You don't have to hold hands and sing "Kumbaya" with everyone you meet on your travels to realize that you're not as different from other cultures as you might have originally perceived.

"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

And there are so many things to see.

"The world is big, and I want to get a good look at it before it gets dark." --John Muir

If life is a book, wouldn't you want yours to be a "Choose Your Own Adventure"?

"The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page." --St. Augustine

The modern version of this poignant quote, attributed to Mark Twain, reads something like, "Send the text. Swipe right. Quit your job. Get the Puppy. Buy the ticket."

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover." --Mark Twain

Hans Christian Anderson proves that distant lands aren't just for fairytales.

"To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
To gain all while you give,
To roam the roads of lands remote,
To travel is to live."
--Hans Christian Anderson