75 Travel Captions and Quotes for Instagram that Will Inspire Wanderlust

So this post is a little more quirky than our usual posts about travel. We’re going to share some of our favourite travel captions and quotes! I’m always surprised how easy it is to match certain travel quotes to our own lives. Whether they’re funny travel quotes, family travel quotes or travel quotes by famous people, so many reflect our own thoughts and feelings about travel. If you’re also a lover of photography like I am, travel quotes can be great to use for travel captions for Instagram as well!

Travel Captions to Show your Followers the Personal Impact of Travel

Every place we visit, whether it be far away or close to home, teaches our family a little more about the world and those we share it with. Each trip makes an impact on us personally. We experience culture and get first-hand knowledge about history. We make new friends and learn more about ourselves and each other.

Adventure Travel Quotes: Let your Travel Captions Show Your Wild Side

I’ll be honest. I’m not an adventure traveller. I love history and exploring new places but I much prefer to do it in a calm way that doesn’t make my heart race. I get enough of that when we’re late for a flight!

That said, whenever I read an amazing adventure travel caption, it makes me wish I actually wanted to feel that way.

“Reality whistles a different tune underwater.” – Tom Robbins, American Novelist

“Two roads diverged in a wood, and I — I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference.” – Robert Frost

“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.” – Helen Keller

“The purpose of life is to live it, to taste it, to experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that goddamn mountain.”- Jack Kerouac

“Today is your day! Your mountain is waiting. So…get on your way.”- Dr. Seuss

Funny Travel Quotes

Every traveller needs to look at the light side of life. Travel never goes exactly how you expect it to. Whether you experience delayed or cancelled flights or are dealing with travelling with children or another family member, the best option is to just roll with the punches and realize that it will likely make a fantastic memory in the future. While your planning that amazing trip, make a few memes and keep these funny travel captions in mind!

“When preparing to travel, lay out all your clothes and all your money. Then take half the clothes and twice the money.” – Susan Heller

“No man needs a vacation so much as the man who just had one.” – Elbert Hubbard

“Nothing lasts forever, except the day before you start your vacation.” – Gayland Anderson

“If we were meant to stay in one place, we’d have roots instead of feet.” – Anonymous

“The worst thing about being a tourist is having other tourists recognize you as a tourist.” – Russell Baker

“Adventure may hurt you but monotony will kill you.” – Author Unknown

“When dealing with complex transportation issues, the best thing to do is pull up with a cold beer and let somebody else figure it out.” – Anthony Bourdain

“The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.” – Henry David Thoreau

Wise Travel Quotes to Share in Your Travel Captions

Travel isn’t for everyone but to truly know whether you’ll actually love travelling, you need to at least try it! I started travelling when I was much older than most. I already had three young children and John had started travelling for work and suggested we spend the summer in Switzerland. I had never left North America and thought he had lost his mind. It turns out, it was a huge part of my life that I didn’t know was missing. It is now my passion and I strive to give our kids as many travel experiences as we can. Who knows, if you share a few of these travel captions in your Instagram feed, some of your followers might just be sparked to take that very first step!

“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.” – Mark Twain

“The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only one page.” – Saint Augustine

“Once a year, go someplace you’ve never been before.” – Anonymous

“Better to see something once than hear about it a thousand times.” – Author Unknown

“You don’t have to be rich to travel well.” – Eugene Fodor

“Travel isn’t always pretty. It isn’t always comfortable. Sometimes it hurts, it even breaks your heart. But that’s okay. The journey changes you; it should change you.” – Anthony Bourdain

“Tourists don’t know where they’ve been, travelers don’t know where they’re going.” – Paul Theroux

“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block

“Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.” – Anita Desai, Indian novelist

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.” – Mark Twain

“We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.” – Jawaharial Nehru

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.” – Clifton Fadiman

And a little advice as to your choice of travel companion …

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

“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

Our Favourite Travel Quotes by Famous People

Depending on your age, you may or may not recognize some of these famous people but I guarantee you they were definitely famous in their time! As leaders in their field of the arts, science and politics their thoughts on travel make for incredible travel captions.

“The gladdest moment in human life, methinks, is a departure into unknown lands.” – Sir Richard Burton, actor

“Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.” – Gustave Flaubert, author

“Travel is about the gorgeous feeling of teetering in the unknown” – Anthony Bourdain, chef

“Paris is always a good idea.” – Audrey Hepburn, actress

“Travel reminds us of what we share and what we have become – the ability for us to recognize ourselves in each other” – Barack Obama, politician

“I never knew of a morning in Africa, when I woke up and was not happy” – Ernest Hemingway, author

“For once you have tasted flight you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.” – Leonardo da Vinci, artist

“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, we can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou, poet

Family Travel Quotes

As a family traveller, travel captions and quotes always hit home. I love the look in my kids’ eyes when we visit a new place or their reaction when they see a famous landmark for the first time. Our Instagram feed is full of family travel photos and I can’t wait to use some of these travel captions for Instagram.

“Sometimes You Will Never Know The Value Of A Moment Until It Becomes Memory.” – Dr. Seuss

“Not All Classrooms Have 4 Walls.” – Unknown Author

“May your adventures bring you closer together, even as they take you far away from home” – Trenton Lee Stewart, children’s author

“It’s a magical world, Hobbes, ol’ buddy… Let’s go exploring!” – Calvin and Hobbes

“Having kids is a reason to travel. Never a reason to stop” – Author Unknown

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.” — Aristotle, philosopher

“The Greatest Legacy We Can Leave Our Children Is Happy Memories.” – Og Mandino, author

“Actually, the best gift you could have given her was a lifetime of adventures.” — Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland

“Little By Little, One Travels Far.” – J. R. R. Tolkien

Personal Note: This is one of my favourite travel captions! Travel with kids doesn’t have to be exhausting. Start early and by their teen years, they will have all travelled far!

“Traveling In The Company Of Those We Love Is Home In Motion.” – Leigh Hunt, poet

“Two Of The Greatest Gifts We Can Give Our Children Are Roots And Wings.” – Hodding Carter, journalist

“Travel is like an endless university. You never stop learning.” – Harvey Lloyd, photographer

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

“Travel, In The Younger Sort, Is A Part Of Education; In The Elder, A Part Of Experience.” – Sir Francis Bacon, philosopher and politician

“As soon as I saw you, I knew adventure was going to happen.” – Winnie the Pooh

“Of all the books in the world, the best stories are found between the pages of a passport” – Author Unknown

“Happiness is, planning a trip to somewhere new, with someone you love” – Author Unknown

Travel Captions & Quotes by Famous Authors

Last but not least, our final set of travel captions are those by famous authors. Whether their genre is fantasy, mystery, science fiction or childrens’ literature, all of these amazing authors have been touched by travel. Their thoughts on travel resonate with many of us, no matter our walk of life.

“Oh the places you’ll go.” – Dr. Seuss, American children’s author

“One of the great things about travel is that you find out how many good, kind people there are.” – Edith Wharton, American author of The Age of Innocence

“Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.” – Kurt Vonnegut, American science fiction author

 “I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list” – Susan Sontag, American writer and filmmaker

“Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien, English author of Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit

“Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else.” – Lawrence Block, American crime writer

“There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.” – Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish author of Treasure Island and Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

“To travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.” – Elizabeth Gilbert, author of Eat, Pray, Love

“We wander for distraction, but we travel for fulfillment.” – Hilaire Belloc, French Author and Historian

“See the world. It’s more fantastic than any dream.” ― Ray Bradbury, American author

Final Thoughts:

As I said at the beginning, this post about our favourite travel captions was a bit different than our regular ones. I hope you found it fun and enjoyable!

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