If people are driving you around to look at animals, that's wonderful. That's educational, but it's not necessarily enlightening and you're not finding out much about yourself.

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

It is almost axiomatic that the worst trains take you through magical places.

Even if I were traveling with you, your trip would not be mine.

Airplanes have dulled and desensitized us; we are encumbered, like lovers in a suit of armor.

I don't want to be the honored guest. I want to be the invisible person.

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.