Loc Hong | Get Lost

“One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.” – Henry Miller

“To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.” – Freya Stark

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

“To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the first time, to be in a position in which almost nothing is so familiar it is taken for granted.” – Bill Bryson

“The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.” – St. Augustine

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.” – Lao Tzu

“Like all great travelers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.” – Benjamin Disraeli

“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

“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.” – Susan Sontag

“The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.” – G. K. Chesterton

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

“Traveling is like flirting with life. It’s like saying, ‘I would stay and love you, but I have to go; this is my station.’” – Lisa St. Aubin de Teran

“The autumn leaves are falling like rain / Although my neighbors are all barbarians / And you, you are a thousand miles away / There are always two cups at my table.” – T’ang dynasty poem

Original Oil Painting by Quang Hong
$400