“Bulgaria, I reflected as I walked back to the hotel, isn’t a country; it’s a near-death experience.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“The romance of travel wasn't always terribly evident to those who were actually experiencing it.” — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
There is something about the momentum of travel that makes you want to just keep moving, to never stop. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I love the feeling of being anonymous in a city I've never been before. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Traveling is more fun - hell, life is more fun - if you can treat it as a series of impulses. — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Traveling makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The first book I did - the first successful book - was a kind of a travel book, and publishers in Britain… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
The food is excellent. The beer is cold. The sun nearly always shines. There is coffee on every corner. Life doesn’t get… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“The real significance of Magellan's voyage was not that it was the first to circumnavigate the planet, but that it was the… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
My first rule of travel is never to go to a place that sounds like a medical condition and Critz is clearly… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
There is no reason why we shouldn't be able to split an infinitive, any more than we should forsake instant coffee and… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I turned to my own bunk and examined it with a kind of appalled fascination. If the mattress stains were anything to… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Thanks to years of travel at other people’s expense, I have a lifetime supply of soaps, small bottles of shampoo, aromatic lotions,… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
What an odd thing tourism is. You fly off to a strange land, eagerly abandoning all the comforts of home, and then… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Portability also explains why many old chests and trunks had domed lids- to throw off water during travel. The great drawback of… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“[Traveling] makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Distance changes utterly when you take the world on foot. A mile becomes a long way, two miles literally considerable, ten miles… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I still enjoy traveling a lot. I mean, it amazes me that I still get excited in hotel rooms just to see… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
To my mind, the greatest reward and luxury of travel is to be able to experience everyday things as if for the… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“We have been gulled by the ease of air travel and other forms of communication into thinking that the world is not… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all. — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“But Welsh spellings are as nothing compared with Irish Gaelic, a language in which spelling and pronunciation give the impression of having been devised… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“Pantaloons were often worn tight as paint and were not a great deal less revealing, particularly as they were worn without underwear. . .… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“The dining table was a plain board called by that name. It was hung on the wall when not in use, and was perched… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“From almost nothing, France in four years built up an aircraft industry that employed nearly 200,000 people and produced some 70,000 planes. Britain built… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“Every twenty minutes on the Appalachian Trail, Katz and I walked farther than the average American walks in a week. For 93 percent of… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“A diarist named George Templeton Strong recorded in the winter of 1866 that even with two furnaces alight and all the fireplaces blazing, he… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
Tune your television to any channel it doesn't receive and about 1 percent of the dancing static you see is accounted for by this… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
As a rule of thumb, I would submit that if you need to call your floss provider, for any reason, you are probably not… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
Nobody gets excited about the future at all, ever. The future is something we find depressing and worrisome. — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“What made this particularly interesting is that John Howard is by far the dullest man in Australia. Imagine a very committed funeral home director… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
I would make a genuinely terrible guide. I can't remember things. I would get half way through telling a story or explaining something and… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
“In the mystifying world that was Victorian parenthood, obedience took precedence over all considerations of affection and happiness, and that odd, painful conviction remained… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To… — Bill Bryson Copy Share
![“[Traveling] makes you realize what an immeasurably nice place much of America could be if only people possessed the same instinct for preservation as they do in Europe. You would think the millions of people who come to Williamsburg every year would say to each other, "Gosh, Bobbi, this place is…” quote by Bill Bryson](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/ebc/bill-bryson-340_american-culture_traveling-makes-you-realize-what-an-imme_3015149.jpg)
