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.

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

I have no problem with the adventure travel movement. It makes better, more sensitive people. If you get people diving on a coral reef, they're going to become more respectful of the outdoors and more concerned with the threats that places like that face and they're going to care more about protecting them than they would have before.

A journey is measured in friends, not miles.

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.

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