La générosité est un geste sans limites que l’ me du monde ressent à chaque instant.La Confession de Massoud

No camera, no recording device, no laptop, none of this palm pilot nonsense or a cell phone. Paper and pencil, a book, maybe a bilingual dictionary. Anything beyond that (a) can be stolen, and (b)...

As the silence returned, I sat back and felt the tension ease away; I hadn’t even known I was tense. A few moments passed and once again the cycling fan laced in with the clanging...

In the aftermath of the attacks on the United States – that included chaotic overall of airline security – and the exploding tensions in Nepal, friends thought it ill-advised for me to board a flight...

You’d be surprised who will back down when you speak up.

We—all of us—want to feel special. We want to feel the glory that shines on us when we reach beyond our boundaries to grab at something greater, to live a heroic life, if only for...

May you find a new path in your travel.

He regarded himself as an accomplished writer — a clear sign of madness in anyone.

the village of happiness,” and it really deserves the name. I shall never cease thinking of this place with yearning, and if I can choose where to pass the evening of my life, it will...

At chaos’ core lies the invitation.

Practice trust in small matters for huge returns in the large ones.

Foolish acts and bold adventures almost always appear, especially in the beginning, to be the absolute same thing.

I know I am planning to visit a “land” that is not entirely foreign, only foreign to me. As an adventurer, I am on a journey that I believe will last me my whole life....

As a writer you must keep a tight rein on your subjective self—the traveler touched by new sights and sounds and smells—and keep an objective eye on the reader.

. . . it’s part of the adventure!

What would happen if, once back home, I stayed open to possibilities rather than attach to specific outcomes? What if I dreaded no potential storms? Ruminated over no past transgression? I knew how. For decades...

From the depths of your well, tap your will.

One need not be a rabid Anglican to be extremely sensible to the charm of an English country church…

I have travel to the places I have been because, I had a vivid imagination of the places.

Un secret est d’autant plus lourd à porter qu’il engage votre amour.

My professional life had started and here I was at a professional dinner full of uninhibited drinking.

Because travel was an area of my life where I felt most vital, I wanted to continue to invest in that, too. I had quit a full time job, drained my retirement account to invest...

Give full attention to life’s moments and the images you capture will be everlasting.

a Nepali outlook, pace and philosophy had prevented us being swamped by our problems. In Nepal it was easier to take life day by day.

When you focus on your travel path, you will observe a divine power, guiding every step of the journey.

A slow feeling of gathering sadness as each familiar place flashes by the window and disappears and becomes part of the past. Time is made visible, and it moves as the landscape moves.

Sentivo il sapere della vita d’ogni giorno, che non va da nessuna parte, e sta sospesa come una nuvola sopra un burrone. Per questo i viaggi ti ubriacano subito, si diventa assuefatti all’eccitazione degli spostamenti,...

Go for it. It will make a great story.

Nothing is lost in a stumble, only in the refusal to get up.

Ask for the godly way,travel its path.

Alone, I relished the bird songs, the drone of hushed conversation from neighboring tables, and the gentle lapping of waves sliding on the shore. I didn’t feel the passage of time. There was no destination...

Foras Road has a sordid reputation (…) Old crones sat in doorways, while their daughters were pushed out to earn money. It is intriguing that a society which is very covert with sexuality should be...

The air was cool and soft. The desert looked empty from our great height, enough to believe the geographers and travel writers who tell of the terrible desert life, the stillness, harshness, and death. I...

Once back home I would adjust my lens to the resolution through which I perceived the people and provinces of the globe. My daily commute, the supermarket check out line, neighborhood walks, pedestrian tasks of...

New insights from being present are a gift.

Before me and beside me sat a row of the comeliest young men, clad in black gowns and wearing on their shoulders long hoods trimmed in white fur. Who and what they were I know...

When you focus on the journey, you will be blessed with guardian angels to direct your path.

Il nous faut remplacer les mourants, et les mourants savent qu’ils ne valent que pour ce qu’ils ont transmis.

Somehow, we were passing the boundaries of language and finding clarity in shared thought, even if we were just talking about beer!

Putting the dream in motion involved significant personal downsizing, moving three times to trim housing expenses and continuing to freelance. I sold one piece to The New York Times Magazine, many more to The Courant,...

Till your inner garden and your outer landscape will flourish

Living on the edge – that’s what I feel like when I don’t know what my bowels are going to do next.

History presents a record of follies and errors fondly cherished, and reluctantly abandoned.

There is always some truth to fiction.

All night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us...

Diving in IS testing the water.

The alchemy of diamonds from the rough is to mine every moment.

May find the right road to travel on.

When we get these thruways across the whole country, as we will and must, it will be possible to drive from New York to California without seeing a single thing.

Back at the guest house I tried to acclimatise. A travel-worn adventurer had once told me that leaning with one’s head dangling over the end of a bed was the best way to achieve this....