All places, no matter where, no matter what, are worth visiting.
The man who is tired of London is tired of looking for a parking space
Bogotá seemed a cruel towering place, like an eagles' nest now inhabited by vultures and their dying prey.
Loneliness in travel directs you and tells you about yourself. You don't become lonely unless you're alone.
Travel is only glamorous in retrospect.
I greatly enjoyed Tom Reiss's The Orientalist, for its mingled scholarship and sleuthing, and for so elegantly solving the puzzle of one of the Twentieth Century's most mysterious writers.