What a treasure of awesome sights and attractions our country has.

At its best, travel should challenge our preconceptions and most cherished views, cause us to rethink our assumptions, shake us a bit, make us broader minded and more understanding.

Nicaragua is becoming the least expensive Caribbean destination.

Tourism does not go to a city that has lost its soul.

Luckily you cannot get to the Golden Triangle in a bus. You can only access it on your own two feet!

Dubai,I think is a big bore - a city deliberately built to appeal to tourism, and only built for that purpose, and not possessing a valid culture or history of its own.

Once abroad, I eat one meal a day picnic-style: Ive learned that no mature stomach can tolerate an endless routine of rich restaurant meals.

I've always found that the best travelers are the very same people who are intensely interested in the history and culture of their own home city.

In general, my advice is to seek out people and new ideas when you travel.

I always feel depressed when I go into a country under dictatorial rule.

If I tell a hotel I'm a travel writer, I can't get out of there without spending a few hours looking at every single room!

I take quite a lot of pride in not knowing what´s cool.

The house, the stars, the desert -- what gives them their beauty is something that is invisible!

All that tends not to charity is figurative. The sole aim of the Scripture is charity.

... everything I do, I choose very, very carefully, because if I don't like it, I can't make you like it.

I like these calm little moments before the storm, it reminds me of Beethoven

Jesus has never slept for an hour while one of His disciples watched and prayed in agony.

Poetry cannot block a bullet or still a sjambok, but it can bear witness to brutality-thereby cultivating a flower in a graveyard.

The major organizing centers, like the labor movement, have been severely weakened in the United States by policy.

Being on the ballot is a lot different than getting in.

When you don't have people in your life pushing you, can you push yourself?