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

Fiction gives us a second chance that life denies us.

I'm not pessimistic about Africa. The cities just seem big and hopeless. But there's still a great green heart where there's possibility. There's hope in the wilderness.

There's always a way if you're not in a hurry.

Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.

A gun show is about like-minded people who feel as if everything has been taken away from them - jobs, money, pride.