Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.
I'm constantly running across people who have never heard of books I think they should read.
There's a lot of sensuality that I associate with travel. And that's romance.
The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my life. I didn't like it.
One of the cardinal principles of Buddhism, the principle of neglect.
Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.