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

James A. Michener

Do we really want to travel in hermetically sealed popemobiles through the rural provinces of France, Mexico and the Far East, eating only in Hard Rock Cafes and McDonalds? Or do we want to eat without fear, tearing into the local stew, the humble taqueria’s mystery meat, the sincerely offered gift of a lightly grilled fish head? I know what I want. I want it all. I want to try everything once.

Anthony Bourdain

Suck it up and travel. You were not born here to work and pay taxes. You were put here to be part of a vast organism to explore and create. Stop putting it off. The world has much more to offer than what’s on 15 televisions at TGI Fridays. Take pictures. Scare people. Shake up the scene. Be the change you want to see in the world.

Jason Mraz

By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream.

Virginia Woolf

Nobody can discover the world for somebody else. Only when we discover it for ourselves does it become common ground and a common bond and we cease to be alone.

Wendell Berry

Travel brings power and love back into your life.

Rumi

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.

Marcel Proust

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.

Mark Twain

Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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

Lao Tzu

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

I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.

Chimamanda Adichie

The journey itself is my home.

Matsuo Basho

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

Gustave Flaubert

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Dominica !!!
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South Africa (Joburg & Capetown)
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Africa

Top Ten Travel Tips 1. Accommodations: Melrose Arch, Fire & Ice in Sandton, Icon Suites, Waterfront Capetown, b&b’s 2. Arts & culture (music, galleries, …

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Caribbean

I’m loving the sun and the fun of Dominicas’s festivities and Creole fest.

Abu Dhabi
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Featured Middle East

  Read more about the Suitcase Dreams trip and traveling to Abu Dhabi.

Abu Dhabi
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Middle East

Top Ten Travel Tips 1. Accommodations: Rocco Forte Hotel, Etihad Towers, Shangri-La Hotel, 2. Arts & culture (music, galleries, festivals, ruins): Heritage Village, Emirates …

Thailand (Phuket)
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Asia

Phuket was dreamy, its no surprise its named “the Jamaica of the East” its truly sublime… Phuket is a beautiful southern province island in …

Dubai
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Middle East

Top Ten Travel Tips 1. Accommodations: hotels range from budget to 7+++ star we booked through Amex travel 2. Arts & culture (music, galleries, …

Dominica !!!
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Caribbean

It’s late evening and though I’m tired, I’m still wide awake and buzzing with excitement. I’m in Dominica at the Fort Young Hotel preparing …

Barbados
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Caribbean

Accommodations: The Crane, La Maison Michelle Villa, Hilton, Airbandb Arts & Culture: Crop Over Carnival (Aug.), Hole Town Festival, Reggae Fest (Apr.) Back to …

Dubai
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Featured Middle East

Read more about the Suitcase Dreams trip and traveling to Dubai.

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Africa

Top Ten Tips: 1. Accommodations: I primarily used Airbandb this visit and I highly recommend neighborhoods: Osu, East Legon, Airport Residential and Cantonments             Hotels: …

London
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Europe

This was a quick business trip so I mostly did “drive-by-tours” literally… And to think of my colleagues disdain when I suggested hitting Paris …

Jamaica
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Caribbean

Top Ten Travel Tips 1. Accommodations: Sandals (Jamaican owned), Riu, Club Azul (large hotel), smaller boutique hotels: Grand Pineapple, Tree House 2. Arts & …

Thailand (Bangkok)
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Asia

Top Ten Travel Tips 1. Accommodations: Vijit Resort, Century Hotel, there are a ton of  affordable 5 stars shop online 2. Arts & culture (music, …