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I think sometimes we rush through countries, ticking off the attractions, but that's missing the point.

It's all about fair trade, and helping people eating locally grown stuff. We're recycling everything. We're trying to tour in the most conscious way possible, environmentally and socially.

People get really caught up in their own trips.

I like to tour, but I prefer to tour in the United States. If I go overseas, I tend to get into trouble.

I always spend time exploring the customs and attitudes of the countries I'm using for locations, and interviewing the people who live there. I've visited over 90 countries thus far.

I've been all over the world on my own because, as a scientist, you travel a great deal if your work is reasonably successful or published. I get invitations to go to all sorts of strange countries where I would mostly be by myself and just meet other people there, instead of having travelling companions.

I've always enjoyed traveling and having experience with different cultures and different people. But it's also a wonderful thing to be able to benefit and enable research, not only in our country but around the world.

I travel all over the country speaking to young people, and I am always amazed at how engaged in environmental conservation they are.

People will travel anywhere for good food - it's crazy.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.