Most of us abandoned the idea of a life full of adventure and travel sometime between puberty and our first job. Our dreams died under the dark weight of responsibility. Occasionally the old urge surfaces, and we label it with names that suggest psychological aberrations: the big chill, a midlife crisis.

The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest - find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.

New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.

The dirty little secret about adventure writing is that something has to go wrong.

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.

Adventure travel existed before I started, I just didn’t know it.