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

A constant ongoing joke among the people that I travel with is my absolutely hopeless sense of direction. I'm able to get lost a half an hour from camp. I don't know how I do this.

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

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

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.

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