My recent travels have been exclusively cell-phone free, which has had both its advantages and drawbacks. It’s a strangely comforting feeling to revert back to those pre-mobile days where you truly can become detached from the rest of the world (minus your daily blog postings of course), and where meetings [...]

The newest video from John and Cara — who’ve been traveling the world on an epic two-year honeymoon (see all their vids from the trip so far here) — finds them in Kho Pi Pi, one of Thailand’s most famous islands (see The Beach and The Man with the Golden [...]

Probably not, but you can make a valiant effort and try, so long as that nasty sunburn doesn’t totally incapacitate you, you survive that skull-crushing fall from the Class IV rapids, and you don’t react too badly from that orange-kneed tarantula bite (actually the venom is unlikely to kill you [...]

CNN’s reporting how travel blogging is changing the world of travel. Such examples include JetBlue’s reluctant policy change to allow folded bikes on their planes (at no charge!), hotel management’s eagerness to quash bad publicity by bribing bloggers with free hotel rooms, and the clarification of WestJet’s breastfeeding policy (allowed!). [...]

Still recovering from that bender known as Katrina, a road trip to the Big Easy reveals how New Orleans isn’t letting a little hangover prevent it from enjoying life, just like it always has. By Ted Hesson We decided to take a road trip for several reasons: moving, freelance work, [...]

The Independent has a list of their top 50 travel websites, which, annoyingly enough, is readable only one click at a time (can you say “ad sales”?). So if you have about an hour to spare today (come on it’s Friday, of course you do), stretch out your right hand, [...]

I think Rolf Potts said it best: During this time, fresh off your travel-high, you will have trouble settling in and reintegrating into a normal, home-based routine. Nothing will feel as fresh or exotic as it did during your travels, your old friends won’t relate to your amazing overseas experiences, [...]

Looking for the real Cambodia? Look no further than Tonle Sap. Located directly in the center of the country, Tonle Sap is, quite literally, the lifeblood of Cambodia, helping to supply the country with their massive intake of fish (which accounts for 70% of a typical Cambodian’s diet). Incredibly, this [...]

Live Music At The Place Of Miami I dedicate this post to my Spanish teacher who, as we speak, is in Miami for Spring Break, lounging on South Beach, sipping sweet cocktails and thinking of new and creative ways to impart her knowledge of subjunctive verb conjugations on to her [...]

The United Nations released their prediction this week that tourism is expected to drop 2% this year (minimum) with many insiders predicting that number to go as high as 5%. This all comes from the World Tourism Organization (is there anything those sprites over at the UN don’t do?), which [...]