It's just really hard work. I mean, there are other parts of putting together books that are relatively easy compared with that. It's much easier for me to describe something that's ugly. Even your wife is not interested in this. You have to somehow make it so that they become interested in it.
Every travel writer does it in different ways.
And I suppose my trick is to try and make them laugh so that they feel that there is going to be some reward in terms of amusement. Some writers are tempted to fictionalize their writing when it suits their purposes. I'm focusing much more on the writing and on trying to re-create the experience mostly from memory. And it's just a completely different kind of book. I'm sure that in doing that, I make mistakes.