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One of the things the 'Tao of Travel' shows is how unforthcoming most travel writers are, how most travelers are. They don't tell you who they were tr...more

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I was raised in a large family. The first reason for my travel was to get away from my family. I knew that I wanted to be a writer, but I didn't want ...more

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The travel impulse is mental and physical curiosity. It's a passion. And I can't understand people who don't want to travel.

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The two impulses in travel are to get away from home, and the other is to pursue something - a landscape, people, an exotic place. Certainly finding a...more

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Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.

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The people of Hong Kong are criticized for only being interested in business, but it's the only thing they've been allowed to do.

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The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher Columbus notion of be...more