It was an experience that began with a few simple words: "I am going around the world on a motorcycle."

VOA: special.2009.01.14

"They didn't do a lot with really smart girls in literature when I was young.

VOA: special.2009.08.24

"I've always loved working with the robots. And when I first started it was a challenge working with the robots, understanding how they worked and figuring them out.

VOA: special.2010.07.28

Now I know where I'm at. I'm dealing with a couple of snakes. What I meant to say was that there is too much football and not enough education."

VOA: special.2009.07.19

And this one, I was skiing out in Salt Lake City and the name of a building out there was Reid with R-E-I-D and it sounded good at the time."

VOA: special.2009.07.06

It was enough to be in the presence of this great anchor I so admired, and to realize he was not above having a beer at the end of a very long broadcast with low-level support people.

VOA: special.2009.08.16

"We'll go into a restaurant for instance and previously it was, 'Where can I sit with my back to a wall?

VOA: standard.2010.05.18

"There were a lot of animals when I was with the Khmer Rouge and less afterwards."

VOA: standard.2010.02.22

I paddled a surfboard into this inlet that was pink red with blood from these large dolphins, these pilot whales that were being piked.

VOA: standard.2010.08.04

"My uncle - the best person, like,he used to go with me to boxing fights because I was a boxer and he used train me."

VOA: standard.2009.10.17

"Just feeling there was somebody who I could unite with, It could be just having breakfast together or just walking together for a few blocks.

VOA: standard.2010.02.13

That I love to work with kids. I work with kids 365 days a year. The paycheck -yes, I was concerned about how to support my family.

VOA: standard.2010.08.11

I had a destiny. I was supposedto die in the field with honor!

VOA: standard.other

"I think I learned the skill of really staying focused and staying with a project, because at the beginning our business was not very popular, we were not selling very much, but I learned to stick with it and to not give up,"

VOA: standard.2009.12.04