“Life’s trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”

“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”

“It was as if we’d only been gone the weekend. Or had we been gone a lifetime. Part of that was because when you’ve lived in Alaska, living in other places seems easier, less challenging, less threatening. Alaska had enlarged each of us. No one is ever the same after coming back from Alaska.”

“It might be the end of the trail, but it’s only the start of the night.”

“While many explorers like to endure hardship by traveling to remote inhospitable parts of the world, I prefer to explore from the comfort of my own home.”

“Life is a magical journey, so travel endlessly to unfold its profound and heart touching beauty.”

“We did all the tourist crap, but I just wanted to sit in a cafe and watch people”

“It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.”

“If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”

“The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown..”

“It can hardly be a coincidence that no language on earth has ever produced the expression, ‘As pretty as an airport.”