Luckily you cannot get to the Golden Triangle in a bus. You can only access it on your own two feet!

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.

Nicaragua is becoming the least expensive Caribbean destination.

Tourism does not go to a city that has lost its soul.

Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own.

Once abroad, I eat one meal a day picnic-style: Ive learned that no mature stomach can tolerate an endless routine of rich restaurant meals.

I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city.

In general, my advice is to seek out people and new ideas when you travel.

What a treasure of awesome sights and attractions our country has.

I always feel depressed when I go into a country under dictatorial rule.

If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!

Ain't no such thing as a little fault or a big fault. Satan get his foot in the door, he ain't going to rest till he's in the room. You is in the Word or you ain't--ain't no halfway with God.

Who but my mother held those small pieces of my childhood? Where would they go when she was gone?

I'd just like to know what a cop WOULD have to do to get indicted - and what good are cop cameras since Eric Garner IS on tape?

The eternal sound of the sea on every side has a tendency to wear away the edge of human thought and perception.

I grew up in a fundamentalist protestant family that stressed that we were a select people and so we were to avoid contact with others who did not share our faith.

I hear that in my head all the time now: 'Why don't you go and see?'.

I feel compassionate, because I know [students] all have to go down this road of suffering and it's going to be tough.

Those giants of old, the ancient Rishis, who never walked but strode, of whom if you were to think but for a moment you would shrivel up into a moth, they sir, had time-and you have no time!

Def Leppard is a rock band that can sing.

Go, bid the soldiers shoot.