“I just don't see myself as a travel writer. I can't. I don't.”
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The genre has moved into this commercial aspect of itself, and ignored this extraordinarily rich literature that's filed everywhere else except under travel.
Christmas to a child is the first terrible proof that to travel hopefully is better than to arrive.
Too often travel, instead of broadening the mind, merely lengthens the conversation.
You had to make a camera look like it's traveling at 300 mph, but you couldn't make it actually travel at 300 mph so you had to slow everything down and build devices to do that. So you were constantly engineering.