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10 Synonymous Words for Travel Lovers

We often run out of words on what to say. It also happens when we talk about travel lovers or want to impress our  nomadic friends . Are you tired of using the same old words? If so, today’s fun  post is for you. 

Do you know what a person is called who loves to travel? Travel lover. Yes, but we all know that, and besides, that’s two words, not a one word noun .

Words for Travel Lovers

How about “Hodophile”. If you are saying, “what, a hodophile!” Yes, a hodophile is a person who loves to travel. Now, that’s certainly going to grab your friends’ attention next time you talk to them.

Below are the top 10 simple to pronounce words you should start using to enhance your regular travel vocabulary.

These are nothing like out-of-the-tongue kinda words but refreshing synonyms one should add to their day to day vocabulary.

Globetrotter

Do you know anyone who loves to hop between countries? Or anyone who is a hardcore traveler? Anyone who leaves their tiny footprints across the various continents? Globetrotter is what you call them, and Globetrotting is their religion.

Few of us hate staying in one place. We are people of many lands who live to travel. Itinerant is an apt word for travel lovers who have got a gypsy soul.

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Many times we say, let’s hit the road ! That is exactly what roadies do, but they accompany bands or musicians and travel in a group. In recent time though, the term has become more generalized and biking groups can be also called Roadies.

Wandering around might get old after a few days, why not use roving around for a change? Become a Rover aka Travel Lover. 🙂

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“Catch flights, not feelings”  is what the quote says, but what about after you get off the plane? Hop on a car, and move to your hotel, then what?

You need to walk around and discover the destination. All travel lovers are wayfarers in a way.

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Nothing is permanent. And this world is massive to just live in a corner. People who make any place their home are in reality the Vagabonds – the daring nomads, adventurers , and travel lovers.

Also, you might have heard this quote from Saint Augustine of Hippo: “The World is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”

Traveling alone is empowering. And when you are brave enough to take on the roads yourself you become a Solivagant. Wandering alone is an unadulterated bliss which travel lovers should try once.

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Travel Buff

Wisdom comes from experience and those who are travelers amass knowledge through traveling. That is what makes them the travel-buffs.

You don’t need an explanation for this word. It is as perfect as it comes. Hodophile – the very word for travel lovers. A Hodophile is “One who loves to travel.”

In Australia , a retired old man traveling in a motorhome or caravan is named as Grey Nomad. But why just use it in the context of an old man?

Nowadays the travel lovers who live a nomadic life are often called “Grey Nomads.” (They may or may not have grey hairs though, Lol!)

What are some other words for travel lovers? Comment below and we’ll add to this list. We hope this post cheered you and brought you value. If yes, please share it with your globetrotting friends and tell them they are too young to be a grey nomad. (wink)

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56 travel together quotes for friends and loved ones

By: Author Sylvia

Posted on Last updated: February 21, 2024

Are you looking for the best travel together quotes? You came to the right place.

I’m the sort of person who doesn’t like to travel alone.

Although I always hear from people who travel alone that it is super fun because you get to know a lot more new people, it is not for me. For me, nothing is more fun than traveling together.

Therefore we made an overview of the best quotes about traveling together.

But traveling together doesn’t always mean you should travel with your partner.  Traveling with friends or with your best friend can also be lots of fun.

That’s why besides travel together quotes we also include couple travel quotes, couple adventure quotes, travel partner quotes, travel companion quotes, quotes on traveling with friends, and travel buddy quotes.

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Couple travel quotes 

We start off with a collection of the best couple travel-together quotes. You must admit, what is more, beautiful than to travel with your loved one.

1.  “It doesn’t matter where you are going, it’s who you have beside you.” –  Anonymous 

I partly agree with this quote. Whom you travel with is super important.  You could be in an epic destination and your company could ruin the complete experience. 

The opposite is true as well, an evening in a subpar guesthouse could turn into one of the most memorable experiences if you make some new friends.

We are fortunate to have already seen a lot of wonderful things like Antarctica, Japan , India , Alaska , etc.

Because of this, the destination has become somewhat more important for us.

Unfortunately, it seems that the more you travel, the harder it gets to get that wow-feeling. That’s why we now focus more on unique experiences instead of merely visiting places.

For example, I have been dreaming of a dog sledding trip in Lapland for years and spotting gorilla’s in Africa is also on my list.

Hopefully, we can scratch those items from our bucket list in the near future.

We will see what the future will bring.

2. “Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” – Antoine Desaint-Exupery

In a long-term relationship, I think it is extremely important to have the same opinion about the important issues and to have the noses in the same direction on these issues. That makes having a long-term relationship much easier.

And it helps if your ideas about traveling are the same. 

When we just met I had planned a trip around some African countries with a tent. 

I still remember how relieved Kris was that, when I came back after spending 3 weeks in a tent, I admitted that I would appreciate somewhat more comfort on our next trips. 😊

3. “Our goal is to run out of pages in our passports.”

I think this is a nice goal, but to be honest, we will have a lot of work to get our passport full.

Now that it is valid for 10 years, who know, we may succeed.

Have you already got your passport filled out?

4. “In Life, It’s Not Where You Go, It’s Who You Travel With.” –   Charles Schulz

I completely agree with this travel quote. Kris and I have already made many beautiful trips to eg Korea , Borneo , India and much more.

And despite the fact that these are beautiful destinations, it is always more special to share this together with Kris.

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After all, we have always made the most special memories together and without his presence, those trips would be less special.

The following quote fits in nicely with this.

5. “I want to travel the world with you.”

I think, as someone who is addicted to traveling, that this is really a romantic quote.  This is one of the most romantic things someone can say to me.

6. “Let’s travel together and get lost in beautiful places.”

We like nothing more than to wander through small streets and supposedly get lost. This is how we usually discover the nicest spots.

The best travel with friends quotes

7. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

Some people say that taking a vacation is the best way to get to know each other. And just as I agree with this quote, I think they are right.

When you’re going on a journey together, and certainly when you go to a somewhat adventurous destination, you can sometimes face surprises. 

Discover things about each other that you didn’t know yet and didn’t expect.  Some positives and some negatives.

With your loved ones you will manage to see through some of the annoyances but we’re sometimes reluctant to go on a trip with our friends because we’re afraid it would cause trouble in our friendship. 

Then again, your trips with your friends can also bring you closer together.

Vacations cost money and you should be sure that you get to enjoy them. 

That’s why I agree with this travel quote and I only take my loved ones and best friends with whom I’m sure I will have a good time.

8.   “I just want to hold your hand and wander the streets with you.”

Sometimes, even when we’re on a holiday, we tend to impose a schedule on ourselves.  It’s almost as if we are at work.  An hour to visit the first site, 20 minutes to rush to the next, a quick picture, and on to the next sight.

Yet it feels so good letting go of time and plans!

We both really enjoy just heading to a neighborhood and wandering around, holding hands, like a romantic couple just watching daily life.

9.  “ I would like to travel the world with you twice. Once, to see the world. Twice to see the way you see the world.”

10. “I want to travel the world with you, go to every country, every city, take pictures and be happy.”

I think this is certainly a romantic idea for a bucket list. Although we have traveled already a lot an visited many amazing places such as the Azores , Lisbon , Rajasthan, and Kerala in India , Borneo , Korea , Japan and much more.

Unfortunately, there are far too many countries and places in the world and it is absolutely impossible to do them all in one lifetime.

So as it usually goes in life, we should make choices. I certainly want to discover the Azores , Hawaii, Iceland, Namibia, The Philippines and so on.

Which countries are still on your bucket list?

11. “Let’s find some beautiful place to get lost together.”

And there are so many beautiful places to discover. I do not know how it is for you but for every destination that we can scratch off our bucket list, we add at least 2 new destinations.

As much as I love the idea of spending some months in one location it would be really hard to choose.  We have seen so many beautiful places already…

12.  “Will you give me yourself? Will you come to travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?” – Walt Whitman

This quote could definitely be used for me as a marriage proposal. I would certainly say yes if the right person asks me to marry him with these words. 

Marriage is a lifelong journey in itself, with ups and downs.  The journeys we did together only brought us closer together.

We have been married now for several years.  Kris didn’t ask me with these exact romantic words but I said yes anyway. 😍

13. “Here’s to all the places we went. And here’s to all the places we’ll go. And here’s to me, whispering again and again and again and again: I love you” – John Green.

This is the perfect quote to toast on with your loved one.

14. “Love is being with you anywhere.”

Certainly true for me.  I love nothing more than discovering new places with Kris.

15. “Go the distance, couples who travel together are more likely to stay together and feel more connected.” – Anonymous

This quote absolutely refers to us. By discovering new destinations and doing things together, our relationship remains fascinating. What about you?

16. “I would gladly live out of a suitcase if it meant I could see the world with you.”

I do not fully agree with this quote. No matter how much I love to travel, always living from my suitcase is nothing for me. I am always happy to go back home after a trip.

17. “I want to laugh often, feel love, have a lot of insanely dirty sex and travel the world with you.”

18.  “some souls just understand each other upon meeting” – n.r hart.

With some people, it clicks from the first moment you meet them. I remember the first time I met Kris.

We met through common friends and it immediately clicked. We also immediately had a common topic.

The whole evening we only spoke about traveling. Meanwhile, we are more than 10 years further and travel is still something we can not stop talking about.

19. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” –  John Steinbeck

This is true in a way.  We do prepare our trips quite extensively and always have a very good idea about what we’re going to do,  but we still need to change our plans sometimes. 

Unexpected things interfere with our plans, sometimes for the good. 

Because of some of the hiccups we have encountered we met interesting people we would not otherwise have met and we discovered beautiful places that we would not have known existed.

20. “Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world and go to places that are hard to get to and hard to get out of. And when you come back… and if you’re still in love with that person… get married at the airport.”– Bill Murray

I think this is very good advice.

Only when you leave your comfort zone you can really experience who your partner is, how you both react to certain situations and whether you are suitable for each other.

21. “That is why best trips like best love affairs, never really end.” – Pico Iyer

Your best trips don’t end with the flight back home.  Several years later we still reminisce great stories about our journeys together over dinner. 

When we’re out with friends we have good laughs about the funny things we encountered during our trips and when we look at the pictures we imagine ourselves being back there. 

The memories of your best travels will stay with you for a lifetime.

22. “Fifty years from now, when you’re looking back at your life, don’t you want to be able to say you had the guts to get in the car?” -Sam Witwicky

23. “home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. some of us travel the whole world to find it. others, find it in a person.” – beau taplin, adventure couple quotes .

Here’s a list of the best adventure quotes for couples we came across during our journeys. I’m a person who gets quickly bored.

I’m always looking for new things to do and new adventures to experience. 

And nothing is more fun than undertaking these adventures with your partner.

24. “Date someone who is a home and an adventure all at once.”

In my opinion, it keeps the relationship fascinating.

25. “Maybe it won’t work out. But maybe seeing if it does will be the best adventure ever.”

I think this quote applies to everyone who starts a relationship. It is always a bit of a step into the unknown and, unfortunately, often it doesn’t work out.

They say you have to kiss a lot of frogs before you meet your prince. And this is absolutely true.

Sometimes, however, it becomes the greatest adventure of your life. 

So if you are single and you get the chance to start a relationship, do not hesitate and go for it.

That first date may be the start of the most beautiful adventure of your life.

26. “As soon as I saw you I knew a grand adventure was about to happen.”- A.A. Milne

I can still vividly remember how on the evening we met, and again on our first date, we both talked passionately about all the destinations we had seen. 

It was so much fun to exchange those stories. 

We did of course talk about other things as well but those travel stories made us dream about all the adventures that we could still do together.

27. “Let’s go on an adventure. I’ll make some sandwiches and a flask of tea, we’ll get out walking boots on and get lost somewhere.”

We find nothing more fun than putting on our walking shoes during the weekend and going out to explore.

28. “I’ve fallen in love with adventures, so I begin to wonder if that’s why I’ve fallen for you.” – E.Grin

29.  “actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” –  lewis carroll.

This quote definitely refers to me. You can not give me a better present than enough variety and adventure in life.

30.  “Why should a relationship mean settling down? Wait for someone who won’t let life escape you, who’ll challenge you and drive you towards your dreams. Someone spontaneous who you can get lost in the world with. A relationship, with the right person, is a release, not a restriction.” –  Beau Taplin

I certainly found someone like that with Kris. And you, have you already found someone who challenges you and drives you to your dreams?

31. “What we find in a soulmate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.” – Robert Brauld

32. “you keep me safe, i’ll keep you wild.”.

33. “Oh darling, let’s be adventurers.”

This is a quote that absolutely suits me.

As a child, I always wanted to become an explorer.

And although we now like to travel in a comfortable way, there is nothing more fun than to undertake new adventures.

34. “We must take adventures in order to know where we truly belong.”

Everywhere we go we wonder how it would be to live there.  Sometimes we just try to imagine it by watching daily life. 

But in our opinion, the best way to find out is to engage in conversations with locals in pubs.  This is so much fun and we even created some new friends doing this. 

Sometimes our opinion about a particular city changes completely after we have spoken with the residents. 

And despite the fact that we’re annoyed by many things in our home country (the sky-high taxes just to name one thing), it is often only when we travel that we value certain aspects of our home country more.

35. “If happiness is the goal, and it should be, then adventure should be a top priority.” – Richard Branson

I am, as I  said already, someone who gets bored very quickly. So I need variety and new things to make me happy. What about you?

Travel partner quotes 

I still have keen memories of some of the trips I took with my best friends back in college. 

Traveling is so much fun and being able to share it with your best friends makes it even better.

Years later we still feel connected by those fun and crazy adventures that we have experienced together.

So here we share the best travel partner quotes, travel with friends quotes and get-together quotes.

36. “Friends are as companions on a journey, who ought to aid each other to persevere in the road to a happier life.” —  Pythagoras

It is so important to have good friends who support you when you have a hard time but also share and celebrate your successes when you’re on a roll.

37. “In the end, what you do isn’t going to be nearly as interesting or important as who you do it with.” — John Green

I agree completely with this quote. 

I do need some time for myself from time to time, but when it comes to going out, it’s so much more fun when you’re in good company.

And that goes for many things.  It’s always much more fun to share the good things in life with somebody else whom you care about, and who cares about you.

That’s why it is so important to find a great travel companion with which it really clicks and with which you share the same interest.

38. “Surround yourself with people who make you hungry for life, touch your heart, and nourish your soul.”

It is so necessary to surround yourself with people who believe in you and who see a better version of yourself than you see. Only in this way can you grow.

39. “When traveling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.” – Helen Hayes

A very wise quote. Even though you may be best friends, and you may share the same interests in daily life, it is possible that you have a completely different idea about a vacation.

You may be someone who is up early, excited about the new adventures that are coming and who is out and about all day long. 

Your travel partner may not get so excited about an active vacation and would rather relax by the pool.

This is an example with extreme opposites, a situation that is not likely to occur, but possibly over the course of your vacation, some small habits of your travel partner may start to annoy you.

Making some good arrangements in advance and showing the necessary understanding for each other will bring you a whole lot further.

40. “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

Unfortunately, I have heard this from others and even personally experienced it.

I will not go into details here, but that holiday together was almost the end of our friendship. 

So there is certainly truth in this quote from Mark Twain.

41. Everyone needs a friend who will call, and say, ‘Get dressed, we’re going on an adventure.” — Unknown

Sometimes spontaneous decisions result in the best experiences!

42.“Sometimes all you need is a great friend and thirst for adventure.”

When you have the feeling that life is boring and all days look-alike, a good friend and some sense of adventure can definitely change that. 

Let go of control and have your friend take you on an adventure.

43. “The most beautiful things in life are not things. They’re people and places, memories, and pictures. They’re feelings and moments, and smiles and laughter.” — Unknown

It’s sad to see that we are increasingly evolving towards a materialistic society. Brands want us to believe that we will be happier with a bigger house, a bigger car, and a more expensive watch. 

But the most beautiful things in life aren’t bought with money.

Enjoying a beautiful sunrise, and spending a pleasant evening with good friends. These are things that do not cost money but are priceless.

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

I’m not saying you should quit school early to do a world tour but I did learn a lot from my trips around the world.  

There are so many things that you can not learn from books. 

You only completely understand them once you have experienced them yourself. 

I do believe the world would be a better place if everybody traveled more and showed real interest in the places they were going.  Connecting with the people and being open-minded about their culture, beliefs and habits.

The best travel buddy quotes

Last but not least, below we share the best travel buddy quotes.

45. “A good friend listens to your adventures. A best friend makes them with you.” — Unknown

46. “life was meant to great adventure and close friends.”.

Adventure and good friends are very important to me.  I always feel good when I’m surrounded by my best friends. Adventures keep life exciting and when you can enjoy them with good friends they’re twice as fun.

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47. “There is a whole world out there. Pack your backpack, your best friend and go.”

Although we have exchanged our backpack for a suitcase a long time ago, this is certainly a quote that still applies to us. There are still so many destinations on our bucket list and there is so much to discover.

So we regularly pack our suitcase and we are gone.

What’s your next destination?

48. “Life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.”

This is a straight-to-the-point quote. Maybe it can be better expressed but it is entirely right.

49. “We are all travelers in the wilderness of the world & the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.” – Robert Louis Stevenson

Friendships are so important. Everyone should have at least one sincere friend to share successes and failures with.

50. “Be careful whom you make memories with. Those things can last a lifetime.” – Ugo Eze

Nothing is more beautiful than reminiscing about things that you have experienced together. 

Most often the person you have experienced it with is just as important as what you did. 

The real profound memories create a bond for life.

Looking back at those great moments that you enjoyed together with your friends, acquaintances and family members will not only give you a good feeling, it will also reinforce the bond you have with each other.

51. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton

I am fortunate that I can travel together with Kris and even though I hear from solo travelers how great it is to travel alone and how many cool and interesting people they meet.

Yet I would not want it any other way.

After all, nothing is more fun than to experience unforgettable things such as spotting a tiger or seeing a beautiful sunset together with your partner.

It is always more fun to be able to share experiences with someone else.  It makes the memory for me more beautiful.

But if you aren’t in good company I do think that good music and a good book will also help to kill time.

52. “I get a friend to travel with me… I need somebody to bring me back to who I am. It’s hard to be alone.” – Leonardo DiCaprio

53. “you and me, we are more than friends. we are like a small travel gang”.

I think this is such a nice travel buddy quote and I would love to be a member of such a travel gang with which I could regularly discover a new destination. I think it’s a lot of fun.

How about you?

54. “A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.” – Tim Cahill

55. “travel only with thy equals or thy betters; if there are none, travel alone.” – the dhammapada.

I do agree with this quote when it concerns my daily life.  I believe that you become like the persons you spend the most time with.  So I like to spend time with people that are positive and at least equal or better than me.

But I don’t yet see myself traveling alone.  I met people who are really enthusiastic about it but it would be a big step for me. I have not tried it yet, so maybe I’ll change my mind once I’ve done it.

56. “Friends that travel together, stay together.”

Or they argue so much during their holiday that the friendship is partly over after it. 😆 But I firmly believe that if the journey is a success this will strengthen the friendship that already existed. 

That is why it is so important to make good arrangements in advance, you don’t want to risk losing a friend over a vacation.

I really enjoyed writing this article.  It brought back many good memories, both to the journeys I did with Kris and the ones I did with my friends.

I’m sure you will be able to cheer up your travel buddy or travel partner with one of these quotes if he or she is in a bad spot. 

Or you could use them to surprise them and show how much you appreciate their friendship.

And don’t forget to keep your travel partner adventurous, because he or she will do the same for you.

I hope that you enjoyed reading these travel together quotes as much as I enjoyed writing them.

Here you can find more  travel quotes. 

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28 Beautiful Travel Words that Describe Wanderlust Perfectly

Describe your travels with these unique and beautiful travel words from different languages around the world.

I love travelling and I love languages, so imagine my excitement when I came across a treasure trove of travel words and wanderlust synonyms that describe how we feel before, during, and after we travel. 

Just like a photo can’t fully capture what it feels like to stand on the edge of a fjord , neither can ‘wanderlust’ fully express how we feel when we crave our next adventure. These travel words are literary gems which have been gathered from languages around the world. From Japanese to Swedish , Latin to Greek , travel brochures of the future will be peppered with travel words like of resfeber , livsnjutare, and coddiwomple .

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As you’ll see in the list below, every language has its own variation of how it explains and defines what wanderlust is. In English, wanderlust means to have a strong desire for or impulse to travel, wander and explore the world.

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During these times it can be bittersweet to think about travelling when we have to stay at home and practice social distancing, let this list of wanderlust-filled words inspire you to a learn a language from home and prepare yourself for your next trip. Being travel fluent is the best way to enrich your travel experiences.

Without further ado, here are 28 beautiful travel words you should slip into your vocabulary. When you’re done, take and look at this collection of inspirational travel quotes . I’d love to hear which ones are your favourites in the comment section below.

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1. Resfeber  (n.)

Origin: Swedish

Definition: The meaning of resfeber refers to the restless race of the traveller’s heart before the journey begins when anxiety and anticipation are tangled together.

It’s that moment just after you buy your plane tickets and excitement and fear floods in all at once, creating a mixture of emotions that make you feel anxious or physically ill.

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2. Sonder (v.)

Origin: Unknown

Definition: The realisation that each passerby is living a life as complex as your own.

The full definition, taken from The Dictionary of Obscure Sorrows reads:

[Sonder is] the realization that each random passerby is living a life as vivid and complex as your own—populated with their own ambitions, friends, routines, worries, and inherited craziness—an epic story that continues invisibly around you like an anthill sprawling deep underground, with elaborate passageways to thousands of other lives that you’ll never know existed, in which you might appear only once, as an extra sipping coffee in the background, as a blur of traffic passing on the highway, as a lighted window at dusk.

I often feel this way when I pass groups of strangers, speaking a language that is completely foreign to me, and realise just how incredibly big the world is. We all have a life that is full of different connections, memories and possibilities. That’s sonder.

The internet suggests this may not be a real word, either way, the concept is beautiful.

3. Solivagant (adj.)

Origin: Latin

Definition: Wandering alone. A solitary adventurer who travels or wanders the globe.

Not all those who wander are lost, but all those who wander alone are definitely solivagants . From the Latin word solivagus , meaning lonely or solitary, solivagant describes anyone who enjoys meandering around new countries, alone, in order to take it all in.

4. Fernweh (n.)

Origin: German

Definition: This German word,means an ache to get away and travel to a distant place, a feeling  even stronger than wanderlust. If wanderlust wasn’t poetic enough for you, allow me to present fernweh , a German word that literally translates to “distance-sickness.”

While someone with wanderlust might sit at home and happily fantasise about all the places they might visit, someone with fernweh would feel a deeper sense of longing, a sort of homesickness but for foreign lands.  For me, it’s wanting to be back in Rome . Fernweh is one of most those beautiful untranslatable words I’ve ever come across.

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5. Sehnsucht (n.)

Definition: A wistful longing and yearning in the heart for travels past and future.

One author translated it as the “ inconsolable longing in the human heart for we know not what .” Another compared it to “ a longing for a far-off country, but not one which we could identify.”

When you return from travelling and wish you could do it all over again and experience every moment like it was the first.

6. Eleutheromania (n.)

Origin: Greek

Definition: An intense and irresistible desire for freedom.

We all want to be free, and travelling shows us how the freedom in the lives of others that is different from our own. Eleutheromania describes a person who has a strong desire and obsession for freedom.

7. Cockaigne (n.)

Origin: French , Middle French

Definition: An imaginary land of luxury and idleness.

Every destination seem like a wonderland or cockaigne before you set foot there and see it for yourself.

The term c ockaigne ” comes from the Middle French phrase pais de cocaigne, which literally means “the land of plenty.” The word was first popularised in a 13th-century French poem that is known in English as “The Land of Cockaigne.”

8. Quaquaversal (adj.)

Definition: Moving or happening in every direction instantaneously.

This perfectly describes my state when I’m in a new place and want to see and do everything at once.

9. Dérive (n)

Origin: French

Definition: A spontaneous and unplanned journey where the traveller leaves their life behind allows themselves to be guided by the landscape and architecture.

Literally translated as “drift”,  dérive is the idea that even if you drift you will end up on the right path. This could describe life in general, but it also describes small journeys. When you’re wandering through a new city and you just happen to wander on a path that takes you to great discoveries.

10. Ecophobia (n.)

Origin: English

Definition: This word came into English word via Greek and means a fear or dislike of one’s home.

I don’t dislike my home, but recently I can’t stop thinking about going back to Lofoten, Norway.

11. Numinous (adj.)

Definition: A powerful feeling of both fear and fascination, of being in awe and overwhelmed by what is before you.

Originally, this word refers to having a strong religious or spiritual quality; but it can also be used to describe how you feel when you see things that are so beautiful that you realise how wonderful the world is and the small part you play in it.   Hiking Trolltunga was a numinous moment for me.

12. Schwellenangst (n.)

Definition: Fear of crossing a threshold to begin a new chapter.

From s chwelle (“threshold”) and a ngst (“anxiety”), this word explains that feeling you get before deciding to set out on a new journey. Argh! Did I make the right decision?

13. Strikhedonia (n.)

Definition: The pleasure of being able to say “to hell with it”.

Another personal favourite word on this list. Not only is it the joy I feel, but the freedom to be able to say “to hell with it” and book that next trip and embark on your next adventure.

14. Vagary (v.)

Definition: A whimsical or roaming journey.

From Latin, vagārī meaning “ to roam”, is an unpredictable idea, desire or action to travelling without knowing the destination, and not caring.

15. Livsnjutare (n)

Definition: Literally meaning, “enjoyer of life”, this describes a person who loves life deeply and lives it to the extreme.

If you’re reading this, that’s probably you!  Need more inspiration?

16. Commuovere (v.)

Origin: Italian

Definition: To stir, to touch, to move to tears.

Just like the euphoric emotions I felt whilst whale watching.

17. Sturmfrei (adj.)

Definition: The freedom of being alone and being able to do what you want.

Literally translating to “stormfree”, this describes the freedom of not being watched by others and being alone in a place where you have the freedom and ability to do what you want.

Another great German word. Travelling solo can be especially rewarding because you have complete control. No compromises, no one else to please. Just you and the big wide world.

18. Saudade (n.)

Origin: Portuguese

Definition: This Portuguese word describes the emotional state of nostalgia and longing for someone or something distant. S audade  was once described as “the love that remains” after someone is gone.

Saudade  is the recollection of feelings, experiences, places, or events that brought excitement and happiness but now triggers the senses and makes one live again.

19. Yūgen (n.)

Origin: Japanese

Definition: A profound and mysterious sense of the beauty of the universe.

An awareness of the Universe that triggers emotional responses too deep and powerful for words.

20. Acatalepsy (n.)

Definition: The impossibility of comprehending the universe.

Henry Miller said “ One’s destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things. ” Do we ever really understand the world and what we see on our  travels,  and how they mould us? Sometimes, if at all, it takes time to discover how these things change our lives.

21. Trouvaille (n.)

Definition: A chance encounter with something wonderful.

Whether it’s stumbling across a hidden back street, a quaint cafe, or connecting with a local, trouvaille describes those magical moments we experience in our journeys. 

22. Hygge (n.)

Origin: Danish

Definition: Pronounced hue-guh , hygge describes the warm feeling you get while enjoying the company of great friends and all life has to offer.

Hygge is the conscious appreciation of recognising everything you have and enjoying to the present moment.

23. Onism (n.)

Definition: The world is a big place as not everyone will get to see it. Onism describes understanding that we’ll never get to see it all. It’s the frustration of being stuck in just one body that can only inhabit one place at a time. I felt this way before going to Copenhagen !

Similar to the Swedish word ‘resfeber’, onism describes the feeling of knowing that you’ll never be able to see it all. They say that the more you travel, the harder it gets to stay in one place.

24. Novaturient (adj.)

Definition: A desire to change and alter your life.

This was exactly how I felt when I quit my job and moved to Rome . There was this strong urge that pulled me towards my dream of pursuing a life of speaking Italian and travelling. I knew I  wouldn’t be living my life if I didn’t go.

25. Yoko meshi (n.)

Definition: This untranslatable gem describes the stress of speaking a foreign language .

The Japanese word ‘meshi’ literally means ‘boiled rice’ and ‘yoko’ means ‘horizontal,’ together it means ‘a meal eaten sideways.’ The Japanese have created a beautiful way of describing the unique kind of stress you experience when speaking a foreign language. Furthermore, ‘yoko’ also references the fact that Japanese is normally written vertically, whereas most foreign languages are written horizontally. Clever, right?

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26. Selcouth (adj.)

Origin: Old English

Definition: When everything you see and experience is unfamiliar and strange, yet you find it marvellous anyway.

It’s that feeling you get when you travel to a foreign land and food, culture, customs, or language, is strange and different to everything you’ve experienced before, yet you love it and find it fascinating.

27. Eudaimonia (n.)

Definition: A state of being happy whilst travelling and everything feels great.

That intense excitement and appreciation when you travel and everything feels great. Seeing the Northern Lights was one of the best experiences of my life, a feeling I won’t forget.

28. Coddiwomple (v.)

Origin: English slang

Definition: To travel purposefully towards an unknown destination.

A brilliant word, coddiwomple is when you have a vague idea of your destination within a care for how long it takes to arrive. A great example is when you go hiking, you know you’ll eventually reach the summit, but every part of the trail along the way is just as beautiful.    Like the time I hiked Norway’s Trolltunga.

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Amazing list! One word I’d add is the Dutch word “gezellig” or “gezelligheid” – similarly to hygge, it describes a feeling of warmth/comfort/coziness/quaintness in certain settings or around certain people.

Thank you so much for sharing this Heba. So interesting to learn that Dutch has a similar word 🙂

This is such a fun article! Love these words and phrases!

Glad to hear it! Thank you so much, Eric 🙂

So many of these describe me or my feelings about seeing the world. But, if I had to pick one, the one that best describes how I choose my destinations would be “selcouth”. I so want to be a stranger in a strange land. To have my belief that there is no such thing as “normal” affirmed again and again and over again.

What a beautiful word. Thanks for sharing, Janet 🙂

Thanks Michele what a wonderful list of inspirational words. It nearly made me cry as I realised that I suffer from acute eleutheromania! ha

Thanks Juliana 🙂 I’m so glad you enjoyed this list. Eleutheromania? I know how you feel hehe

Unique list i must say – If you want to add one more word than check this !

In Hindi language (India) traveler called as “Musafir”

thanks Niraj 🙂

Thanks for sharing this! Really enjoyed it a lot ❤

Thanks Donah, I’m so glad you enjoyed it 😉

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85 Best Couples Travel Quotes for Exploring the World Together

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Whether you’re going on your very first trip together or planning your next joint adventure, the best travel quotes for couples express why traveling together can be so special. After all, there’s nothing quite as incredible as fulfilling your wanderlust together and seeing the world with your partner by your side. 

As these couple travel quotes show, love and travel go hand in hand; each enhances the other. To help you get inspired for your next trip as a couple, this collection includes everything from funny couple travel quotes and couple adventure quotes to short couple travel quotes and travel with husband/wife quotes . Add in one of the best romantic hotels in Tenerife or couple suites in Las Vegas , and you’ll have everything you need for a romantic getaway!

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Have a look through these romantic couple travel quotes and be sure to save your favorites so you can return to them again and again for love and travel inspiration !

Short Couple Travel Quotes

These short travel quotes for couples may be simple, but they pack a lot of meaning into very few words.

1. “In life, it’s not where you go. It’s who you travel with.” – Charles Schulz

This short couple travel quote works for both travel and life. No matter where you’re headed, having your partner alongside you will make any journey better.

2. “Travelling in the company of those we love is home in motion.” – Leigh Hunt

I love this charming travel quote for couples . Sometimes, home isn’t a place – it’s a person!

3. “Never go on trips with anyone you do not love.” – Ernest Hemingway

This pithy couple trip quote offers some very wise advice. Traveling can be very stressful, so it’s always best to explore with someone you already know you like a lot.

4. “As soon as I saw you, I knew an adventure was about to happen.” – A. A. Milne

This charming couple adventure quote from the author of Winnie the Pooh is the perfect inspiration for planning your next trip together.

5. “Find someone who is a home and an adventure all at once.” – Anonymous

As this travel with partner quote suggests, the best person to spend your life with (and travel with!) is someone who makes you feel safe yet will also keep life interesting.

6. “You are my greatest adventure, always and forever.” – Gretka Milkovic

This romantic couple travel quote could even work as a wedding vow. It’s simple, sweet, and very loving.

7. “Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter.” – Izaak Walton

In other words, time flies when you’re having fun together! Having your partner along for your latest adventure will help make even the longest trip more enjoyable.

8. “A couple who travels together, grows together.” – Ahmad Fuadi

This short and sweet couple travel quote sums up the value of traveling together well. Spending so much time together and navigating unfamiliar places is the perfect recipe for growing closer.

9. “Travel brings power and love back to your life.” – Rumi

This cute travel quote for couples works for non-couples and other travelers too. I like the sentiment that travel can be empowering and also help build relationships.

10. “So, come with me, where dreams are born, and time is never planned.” – J. M. Barrie

This iconic travel saying for couples comes from Peter Pan and captures the childlike wonder and sense of adventure that come with exploring the world together.

11. “Oh darling, let’s be adventurers.” – Anon

It doesn’t get much more poetic than this couples vacation quote . If you haven’t started planning your next trip together yet, let this quote be a sign to get started!

12. “Love is meant to be an adventure.” – Gordon B. Hinckley

This short couples travel quote is good advice for both romantic relationships in general and travel. It’s also a great reminder to stay positive throughout the ups and downs and think of it all as an adventure.

13. “If life is a journey, then let my soul travel and share your pain.” – Santosh Kalwar

Sharing the good and bad times with someone we love lightens our load and makes the long journey through life or to our next travel destination a little easier.

14. “I always have many roads to travel, but I take the one which leads to you.” – Amit Kalantri

This lovely vacation quote for couples is also a fantastic metaphor for a good relationship. There are many choices that come up in life, but love means choosing to be with your partner over and over again.

15. “I would go everywhere and anywhere with you.” – Cassandra Clare

This adorable travelling with your partner quote is a great response to use when your partner asks where you want to go on your next trip.

16. “Together is a beautiful place to be.” – Unknown

There’s no denying that this love quote about traveling together is 100% true.

17. “You must love in such a way that the person you love feels free.” – Thich Nhat Hahn

This travelling partner quote offers a beautiful way of looking at love and travel. Being with your partner should be a liberating experience that allows you to live life to the fullest.

18. “We have nothing to lose and a world to see.” –Rainie Navarro

This is the perfect wanderlust couple travel quote to inspire you and your partner to start exploring. Experiencing the many amazing places the world has to offer is worth it, especially when you can do it together.

19. “We’d rather have a passport full of stamps than a house full of stuff.” – Anonymous

This travel quote for couples is all about priorities, and if you’re a huge travel buff like us, it will definitely ring true!

20. “I would gladly live out of a suitcase if it meant I could see the world with you.” – Unknown

Sometimes, being together means sacrificing a few comforts, but for us, love and world travel are well worth living out of a suitcase.

Funny Couple Travel Quotes

These funny travel quotes for couples will provide you with some relatable humor while you’re on the road with your partner.

21. “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

Mark Twain is well known for his wise and witty sayings like this one, which is as true as it is funny.

22. “When travelling with someone, take large doses of patience and tolerance with your morning coffee.” – Helen Hayes

As this funny travel with your love quote points out, taking a trip with your partner isn’t always sunshine and rainbows. That’s where having a little patience (and some caffeine!) comes in.

23. “You have the passport to my heart.” – Anonymous

This couple travel quote may sound a little corny, but it’s also sweet and cute.

24. “Life is about doing things that don’t suck with people who don’t suck.” – John Green

This humorous couple trip quote speaks for itself: do things you love with people you love and you’ll have a great time!

25. “We haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on our list.” – Susan Sontag

This holiday quote for couples is a fantastic reminder to not only have travel goals, but also try to make them come true. Make your dream adventures a reality!

26. “Love is the food of life. Travel is dessert.” – Anonymous

I love the metaphors in this travel saying for couples . Love is the thing that keeps us alive, while travel is the occasional pleasure that we enjoy the most.

27. “Be careful who you make memories with. Those things can last a lifetime.” – Ugo Eze

As this lighthearted travel with your partner quote suggests, memories of an adventure can last forever. Sharing good times with your partner will be something the two of you can treasure for a long time.

28. “A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.” – John Steinbeck

This famous travel marriage quote has a great message. Travel can throw a lot of unexpected events your way, so just roll with the punches and make the best of what you’ve got.

29. “Because the greatest part of a road trip isn’t arriving at your destination. It’s all the wild stuff that happens along the way.” – Emma Chase

This reframing of the classic “it’s about the journey, not the destination” is a good reminder to make the most of every part of your trip with your partner.

30. “If traveling were free, we’d be gone forever.” – Unknown

This wanderlust couple travel quote sums up having the travel bug pretty nicely. I think we’d be gone forever if traveling were free too!

31. “The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.” – Henry David Thoreau

Traveling with your partner can involve a lot of work. You need to coordinate schedules, agree on a destination, book flights and hotels, and more. Even with all of this effort, traveling together is still worth it; just remember to be patient if it takes a little while for things to come together.

32. “Let’s never come here again because it would never be as much fun.” – Lost in Translation

As this happy couple travel together quote shows, it’s pretty impossible to replicate an incredible couples’ trip to a destination exactly as it happened. That doesn’t mean you can’t try, though – revisiting favorite spots can be a new adventure every time!

33. “[We] travel a lot; [we] hate having [our] life disrupted by routine.” – Caskie Stinnett

If you and your partner regularly feel the urge to travel, this adventurous couples quote is for you. Why stick with routine when there’s a whole beautiful world to see?

34. “The only thing I love more than traveling is you… and eating.” – Anonymous

This couple vacation quote is the perfect romantic sentiment for travel lovers and foodies.

35. “If you think adventure is dangerous, try routine; it is lethal.” – Paulo Coelho

Sometimes, we just need a little push to get started on our next adventure. This insightful quote from the author of The Alchemist will definitely inspire you to get outside your comfort zone.

36. “Just as there are some wives who will occasionally need a break from their husbands in order to visit a spa for the weekend with their girlfriends, I will always be the sort of wife who occasionally needs a break from her husband in order to visit Cambodia. Just for a few days!” – Elizabeth Gilbert

As this vacation with husband quote suggests, there are times when you might feel like going on a little solo adventure, and that’s okay – embrace it!

37. “I found someone who looks at me the way I look at travel brochures.” – Unknown

This hilarious couples trip quote points out the romantic standard you should be aiming for .

Couple Adventure Quotes

These adventure quotes for couples will have you racing to plan your next romantic getaway. If you’re ready to go an adventure together, keep reading!

38. “Here’s to all the places we went. And here’s to all the places we’ll go. And here’s to me whispering again and again and again and again: I love you.” – John Green

I just love this romantic couple travel quote , which is yet another example of how travel and love go together so well.

39. “I have loved her, my little wanderer, with a mind full of wild forests and eyes that await adventures.” – Conny Cernik

This travel with girlfriend quote expresses just how beautiful a sense of adventure can be in someone else. Being with someone who wants to see the world can inspire us to see it with them.

40. “Travel is like love, mostly because it’s a heightened state of awareness, in which we are mindful, receptive, undimmed by familiarity and ready to be transformed. That is why the best trips, like the best love affairs, never really end.” – Pico Iyer

Pico Iyer captures the magic of love and travel so well in this poetic travel quote for couples . Hopefully, you feel the same way about your partner and your adventures together!

41. “Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking together in the same direction.” – Antoine de Saint-Exupery

There’s no feeling more special than being on the same page as your partner, especially when it means you’re both excited about travel and adventure.

42. “Being with you turned out to be the wildest, boldest, and the most beautiful adventure I ever took. You’re my crazy adventure.” – Shubhangi

Going an adventure doesn’t always have to mean traveling to the opposite side of the world. Sometimes, we can find adventure in the everyday moments with the person we love.

43. “Will you give me yourself? Will you come travel with me? Shall we stick by each other as long as we live?” – Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman was a nineteenth-century American poet, and this couple adventure quote comes from his poem “Song of the Open Road.” Here, Whitman captures the beauty of committing to a life of travel alongside your partner.

44. “I’ve fallen in love with adventures, so I begin to wonder, if that’s why I’ve fallen for you.” – E. Grin

This adventurous couple quote is perfect for couples who already loved adventure and then found it in each other.

45. “It’s wonderful to travel with someone you love and we never travel without one another.” – Roger Moore

This simple and sweet couple traveling quote sums up why it’s so great to travel with the person you love.

46. “Take that person and travel around the world. Buy a plane ticket for the two of you to travel all around the world and go to places that are hard to get to and hard to get out of. And when you come back… and if you’re still in love with that person… get married at the airport.” – Bill Murray

Bill Murray offers quite a pearl of wisdom here. If you can survive a trip with someone, you can survive just about anything by their side.

47. “I love your feet because they wandered over the earth and through the wind and water until they brought you to me.” – Pablo Neruda

This couple traveling together quote shows that sometimes you have adventures before you meet the person you love. Luckily, love doesn’t mean those adventures have to stop. If anything, wandering should become even better with the good company!

48. “I would not wish any companion in the world but you.” – William Shakespeare

You can’t go wrong with a couples trip quote from the Bard himself. Share this quote with your partner before you go on your next trip together.

49. “Home is not where you are from, it is where you belong. Some of us travel the whole world to find it. Others, find it in a person.” – Beau Taplin

And others travel the world with the person they find home in! Which kind of person are you?

50. “We travel in essence to become young fools again – to slow time down and get taken in and fall in love once more.” – Pico Iyer

This travel with your partner quote captures just how special and transformative traveling can be. It’s the perfect time to fall (more) in love!

51. “Happiness is planning a trip to somewhere new, with someone you love.” – Marie Cribaillet

If you and your partner are travel buffs, this travel saying for couples is for you.

52. “My heart is your home, wherever in the world you are- you will always have a place to stay.” – K.A. Hill

As this couples travel quote reminds us, sometimes being far from home can get lonely. Luckily, traveling with someone we love means we’ll always have a piece of home with us.

53. “What we find in a soul mate is not something wild to tame, but something wild to run with.” – Robert Brault

One of the best parts about love is that it frees you and your partner to be the best versions of yourselves and spurs you on toward new adventures.

54. “You’d be surprised who the love of your life turns out to be. After all, adventure fell in love with lost.” – Mary Oliver

This travel saying for couples is a great one to share with the person you consider to be the love your life.

55. “We travel for romance, we travel for architecture, and we travel to be lost.” – Ray Bradbury

Everyone travels for different reasons, but Ray Bradbury, who you probably know as the author of Fahrenheit 451 , lists some great motives for exploring.

56. “Love, like everything else in life, should be a discovery, an adventure, and like most adventures, you don’t know you’re having one until you’re right in the middle of it.” – E.A. Bucchianeri

Like many of the other travel love quotes for couples , this one focuses on the similarities between love and adventure. One reason why love and travel pair so well together is that they both involve adventure.

57. “The best portion of your life will be the small, nameless moments you spend smiling with those who matter to you.” – Ritu Ghatourey

This is one of the best couple travel quotes because it reminds us to appreciate the little moments we spend with our partner, whether they happen on the road, in a new city, or in your hometown.

58. “Every heart seeks adventure. Some find it in the frost mountains resting along the horizon, some find it in the windy seashores, and some find it in the damp rain forests. While I’ve found my adventure in you.” – Ankit Choubey

This is another romantic couple trip quote that expresses how important adventure can be to finding fulfillment. If you can find that fulfillment in another person, even better!

59. “Travel. Make memories. Have adventures. Because I guarantee that when you’re 85 and on your death bed you won’t think about that flashy car you bought, or the twenty pairs of designer shoes you owned. But you will think about that time you got lost in your favourite city. The nights spent falling in love under the stars and all the beautiful people you met along the way. You’ll think of the moments that made you feel truly alive. And at the very end, those memories will be the only valuable possessions you own.” – Sushant Kaushik

This relationship couple travel quote is a beautiful reminder to live life to the fullest while you still can. Go on that big adventure you’ve been dreaming of, bring your partner, and make some memories together that will last a lifetime.

60. “Travel opens your heart, broadens your mind, and fills your life with stories to tell.” – Paula Bendfeldt

This holiday quote for couples lists all the amazing benefits of travel for couples and other travelers alike. If you haven’t been convinced to start planning a couple’s vacation yet, this quote should be the motivation you need.

61. “We don’t just get to grow old together. We get to grow up together. And that’s the real adventure.” – Mariya Jinwala

As this adventure couple quote suggests, enjoying life with your partner can be a wonderful adventure in and of itself. Savor those moments of growing up and growing old together !

Travel with Husband Quotes // Travel with Wife Quotes

If you’re married, you’ll know that traveling with your husband or wife can be an incredibly rewarding experience. These travel with husband quotes and travel with wife quotes will hopefully help you reflect on your travels together and appreciate all the amazing memories.

62. “Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” – Lewis Carroll

Next time you’re trying to think of a good birthday gift or Christmas present, consider giving your wife the gift of travel. If she’s a travel buff, she’ll definitely appreciate your thoughtfulness.

63. “Why should a relationship mean settling down? Wait for someone who won’t let life escape you, who’ll challenge you and drive you towards your dreams. Someone spontaneous who you can get lost in the world with. A relationship, with the right person, is a release, not a restriction.” – Beau Taplin

This beautiful travel quote for married couples shows that marriage doesn’t have to mean the end of your adventures. If anything, marriage is the start of a whole new set of adventures that you’ll share together!

64. “May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home.” – Trenton Lee Stewart

Ideally, travel will strengthen the bond between you and your partner, especially as you get further from home. This sweet travel couple quote is the perfect sentiment to share with any couple embarking on a trip together.

65. “We are the luckiest people in the world. How many couples get to travel together and spend quality time, like we do?” – Lindsey Gormley

Sometimes, we forget to take a moment to appreciate all the beautiful parts of our lives. If you’re someone who’s lucky enough to be able to travel with their partner, this traveling quote for couples will definitely ring true.

66. “I would like to travel the world with you twice- once to see the world, twice to see the way you see the world.” – Unknown

Seeing the world through the eyes of the person we love allows us to see things in a whole new way. Traveling with your partner can give you the fresh perspective you need.

67. “We are travelers on a cosmic journey, stardust, swirling and dancing in the eddies and whirlpools of infinity. Life is eternal. We have stopped for a moment to encounter each other, to meet, to love, to share. This is a precious moment. It is a little parenthesis in eternity.” – Paulo Coelho

This couple vacation quote expresses how valuable the time we spend with our partners and the love we share with them is.

68. “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.” – Anaïs Nin

As this travel quote for couples states, all of us are in travelers in one form or another. Hopefully, you and your partner are the same type of traveler!

69. “Sometimes, reaching out and taking someone’s hand is the beginning of a journey. At other times, it is allowing another to take yours.” – Vera Nazarian

This traveling partner quote shows that one of the best parts of traveling with your significant other is the mutual support. There may be give and take, but you’ll always be there for each other.

70. “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.” – An African Proverb

I love this happy couple travel together quote because it’s so true. Traveling with your husband or wife really does enrich and give new depth to the experience.

71. “Home is wherever I’m with you.” – Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros

This short couple travel quote is especially comforting if you’re far from home but lucky enough to have your partner by your side.

72. “Traveling is the best thing any couple (new or old) can do. That’s how we had the idea of the honeymoon. Newlywed couples going to a new place on their own so that all they could have is each other.” – Salil Jha

This travel marriage quote is the perfect saying to share with a newly married couple or to caption your own honeymoon photos.

73. “We love together. We laugh together. We wander together. This is our life on repeat and I wouldn’t have it any other way.” – Justine Jenkins

This adventurous couples quote sounds like a dream life to me! If you love travel as much as we do, hopefully you and your partner have found a version of this life for yourselves.

74. “Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are travelling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind.” – Henri Frederic Amiel

As this gorgeous couple adventure quote expresses, love and kindness can truly bring happiness to others and brighten their lives.

75. “To get the full value of joy, you must have someone to divide it with.” – Mark Twain

This love quote about traveling together is totally true. You really do feel happier when you can share your experiences with the person you love.

76. “And just like that, we’re on our way to everywhere!” – Emery Lord

This travel quote for couples is the perfect way to start off a new adventure together.

77. “I want to travel the world with two things in my hands: your hand in one and a camera in the other.” – Unknown

As this cute travel quote for couples reminds us, capturing your amazing travel memories together on film is a key part of any couple’s adventure.

78. “I live to travel. I love to travel. As long as you’re by my side.” – Unknown

The best travel quotes for couples don’t have to be complicated, as this one shows. Share this saying with your husband or wife before you embark on your next adventure together.

79. “No road is long with good company.” – Turkish proverb

This travel with partner quote is short but poetic. Having your partner by your side as you travel really does make every part of your journey better.

80. “Sharing adventures means enjoying them 100% more.” – Unknown

As this holiday quote for couples suggests, sharing an experience with your partner will enhance your joy and give you both something to remember.

81. “My love for you is a journey; starting at forever, and ending at never.” – Unknown

This couple traveling quote is for the hopeless romantics. Here’s hoping that your love and travel journeys will be equally smooth.

82. “The universe just knows when souls are wired to wreck the world together!” – Erin Van Vuren

Hopefully, you’ve found the person you’re wired to wreak havoc with!

83. “We wander to collect stories and memories that will keep us warm when we are old.” – Unknown

This is the perfect couple adventure quote to spark your wanderlust and get you started on planning your next couple’s trip.

84. “You are the end of my road. After a lifetime of missed exits and wrong turns, you feel like I’m finally home. One journey ends, and another begins with you.” – Unknown

This couple road trip quote is yet another example of how love and travel work together so nicely.

85. “Our journey isn’t perfect but it’s ours…and I’ll stick with you till the end.” – Unknown

I love the honesty and realism in this travel quote for couples . No relationship is perfect, but every relationship is beautiful in its own way, flaws and all.

I hope these travel quotes for couples helped remind you of how wonderful traveling with your significant other can be! Maybe you’re feeling inspired to plan your next getaway together or you found a perfect couple travel saying to share with someone.

Either way, let me know in the comments if any of these couple trip quotes moved you or felt relatable – there are so many that are close to my heart! Also, if you need more travel inspiration, check out these 100 travel quotes that will awaken your wanderlust.

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The Rick Steves guide to life

Travel mogul. Philanthropist. Legal weed champion. The real Rick Steves is so much more complex than who you see on TV.

EDMONDS, Wash. — At first glance, it is hard to tell that Rick Steves is protesting.

In the center of his hometown, America’s favorite travel host is perched on the edge of a fountain roundabout engaging in some friendly civil disobedience. As cars circle the intersection, Steves smiles and waves, looking more like an Elf on a Shelf than an angry picketer. This is his way of reminding people he wishes they’d stop driving here.

Steves’s family moved to Edmonds when he was 12, and the 68-year-old is still happy to call it home. Rather than relocate to his beloved Europe, he dreams of bringing some European sensibilities to the edge of the Puget Sound, less than 20 miles north of Seattle.

When he’s not traveling around Europe, writing about Europe or running his multimillion-dollar European tour company, the prolific TV host and author likes to squeeze in some local activism. The roundabout routine is his push to block off Edmonds’s very American Main Street for pedestrians. If you squint at it, you can see what Steves sees: This would be the perfect place for a lively town square.

“I like a lot of things about Europe, but I love the urban energy of Europe. I love the piazza,” Steves said in a wistful tone you might recognize from PBS. “We don’t have a piazza.”

Unfortunately for Steves, the voting majority of the city does not love the idea of parking their SUVs farther away to shop. So despite his Boy Scout enthusiasm, the most famous man in Edmonds must keep up the perch-and-wave. This is not his only crusade.

Spend any amount of time with Steves, and you’ll encounter a total ham who loves a zany bit. But if you ask him about serious issues such as car-free zones, he’ll bring up other causes that are dear to him: affordable housing, supporting the arts, creating senior centers for the elderly to age with dignity.

He’s anti-Trump and pro-cannabis. He does not care if that is bad for business.

The average Rick Steves fan has probably missed this side of him. On TV, they see an always-sunny history lover who makes going abroad feel approachable for the average American. That’s an incomplete picture, like thinking you know Paris because you’ve seen the Eiffel Tower on YouTube.

Meet him in Edmonds, and he’ll fill in the rest.

It may look like a lot of gallivanting, but being Rick Steves takes a lot of work.

He spends three months of the year overseas, researching, writing, recording, refining tours, updating guidebooks. If he’s not planning or producing content, he’s often doing promotional events across the United States. This year, Steves is celebrating the 40th edition of his first book, “Europe Through the Back Door.” Over the course of his career, he has built a privately held company that generates $120 million in revenue a year, published 110 books, filmed 12 seasons of “Rick Steves’ Europe” and produced more than 750 podcast episodes.

“It’s just like coordinating a three-ring circus,” Steves said.

That is: really fun, sort of exhilarating and extremely complicated. To pull this off, Steves does not observe the French 35-hour workweek. He’s a workhorse with a reputation for keeping a frenetic pace year-round.

“It’s more of an American work culture,” Amy Duncan, Steves’s communications director, told me. “He’s an unapologetic capitalist, but he is also a socialist.”

He makes enough money to fly first class, but he sits in only economy, claiming that he doesn’t mind being cramped.

“It never occurred to me that I’m suffering,” he said. “As long as I’ve got an aisle and a seat that reclines, I’m happy.”

Actually, Steves believes airlines should have only one class. It’s part of his egalitarian worldview. He’s also anti-points and anti-miles, refusing to sign up for airline loyalty programs because he believes that they bully us into complicating our lives.

Steves also enforces a self-imposed “ carbon tax ” on his tour company, which takes more than 30,000 people to Europe annually. For every customer, Steves invests $30 to atone for emissions created by their flights between the United States and Europe. Last year, that added up to $1 million donated to a portfolio of organizations, Steves said.

“I don’t need to be a slave to the quarterly profit statement. I want to be around and profitable in 10 years from now in a world that you can travel in that’s stable,” Steves said. “This is a smart investment, and it’s an ethical expense that I should pay for.”

Rick Steves will tell you he’s motivated by making money; the more he can earn, the more good he can do with it.

“Vicarious consumption, that’s one of my things,” Steves said.

After amassing a windfall from the 2001 George W. Bush tax cuts for high earners, Steves donated $1 million to support the local symphony and performing arts center. In 2005, he used retirement savings to buy a 24-unit apartment complex for the local YWCA’s use as transitional housing for women and children. He figured he’d eventually sell the complex and live on the earnings. About a decade later, he changed his mind and donated the complex valued at $4 million.

He also gave more than $4 million to help build the Edmonds Waterfront Center, a vibrant gathering place for seniors where his daughter had her wedding in 2021. And he gave another $2 million for a similar center in the nearby city of Lynnwood, which broke ground in mid-April .

“Rick puts his money where his mouth is,” said Nancy Leson, a former Seattle Times food critic who used to let Steves’s daughter babysit her son. She has appreciated his regular presence in the community, which has entailed hosting events for local politics at his house and shopping at the farmers market .

“He changed travel,” local resident Karen Howe said on her way into the Waterfront Center with a friend. She has used Steves’s guidebooks for years. “He’s introduced us to places that most of us would never think of going.”

Steves hasn’t won his piazza battle, but he has brought European touches to Edmonds. At the Rick Steves’ Europe headquarters, there’s an E.U. flag hanging from the mocha brick facade. And gargoyles that drain rainwater, just like at the Notre Dame cathedral.

“Gargoyles scare away evil spirits,” Steves points out, unable to suppress his inner tour guide.

Here Steves employs more than 100 people: editors, audio producers, tour specialists and cartographers such as Dave Hoerlein, his first employee. That’s excluding the fleet of guides and drivers he contracts across the pond to shepherd tour customers.

Inside, he bounds through a maze of cubicles, his neck craned forward, always at an eager pace. His 6-foot frame appears leaner than in previous seasons of his life, but his signature look is familiar. No, not khakis and a button-down. That’s vintage Rick. These days, he wears dark jeans and a button-down, plus a thin scarf and leather sneakers.

During a day of meetings, Steves’s fjord-blue eyes lit up at the minutia of the business. He went over new maps with Hoerlein. He and longtime co-author Cameron Hewitt addressed problems such as finding a “less glitzy” stop on the Amalfi Coast that’s not Sorrento. They discussed whether a place is worth visiting after it’s gotten too popular, and Steves indulged in some gallows humor.

“It’s going to be like holding the corpse of a loved one who just died,” he said.

His critics argue that the “Rick Steves Effect” can turn a charming village, restaurant or museum into a tourist magnet. Matthew Kepnes, the travel writer behind the blog Nomadic Matt , points to the Swiss town Zermatt, which he says Steves put on the map, and has since dealt with overtourism . You’re bound to bump into groups with Rick Steves guidebooks in Italy’s increasingly crowded Cinque Terre.

Whether Steves is actually to blame for changing a place is up for debate. There are plenty of destinations he’s covered that haven’t been inundated with swarms of Americans (see also: Gdańsk).

Steves says he assesses whether a place wants tourism, if it can handle it gracefully. If it doesn’t or can’t, he may mention it but not promote it.

He has faith — maybe too much — that his clients share his values.

“Does [my work] change the personality of a town? It can. Am I a dramatic impact on Europe? No,” he said.

“There’s a handful of places I really promote aggressively that I’ve had a serious impact on, but otherwise ... my travelers are the kind of people that take only pictures and leave only footprints. ... They’re good travelers.”

You don’t have to spend much time in Edmonds to see why Steves never considered leaving.

The city — population roughly 42,000 — sits on a majestic inlet. You can get to a major international airport in about an hour. The community is so courteous, it has an “umbrella share” program in case people forget their own on a rainy day. As Steves walks around town, he greets people by name. He lives within walking distance to both his favorite diner and a pétanque court, the French answer to Italian bocce. He plays bongos at his church on Sundays.

In 1967, Richard “Dick” Steves moved the family here because he was worried about Rick Junior.

“I was hanging out with dangerous kids and going down the wrong trail,” Steves said. Seriously.

His dad, an Army veteran, got by in the upscale suburb as a piano technician and importer. When Steves was 14, his parents dragged him on a work trip to Europe to visit piano factories; it was a radical experience that sparked his lifelong passion for travel.

Back in Edmonds, Steves started teaching piano, eventually turning his savings into trips abroad of his own — not only to Europe, but also to Turkey, Nepal, Afghanistan. He went to college nearby, earning degrees in European history and business from the University of Washington, where he played in the Husky Marching Band.

After graduating, Steves figured he could keep up his routine: give piano lessons during the school year, then travel during the summer. He started teaching travel classes in the same recital hall where his piano students performed. This was back when there was no internet and there were few guidebooks to consult for trip planning.

The classes were a hit. At 25, Steves turned his lecture materials into a 180-page book, and self-published “Europe Through the Back Door,” in 1980.

Four years later, he hosted his first European minibus tour group, serving as both bus driver and guide.

His businesses have evolved; his bus tours now take up to 28 travelers, a number Steves says is a sweet spot between making the tour more affordable yet enjoyable for customers and profitable for the company. But his mission has remained the same: to be the best resource for European travel and help Americans travel better.

“I just focus on that and I love it,” he said. “It takes my life out of balance — which is not good — but it lets me do a lot of stuff that I believe in and that’s good.”

Steves has been open about the challenges of being a travel mogul. As he built his empire, he was also raising a family. Being “married” to both took a toll. In 2010, Steves and his wife, Anne, divorced after 25 years of marriage.

Up the hill from his junior high, Rick Steves’s modest beige home offers a window into his many lives. There are family photos on the walls, from older relatives to his baby grandson, Atlas. He hosts political fundraisers on the sprawling deck. A painting of Kerala, India, nods to one of his favorite countries. (People forget that Steves did four editions of “Asia Through the Back Door.”)

Next to his grand piano, there’s a stuffed creature that Steves calls his “Silver Fox” baring its teeth and wearing novelty sunglasses with cannabis leaves on the lenses — a nod to two of his interests: taxidermy and marijuana activism.

“It’s the civil liberties. … It’s the racism. … Everything about it is wrong,” he said of keeping weed illegal.

As for the toothy fox, Steves doesn’t do typical souvenirs anymore, but he makes an exception for stuffed animals.

“The wooden shoes and the pewter Viking ships are so obvious,” he said. “I like to do something a little more organic and a little more striking, and it takes me back there — I like it.”

He’s a very good piano player. He can also play the sousaphone and the trumpet — which he did regularly during the pandemic, performing taps for his neighbors at sunset.

The coronavirus was a nightmare for the travel business, but a miracle for Steves’s love life.

After running in the same social circles for years, he and Shelley Bryan Wee, a prominent local bishop, started dating at the end of 2019. They had a lot in common. Both are progressive Lutherans. Both are divorced with adult children. But neither worked a typical 9-to-5, and one of them spent three months of the year in Europe.

Then shutdowns happened. Steves, who couldn’t remember whether he’d ever had dinner in the same place 10 nights in a row, spent 100 nights at the same table with Wee. It solidified their relationship.

“Shelley is a constant,” Steves said. He still struggles with the balancing act between work and love.

When the stars align and they’re both in Edmonds, Wee cooks, and Steves plays sous-chef. They walk Jackson, Wee’s labradoodle, creating their own version of the passeggiata, Italy’s traditional evening stroll. They play table tennis before dinner.

When the world reopened, they started traveling together. They’ve made time for a few big vacations: a trip to Morocco, where they were caught in a windstorm that blew the windows out of their car; a luxury barge cruise through Burgundy, France, “that was embarrassingly expensive,” Steves confessed, followed by a week hiking in the Swiss Alps; and another hiking trip between remote lodges on Mont Blanc.

Before their first trip, Steves edited the contents of Wee’s suitcase, because packing light is part of his philosophy.

“What do you say?” she asked. “You’re talking to Rick Steves.”

Editing by Gabe Hiatt. Additional editing by Amanda Finnegan. Design editing by Christine Ashack. Photo editing by Lauren Bulbin. Videos by Monica Rodman. Senior video producer: Nicki DeMarco. Design by Katty Huertas. Copy editing by Jamie Zega.

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TSA PreCheck enrollment now available through Clear at these airports

Travelers can now enroll for the Transportation Security Administration’s PreCheck program at Clear locations in three airports as the Department of Homeland Security expands the ways to sign up.

“The TSA PreCheck trusted traveler program enables vetted, low-risk travelers to move through security more efficiently,” TSA Administrator David Pekoske. “Additional enrollment providers make it easier for the public to enroll and enjoy a seamless travel experience.”

Orlando International Airport (MCO), Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR) and Sacramento International Airport (SMF) will be the first locations to allow PreCheck enrollment at Clear sites.

More information is available on the TSA’s precheck webpage . 

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A previous third-party expansion for PreCheck enrollment allowed travelers to enroll at Staples , the office supply store.

Clear is a privately run program that allows travelers to use biometrics to further expedite their security screening. 

“TSA PreCheck with enrollment by CLEAR provides a fast and efficient airport experience,” CLEAR CEO Caryn Seidman-Becker said in a statement. “This is a win-win for U.S. travelers who will have access to more enrollment locations, expanded hours and other benefits.” 

Zach Wichter is a travel reporter for USA TODAY based in New York. You can reach him at [email protected].

Pair of giant pandas set to travel from China to San Diego Zoo under conservation partnership

SAN DIEGO — A pair of giant pandas will soon make the journey from China to the U.S., where they will be cared for at the San Diego Zoo as part of an ongoing conservation partnership between the two nations, officials said Monday.

The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance said its caretakers recently visited China to meet the giant pandas, Yun Chuan and Xin Bao, ahead of their planned trip to Southern California. An exact date for the handoff hasn’t been set.

Yun Chuan, a mild-mannered male who’s nearly 5 years old, has “deep connections” to California, the wildlife alliance said. His mother, Zhen Zhen, was born at the San Diego Zoo in 2007 to parents Bai Yun and Gao Gao.

Xin Bao is a nearly 4-year-old female described as “a gentle and witty introvert with a sweet round face and big ears.”

“Our conservation partners in China shared photographs and personality traits of Yun Chuan and Xin Bao, but meeting them in person was so special,” said Dr. Megan Owen, the alliance’s vice president of conservation science. “It’s inspiring as people from around the world come together to conserve, protect, and care for these special bears, and we can’t wait to welcome them to San Diego.”

The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance has a nearly 30-year partnership with leading conservation institutions in China focused on protecting and recovering giant pandas and the bamboo forests they depend on.

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Iowa Plays Nebraska, Northwestern, Wisconsin Twice 

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Iowa will travel to USC and UCLA and play host to Oregon and Washington in next season’s new-look Big Ten men’s basketball schedule.

The conference, now at 18 teams, released its single-plays and home-and-homes for next season’s 20-game schedule that includes the league’s new teams from the PAC-12.

The Hawkeyes haven’t played UCLA since a 1990 regular-season game at Carver-Hawkeye Arena. Iowa leads the all-time series 5-3.

Iowa last played USC in 1983. The Hawkeyes lead that series 5-2.

Iowa hasn’t played Washington since 1966. The Huskies have been to Iowa City twice, the last time in 1965.

Oregon is a more familiar opponent — the Hawkeyes lost to the Ducks in the 2021 NCAA tournament. Oregon has only played in Iowa City once, in 1949. The Hawkeyes have a 6-2 series lead.

The Hawkeyes’ double plays are against Nebraska (35 NET last season), Northwestern (51 NET) and Wisconsin (19 NET).

Iowa’s single-play home games are Indiana (84 NET), Minnesota (96 NET), Michigan State (22 NET), Oregon (54 NET), Penn State (85 NET), Purdue (3 NET), and Washington (69 NET). The single-play road games are Illinois (12 NET), Maryland (77 NET), Michigan (130 NET), Ohio State (52 NET), Rutgers (102 NET), UCLA (106 NET), and USC (87 NET).

Iowa finished 10-10 in the Big Ten last season, finishing in a tie for sixth place in the league standings.

The Big Ten breakdown:

ILLINOIS Home: Iowa, Maryland, Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue, UCLA, USC Away: Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, Oregon, Rutgers, Washington Home/Away: Michigan State, Northwestern, Wisconsin INDIANA Home: Illinois, Maryland Michigan, Minnesota, Rutgers, UCLA, USC Away: Iowa, Michigan State, Nebraska, Northwestern, Oregon, Washington, Wisconsin Home/Away: Ohio State, Penn State, Purdue IOWA Home: Indiana, Michigan State, Minnesota, Oregon, Penn State, Purdue, Washington Away: Illinois, Maryland, Michigan, Ohio State, Rutgers, UCLA, USC Home/Away: Nebraska, Northwestern, Wisconsin MARYLAND Home: Iowa, Michigan State, Minnesota, Rutgers, UCLA, USC, Wisconsin Away: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Oregon, Penn State, Purdue, Washington Home/Away: Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State MICHIGAN Home: Illinois, Iowa, Maryland, Northwestern, Oregon, Penn State, Washington Away: Indiana, Minnesota, Nebraska, Ohio State, UCLA, USC, Wisconsin Home/Away: Michigan State, Purdue, Rutgers MICHIGAN STATE Home: Indiana, Nebraska, Oregon, Penn State, Purdue, Washington, Wisconsin

Away: Iowa, Maryland, Northwestern, Ohio State, Rutgers, UCLA, USC Home/Away: Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota MINNESOTA Home: Illinois, Michigan, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oregon, Purdue, Washington Away: Indiana, Iowa, Maryland, Nebraska, Rutgers, UCLA, USC Home/Away: Michigan State, Penn State, Wisconsin NEBRASKA Home: Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, Rutgers, UCLA, USC Away: Michigan State, Northwestern, Oregon, Penn State, Purdue, Washington, Wisconsin Home/Away: Iowa, Maryland, Ohio State NORTHWESTERN Home: Indiana, Michigan State, Nebraska, Rutgers, UCLA, USC, Wisconsin Away: Michigan, Minnesota, Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, Purdue, Washington Home/Away: Illinois, Iowa, Maryland OHIO STATE Home: Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Northwestern, Oregon, Rutgers, Washington Away: Illinois, Minnesota, Penn State, Purdue, UCLA, USC, Wisconsin Home/Away: Indiana, Maryland, Nebraska OREGON

Home: Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue, Rutgers

Away: Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin

Home/Away: UCLA, USC, Washington

PENN STATE Home: Maryland, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oregon, Purdue, Washington Away: Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, UCLA, USC, Wisconsin Home/Away: Indiana, Minnesota, Rutgers PURDUE Home: Maryland, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, UCLA, USC, Wisconsin Away: Illinois, Iowa, Michigan State, Minnesota, Oregon, Penn State, Washington Home/Away: Indiana, Michigan, Rutgers RUTGERS Home: Illinois, Iowa, Michigan State, Minnesota, UCLA, USC, Wisconsin Away: Indiana, Maryland, Nebraska, Northwestern, Ohio State, Oregon, Washington Home/Away: Michigan, Penn State, Purdue

Home: Iowa, Michigan, Michigan State, Minnesota, Ohio State, Penn State, Wisconsin

Away: Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Nebraska, Northwestern, Purdue, Rutgers

Home/Away: Oregon, USC, Washington

Home/Away: Oregon, UCLA, Washington

Home/Away: Oregon, UCLA, USC WISCONSIN Home: Indiana, Michigan, Nebraska, Ohio State, Oregon, Penn State, Washington

Away: Maryland, Michigan State, Northwestern, Purdue, Rutgers, UCLA, USCHome/Away: Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota

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