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It's to the best of our knowledge. I'm Anne Strange Champs. Today it's traveling time.

We're in the thick of winter now, so maybe you're busy making adventurous, cold weather getaway plans, or maybe you're just dreaming of them.

Travel writer Tony Perrata has spent his career traveling all over the globe, but he always chose exotic places like Tierra del Fuego

or the Amazon over plain old Paris or Rome, until he discovered the oldest surviving

guidebook at the New York Public Library, and that launched him on his most exotic journey yet

in the footsteps of the ancients. He told Steve Paulson that nothing has much changed since the Romans invented tourism.

Literature has a litany of complaints about in ancient times, about their rock-hard mattresses

and their lanky roofs and the staff who are sullen and surly and the innkeepers who are

demented and all these places you could also

get food as well.

There were little restaurants in all these inns and much like today people would complain

about the food.

There were always rumors of human flesh turning up in the stews and knuckle bones and things

like that.

And in fact, the people who stayed in these inns as well, there was Plutarch is always

complaining about the company that you would find yourself stuck with at night.

And he actually advises that you hum to yourself in the dining room to drown out the drivel of the other travelers.

So once you actually started to read about all of this stuff, you did something rather unusual.

You retraced the root of these ancient Roman

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