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.

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.

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.

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.

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