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In travel, as in many other experiences in life, once is usually enough.

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The worst thing that can happen to you in travel is having a gun pointed at you by a very young person. That's happened to me maybe four times in my l...more

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I grew up in an era of thinking of travel as escape. The idea that you could conceivably have a new life, go somewhere, fall in love, have little chil...more

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What draws me in is that a trip is a leap in the dark. It's like a metaphor for life. You set off from home, and in the classic travel book, you go to...more

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I have spent my life on the road waking in a pleasant, or not so pleasant hotel, and setting off every morning after breakfast hoping to discover some...more

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I have always felt that the truth is prophetic, and that if you describe precisely what you see and give it life with your imagination, then what you ...more

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Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't kn...more