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.

For me, to find a place that doesn't have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature - places where the adventure-travel trips can't go because they can't get any liability insurance.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

Healthier, perhaps, to find beauty in life and feel it expand inside of us.

My concept of drama requires obstacles, and there's no obstacles in comfort.

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

The blues style - moody or rollicking or boastful or bashful - developed in the Delta around 1900 and was, for a time, exclusively African-American. That isn't the case anymore.