"Riding in a commercial jetliner simply isn't traveling, as far as I'm concerned. It's teleporting from point A to point B. You spend the entire time in the air just waiting to land, and afterward you speak of the flight only if it's to complain about the turbulence or the snoring of the dude who sat next to you. The trip itself is nothing. A blank. A means of skipping ahead instead of wading through. And it's precisely when we're wading through that we often stumble upon the joy, misery, serendipity, and disaster of a true adventure."

–Seth Stevenson, Grounded: A Down to Earth Journey Around the World (2010)