ABOUT GERMANY:

“My father is Chinese, Spanish, and Filipino; my mother is half-Irish and half-Japanese; Greek last name; born in Hawaii, raised in Germany.” —Mark Dacascos

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one’s lifetime.”

― Mark Twain, The Innocents Abroad/Roughing It

“No place is ever as bad as they tell you it’s going to be.” – Chuck Thompson

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

“Traveling – it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.” – Ibn Battuta

“We travel, some of us forever, to seek other places, other lives, other souls.” – Anais Nin