Travel
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And the road becomes my bride.
—Metallica
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Afoot and light-hearted
I take to the open road
—Walt Whitman
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The highway is alive tonight.
—Bruce Springsteen
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Let's go to sleep in Paris,
wake up in Tokyo
Have a dream in New Orleans,
fall in love in Chicago
—Lupe Fiasco
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We shall not cease from exploration
And the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place
for the first time
—T. S. Eliot
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Get out the map,
Get out the map
and lay your finger anywhere down
—Indigo Girls
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Alone on a train
aimless in wander
Outdated map
crumpled in my pocket
But I didn't care
where I was going
They're all different names
for the same place
―Death Cab for Cutie
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Oh, the places you’ll go!
―Dr. Seuss
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I want to go all over the world
and start living free.
―Gillian Welch
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Are you going to Scarborough Fair?
―Simon & Garfunkel
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Tropical the island breeze
all of nature wild and free
this is where I long to be
La Isla Bonita
―Madonna
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When you see someone putting on his Big Boots, you can be pretty sure that an Adventure is going to happen.
―Winnie-the-Pooh
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You got a fast car,
I want a ticket to anywhere.
—Tracy Chapman
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There's a place I want to take you,
when the unknown
will surround you.
—Beach House
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Won't you
take me by the hand,
take me somewhere new.
—Avril Lavigne
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We will go
nowhere we know.
—Beck
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Go somewhere you’ve never been.
―Anthony Bourdain
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Step on a steam train,
step out of the drivin' rain, maybe
run from the darkness in the night
—U2
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Leaves are falling all around,
time I was on my way
―Led Zeppelin
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There is a time for departure, even when there is no certain place to go.
—Tennessee Williams
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Leave no trace.
―Zen saying
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If you can awaken
inside the familiar
and discover it strange
you need never leave home.
―Braided Creek
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Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.
―Jack Kerouac
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We travel―some of us forever―to seek other states, other lives, other souls.
―Anaïs Nin
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The best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.
―Pico Iyer
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I’m pretty tired.
Think I’ll go home now.
―Forrest Gump
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