A rule about portages: the longer and harder they are, the fewer people will make them.
I don't have a visa for the U.S., and I don't want to apply for one. And I don't want to fly for that long.
When I retired, I really wanted to spend time with my family and kids. Coaching would have prevented that due to the commitment of the job and travel that goes with it, too.
The journey is difficult, immense. We will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in one lifetime see all that we would like to see or to learn all that we hunger to know.
I'm not going around touring the U.S. when I've got nowhere to live.
I live in New York and I was only there for 2 weeks all last year.
I delight in my family obligations, but they leave little time for breaks let alone quick trips across the country.
There's a bunch of places in the world I haven't been to, 'cause I can only be on a plane for a little bit. I'm like, 'How long is it to get there? Two days on a plane? What? No.'
I can go to foreign countries, but following the advice of the doctors to stay away from dust, I am unable to visit Vidisha, as mostly it comprises of rural areas only.
I visited 20 countries while I was pregnant. I had to stop after my seventh month.
Planet colonization is not a short term concern of mine. The physical limitations of space travel render it low on the list for me.
I've been offered TV things over the years, but usually, that's about that I don't want to be away from home for that long, because it's a long time to be away your home country and my family.
She [Venison] had never travelled and so could invent all kinds of strange places without being limited, as travelled people are, by knowledge of certain places only.
I am too conservative to use another studio than the one I am used to, so I "had" to travel all the way from France to Norway every time I wanted to record an album. That was about 3,500 km each way in a Lada Niva with a cruising speed of 90 kph.
