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This summer, I ventured on the most adventurous trip of my life: my friend and I decided to repeat the Alpine travels of various travel bloggers from Instagram. We armed ourselves with leaflets and a marker for hitchhiking, contacted the inhabitants of the Alpine cities on the CouchSurfing website (for those who don’t know: this service allows you to spend the night with people abroad for free and also receive foreigners at home for free), loaded backpacks and rushed to conquer the mountains. It was my first such experience. And, I must admit, the last one.

Today I will tell readers website what to expect from such free entertainment, as well as debunk or confirm some myths about couchsurfing and hitchhiking. So, go!

Brief clarification: our 5-day itinerary ran through the Eastern Alps, starting from Munich and ending with Graz (Austria). Every day we spent the night at the coaches, overcame short and difficult distances on buses, long ones - by hitchhiking.

Myth #1: Couchsurfing is the obvious equivalent of a dating site. And sometimes it's dangerous

This is quite a popular rumor among those who have never used the service. I admit, I thought the same, but in the end we were guests of the most well-mannered people in turn: a German BMW engineer, an Italian architect, an Austrian graduate student of the Faculty of Biomedical Engineering and a French engine designer. All these guys were over 30, single, intelligent, traveled a lot, knew many languages and continued to explore the world through couchsurfing. At the same time, no strange hints and frank moments - everything was perfect until we reached our last host in the Austrian city of Graz. It was there that my most skeptical suspicions came true, and my friend and I still ran into a pervert, ee-ee!

Everything was in his favor: a large number of positive feedback in the profile, messages with promises to show us the city and have a party, despite the weekday, etc. But when we arrived, this couch, imposingly reclining in front of us in shorts and with a cigarette, sharply told us that he was too lazy and we we won't go anywhere. Well, after my friend and I found out that there was nothing to talk about with him, except about clubs, we saw his plan not only “in our hands”, but also in our head. And then, as if reading our thoughts, he moved on to the 10-minute most awkward and unpleasant dialogue in my life in order to share pleasure with us. In general, this dude with a raging fantasy and testosterone was barely able to calm down. In response, he got angry and stopped talking to us - a gentleman of the XXI century, nothing to say.

After such emotions, I was left with a bad impression of couchsurfing and of Austria in general. Although in fairness it’s worth saying that my friend, whose couchsurfing experience is calculated in dozens of hosts (these are those who receive guests), this happened for the first time, therefore, we can say that the service is 98% safe. We did not write a review to our Austrian, because we thought that such a person, in retaliation, could also write something bad in our profile, thereby lowering the page rating (so in many cases negative reviews are simply not left on the site, mind you).

In order not to end the paragraph on a negative note, here is a snugly sleeping cat of the most intelligent Cauchy from Innsbruck.

Myth #2: Through couchsurfing you will get to know the country from the inside

Yes, the locals will tell you much more than you can read in guidebooks and find on tourist forums. But! Here I will make a small private clarification: if you stay at the couch for only one day (and usually they do), most likely you will not have time to see anything: you will only be able to listen to unique places, no more.

Because you need to understand that couchsurfing is not just a free overnight stay, but a cultural exchange. If you come to visit a foreigner, he perceives you as a person who should occupy him, entertain him, tell him something new, and not just use his free room. Therefore, on the one hand, it's cool, but on the other hand, you may well pay for it by spending more time getting to know the hosts than getting to know the city itself. But everyone has their own interests, so I don’t presume to judge which is better.

As for me, I suggest just looking at this collage.

On the left is the place where I really wanted to go in Munich, and on the right is where I spent most of the time in this city. I don't think I need to say how upset I was.

Myth #3: Guys "host" only girls, girls - guys.

This is partly true. When my friend announced to me that all our hosts would be guys, I got a little excited and went to Google to look for something about gender theory of couchsurfing. There wasn’t one, so, relying on the Reddit forum and the experience of my friends, I decided to bring it out myself: boys are hosting(receive) mostly girls or mixed companies, since they are generally more pleasant and comfortable in a female or mixed society than in a purely male one. Girls, in principle, “host” less and choose rather not by gender, but by reviews and first impressions.

Myth #4: With couchsurfing and hitchhiking, you don't spend any money at all.

There are professional bloggers who write the name of their profession through 2 letters "g". Okay, this is a joke, I'm talking about something else. There are bloggers who claim that money is not needed for traveling, only desire is enough, and in general, all the limits are only in our head. Here I categorically disagree: without money it’s still nowhere.

Couchsurfing - yes, it's budget, but for 5 days of my "homeless tour" I spent almost 200 euros. And that's where they went.

For food. Despite the fact that we lived with the couchs, we bought food ourselves, even for a joint dinner.
For cocktails and other drinks in bars and on walks, which we paid not only for ourselves, but also for our couchs (we are guests after all). Although, to be more insolent, you can not offer this.
For souvenirs our hosts. After all, you won’t come to visit without a gift either. By the way, an interesting observation: it turned out that only Russians and Poles adhere to this “philosophy of guests”, judging by the stories of our hosts. The rest usually come empty-handed.
On the road. As I wrote above, short distances, where it was possible to get by bus inexpensively, and you risk standing at the curb with your hand up for quite a long time, we spared no expense.

And a little more about bloggers: I will compare their photos with the reality that we saw.

Castelrotto, Italy.

Ortisei, Italy.

Lake Braies, Italy.

It’s clear that you can’t do without Photoshop, but still I want to emphasize the idea that they “process” not only photos, but in general all the behind the scenes of trips: adventure stories, tips and parting words about how easy everything is . So do not blindly believe and envy the profiles of travelers in social networks.

Myth #5: Couchsurfing makes you a lot of new friends around the world.

If you are an extrovert, then this is true: you will have many friends abroad. Go straight to the next item.

If you are an introvert, then everything is harder. I would even say this: couchsurfing is not for us guys at all. Imagine: a hard day, flights, transfers, a lot of impressions ... And then in the evening you come to the host, and you need - oh horror! - talk to him all evening. And morning. And maybe even a day... In fact, this is a serious emotional problem for many people. It's not funny at all.

I am very lucky: my girlfriend is a pure extrovert. She was happy and completely relaxed to share her energy with new people. I actively supported the conversation only for the sake of helping my friend, because sometimes the conversation was reduced to silence with the sounds of crickets due to the lack of common topics with the cauchs (besides cultural ones, of course). In the meantime, I just wanted to lie down in an embrace with the phone and be silent after a hard day. With our schedule - all 5 days we were at different coaches - this need for emotional respite increased simply to unrealistic proportions, blocking the need for new friends.

Myth #6: Hitchhiking is Russian Roulette

When we were drawing signs with destinations in some alpine village toilet, suspecting that in the Alps, in general, they didn’t hitchhike, I was scared.

A touch of extreme to all this was added by the fact that it was unbearably hot and therefore we were in the same short skirts / shorts. In short, on the side of the track, we looked like some long-distance call girls. But a gamble is a gamble - you can't back down.

As a result, we were driven by completely unexpected characters: an Italian girl with her mother, an Austrian grandfather, a Slovenian hippie grandmother and two adult Georgians. Everyone was extremely kind. interesting people, the latter generally had to pass by our destination, Budapest (this no longer applies to our Alpine route), but in the end they took us right to the very apartment where we were supposed to stay, although before that we had to stand in a 40-minute traffic jam in the city center. It was very embarrassing for such kindness, but they insisted that a real gentleman could not do otherwise.

And the Italian girl told us that hitchhiking is very rare in the Alps, because now it is not very popular, because there are all sorts of services like, as our Georgians called it (seriously!) “bla-bla-bla-car”, carsharing or car rental. The Slovenian grandmother, who, as it turned out, hitchhiked a lot in her youth and took us in solidarity, also confirmed the fact that such a phenomenon is rare today. It’s funny that, as she said goodbye, she shouted to us: “Remember, we are doing this for all of us!” - and looked mysteriously, with some strange gleam in her eyes. We decided that she was a little crazy, but we were immensely grateful to her.

In general, hitchhiking exceeded our expectations! This is unpopular, which is why "specialized maniacs" do not operate in this area, at least in Europe. You can use. Plus, it's beautiful and does not leave the feeling that you are driving yourself.

But let me remind you that before that you need to stand for an incomprehensible amount of time at the track with a feeling of complete helplessness.

So, is it worth repeating my experience

As I said, if you are an introvert and are not ready, figuratively speaking, to give part of yourself for the sake of cultural exchange, think carefully about all these ways to travel a hundred times. Or at least alternate - coach, hotel, coach, apartment - so that you can periodically relax emotionally.
If you want to save money, then yes, it's worth it. But you still won’t be able to reduce spending to zero: do not trust the constantly motivating travelers from the Internet.
Well, in general, now there will be a hyper-subjective point: despite the fact that this trip turned out to be incredible, nevertheless, during it, I realized that for me personally, all these ways to travel, live, eat and generally exist, to be honest, “for free” are quite humiliating. Perhaps many will not agree with me, but I would rather spend more money, travel much less, and maybe because of these principles I won’t see half the planet, but I’d rather travel at my own measured pace, with my own program and only in a close one to me. companies. This is a pleasure trip for me.

If you have your own thoughts and similar stories (especially about couchsurfing), tell them in the comments!

In this article, I will reveal to you the biggest secret of long and long journeys.

How to go on a long and long journey?

You would know how often people pester me with a request to tell me what the secret of my travels is. How do I so cleverly manage to travel long and not die of hunger? I tell them, but they still think that I am missing something important. What is it that I am hiding? How, they ask, did I manage to get out of the office and travel freely around the world? Did I win the lottery on the sly? Or missed the trust fund? After all, there must be some kind of trick, it can’t be so simple!

In general, I was so tired of listening to these claims and questions that I decided to tell the most terrible and secret secret - how to go on a long journey? And let me get kicked out of the Owner's club secret secret Long Journeys, I will now lay out everything in good faith, because you deserve it. Take heed!

The biggest secret about how to go on a long journey...

Absent.

There is no secret. There is nothing special about which I would not tell anyone, and what my fellow travelers would not tell.

I understand that this lifestyle is very different from what the vast majority of people are used to. From everything that many consider normal and familiar. And travelers who go to distant countries for a longer time also do not have superpowers and are not always the owners of a Swiss bank account. But still, they all have one unique feature - they act differently than other people. They, like me, were able to get out of office slavery and see what is there, beyond these fictitious boundaries.

But before I decided to go on my first long trip, I was an ordinary guy. I envied those guys who calmly moved around the world while I listened to the screams of the boss and suffocated under the air conditioner. I wanted so damn much to be the same that travel became my monomania. This is what saved me.

I also looked for this great secret, traveled during holidays in a cheap warm country on a burning ticket and drilled his brain with one single question - how? And then one day in one of these trips, I suddenly realized that there is no secret. Many people do the same.

There is nothing special or unique here.

I have met many travelers along the way who did the same as me, and also were not the children of rich parents or the owners of a million-dollar inheritance. So I'm not special at all, a lot of people live the same way. The whole problem is that you are unlikely to meet such a person in your Everyday life. Therefore, there will be no one to tell you this Great Secret.

Go on a long journey This is a big deal for everyone. A year-long break from everyday life is a kind of rite of passage. Then moving to another country for a year or two to live, work and relax becomes the norm. I lived in Thailand for 2 years. In some countries, this is a priori the norm, but, of course, this is not about Russia. We are still haunted by the Iron Curtain. That's the whole problem. It is not normal for a normal Russian person to go on a trip for a year. And I was the same. And then…

I just suddenly realized that in order to travel longer you do not need to do something out of the ordinary or have a decent gas cover. All unnecessary nonsense from my head fell off at the same moment, and I was able to focus on the main thing. Before starting, all travelers had one strong desire to become free, to free themselves from social pressure (and in Russia it is perhaps one of the strongest and most overwhelming), to do what they want, and, in the end, to enjoy life , otherwise it is one and far from infinite.

I realized that I could die at any moment. I imagined that I was sitting here, drinking morning coffee, making plans for the evening, even arranged a meeting with someone, but while I was going to a nearby cafe for lunch to eat my business lunch, I got hit by a bus. Pshik and there is no me. Then everything fell into place.

I realized that if I suddenly die today, I will be very sorry that I could not realize my dream about other countries. That he sat and put off for some incomprehensible "later", which, perhaps, will never come. It was at that moment that I made up my mind. And he wanted to travel not only in his dreams, lying on the couch, but in such a way that he was ready to act and change his life.

This is very important point. You have to be ready to change things. Without this readiness and determination, it is very difficult to get out of the swamp of everyday life.

That's how I changed my lifestyle and started saving for my first long trip. Then it was something revolutionary for me. It was a rebellion against normality. It burned me from the inside. I saved everything to get out.

The funny thing is that later, already when I was traveling, I realized that there was nothing revolutionary in this gesture. Read my story, how I decided to quit everything and go travelling, it's really ordinary. If people want something, they just get it. So you want a good widescreen TV or a car, or an iPhone and buy them. The desire to travel is exactly the same order. It's really possible to get out for two weeks. The task is the same, only slightly larger.

You have a purpose. The goal has its price. You want your goal so much that you are willing to take action and pay the price. Pay. You get a goal. As they say, there would be a desire, and the road appears under the feet of the walking one.

People ask me what I do with my bills, do I take care of my pension, work experience, etc, etc. But when you travel, you don't have these problems, they just dissolve, you don't think about your pension, you hardly think about what will happen next. You are happy and in the present. Now I don't have any bills, only daily expenses. I am one of those who are sure that it is pointless to spend your whole life on an unloved job and be unhappy, for the sake of some semblance of well-being. I saw such prosperous public transport in the morning. Daughter happy guys, you know. I hate to spend best years my life so that in some distant future my pension would be a little higher living wage. Is this happiness?

Of course, travelers also have some money for a rainy day, but they do not worry about the future, because they have such a beautiful present. Take care of the present while it is still there, worry about the future when you live to see it. When I stop traveling, if this happens, then I will decide what to do next.

Therefore, when you ask travelers what their secret is, they do not lie, answering that there is no secret.

Any path is like climbing a mountain. If you have decided to travel quite recently, and now you are only at the stage of saving money and learning how to more information about travel, and what will happen next - do not know. Do not worry. As you rise a little higher on your traveler's path, new doors and opportunities will open before you. It will definitely happen. It happens to everyone. Whether you want to travel longer or become a good specialist. The beginning is always the hardest. It seems that your efforts are in vain, you do not know what will happen next, you may be wasting your time, money and effort. But it's not. The main thing in such periods is to continue on your way and very soon, be sure (!) You will see new opportunities.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, fanaticism and narrow-mindedness, which is why it is so urgently needed by many. © Mark Twain
If there's one thing I've learned in my travels, it's this: The only way to get things done is to go out and do them. No need to rant about going to Borneo. Buy a ticket, get a visa, pack your backpack and it will happen. © Alex Garland
Travel teaches more than anything. Sometimes one day spent in other places gives more than ten years of life at home. © AnatoleFrance
When preparing for a trip, lay out all your clothes and all your money. After that, take half the clothes and double the money. © Susan Heller
Time constantly surprises us, it is impossible to get used to its tricks. The vacation ends as soon as it starts: as soon as you check into a hotel, it’s already time to go back. But once you come back, it feels like you haven't been home for ages. © Claudia Hammond

Traveling makes life much more interesting if you follow sudden impulses. © Bill Bryson
In twenty years, you will regret more not what you did, but what you didn't do. So throw off the knots, swim out of the safe harbors. Catch the wind in your sails. Explore. Dream. Open up. © Mark Twain
Wonderful feeling - getting on the train long distance without luggage. As if, leaving the house for a walk, you suddenly find yourself in a curved space-time - and find yourself in the cockpit of a dive bomber. And there is nothing more. No visits to the dentist scheduled for the week on the calendar. No problems piled up on the table waiting for you to come. Not all these "social relations" from which you run the risk of not extricating yourself for the rest of your life. Not a false friendliness on the face to gain the trust of others ... I just send all this to hell for a while. All that's left are these old tennis shoes with worn soles. Only they - and nothing else. Already they are firmly rooted to the legs - scraps of obscure memories from another space-time. Well, it's not scary anymore. Such memories are easily banished with a couple of beers and a ham sandwich. © Haruki Murakami
A journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. © Lao Tzu
If a person remains unchanged on a journey, it is a bad journey. © Ernst Simon Bloch

Traveling helps to understand the beauty of space and the pricelessness of time.
Traveling develops the mind, if, of course, you have one. © Gilbert Chesterton
Knowledge of the countries of the world is an adornment and food for human minds. © Leonardo da Vinci
We travel not to escape from life, but to keep it from us.
This is very correct - to come to a foreign city in the morning. By train, plane, whatever. The day starts as if from scratch… © Sergey Lukyanenko

A person is able to change his life, changing only his point of view. © William James
Although we travel all over the world in search of beauty, we must have it in ourselves, otherwise we will not find it!© Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whatever You desire for Yourself, give it to another...If you want to be happy, make someone else happy. If you want to be successful, help another to be successful. If You want more Love in your Life, make sure that the other person has more of it. Do it sincerely - not because you are looking for personal gain, but because you really want the other person to have it all - and everything that you gave will come to you.Why is that? How it works? The very act of giving makes You feel that You have, that You have something to give. Since You cannot give what You do not have, Your mind comes to a new conclusion, a New Thought about You, namely: You have something, otherwise You could not give it away. This New Thought becomes part of Your Life Experience. You start to “be” like that. And once You begin to “be”, You set in motion the most powerful machine of creation in the Universe - Your Divine Self. © Neil Donald Walsh

I could spend my whole life walking around a new city every day. © Bill Bryson
The world is a book. And who did not travel through it - read only one page in it. © St. Augustine
Travel only with those you love. © Ernest Hemingway
Travel as the greatest science and serious science helps us to rediscover ourselves. © A. Camus

Everyone in their hearts wants to suddenly pack up and leave ... Where to? For what? And what does it matter. Just get away and be far from this noisy, constantly running somewhere society.
Travel is a great cure for loneliness.
I travel not to get somewhere, but to go. The main thing is movement. © Robert Louis Stevenson
There are only two ways to live life. The first is that miracles do not exist. The second - as if there are only miracles around. © Albert Einstein
Travel only with those who are equal or better than you. If not, travel alone. © Dhamapada

It's never too late, or in my case, it's never too early to be who you want to be. There is no time limit, there are no rules: you can change or stay the way you are. I hope you do things that scare you. I hope you are experiencing feelings that you have never experienced before. I hope you meet people with different points of view. I hope you live the life you deserve. If not, I hope you have the courage to start over.
Half the fun of traveling lies in the aesthetic of being lost. © Ray Bradbury
We only feel the charm of our native speech when we hear it under foreign skies. © George Bernard Shaw
To regret the lost time is a waste of time.© Mason Cooley

Travel has its benefits. If the traveler visits best countries then he can learn how to improve his. If fate brings him to the worst countries, he can learn to love his country. © Samuel Johnson
If a person moves confidently towards his dream and strives to live the life he imagined, then success will come to him at the most ordinary hour and quite unexpectedly.
Traveling is flirting with life. It's like saying: "I would like to stay with you, I would like to love you, but I have to go, this is my stop." © Lisa Saint-Aubin-de-Teran
Well, where we do not. In the past, we are no longer there, and it seems beautiful. © A. Chekhov
Freedom will begin when you stop limiting yourself to someone else's ideas. © Amu Mom
While we are young, we must arm ourselves with a toothbrush and go wherever our eyes look. Laugh, do crazy things, go against the system, read as much as it seems to fit in your head, love with all your strength, feel. Just live. © Stanislavsky

Trains are amazing; I love them still. Traveling by train means seeing nature, people, cities and churches, rivers - in essence, this is a journey through life. © Agatha Christie
If you are young, healthy and eager to learn new things, then I conjure you - travel. And go as far as possible. Sleep on bare ground if you have to, but stick to that idea. Learn life from people, learn from them how to cook, and in general everything, wherever you go. © Anthony Bordian
No one realizes the beauty of travel until he comes home and rests his head on an old familiar pillow. © Lin Yutang
The pleasure of life is drawn from our meetings with the new, and therefore there is no greater happiness than constantly changing our horizons, meeting each day under a different sun. © Jon Krakauer

He went to conquer new lands with only what he was wearing, because he did not want to carry anything with him from Chester Mill. Apart from a couple of pleasant memories, but for them he did not need any suitcases, or even a backpack. © Stephen King
The ultimate goal of travel is not to see a foreign country, but to see one's own country as a foreign one. © Gilbert Chesterton
When you travel, you rediscover yourself.
I now realized that the surest way to find out whether you like a person or not is to go traveling with him. © Mark Twain

Wanderings - the best activity in the world. When you wander, you grow rapidly, and everything that you see is deposited even on your appearance. People who traveled a lot, I recognize from a thousand. Wanderings purify, intertwine meetings, centuries, books and love. They make us related to the sky. If we have received the unproven happiness of being born, then we must at least see the earth. © Konstantin Georgievich Paustovsky
Travel - the ability to gather, move and not be afraid.
Tomorrow will be what should be, and there will be nothing that should not be - do not fuss.

Traveling is one thing that will only make you richer if you buy it.
93% of people have a dream that can be fulfilled before the end of the week, and they make it their dream of a lifetime.
Sometimes you really want to become a hedgehog, collect all kinds of garbage in a rag, hang it on a stick, stick on your shoulder and slowly go into the fog.
I think everything in life is art. That you do. How do you dress. How you love someone and how you talk. Your smile and your personality. What you believe in and all your dreams. How do you drink tea? How do you decorate your home? Or how to have fun. your shopping list. The food you are preparing. What does your handwriting look like? And the way you feel. Life is art.

I want to drop everything and just travel the world with someone who wants it as much as I do.
I feel so cramped under the spring sky

That, hoping to catch a wave,

I will one day go out for bread

And accidentally leave the country.

All travel goes in circles. I rode around Asia, writing out a parabola in one of the hemispheres of our planet. In short, a round-the-world trip is just a curious person's way back home. © Paul Thero
A person who travels a lot is like a stone carried by water for many hundreds of miles: its roughness is smoothed out, and everything in it takes on soft, rounded shapes.
If you are doing something beautiful and sublime, and no one notices it, don’t be upset: the sunrise is generally the most beautiful sight in the world, but most people are still sleeping at this time. © John Lennon
My opinion about travel is brief: when traveling, do not go too far, otherwise you will see something that will then be impossible to forget ... © Daniil Kharms
I'm so angry because I don't have my own wine cellar and little house in Italy.
Life has taught us to combine extremes. Love people, but be indifferent. Do good and wait for evil. Hope for the best, but expect the worst. Believe in people and trust no one. Be an optimist with realistic views. Live with open heart and don't let anyone in. Part of you should love the world and admire it, while the other part should wait for the blow and be ready for war. © A. Solovieva

The benefit of travel is the ability to adjust your imagination to reality, and instead of thinking how things should be, to see things as they are. © Samuel Johnson
A simple cheese sandwich eaten on a picnic on top of a cliff overlooking the raging sea seems to us tastier and more important than any restaurant delicacies. © Alain de Botton
You set your own boundaries. And they are only in your head. And no more. You choose where you work and how you study. What grades to get and what color your diploma will be. Your work is your choice. The choice of the city of your dreams is yours. And only you will choose your path. What do you want - an easy carefree life or a narrow road full of adventures?If you don't have a dream, then you're working for someone else. Do you want this?The choice is yours. You set yourself the bar for your risk. You set the boundaries of your ceiling, above which you cannot jump. You choose where you develop and what to delve into. What is important and what is not worthy of your attention. You choose how to think about people or not think about them at all. Every day is a choice. And he is behind you.
“Don’t you think it’s great to drop everything and go somewhere where no one knows you?” Sometimes that's what you want to do.- I want it badly.© Haruki Murakami

Many people don't budge because they care about the feeling of security, or because they're generally intimidated by the thought of having to do something unfamiliar. Change lies outside their comfort zone and scares them. But the reality is that all of life's rewards are out of your comfort zone. Deal with it. Fear and risk are mandatory stages if you want to live successfully and interestingly. © Jack Canfield
Often, it is easier to become yourself somewhere on the road or in a foreign city, but not at all at home. © Alain de Botton
Anyone who gathers two days before the trip should consult a psychiatrist. Normal people stuff their things into a bag when they have to leave the house. © Tony Hawks

A tourist, as soon as he arrives somewhere, immediately begins to want to return. And the traveler ... He may not return ... © Paul Bowles
Only roads can push back old age. When you drive all the time and go to bed, knowing that an alarm clock will wake you up at night in order to catch a plane that goes the devil knows where and generally the devil knows why you are flying on it, then time stops. © Yulian Semenov
Defeat yourself. It is better to defeat yourself than to win a thousand battles. Then victory is yours. Neither angels nor demons, neither heaven nor hell can take it away from you. To conquer yourself, you must conquer your mind. You must control your thoughts. They shouldn't rage like sea waves. You may be thinking, “I can't control my thoughts. The thought comes when it pleases. To which I reply: you cannot prevent a bird from flying over you, but surely you can prevent it from nesting on your head.” © Buddha Gautama
In order to live, one must tear, get confused, fight, make mistakes, start and start again, and quit again, and fight forever. And peace is spiritual cowardice. © Leo Tolstoy
The carriage window is the main entertainment for the traveler. In it, as in a kaleidoscope, half-stations, villages, forests flash by, bridges fly by under the metallic whistle of riveted beams, fields are revealed that change their color from white to black and from green to yellow.

In motion, everything seems so cute and a little toy, as if not real. Looking out the window, the passenger becomes a bit of a child, discovering with surprise how vast the world is, how much space and air it contains, and not just the usual streets and houses.

There is a secret charm in the car window, when you look under the lullaby of the rolling of the wheels and do not hold your eyes on anything. Pictures fly by as if smeared with a brush, and from this measured movement and constant change of impressions you plunge into a light waking drowsiness, and thoughts come to mind by themselves and just as easily disappear.

Sometimes you want to go nowhere. Just go and listen to your favorite music, look at the flickering lights, look at all this bustle of the city. Forget about all the problems and just enjoy.

I dream of traveling so much that airport workers recognize me and ask:Where to this time?

Our doubts are our traitors. They make us lose what we might have won if we weren't afraid to try...
Tell me, what changes in a person's life after going to the mountains? Worldview. He begins to look at life differently. Values are changing. There is no money, no usual amenities. Returning home, newcomers begin to understand and appreciate the charms of simple things, people begin to relate differently to the benefits of civilization. After all, up there, far from home, everything that happened before the campaign seems like a fairy tale. In the mountains, there are completely different requirements for people than in the city.
There are three traps that steal joy and peace: regret for the past, worry for the future, and ingratitude for the present.
- Why do you immediately reject people as soon as they make a mistake. You will spend the rest of your life alone.

- You know, I'm used to hunger, but I'm not used to bad food.

You will never cross the ocean unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.
Everything in life is temporary. If everything goes well, enjoy it, it won't last forever. Well, if everything is lousy - do not be sour, this is also not forever. © F. M. Dostoevsky
When you travel without knowing English, you begin to understand what it means to be born deaf and dumb. © Philippe Bouvard
It happens to me too. I look at the map - and suddenly there is a wild desire to go no one knows where. As far as possible from the conveniences and benefits of civilization. And to see with your own eyes what kind of landscapes there are and what is happening in those parts. To fever, to shiver. But where this desire came from in you, you can’t explain to anyone. curiosity in pure form. Unexplained inspiration.
Remind yourself more often that the purpose of life is not to achieve everything planned, but to enjoy every step taken on the path of life.
Loving life is easy when you are abroad. Where no one knows you, and you are alone, and your whole life is in your hands, you feel more like a master than ever.
You also get used to loneliness. A completely harmonious union is even possible with him: you live alone with yourself, cook dinner for one, fall asleep in front of the TV and do not wait for the appearance of a savior, which still happens only in books and films. yes, this loneliness is painful, frosty, but it is honest - it is better to be alone than with just anyone. © Elchin Safarli

Once a year, go somewhere you've never been before.
I decided to take a trip, to the present, big Adventure, about which, probably, everyone dreams, but never has time to decide. Every day I felt more and more clearly the need for this, and not because I wanted to see new interesting places but because he did not feel attached to any place. Andrey Sidorenko.
Losing your way while traveling is unpleasant, but losing the sense to go further is even worse.
You know, when I woke up this morning and looked back at my life, I thought: “Should I be afraid to take risks and do what I really want to do, not paying attention to other people's opinions and criticism in my address? Ignoring the imaginary fears that my “smart mind” draws, moving me away from the realization of my desires? Death happens to a hundred people out of a hundred, not to ninety-nine, but to a hundred people. Is it worth worrying about her if the moment comes when she knocks on my door and says: “Well, it's time!”? I think the worst thing is when she knocks on my door, and I, looking back at my life, will be very sorry that I had the opportunity, but I didn’t risk it. That I could approach the girl and get acquainted, but I was afraid that she would send me. That I did not have time to tell my parents how much I love them and do not want them to swear. That I did not quit my boring and uninteresting job and did not dare to open my own business. I will regret that I traveled little and did not take care of my health. Etc. Now, when I have any doubts, I ask myself one question: “What am I afraid of?” and there is no more doubt. © Alexey Demidov
Every great dream starts with a dreamer. Always remember that you have the strength, the patience and the passion to reach for the stars and change the world.
Each of us probably wanted to pick up and leave. Leave old life, take the first available train with a one-way ticket.

Personally, I don't travel to be somewhere, I travel for movement and fellow travelers. Movement is the most beautiful thing in life. © Robert Louis Stevenson
We have only a few decades left to live on this earth, and we lose so many irretrievable hours, thinking about grievances that in a year we will forget, and everyone around will forget about them. © Dale Carnegie

Salvation - in wanderings. The inscription "Fasten your seat belts" lights up - and you are disconnected from problems. Broken armrests rise above broken hearts. © Alex Garland
If you are crazy enough to do what you love, you are destined to live a life full of meaning.
What do you need to enjoy life?

- Start traveling!

Live with joy, with a smile, do not get upset over trifles, love life, then it will love you. Do not think about time, do not count the days, do not listen to the opinions of other people, and do not think that maybe later I will be happy, but you think that “later” may not come, happiness will not wait. Be happy now.
Do not be afraid of change - otherwise dreams will remain dreams.

Life will fly by like one moment

Appreciate it, take pleasure in it.

As you spend it - so it will pass,

Don't forget: she is your creation.

Don't forget that the earth delights in feeling your bare feet, and the winds tend to play with your hair... © Khalil Gibran.
Do not sit at home, move more, travel. The world is magnificent and beautiful, you should see much more than the monitor screen.
And in my head there is one thought: “You only live once, only once”

Top 10 Movie Travel Quotes

1. See the world around, experience dangers, overcome them, look through walls, be closer, find each other, feel. This is the purpose of life. © Film "The Incredible Life of Walter Mitty"
2. Everyone says that they dream of getting out of here, seeing the world, but when it comes down to it, they won’t stick out their beak beyond their birdhouse © Cartoon “Wing Wing”
3. To change the world, you need to see it © m / s "Missing"
4. Will you come to America with me?
  Yes, even to Africa. © Brat-2
5. - If you had a lot of time on your watch, what would you do?
  I would stop following. I can say one thing, if I had time - I would not waste it. © In Time
6. Life is a tango, in which the main thing is movement. If you stop, the dance will stop; if you stop, life will stop. © Scent of a Woman
7. The journey is important, not the destination. (From the movie “Step Up 3-D”)
8. The most pleasant moment of the trip is the fees. The barking of a dog is worse than the dog itself. A woman is often more beautiful from the back. My kind can destroy your dreams. (from the animated film Spice and Wolf)
9. When traveling, it is important not to forget the main thing - when one thing ends, something else begins. From the movie Love Happens
10. The people you travel with are just as important as the place you go to. These people can make your trip unforgettable. From the movie "Lost in Translation"

Proverbs and sayings about travel, road and tourism

Whoever travels will know.
Free will, walking - the way.
The eyes do not see, and the soul does not know.
If you want to know a person, take a trip with him.
If you love your son, send him on a journey.
Not the one who knows anymore lived longer, and the one who went further.
The dunno lies, and the know-it-all runs far.
Do not be afraid of the road, if your legs were healthy.
Whoever has been to the sea is not afraid of puddles.
The road will be mastered by the walking one.
You will go out on the road - there will be satellites.
If you do not have enough strength, then at least the desire is commendable.
On the road, you will call the enemy your own father.
The road is red with riders, and dinner with pies.
If the sail is left without wind, it becomes an ordinary fabric.
If I don't go myself, who will go with me?
If you're on a boat, don't fight the boatman.
If you can climb the mountain, don't stay in the valley.
If you want to go far, start close.
It is better to see once than hear a thousand times.
Who has seen a lot knows a lot.
The road is winding - the truth is straight.
Each step of the way adds a particle of wisdom.
Whatever people you come to, you will put on such a hat.
Shoe the horse first, and then figure out the road.
You go for a day, and take bread for a week.