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Through memory we travel against time, through forgetfulness we follow its course.

Through his long, productive career, Paul Theroux has mixed nonfiction books about exotic travel with novels set in exotic places. Africa, Singapore, Hong Kong, Honduras - he lives in and writes about places most of us never see.

When I was a kid, there were no youth sports ? all they had was Little League. Now, everything is much more structured (with travel teams). It has helped us in getting our instruction across to the kids.

With weather delays in Chicago, it's a good option to go to St. Louis. This increases opportunity for travel to all destinations from Decatur.

And that's the wonderful thing about family travel: it provides you with experiences that will remain locked forever in the scar tissue of your mind.

When to arrive at the airport?: You should be at the airport already.

Never trust anything you read in a travel article.

Greyhound Bus Lines motto: "We Stop For Some Damn Thing Every 200 Yards."

Be advised that there is no parking in Europe.

Dear Hotel People: We don't need a cheeseball clock-radio. WE NEED PLACES TO PLUG STUFF IN. Thank you.

San Francisco leads the world in the category of Most People On The Sidewalk Holding Conversations With Purely Imaginary Companions.

The Spanish government, having run completely out of money, secretly sold the Pyrenees to China, and is now separated from France only by traffic cones.

Spain travel tip: If bathroom genders are indicated by flamingos, the boy flamingo is the one with a hat. I learned this the hard way.

I suspect that LaGuardia is an elaborate prank, and New York has a real airport nearby that only locals know about.

Just get on any major highway, and eventually it will dead-end in a Disney parking area large enough to have its own climate, populated by large nomadic families who have been trying to find their cars since the Carter administration.

Airline food is not intended for human consumption. It's intended as a form of in-flight entertainment, wherein the object is to guess what it is, starting with broad categories such as "mineral" and "linoleum."

I had arrived at the airport one hour early so that, in accordance with airline procedures, I could stand around.

Motto of the U.S. airline industry - "We're Hoping to Have a Motto Announcement in About an Hour."

Never trust anything you read in a travel article. Travel articles appear in publications that sell large, expensive advertisements to tourism-related industries, and these industries do not wish to see articles with headlines like: URUGUAY: DON'T BOTHER.

Big climbs energize me. It's all the other aspects of being a pro-climber that wear me down. The travel and expeditions and training can become pretty tiring. But the actual big climbs - that's what I live for.

Dr. Perry will travel to Pyongyang along with ambassador Wendy Sherman and a small delegation during the period from May 25 to May 28, ... While there, he will explore and assess in person the views of the senior North Korean officials. He will also consult with South Korean and Japanese leaders, both en route to and returning from the North Korean capital.

Due to the changing nature and increasing complexity of both the payment and travel industries, we have decided to name two senior leaders who will manage, in tandem, the two sides of the business for the global customer segment.

Each airline is making a significant investment, ... What we're trying to do is make sure we're satisfying our customers' online travel needs. We expect by 2003 that 20 percent of bookings will come to us via Internet.

Each airline is making a significant investment. What we're trying to do is make sure we're satisfying our customers' online travel needs. We expect by 2003 that 20 percent of bookings will come to us via Internet.

Electricity doesn't travel very well. And there's no big power consumer among China's immediate neighbors that China can sell to.

Being around so many friends, people who are supporting me, people I have known since I was a kid, is a great feeling, ... You travel the world, and it is very seldom that we are in our hometown.

Being this close to home, you really can't beat it with this crowd, ... I'm staying in my own bed, being around so many friends, people that go way back, that know me from when I was a kid, is something that is very rare on tour. We travel the world, so it's very seldom that we're in our hometown.

Don't get me wrong, we still go out after a gig and hang out late, but we also make sure to go to bed within some point of the day's travel schedule.

Consider: The human genome consists of about 3.3 billion base pairs. Since there are only four types of pair, that amounts to 0.8 gigabytes of information, or about what you can fit on a CD. With a microwave radio transmitter, you could beam that amount of information into space in a few minutes, and have it travel to anyone at light speed.

Cosmic rays are interstellar travelers. People always want to travel to the stars and what's so incredible about these rays is that it's like the stars are coming to us.

Customers at nwa.com now have even more options when planning their next vacation. In addition to their air travel needs, Northwest customers can take advantage of competitive pricing for cruises, on- and off-line booking capabilities and 24-7 customer service from our cruise experts.

Warren will continue to grow, ... It will be just as hot or hotter. The people who can afford the travel time will go farther out to get a good buy.

Virginia found out on Sunday they had to travel all the way across the country. I think they got a little fatigued late in the first half and then late in the game.

What really matters is the teams coming in. These two teams travel well, so that's really good for business.

Besides that, the weather is great, the travel is a piece of cake, you can focus entirely on baseball and the facilities are first-class because games are played at Spring Training stadiums. I had a blast. Whoever thought of the AFL, it was a great idea.

Easter breaks for many people will include short-haul trips, where alternative modes of transport are much more practical. Short-haul travel is particularly polluting because the take-off and landing segments, when most fuel is burnt, represent a large proportion of the flight plan.

Even in the '70s, I used to think it was silly to stand around pushing and shoving to get your trading done, ... I felt it was silly to travel to a city that had a stock exchange.

Even though it's a tough environment for travel related stocks, the catalyst for American Express is going to be the ruling against Visa and MasterCard. It's a very significant positive.

You have very short travel blogs, and I think there's a split among travel writers: the service-oriented writers will say, 'Well, the reader wants to read about his trip, not yours.' Whereas I say, the reader just wants to read a good story and to maybe learn something.

When I read that Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 had disappeared - a state-of-the-art Boeing 777, said to be an incredibly safe way to travel - I waited patiently for the chance to learn what happened.

Every industry will be transformed by this demographic shift. In addition to retailers, companies in business sectors such as consumer products, healthcare, real estate, technology, financial services, and travel and leisure will find that aging consumers present tremendous challenges -- and tremendous opportunities.

Every job has its downside. For example, being in a band; the travel part of it - getting picked up from your house in a car, going to the airport, getting on a plane, going from the airplane to a van, then going from the van to a hotel.

Every player who is fit and well is playing particularly when we don't have to travel for the first week.

Everyone wants to see the real Africa before it is all gone - nature lovers, photographers, adventurers; but travel is getting so costly, few people can afford such a trip. Thats why we decided to sweeten the deal by adding international airfare. Now we have something nobody can resist. A real winner

At present, the team of specialist nursing, medical and social care staff travel the length and breadth of Co Galway on a daily basis to visit and care for almost 120 (predominantly cancer) patients,

At some point, the government expands into the private sphere so far that you live in a place with a whole lot less freedom. I didn't like that that was the direction of travel for our country, and decided to come to Washington to try and be a small part of bringing it back.

I served at the Pentagon and at Fort Leavenworth - my job was video cameraman, and that allowed me to travel to places like Korea, Japan, Alaska, Germany and the Netherlands.

The United Nations must have the possibility to enable all governments, civil society organizations, and NGO's from all over the world to freely travel to its headquarters, without the selective hindrances of the host country and to engage without any fear, in serious dialogue,

The United States is imposing targeted travel restrictions and is planning financial sanctions against individuals responsible for the recent electoral fraud and human rights abuses in Belarus, including Alexander Lukashenko.

I used to write travel essays, and I was struck by how the fact of writing about a place would change my relationship with it. I would make completely different choices, do things I wouldn't have normally, because I had to fill this narrative shape.

I used to buy nice clothes and drive a nice car when I couldn't afford it. But I spent all my money doing it, and now I don't have to. I like nice things. I like to travel in a certain style. I like to live in a nice place.

I urge you to attend all the luncheons because people will travel out of their communities to do business with you. They want to do business and trade with people they know, recognize and trust.

I've been a traveller, but I don't travel so much now. I'm trying to do it vicariously through my writing. I'm trying to write books that will draw readers away from their lives but send them back in a more awakened way.

The tragic events in the USA will undoubtedly have a significant impact on the demand for air travel in the months ahead, ... We have taken the necessary steps to curtail expenditure and sadly to cut our workforce.

The trails travel through Colorado's natural treasures like Rocky Mountain National Park and the Great Sand Dunes. They roam quietly with vagabond creeks, saunter through pageants of wildflowers, and soar with high mountain summits.

The travel back is always tough (on players) and it won't be easy.

The traveler, however virginal and enthusiastic, does not enjoy an unbroken ecstasy. He has periods of gloom, periods when he asks himself the object of all these exertions, and puts the question whether or not he is really experiencing pleasure. At such times he suspects that he is not seeing the right things, that the characteristic, the right aspects of these strange scenes are escaping him. He looks forward dully to the days of his holiday yet to pass, and wonders how he will dispose of them. He is disgusted because his money is not more, his command of the language so slight, and his capacity for enjoyment so limited.

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist see what he has come to see.

The travel industry is finding that people from all over the world are fascinated with African-American culture, ... particularly Europeans and Asians who have been watching blacks for many years in the movies and through the news media.

The travel industry is sitting on the last virgin territory in the entire world. Americans want to go there for the same reason that dozens of companies around the world have. There's money to be made.

The travel industry is very dynamic and changing. There are a lot of opportunities where they might need to make investments to grow, and public markets can be very short-term in nature. Prides Capital is in it for the long run.

The travel industry is very interested in building up this holiday season travel market. Part of the reason, of course, is that right now is really a dead time of year for business travel.

The travel industry will do really well this year. It's a great time to be an operator. What that means for the individual is: Book early, book often.

The travel in the East is a joke. There is no travel in the East. You're home and in bed by 1 o'clock a lot of times after playing a 'road game.

The travel is difficult on your relationships with loved ones, unless they are coming along with you, which may not be possible.

The travel is what makes this conference so hard. Everybody is tough at home, and nobody has to travel like how we do it.

The travel wears you down, it really does. But they (the Lightning) had to travel far to get here, too, and they're not used to the time difference. It all evens out.

The trend to travel rods has risen steadily since they were introduced. They now comprise about 60 percent of our sales. A travel rod is a great choice for the plug caster who might want to take a fly rod on a big trip, but doesn't want to go overboard in gearing up. You toss the tube in the the duffle and there it is ready to go when the circumstances are right.

The governor plans to travel to Lafayette on Monday for an economic-development related announcement.

Yes, travel has recovered, and flights are extremely full.

Yes, we have received intimation from the government about this. They have told us to take great care as the two leaders pass through various states. We have been told that the two leaders should wear bullet-proof jackets and travel in bullet-proof vehicles.

While the general consumer has no problem using general travel portals, we feel that the affluent traveler has specific information needs that can only be found by providing a deeper level of service that is closer to concierge level than typically provided by the mass travel market.

While they stood, the Mommy said if you ever want to be the first person to board an airplane and if you want to travel with your pet, you can do both, easy. The airlines have to let crazy people carry their animals on their laps. The government says so.This is more important information to live by.

The government has done a great job stimulating travel to the region.

We need to get our country flying again, and we applaud the lead taken by President Bush and Congressional leaders in encouraging Americans to resume their normal lives, including their travel plans, ... However, the reality of softer demand means that we must further reduce our capacity as we enter the fall/winter period.

As the world's leading travel service provider, Expedia, Inc. has the unique privilege of being able to quickly support our travel industry partners in the Yucatan Peninsula during times of need by sharing timely information and education that helps to rebuild international traveler confidence. We look forward to continuing to work closely with our travel partners to provide the latest information, updates and trip ideas to our travelers -- reassuring them that one of their most beloved destinations is indeed open for business.

I skate in circles. I have to keep that in perspective. I love what I do. I love to race and to travel and to compete, but let's face it, I wear tights and I make left turns.

The success of the Conference should be judged by how much donors commit to do for the security and development of the Afghan people, not their own political agendas. The real measure of security and development in Afghanistan is not the number of foreign troops, but whether people feel safe enough to go to the market, to travel at night to seek medical care, or to send their children to school.

The softening of the U.S. economy has had an industry-wide effect on business travel demand, ... While our 2001 business plan assumed a challenging financial environment, the economic situation has deteriorated more than expected.

The team trials and competitions are fierce. You've got the travel, which everyone thinks is wonderful but isn't. You don't see your friends, your family or your pets. You live out of a bag.

The shift we are seeing is that folks need greater protection, and travel insurance companies are taking a closer look, ... When these hurricanes hit, one of the priorities is to restore local infrastructure which, of course, includes roadways and runways, but many times the hotels and rental homes have been greatly damaged. The companies recognize this and are beginning to broaden their protection plans.

The sweepers originated in the old days, to brush away debris from the ice. Now that the game is played indoors they are used to create friction on the ice, allowing the stone to travel further.

The symphonies are the things that, as a soloist, I've not gotten to play. I used to travel the world playing concertos, and then I would sit and listen to the symphony.

The senator will support reform efforts that include more transparency about what trips are being taken and who is paying for the trips. He will also look closely at additional travel restrictions, including a ban on travel that is deemed extracurricular or a conflict of interest.

These soldiers travel this route every day, back and forth to the base, and when they do they face this risk. And they are sitting ducks, and they know it." ()

The situation is serious. That's why I recommended no travel for this year. We've been putting this off, and the situation hasn't improved.

This segment is growing really rapidly, about twice as fast as the overall travel market, and we want to capitalize on that. People like the idea that they're traveling to a unique place with lots of things to do.

When you have an American mother from the Midwest and an Egyptian father, you travel back and forth and see such completely different stories in the news about the exact same events. It makes you think, 'How is anybody able to understand or even have a dialogue when the basis of information is just so completely different?'

When you kill little babies, things have changed. We will try you, and you won't be able to travel abroad again.

When we met with representatives for Travel Michigan to review the tourism indicators that we have been tracking for more than 20 years, we were all somewhat surprised by just how well the industry fared in 2005.

When we originally started working with Tropical Travel they had an active client base of less that 1500. Since this time, they have been able to manage and expand their customer base to over 28,000 clients as a direct result of the Synapse.CS integration.

We welcome Libya's first steps toward reform. But the government has a long road to travel before it meets the international standards of human rights.

When I went to L.A., I started modeling, hoping to travel and learn from photographers. It led to auditions to do commercials.

We always tell people to check the Web site or their travel agency. Most people know that when the hub is closed or the airport is closed, they're not flying tomorrow. When we can accommodate them, we try to, but most of our passengers are going to have to wait until we get going again.

There are 15 houses on the street, and seven of them have kids. My kids are older now. They travel the road on bicycle, which really makes me nervous.

And when the dollar decline makes foreign travel much more expensive, I will do more of my vacation traveling in the United States.

I've noticed that maybe my skin isn't as soft as it used to be when I was a younger. It's just not there anymore. I travel so much, and my skin gets so dry.

The woman now, she has to be the mother, the lover, the worker, do everything. The material we have is no wrinkle, is resistant, is easy to travel ... and all the clothes you put inside your bag have to be practical, functional. But when you travel, you have also to wear and have to be perfect.

The way it stayed there were several positives. The travel issue is always a big factor out here so that was something to think about. I think (the UIL) had some sympathy for our situation.