I regard Paris as a feast for the eyes, the senses and brain. It is a phenomenal city.

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.

My favorite place in the whole world is the city of Paris. to me, Paris stands at the frontier of every major category of travel - in food, art, theater, history, in so many different areas that I simply don't get tired of it.

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!

My favorite place that I've been to that most people haven't been to is the Golden Triangle in the northeast of Thailand, which is inhabited by people as if in the Stone Age, without any form of power, without running water, simply living in huts on stilts.

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