Josh Gates

“Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after being infused with the outside world.”

“My father was a commercial deep-sea diver in exotic locations and my mom was British and we would travel there every year. So I always had that wanderlust in me.”

“If there's flat tires or bad food or rough lodging or zany people that we meet, we throw them up all on screen so that the viewer doesn't feel like they're watching a kind of sanitized, produced effort.”

“We have a really aggressive travel schedule at 'Expedition Unknown.' We spend a lot of time out of the country and we spend most of the time that we are back either preparing for the next expedition or writing, editing and getting shows ready to air. It really is a year-round lifestyle.”

“I think one of the things that we have to remember is that Egypt ancient history is so vast, and there are so many tombs and mummies that the field of Egyptology really is about the science and the work of conserving and preserving these artifacts.”

“I would say Waverly Hills, which is an abandoned sanitarium here in the States - it's high on the list of places I don't ever want to spend the night again.”

“I spend most flights staring out into that endless cloudscape and watching the planet drift by below. I never understand people who close the window shade. There's magic out there.”

“I can't explain some of the things I've seen and...I've done some things I can't explain.”

“I'm an equal-opportunity enthusiast for automobiles, but, you know, my New Year's Resolution every year is that I'm gonna take a real automotive class because I spend a lot of time broken down by the side of the road. But so far, I usually still need help unless it's changing a tire.”

“Fear is a normal human response. It certainly is for me.”

“I am kind of a lifelong lose weight, gain weight kind of guy. I'm a big guy; I've always been a big guy.”

“Snakes are a very real thing in Egyptian tombs, they like to hang out underground.”

“Where can one buy a lit of that *Right Stuff* bravado required to shrug off the fact that your airplane is now a convertible?”

“I'm not an encyclopedia of ancient Egyptian history, but women did hold positions of status in ancient Egypt. Obviously, famously, people like Nefertiti and Cleopatra actually ruled, which we don't often think about women having a lot of agency in the ancient world, but in ancient Egypt, they did.”

“I'm a real open-minded skeptic when it comes to the ghost world. And there are places that I've traveled to where it's very scary and I end up feeling like there might be something going on there.”

“I'm an adventure guy, so I can't be driving around in a Prius. That just doesn't really fit my life that well.”

“I always have a vehicle wherever I go, everything from weird motorcycles with side cars to old Jeep Willeys to beat up Defenders in Africa, you name it.”

“I am really not a believer that there are UFOs observing us here on Earth, and yet I saw something that blew my mind, something I could not explain.”

“I'm not like a gearhead in the sense that I'm not all that useful under the hood, but I am a, I would say, a gear enthusiast. I love to drive anything; I love to drive cars I'm not good at driving with crazy shifters.”

“Ancient Egyptian culture was so enduring. It went on for thousands of years.”