Archives for July 2014

Real Travel

“Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you’re home. It’s about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart” […]

GBTA – How to Ensure Unmanaged Doesn’t Mean Mismanaged

Managing out of program hotel bookings is a common challenge for travel managers. Robert Cole of RockCheetah presents best practices for unmanaged travelers, conference and negotiated corporate hotel agreements at the GBTA Annual Convention at the Los Angeles Convention Center on Wednesday, July 30, 2014.

Serendipity Was My Tour Guide

“Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice” – Pico Iyer

Tell Me How Much You Traveled

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

Heaven Is Where…

“Heaven is where the Police are British, the Chefs are French, the Mechanics are German, the Lovers Italian and it’s all organised by the Swiss” – Anonymous

Grateful For A Strong Tailwind

“Always grateful for a strong tailwind and early arrival” – Glenn Gruber

I’d Walk A Thousand Miles

“Making my way downtown, walking fast, faces pass, and I’m home bound. Staring blankly ahead, just making my way, making a way, through the crowd. And I need you, and I miss you, and now I wonder… If I could fall, into the sky. do you think time, would pass me by? ‘Cause you know I’d walk a thousand miles, if I could, just see you tonight” – Vanessa Carlton (A Thousand Miles)

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Journeys They Failed To Make

“Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians– with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds– project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one” – Bruce Chatwin

How Few Had Made It This Far

“I thought about how many people had started off on this same journey, and how few had made it this far. I thought about how, of all the possible destinations this was the farthest outpost, the most remote spot of all – Kathmandu was the end of the road” – Terry Tarnoff

Books Were Better Than Travel

“…books were better than travel” – Pseudonymous Bosch [Editors Note: He was wrong…]