Good luck' is like the shadow of a tree, for some time it gives comfort to a traveler but it doesn't go ahead with a traveler.

If you find holes in my book that you could drive a car through, do not be too sure they were not left there for that express purpose.

I travel because it makes me realize how much I haven't seen, how much I'm not going to see, and how much I still need to see.

There were signs everywhere but none that I could read or even hope to decipher. These multi-lined symbols unhinged my familiar world.

I want a moon canoe, because have you ever tried paddling through dirt? Love is a journey, and I try to travel as efficiently as I can.

As a travel writer I've specialized in gritty, fearful destinations, the kind of places that make a reader's hair stick on end.

Travel wasn't fun if you didn't get to see or do what you wanted; it was merely a different type of work, in a different place.

The best thing about flying first class....was that you could be as nutty as a fruitcake and were still treated like the Queen of Sheba.

I quickly became aware that the phrase "it can only get better" could very quickly turn into "it could always be worse," because it was.

The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca.

The pleasure we derive from journeys is perhaps dependent more on the mindset with which we travel than on the destination we travel to.

Then I’d go home, return to a pattern of worry, unable to tap the surrender core to travel’s inspiration. What was different?

There's a mathematics to nesting, I'm sure, that explains how length of stay + space available = accumulating way too much stuff.

At the root of Japanese manufacturing lies a feminine delicacy and shyness as well as a childlike curiosity and fantasy-filled worldview.

I’m about to cross a time zone, and I feel younger already. If I keep traveling west, maybe I can catch up to the love of my youth.