As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.
Previous journeys had taught me the danger of taking too much stuff.
On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.
It is almost impossible to overemphasize the importance with which ancestry is held in the Middle East and North Africa.
Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.
The rain of Madre de Dios is similar to that of the Amazon, but there is a petrifying aspect to it, as if it seeks to wound rather than to nurture.