My house is a place I have spent many years improving to the point where I have no desire to leave it.

Bogotá seemed a cruel towering place, like an eagles' nest now inhabited by vultures and their dying prey.

In countries where all the crooked politicians wear pin-striped suits, the best people are bare-assed.

They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.

Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.

I don't look down on tourism. I live in Hawaii where we have 7 million visitors a year. If they weren't there, there would be no economy. So I understand why a tourist economy is necessary.

... the grand tour is just the inspired man's way of heading home.