Helen’s Travel Corner

I had to laugh when I was going back through photos and read the taxi sign in this one: ‘Complicating divorce proceedings since 1971.’ It somehow seems fitting for NYC!

These are decorated around my apartment, written in my journal, scratched on post-it notes and there to remind and inspire the travel mindset (not all are exactly travel-related, but work with me . Here they are for your own enjoyment. If you have any other ones, please share!

My favorite travel quotes and beyond:

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

Life is a daring adventure, or nothing. -Helen Keller

Home is not where you live but where they understand you. -Christian Morgenstern (discovered on a wall at the Guinness Factory in Dublin)

There are no strangers, only friends you have not met yet. -William Butler Yeats

You must have something to live for- a focus to work towards. -Amar, my favorite taxi driver

A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. -Lao-tzu

To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries. -Aldous Huxley

A traveler without knowledge is a bird without wings. -sa’di

Travel is to spread your life all over the world. -Taxi Drive Wisdom

Because a day without love, laughter or dessert is a wasted day. -Mami Duni (Discovered on a menu at a Cuban restaurant in Dallas)

It is not the length of life, but the depth of life. -Ralph Waldo Emerson

Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going. -Theroux

The true meaning of life is to plant trees under whose shade you do not expect to sit. -Nelson Henderson

The world just does not fit conveniently into the format of a 35mm camera.  -W. Eugene Smith

If you don’t know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else. -Yogi Berra

Experience is not what happens to you; it’s what you do with what happens to you. -Aldous Huxley

I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself. -Aldous Huxley

Wherever you go, there you are. -Buckaroo Bonzai

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust

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

Be the change that you want to see in the world. -Gandhi

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.
-Robert Frost

Don’t worry about the world ending today, it’s already tomorrow in Australia. -Unknown

Have any more? Please share!

It that’s time of year so I thought I’d share my travel new year’s resolutions. Have some of your own? Feel free to share them!

This year I resolve to….

• Be more conscious of my carbon footprint when traveling (and at home) and minimize it as much as possible
• Take advantage of living in New York City and get out and explore as mush as possible
• Put back into the travel karma pot as much as possible (e.g. give directions who need it, etc.)
• Start saving for my trip to the World Cup in South Africa
• Blog more often
• Upload my travel photos sooner
• Learn to use a manual camera
• When not traveling, keep a traveler’s mindset
• Be present, wherever I am
• Support local businesses as much as possible
• Always take the road less traveled

To a new year and new adventures! Best wishes wherever your travels take you in 2010!