Through bitter experience I have learned that it is best to promise little and then to reward hard work with generosity.

Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.

Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things.

To Succeed, you must reach for the stars, and let your imagination find its own path

On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.

Visit Cape Town and history is never far from your grasp. It lingers in the air, a scent on the breezy, an explanation of circumstance that shaped the Rainbow People. Stroll around the old downtown and it's impossible not to be affected by the trials and tribulations of the struggle. But, in many ways, it is the sense of triumph in the face of such adversity that makes the experience all the more poignant.

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.