Andrew McCarthy is having a big year.

Somewhere between picking up top honors from the Society of American Travel Writers for “The Cycle of Life” and publishing the acclaimed memoir The Longest Way Home, the Traveler magazine contributing editor found time to write the foreword for National Geographic’s new coffee-table-worthy book, World’s Best Travel Experiences.

We thought we’d take the opportunity to let our readers ask him about his own time spent on the road. This is what he had to say.