I used to work as a tour guide for Americans. I'm convinced that even after four weeks on the road they had no idea where they had been. They were in a bubble.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Well, this week for example, I was just in Los Angeles making a documentary for German television on whales. They had tried to get me in England where they missed me.
Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.
I have a lot of stories to tell because I've been down a lot of roads people haven't been.
I'm not lost, they just moved my street.
Most Americans probably aren't aware that there was a time in this country when tanks and cavalry were massed on Pennsylvania Avenue to chase away the unemployed.
I do talk to individuals still in the business of tracking individuals in the homeland and abroad. A lot of them have felt that they were hanging on by their fingernails a bit in terms of tracking all the potential threats out there.
I had been on the road for a long time and was not really getting anywhere. Bob Johnston, a friend of mine, had taken over Columbia in Nashville. He asked me if I wanted to come down. I did - thank God I did.
People get really caught up in their own trips.
For years I drove cross-country, back and forth a dozen times, sometimes on book tour, sometimes just to get lost and found.
I doubt anyone else would have travelled as extensively as I have to meet the citizens of the country.