But often it is the encounters on the train that are the highlights of a trip.
Dubbed "Operation Close Encounters, " it was done slowly and carefully, with some interviews lasting an hour.
And, like Blondy and me at the movies, many weeks could pass between encounters.
He has lost all three previous encounters with Federer, two of them on clay.
Mr Blair will today be steering a very wide berth around any computers he encounters.
Weaver stressed that such encounters with police were not uncommon for international and Chinese journalists alike.
This was the first Group A match played there after other encounters took place in Accra.
Roddick, who improved his record to 40-9 this season, has won their last two encounters.
The messenger tries to leave but encounters insurmountable obstacles as he attempts to head away.
Debbie wrote about her first encounters with this man on Tuesday, October 31, 2006.
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However, my stories about my encounters with Nelson Mandela are the stuff of comedy clubs.
From Changsha in Hunan province, one of China's most productive TV markets, comes True Encounters.
Simon enjoys the freedom and inspiration that comes from unplanned encounters with his subjects.
But even those horrors, he says, barely match his encounters with the victims of modern-day slavery.
Internet usage in China soared after SARS, which boosted the appeal of virtual encounters and e-commerce.
He encounters a Karelian witch, a Siberian shaman and wild horses in the Altai mountains.
New ideas spring up through chance encounters in the cafeteria line and impromptu office meetings.
"We've had some encounters of various sorts with" the group, Brooks said at a news briefing.
In India, Dewey encounters the Beatles dropping acid and sitting in lotus position with the Maharishi.
Instead, she approaches such encounters as an opportunity to get things done by finding common ground.
Intriguing vignettes of these encounters are threaded through the book, whetting the appetite for more.
There were no incidents that afternoon in mid-April, though there have been close encounters, according to company security logs.
But there was one wrinkle: too many couples having loud romantic encounters down the hall.
And the public appetite for new encounters, though it has dwindled, has not fallen to zero.
When she first encounters her patients, many feel that they have simply been abandoned by their doctors.
In an incredibly cool scene, the Doctor then encounters Kislet, or rather, the people she is controlling.
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The encounters become as much a showcase of different acting styles as a review of radical history.
Further trips to Morocco led to more chermoula encounters and then more chermoula testings in my kitchen.
With head-up displays, such as Google Glass, physicians can simplify what they review during patient encounters.
While day-to-day encounters with strangers brought the same hurtful stares and comments, Loker was used to it.
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