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.

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.

Nicaragua is becoming the least expensive Caribbean destination.

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!

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.

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.

You avoid the overcrowding of tourist locations by traveling in off-season. That is now one of the major rules of smart travel - go when the tourists are NOT there, and even though you may have to don an extra layer of clothing, you will enjoy the sights and the experiences at the destination in the way that they were enjoyed before they became so well-known.