Travel inspiration can come from different places. Here are a few:
Movies
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit trilogies are fun to watch before you go to New Zealand.
Try to find a movie that takes place in the country you want to visit. Make sure it is a fun and positive experience, and not some horrific story that makes you not want to go anymore.
New Zealand: The world’s fastest Indian, Whale Rider
Australia: Lucky Miles, Tracks
Magazines
Pick up a National Geographic, Wanderlust or another travel magazine that appeals to you. They even have themed magazines that may be about the country or area you want to explore. Or even just for general travel inspiration. Take out pages with places you want to put on your Travel Magic List.
When you see a beautiful place in a magazine: you should find out where it is and then just go there!
Maaike: That’s how I ended up seeing Hamilton Pool (a lake with overhanging rock), close to Austin! I spotted it in a magazine in Germany. A month later traveled around in the States and I told my friends in Austin that I would love to see this place.
Travel Quotes
To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other and to feel… That is the purpose of life. (Secret life of Walter Mitty)
I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.
People wait all week for Friday, all year for Summer, all life for happiness… I travel.
Oh honey, let’s travel
somewhere, anywhere.
It’s time. It’s always time,
isn’t it?
We should head west, don’t
you think?
All the way west,
where blue and blue meet
and yellow sneaks away to sleep.
All you need is a great friend and a full tank of gas!
If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.
Life is for deep kisses, strange adventures, midnight swims and rambling conversations.
It’s impossible, said pride. It is risky, said experience. It’s pointless, said reason. Give it a try, whispered the heart.
Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport.
Just pack up and go travel.
This heart of mine was made to travel.
You can read about some place a thousand times, but it is so much more valuable to see it once. (as heard from guide in Laos)
I travel, because I want to see how beautiful the world is.
We must take adventures, in order to know where we truly belong.
I just want to go on more adventures, be around good energy, connect with people, learn new things, grow. (from Live More Awesome foundation in New Zealand)
In life it’s not where you go – it’s who you travel with.
Travel, as much as you can, as far as you can, as long as you can.
Life’s not meant to be lived in one place.
I would rather own a little and see the world, than own the world and see little of it.
Put down the map and get wonderfully lost.
The best journeys answer questions, that in the beginning you didn’t even ask.
Travel is never a matter of money, but of courage. (Paulo Coelho)
Spin the globe. Wherever it lands, that’s where we’ll go.
The ‘Seven Wonders of the World’: to see, to hear, to touch, to taste, to feel, to laugh, and to love.
Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
And at the end of the day your feet should be dirty, your hair messy and your eyes sparkling.
And then I realized, adventures are the best way to learn.
The best things in life are the people you love, the places you’ve seen and the memories you’ve made along the way.
What if I fall?
Oh, but my darling, what if you fly?
We’re all traveling through time together, every day of our lives. All we can do is do our best to relish this remarkable ride. (from the movie About Time)
All adventures in life start just by showing up.
What we all want in life: to travel, fall in love and be happy.
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. – Lao Tzu
Don’t settle down and sit in one place. Move around, be nomadic, make each day a new horizon.
Be brave, take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. (Paulo Coelho)
You cannot always wait for the perfect time, sometimes you must dare to jump.
Movie quotes suitable for life and travel:
LotR: All we have to decide is what to do with the time given to us.
Star Wars: Do, or do not, there is no try – Yoda
Ferris Bueller’s Day Off: Life moves pretty fast. If you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Secret life of Walter Mitty: Life is about courage and going into the unknown.
Social Media
Follow Instagrams that have lots of travel pictures, like National Geographic and Matador Network. Feel inspired to see those beautiful places. Add some more to your list.
