 He purchased a recreational vehicle and traveled through 48 states in 10 months, which he chronicled and published as "States of Mind".In 1997 Herzog moved to the Monterey Peninsula, where as of 2011 he lives with his family.Herzog's topics range from civil rights to sports car racing and from Pez to Zen, contributing to magazines such as Sports Illustrated, Writer’s Digest, VIA magazine, and Carmel magazine.