If hot food is they key to maintaining an expedition's stamina, then low grade gut-rot alcohol is the key to sustaining its sense of pleasure.

A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.

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.

Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

I was no longer troubled when he pulled out a machete in a crowded bar, tried to pick up schoolgirls, or threatened to scalp us, then rip off our heads and scoop out our brains.

Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.