Loneliness in travel directs you and tells you about yourself. You don't become lonely unless you're alone.

And that is all anyone can do, try to be honest about what he feels, what he's seen or thinks he's seen.

Is there any point in going across the world to eat something or buy something or watch people squatting among their ruins? Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with distance or the exotic. It is almost entirely an inner experience.

Tibet has a very proud people but it's culturally gone and overrun ever since the Chinese took over. It's like saving the rhino. When a species is endangered, it's gone.

Although I'm not fluent in sign language by a long way, I could have a fairly decent conversation.

Reading is also a journey. It's a process of discovery.

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