Travel Books That Will Give You Serious Wanderlust

Here are the Readsaga review team’s current list of best travel books to inspire you to travel far-off lands.

The Alchemist, by Paulo Coelho

If you want to read a book about following your dreams, then this is the book for you. As one of the most read books in history, the story follows a young shepherd boy as he follows his heart and learns what love and the meaning of life is. There are plenty of inspirational quotes to warm your heart and we cannot recommend this book enough.

Love With a Chance of Drowning, by Torre DeRoche

Written by travel blogger Torre DeRoche, this beautifully written book is about the author overcoming her fear of the ocean to sail across the Pacific with her boyfriend. The book is vivid in the way the author describes the scenery, the people, and her experiences.

On the Road, by Jack Kerouac

This is a classic timeless travel novel which follows the main character, Sal, as he leaves New York City and makes his way to the west. Throughout all of Sal’s travels, he becomes a better, stronger, and more confident person.

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The Best Travel Books That Will Take You All Around the World

No plane ticket needed when you have this great list of travel books to take you on an adventure around the world and back, curated by the Readsaga review team.

Due North by Lola Akinmade Åkerström

Lola Akinmade Åkerström is an award-winning travel photographer and writer, and in her book Due North, she pens a collection of all that she's learned in her career. Between sharing insights about her travel destinations, she also gets personal about her experiences as a Nigerian woman.

Alone Time: Four Seasons, Four Cities, and the Pleasures of Solitude by Stephanie Rosenbloom

This novel helps to remind you that sometimes the best travel companion is...you. In the memoir, Rosenbloom documents her solo adventures across four cities: Paris, Istanbul, Florence, and New York. The book is the definition of making peace with solitude.

Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish

Co-stars and off-screen friends of the show, Men in Kilts, Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish travel around Scotland for the best off-the-beaten-path delights, historical insights, and Outlander tie-ins.

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Quotes to celebrate travel

Most people love to travel, and these wonderful worlds celebrate what it is completely, curated by the Readsaga review team.

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

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

Travel is glamorous only in retrospect. – Paul Theroux

Travel does what good novelists also do to the life of everyday, placing it like a picture in a frame or a gem in its setting, so that the intrinsic qualities are made more clear. Travel does this with the very stuff that everyday life is made of, giving to it the sharp contour and meaning of art. – Freya Stark

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

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

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

Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves. – Henry David Thoreau

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

I have worn the dust of many foreign streets, but to brush it off would surely be a crime. I have the memories of many foreign adventures, but to forget them, would surely be a sin. So, breath in the dust, and keep the memories in. – Rowland Waring-Flood

I always wonder why birds stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on earth. Then I ask myself the same question. – Harun Yahya

Adventure is a path. Real adventure – self-determined, self-motivated, often risky – forces you to have firsthand encounters with the world. The world the way it is, not the way you imagine it. Your body will collide with the earth and you will bear witness. In this way you will be compelled to grapple with the limitless kindness and bottomless cruelty of humankind – and perhaps realize that you yourself are capable of both. This will change you. Nothing will ever again be black-and-white. – Mark Jenkins

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

A ship in harbor is safe, but that’s not why ships were built – John A. Shedd

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Wonderful quotes on the importance of travel

Take note of these great quotes on the importance of travel in your life, curated by the Readsaga review team.

Still round the corner, there may wait, a new road or a secret gate. – J. R. R. Tolkien

Paris is always a good idea. – Audrey Hepburn

Own only what you can always carry with you: know languages, know countries, know people. Let your memory be your travel bag. – Alexander Solzhenitsyn

Our footprints always follow us on days when it’s been snowing. They always show us where we’ve been, but never where we’re going. – Winnie the Pooh

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

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

Nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation. – Gayland Anderson

Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments and places that take our breath away – Unknown

It is a big and beautiful world. Most of us live and die in the same corner where we were born and never get to see any of it. I don’t want to be most of us. – Oberyn Martell, Game of Thrones

If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, then wherever you go for the rest of your life, it stays with you, for Paris is a movable feast. – Hemingway

If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet. – Anon

I’m not lost, I’ve just temporarily lost sight of my destination. – Unknown

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

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

I am not the same having seen the moon shine from the other side of the world. – Mary Anne Radmacher

How is it possible to feel nostalgia for a world I never knew? – Ernesto Che Guevara

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

A year from now, you will wish you had started today. – Karen Lamb

A river cuts through rock not because of its power, but its persistence. – Jim Watkins

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Couples Travel Quotes to Inspire Love and Adventure

Whether you need inspiration for your wedding vows or just interested in reading some couple travel quotes, this list curated by the Readsaga review team might be just what you’re looking for.

“Let’s find some beautiful places to get lost together.”

“And if travel is like love, it is, in the end, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” – Pico Iyer

“Couples who travel together stay together.”

“Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” – Lewis Carroll

“Oh darling, let’s be adventurers.”

“We are the luckiest people in the world. How many couples get to travel together and spend quality time like we do?” – Lindsey Gormley

“I want to travel the world with you, go to every country, every city, take pictures and be happy.”

“I’m in love with you and with the world.”

“Here’s to all the places we went. And here’s to all the places we’ll go. And here’s to me, whispering again and again and again and again: I love you.” – John Green

“Kiss my lips and let’s run away together.”

“And we will travel together and just be in love forever.”

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Inspirational Travel Quotes That’ll Make You Want to Travel in 2021

Whether you’re stuck in a rut, hungry for change and adventure, lacking motivation or self-confidence, the right inspirational quote can give you a well-needed kick up the butt to get you on the right track towards achieving your goals. Here are some of the best travel quotes to make you want to pack your bags this year, curated by the Readsaga review team.

1. You need not even listen, just wait…the world will offer itself freely to you, unmasking itself. – Franz Kafka

2. We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfilment. – Hilaire Belloc

3. 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

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

5. Travel expands the mind and fills the gap. – Sheda Savage

6. Time flies. It’s up to you to be the navigator. – Robert Orben

7. The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper. – W.B. Yeats

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

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

10. Take the time to put the camera away and gaze in wonder at what’s there in front of you. – Erick Widman

11. May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home. – Trenton Lee Stewart

12. Living on Earth is expensive, but it does include a free trip around the sun every year. – Unknown

13. It doesn’t matter where you are. You are nowhere compared to where you can go. – Bob Proctor

14. If we travel simply to indulge ourselves we are missing some of the greatest lessons life has to offer. – Unknown

15. It is probably a pity that every citizen of each state cannot visit all the others, to see the differences, to learn what we have in common, and come back with a richer, fuller understanding of America – in all its beauty, in all its dignity, in all its strength, in support of moral principles. – Dwight D. Eisenhower

16. Travelling tends to magnify all human emotions – Peter Hoeg

17. When a man is a traveller, the world is his house and the sky is his roof, where he hangs his hat is his home, and all the people are his family.- Drew Bundini Brown

18. ‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. You live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen non-percent of. – Louis C.K.

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

20. Wise as you have become, with so much experience, you must already have understood what these Ithacas mean. – Constantine Cavafy

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The Organized Traveler’s Checklist

These travel tips are crucial for your next vacation exploration if you are setting off in the next 48 hours, curated by the Readsaga review team.

The Final 48 Hours

• Plan to meet with a friend to exchange your house keys and share a detailed itinerary with telephone numbers where you can be reached.

• Finish your laundry so you won’t be worrying last minute about whether everything will be dry enough to pack. 

The Final 24 Hours

• Take the day before you leave off as a day to finalize all packing and errands.

• Order dinner in instead of cooking, and use paper plates so that you won’t have to wash up afterward. Before bed, load packed bags into the car, leaving one bag indoors to hold last-minute items. If someone will be driving you to the airport, set everything by the door.

Last-Minute Details

• Walk through the house and take care of everything that needs attention such as washing dishes, unplugging appliances, and emptying the garbage. Adjust the refrigerator to an energy-saving setting, and toss out perishable foods. If you have canceled garbage pickup during your vacation, bring last-minute trash to a neighbor’s house or with you to dump elsewhere.

• In the living room and bedrooms, unplug TVs and other devices not on timers. If it’s summer, turn the air conditioning off or to a comfortable setting for pets staying behind. If it’s winter, turn the heat to the lowest temperature that will keep pets warm and prevent pipes from freezing.

• Turn off the water to the washing machine. Clean pets’ cages and litter boxes; leave care instructions if they’re staying behind and you’ve asked someone to look in on them. Activate control systems for security, lawn watering, and lights. Before leaving, secure windows and doors.

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