behind los angeles, a little like what is behind me now to visit my heroes since miss boyhood, leonard cohen, and i was really impressed and moved to find this man who had taste evidence assault the pleasure another the world and could be living anywhere in any high style he wanted, had chosen to become a zen monk and was living for five and a half years in this quite severe, foreign bidding monastery up close to the snow, doing really grueling manual work and literally sweeping up and cleaning things, day in and day out, and this is a man who is already a sell -- celebrity and that made a big imappreciation only me, and i remember while i was staying in the monastery with leonard cohen, he came down one night, 2:00 in the morning to my little cabin and she said this the really profound excitement of entertainment i've had in life, and this is a man who tasted sex and drugs and rock 'n' roll but he said this is the most sustaining thing i found, and i was in my mid-30s at that time itch didn't fully understand it. and i thought maybe he is just saying it because it sounds impressive but i fo

while i was staying in the monastery with leonard cohen, he came town one night to my little cabin, ande said this is the really profound exciting entertainment i've had in life. and this is a man who'd tasted sex and drugs and rock and roll and travel, every kind of adventure. but he said this is the most sustaining thing that i've found. and i didn't -- i was in my mid 30s at that time. i didn't fully understand it, and i said maybe he's just saying it because it sounds impressive. but as the years have gone on, i've found the same thing. i'm, by profession, a travel writer, so i've been to many exciting places. i'm always in places that sound wonderful, but i've never found a trip that's satisfied me in as deep a way as going nowhere. and i've also noted because i've been traveling for 40 years and have been writing about travel for 30 years i remember maybe when i was beginning in the 1980s i would talk about going to tibet and going to cuba, and my friends' eyes would lightening up. before the internet, we didn't each -- it was hard to know what they sounded like or felt like or so