It's only when you're alone that you realize where you are. You have nothing to fall back on except your own resources.
Mark Twain was a great traveler and he wrote three or four great travel...
A travel book is about someone who goes somewhere travels on the ground...
Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
The amount of hassle involved in travel can be overwhelming.
Extensive traveling induces a feeling of encapsulation and travel so...
Tourists don't know where they've been travelers don't know where they're...
When I was in the Peace Corps I never made a phone call. I was in Central...
The Peace Corps is a sort of Howard Johnson's on the main drag into maturity.
The moment that changed me for ever was the moment my first child was born. I...
But the wicked passions of men's hearts alone seem strong enough to leave...
I think the idea that you can go this alone is - was a huge mistake. And...
I have two ideas for novels at the moment neither of them all that...
Something about Texas I'm not proud of is that our state murdered 37 people...
I spend my life essentially alone at a computer. That doesn't change. I have...
I can support going in after Saddam Hussein but I want to make sure I don't...
I can barely remember what I wrote yesterday let alone 10 years ago.