To travel best requires some time preparing for your visit to a particular location - that you don't travel anywhere without spending a few nights reading about the culture and history of the place you are visiting. This is what most of us don't do - we fling ourselves on an exotic destination hoping that someone will tell us what we are looking at, but by that time it's too late, and all the lectures and tour guides simply add to our confusion.

I find, on my own travels, that the most depressing form of culture shock is experienced when you go into a country that is under the thumb of a dictator.

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.

Nicaragua is becoming the least expensive Caribbean destination.

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.

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

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