We’re like that anyway. You should hear our dinner conversations. It’s a laugh riot.

You become a better writer by writing. You become a better travel writer by writing about travel.

I’m not particularly good at these outdoor sports,

Elk were mating now – The males were fighting, and they had to chase the females, which depleted the fat that both sexes had accumulated over the summer and thereby diminished their chances of surviving...

They don’t really have a long attention span. It’s whatever happens across their eyesight is what they suddenly become interested in. So we tried to cash in on that. These are basically wild animals. They...

Mystery is a resource, like coal or gold, and its preservation is a fine thing

a narrative story — one with a beginning, a middle and an end. I used to take miles and miles and hundreds and hundreds of pages of notes, and I still do. But now, about...

A lot of us first aspired to far-ranging travel and exotic adventure early in our teens; these ambitions are, in fact, adolescent in nature, which I find an inspiring idea…Thus, when we allow ourselves to...

We are really, really excited and happy that he signed on for this. It was a dream.

The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke – Glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run

I consider myself a writer,

A journey is best measured in friends rather than miles.

As soon as we thought it would really be funny to have a fish for a gym coach, it popped in our heads, she’s gotta have a really gruff voice because she’s a gym coach....

Men who share misery together are forever brothers

You have to first be a writer and somebody who loves to write. If I couldn’t travel, I would still write.

We think this was a move to gauge management and shareholder reaction and flush out other potential bidders.

A word of advice: a person’s journal is the raw material. A story is made from these events. Use the journal to craft the story.

They all looked at me because they knew it wasn’t very good, … It’s terrible. The first words out of my mouth were a lie.

We’ve got no one to fear, why should we fear anyone,

We’re talking about this all the time. We take it home with us and we bring it back to work. On the bright side, we get to carpool. She works exactly where I do, and...

I am living out my adolescent dream of travel and adventure.

It’s such a beautiful, unique stadium because it’s a war memorial and it’s an historic building, … I know the buildings there. We’re not going to mess it up. Not on my watch.

We decided the suburban life wasn’t for us. So we moved out here.

My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that,

I wanted to be a writer from my early teenage years, but I never told anyone. Writers, in my opinion, were god-like creatures, and to say I was striving to be a writer would be...

For many years I thought my job was to go to places where it would be difficult for most of the readers to ever get to,

It’s good to have a bit of confidence back and we’re really pleased to get a result today.

[The format they decided on was that of a literate outdoor publication.] You can imagine the scorn and ridicule, … At the time, it was supposed that people who went outdoors were not literate. They...

In my house, it is always a scramble from paycheck to paycheck.

For me, to find a place that doesn’t have an organized tour going to it is becoming more and more difficult. A lot of times it involves danger of a political nature — places where...

[(CNN) –] I think I have the best job in American journalism, … I love what I do.

If we’re going diving with sharks, I count all his arms and legs, and if he’s been doing it for 20 years, I figure he knows what he’s doing. I tell him, ‘Look, you’re going...

Publishing your work is important. Even if you are giving a piece to some smaller publication for free, you will learn something about your writing. The editor will say something, friends will mention it. You...

It’s the best place on earth. The mountains. The river. The everyday scenery is great. I like to see the seasons change. I like to see the eagles coming in. It’s beautiful.

The key to the stadium design is it can’t just be about suite and club patrons, … It needs to be about every fan. Every fan’s experience will be better than it is now.

I am just delighted to have finally got off the mark for the season, but as long as we win it doesn’t matter who scores the goals. What we now have to do is to...

The travel is difficult on your relationships with loved ones, unless they are coming along with you, which may not be possible.

A lot of times these destinations are obscure,

This appeal hearing marks a small but important benchmark by which Brazil’s criminal justice system will be measured in its determination to ensure equal and universal access to justice and in its desire to promote...

Our aim is to get into the top six. It’s very realistic now and as long as we take it game at a time we can do it.

The way one approaches a wilderness story is to fashion a quest – find something that you are truly interested in finding or discovering.

There’s a story everywhere. Being bored to death someplace is basically a funny proposition, … What you have to watch out for is you don’t write a boring story about a boring place.

We’ve been so far along on this, to finally see it on the air, it’s going to be an interesting experience.