What reviewers are saying: “This bag is more spacious than I imagined it would be. I was shocked how much I could pack in it. I love the shape, structure, color, fabric, luggage sleeve, pockets, and how lightweight it is. It’s truly an amazing piece! My 15 inch MacBook even fits in the outside pocket. It’s a tight fit, but it’s a fit. Worth every penny!”

Prada Re-Edition 1978 Large Re-Nylon and Saffiano Tote

There’s no designer tote bag more durable or beloved than Prada’s Re-Nylon. The black is fail-safe and great for travel, no question. But I can’t help but love the beige as a fresh alternative.

Dimensions: 11.4" x 13.8" x 5.9"

Colors: Black, navy, cork beige

Naghedi St. Barths Large Tote Bag

Flexible and elegant, Naghedi’s woven neoprene tote is a stunning-yet-durable bag for travel and comes with a coordinating pouch for small essentials. Spacious enough for plenty of snacks, a backup layer, and a travel pillow, it’s a year-round winner and can double as a water-resistant beach bag—a true do-it-all wonder.

Dimensions: 22" x 12.5" x 8"

Colors: Olive, black, white, tan, pink, and more

What reviewers are saying: “I purchased this bag one week ago in the Olive large size, and have not put it down since. It is beautiful and gets many compliments. Perfect bag at a great price.”

Dior Large Toujours Bag

Dior’s Toujours bag was a practical standout on the Spring/Summer 2023 runway, making it the ultimate travel companion. The thoughtful details start with the spacious interior compartment and a matching pouch to organize essentials, and end with a leather strap closure to keep items secure, plus adjustable handles for versatile carrying by hand or over the shoulder.

Dimensions: 14.5" x 10.5" x 7.5"

Métier Incognito Cabas Large Suede Tote

Métier is the ultimate for premium suede and leather travel bags. Thoughtfully designed, each bag (like this rich tan version) features multiple interior compartments with a minimal, elevated aesthetic.

Dimensions: 9.4" x 13" x 15.7"

Colors: Brown

Dagne Dover Kal Drawstring Tote

Talk about utility. This drawstring tote bag is not only on-trend with the padded design, but also seriously pocketed, with a perfect spot for every one of your travel essentials. Computer? Check. Wallet and ID? Yep. A water bottle? Oh, yes. (Obviously, staying hydrated in flight is crucial.)

Dimensions: 15" x 4.5" x 16"

Colors: Cream, black, olive, violet, and more

Louis Vuitton Neverfull MM

Louis Vuitton’s Neverfull monogram tote bag is iconic in every sense of the word. I love this new khaki-green iteration—it comes with a removable pouch—as a standout update to the spacious, side-laced silhouette.

Dimensions: 12.2" x 11" x 5.5"

Colors: Khaki, cream, black

Lululemon City Adventurer Tote Bag 27L

Raise your hand if your packing was flawless en route to your destination, but can somehow barely be contained on the way home. Enter the expandable travel tote bag by Lululemon, featuring an extremely useful zippered gusset to adjust the capacity of your carry-on. Genius.

Dimensions: 20.5" x 7.1" x 12.6"

Colors: Trench, black

What reviewers are saying: “I loved this bag so much that I bought one for my cousin, too! I use it as a travel bag, as a diaper bag, and as a tote bag when I am walking around in Rome. It expands the perfect amount to fit more stuff in when I travel home from a destination and it has lots of great pockets for all my AirPods, lip glosses, and ID!”

Bottega Veneta Large Flip Flap

Is this the most functional travel tote out there? Perhaps not. But it’s one of the most gorgeous. Crafted from soft nubuck leather, it’s incredibly spacious inside and completed with a brand-signature Intrecciato leather zippered pocket—perfect for your ID, wallet, and phone. (P.S. There should be even bigger Bottega travel bags available this spring.)

Dimensions: 12" x 14.9" x 11"

Colors: Green, brown

July Carryall Tote

I love the ease of a tote that sits comfortably on my shoulder and stays put while I’m dashing through airports. And this one checks so many other boxes, too: from the zippered top to the padded laptop sleeve compartment and hidden passport pocket with a magnetic closure.

Dimensions: 16.5" x 13" x 6.3"

Colors: Black, navy

What reviewers are saying: “This versatile tote has been an absolute game-changer for my daily activities. The design is not only fashionable but also incredibly functional, providing ample space to carry all my essentials effortlessly.”

Rimowa Vertical Tote

Business trippers and light travelers, this upright tote is for you. It features an easy-access external pocket for laptops or other electronics (so key for getting through security), as well as a roomy interior and travel strap for securing it to a roller.

Dimensions: 5.75" x 14.96" x 1.97"

Colors: Black, petal pink

Celine Cabas Drawstring Cuir Triomphe

If you favor elegant leather totes, look no further than this drawstring style by Celine for travel. It’s the type of tote that transitions seamlessly from the workweek (with polished dresses and tailoring) to weekend getaways (with a matching sweatsuit and sneakers).

Dimensions: 17" x 11" x 7"

Colors: Tan

Antler Chelsea Weekender in Woodland Green

This minimal weekender tote bag is spot-on for unfussy travelers. It’s made of water-resistant nylon, with well-considered details like a separate shoe storage compartment, detachable shoulder strap, and a padded pocket to keep a laptop accessible yet well protected.

Dimensions: 20.87" x 12.6" x 9.06"

Colors: Green, navy

What reviewers are saying: “A useful shapes and size bag with handy pockets and slot to fix soundly onto my luggage. I have just used it for the first time and was very pleased.”

Everlane The Luxe Italian Leather Tote

Sometimes, all you need or want is a beautifully crafted leather tote bag without too many bells and whistles. Everlane has you covered with this roomy and sleek leather tote, featuring two over-the-shoulder straps, an interior slip pocket (to cradle your phone, ID, and lip balm), and a leather-covered metal snap button closure.

Dimensions: 20.8" x 15.3" x 7"

Colors: Beech, cognac, black

What reviewers are saying: “Love the size! Fits everything I need be it work or for traveling. The leather quality & workmanship is top notch! Exactly what I was looking for!”

MZ Wallace Large Metro Tote

MZ Wallace is a go-to for well-made tote bags like this quilted nylon style. Perfect for travel, it’s fitted with several interior and exterior pockets, reinforced padded handles, an adjustable crossbody strap, protective feet, a luggage sleeve, and three detachable pouches.

Dimensions: 14.5" × 11" × 14.5"

Colors: Metallic, black

What reviewers are saying: “I own a couple of these bags in different colors and I find them to be the perfect gift for friends and family who are traveling. They are always blown away by the quality, looks, and functionality! The three extra travel bags are a fun surprise too!”

Chanel Large Deauville Tote

If luxury is your game, is there any other option but a Chanel shopper tote bag? Complete with a spacious interior, coordinating pouch, and interior zip pocket, this beautiful blue bag will stand out in any setting, from exotic beaches to snow-capped mountains. Choose your adventure.

Dimensions: 11.7" × 19.5" × 8.6"

Colors: Beige

Aemilia Madden is a freelance writer, editor, and consultant with over 10 years of experience in the fashion industry. She’s written for publications including Vogue , Harper’s Bazaar , W , and Fashionista . Previously, she was the senior fashion editor at The Zoe Report . In her time away from the internet, Aemilia is probably out on a hike.

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Travel Bag Quotes & Sayings

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Top Travel Bag Quotes

Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom. — Tahir Shah

Some people are drawn naturally - there are natural guitarists, and there are natural piano players, and I think guitar implies travel, a sort of footloose gypsy existence. You grab your bag and you go to the next town. — Hugh Laurie

I knew I'd chosen the wrong airline when I noticed the sick bag had the Lord's Prayer on it. — Les Dawson

He chuckled. "All I can see is that goddamn necklace. Being seen with you could jeopardize my career. Do you have anything illegal in that bag?" "Never," I said. "A man can't travel around on airplanes wearing a Condor Legion neck-piece unless he's totally clean. I'm not even armed ... This whole situation makes me feel nervous and weird and thirsty." I lifted my sunglasses to look for the bar, but the light was too harsh. — Hunter S. Thompson

I always used to travel without a passport case, and because of it I think I'm four passports in. I bought this small Tumi case to protect my new one, and it works really well, not just for protecting it but also for keeping credit cards and small stuff. I just throw it in my bag when I'm traveling, as opposed to stuffed in my pocket. — Avicii

I walked down Paseo del Prado, losing myself to the sights, sounds, and dense magic of the city. There's something weirdly calming about being alone in a big city. It made me feel like the universe was hugely generous, and that my species was so damn smart to have constructed such a beautiful city. — Kate Klise

I travel so much for work that when I fly, I prefer to travel light and bring a carry-on bag that I don't need to check. — Behati Prinsloo

You can pack a bag and take a plane somewhere, anywhere, and when you get there and open the bag - lying right on top will be whatever you're running away from. The very first thing you'll have to unpack ... — Mary McMullen

They were still out on the sidewalk of West Eighty-sixth Street, the taxi pulling way, when Louise put down her travel bag , raised both arms and declared herself in love with New York City. 'It's exactly as I imagined it!' She let her arms fall and looked out at the street, at the honking, halting parade of cars, headlights bright in the dusking air. She turned to Cora with glistening eyes. 'I've always known it, my whole life. This is where I'm meant to be. — Laura Moriarty

Every traveler knows too well the endless quest for the perfect travel bag : the one that's stylish enough to carry through Paris, sturdy enough to tote around Peru, and - most important - doesn't make your shoulder sag even before you've loaded it up with everything you need for a day of sightseeing. — Hanya Yanagihara

You want to know what it's like to be on a plane for 22 hours? Sit in a chair, squeeze your head as hard as you can, don't stop, then take a paper bag and put it over your mouth and nose and breath your own air over and over and over. — Lewis Black

I want my handbags and my shoes to be stylish but I want to make sure that they're versatile. I travel and I have to make sure the pieces I put into my bag can go with a dress or with shorts or jeans. — Maria Sharapova

One of my passions is photography. I always carry a camera in my bag whenever I travel. I always take pictures wherever I go, and some of them end up being really crazy ones. — Sunidhi Chauhan

It doesn't matter if I'm only to be gone four days, as in this case; I take six months' supply of reading material everywhere. Anyone who needs further explication of this eccentricity can find it usefully set out in the first pages of W. Somerset Maugham's story The Book-Bag. — Robin McKinley

I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag. — Ralph E. Reed Jr.

It was all very well for an Englishman like Mr. Fogg to make the tour of the world with a carpet-bag; a lady could not be expected to travel comfortably under such conditions. — Jules Verne

I will not permit thirty men to travel four hundred miles to agitate a bag of wind. — Andrew Dickson White

Snarling an oath from an Icelandic saga, I reclaimed my place at the head of the queue. "Oy!" yelled a punk rocker, with studs in his cranium. "There's a fackin' queue!" Never apologize, advises Lloyd George. Say it again, only this time, ruder. "I know there's a 'fackin' queue'! I already queued in it once and I am not going to queue in it again just because Nina Simone over there won't sell me a ruddy ticket!" A colored yeti in a clip-on uniform swooped. "Wassa bovver?" "This old man here reckons his colostomy bag entitles him to jump the queue," said the skinhead, "and make racist slurs about the lady of Afro-Caribbean extraction in the advance-travel window." I couldn't believe I was hearing this. — David Mitchell

I have my own e-reader, but I hardly ever use it. I need to fold down pages and flag passages with sticky notes. I need to experience books, not just read them. I never go anywhere without a book in my bag, and to travel across the ocean, I'd packed more than my fair share. — Lauren Morrill

Seconds later, the female security officer grabbed a pair of my father's shorts from the top of the duffel bag, and emptied out the contents of his pockets. A lighter, three nail files, a pocket wrench, a pair of pliers, a screwdriver, and a nectarine fell onto the folding table. I looked at the woman, looked at my father, and then looked around to see if anyone else was watching. "What's the problem?" my father asked the woman. "Sir, I'm going to have to take this lighter away from you," she said. "The lighter?" I asked her. "What about the bomb kit he's carrying around? He could do a lot more damage to a person with that wrench." "I need the wrench!" he shrieked. "For what?" "What if something goes wrong with the plane? — Chelsea Handler

Bryn ate her bagel in silence, and by the time she was finished, Liam had already neatly packed her overnight bag and loaded it in MacAllister's car. He even included a new dog bed for Mr. French to travel in confort. Lunch was in moducal little boxes. "I think he is Alfred." "Actually, I often wonder if he's Batman. — Rachel Caine

When I travel abroad, because I'm Columbian, I'm always one that they check twice and security and I'm the one that they open my bag and the one they pull to the side to check the visa. — Sofia Vergara

There is the grand truth about Nathaniel Hawthorne. He says NO! in thunder; but the Devil himself cannot make him say yes. For all men who say yes, lie; and all men who say no,why, they are in the happy condition of judicious, unincumbered travellers in Europe; they cross the frontiers into Eternity with nothing but a carpet-bag,that is to say, the Ego. Whereas those yes-gentry, they travel with heaps of baggage, and, damn them! they will never get through the Custom House. — Herman Melville

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag . — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

One immutable law of travel is that one's arrival or departure gate is always at the extreme outer limit of the terminal, especially if your bag is heavy or your shoes have just begun to pinch. — Sue Grafton

Let your memory be your travel bag . — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

I tend to pack light but still keep a large bag because I love to shop. For each destination I travel to, I like to buy something that the country or city is known for such as olive oil, truffle, jewelry, etc. I also like to buy perfumes because the smell brings me back to the memory of my travels. — Jacqueline MacInnes Wood

Is it anything to do with this?" she said. The thing she took out of her bag was battered and travel-worn as if it had been hurled into prehistoric rivers, baked under the sun that shines so redly on the deserts of Kakrafoon, half buried in the marbled sands that fringe the heady vapored oceans of Santraginus V, frozen on the glaciers of the moon of Jaglan Beta, sat on, kicked around spaceships, scuffed and generally abused, and since its makers had thought that these were exactly the sorts of things that might happen to it, they had thoughtfully encased it in a sturdy plastic cover and written on it, in large friendly letters, the words "Don't Panic. — Douglas Adams

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