”All the pathos and irony of leaving one’s youth behind is thus implicit in every joyous moment of travel: one knows that the first joy can never be recovered, and the wise traveler learns not to repeat successes but tries new places all the time.

Paul Fussell

”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

”It’s always hard to walk out the door but it’s easy knowing that you’re opening a thousand other doors to new adventures.

Scott Wilson from Descending (Season 1 Episode 1 - The Rest of the Map)

”The world is big or small as you want to make it. You can only really know what you’ve discovered for yourself. Some people they live and die in the same place, never knowing what’s just beyond the horizon. I could never live like that.

Scott Wilson from Descending (Season 1 Episode 1 - The Rest of the Map)

”I find that with travelling you become connected with the places that you’ve been to and you feel for it. It’s not just a name on the map. It’s a part of me.

Justin Lukach from Departures (Season 3 Episode 7 - Ecuador)

”Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.

Cesare Pavese

”Two roads diverged in a wood and I – I took the one less traveled by.

Robert Frost

”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

”You can be a citizen of the world but there’s only one place that will truly be home.

Scott Wilson from Departures (Season 3 Episode 16 - Australia)

”Never underestimate what history can teach you about the present and about the future and about cultures and people and faith. There’s a lot we can learn about where we came from to understand who we are and where we’re going.

Scott Wilson from Departures (Season 3 Episode 8 - Ethiopia: Saints and Snakes)