“For some people, the lure of travelling and exploration is just too strong to resist. I have jokingly called this the ‘Itchy Feet Syndrome’. Years ago, you would have been able to spot this person easily, as their passport would have been filled with exotic stamps and visas. Today, they are likely to have a mass of photos and travel stories uploaded onto their Facebook page or blog.
So what makes some people reach for their passport at every opportunity? What inspires them to leave home and travel the world on a sailboat or in a converted van? Is it simply a need to explore and see what is around the next corner? Or is it a deeper desire to be free, to live a simpler life?
On talking to many of the authors who have contributed their travel story to this anthology, it became clear that having ‘Itchy Feet’ is a real thing. Many have described how they felt this way from a young age, or even inherited this from their parents or grandparents. What is clear is that their desire to travel is so strong they cannot resist the attraction of the next new place or experience.”
Source: Itchy Feet - Tales of travel and adventure: An anthology of travel stories
“Regardless of your faith, you can never escape uncertainty.”
“Remember: this is not a guidebook, it is a map. Wander at your whimsy.”
Source: Vagabondess: A Guide to Solo Female Travel
“You know, I went to Berlin to have relax—' I stopped. Should I tell him about my magic sunglasses? Would that make my whole story even more fantastic? I decided to keep quiet about it; my frankness had some limits.”
Source: Through the Magic Sunglasses
“Choosing to continue feeling disappointment about lost joys keeps us from experiencing new ones. We just need to stay afloat during the hard times so that we are ready when good times come again. This is one of the chief lessons we have learned from life on a boat, though not the first...”
Source: Leaving the Safe Harbor: The Risks and Rewards of Raising a Family on a Boat
“I consider stubbornness to be one of my most endearing personality traits.”
Source: Vagabondess: A Guide to Solo Female Travel
“I don’t like guidebooks. I don’t like self-help-style “you must do this to be happy” rhetoric. I really don’t like dogmatic, authoritative injunctions of any kind telling me how to live my life. And if my intuition about you, dear reader, is at all accurate, neither do you.”
Source: Vagabondess: A Guide to Solo Female Travel
“Either she’d gain control over her powers,” he said slowly, “or lose whatever little she had in the first place.”
Source: The Young Foreigner: One Journey Can Decide Fate
“When you saw different parts of the world, you saw different parts of yourself. And when you stayed home, where it was safe, those parts of yourself also stayed hidden.”
Source: Masterpiece
“Constable Watson waived my apology off. He had a better alternative for me. “You seem like a decent young feller. I’m gonna arrange for you to spend the night at my daughter’s house.”
Source: A Hitchhiker’s Big Adventure: On the road from Indiana to Key West and New Orleans for Mardi Gras 1972