Travel

Travel is the movement of people or objects (such as airplanes, boats, trains and other conveyances) between relatively distant geographical locations. The term "travel" originates from the Old French word travail. Travel writing is a genre that has, as its focus, accounts of real or imaginary places. The genre encompasses a number of styles that may range from the documentary to the evocative, from literary to journalistic, and from the humorous to the serious. Travel writing is often associated with tourism, and includes works of an ephemeral nature such as guide books and reviews, with the ...more

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    Into the Carpathians: A Journey Through the Heart and History of East Central Europe (Part 2: The Western Mountains)
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    Nala's World: One Man, His Rescue Cat, and a Bike Ride around the Globe

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    Mark Twain
    I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.
    Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad

    Jack Kerouac
    because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere to go but everywhere, keep rolling under the stars...
    Jack Kerouac, On the Road

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