In this video chef William Lafontaine, executive chef at Sasi Thai, shows me how to cook his specialty dish, Green Tea Smoked Salmon. Sasi Thai is located at the CasaMagna Marriott, Cancun, Mexico, a hotel Marriott graciously put me up in so that I could make this video. In an [...]

The air is cold and clear at night. Small, white puffs of smoke float drearily away from my lips, relenting to the frigid temperature. As I stare up at the brightly dotted night sky, I see something that grips my senses: The moon rising over a mountain peak. The mountains [...]

What do you get when you take 20,000 people and give them each a bucket and an infinite supply of water? The Answer: A bloody epic water fight. And the annual Fiesta Del Agua y Jamon (festival of water and ham) in Lanjaron, Spain, is just that: A water-based battle of [...]

Travel is sexy. I know it. You know it. Hoff knows it. It’s time to find out why. Today, on July 10, 2012, The Expeditioner headquarters has marked the birth of “Travel is Sexy Day.” In addition to a day’s worth of sexy travel writing from our own sexy staffers, [...]

As if you needed another excuse to travel. A recent survey conducted by an Australian-based travel agency revealed that traveling may be the single most important attribute you should advertise on your sketchy online dating profile. Apparently traveling is one of the most attractive traits for single coeds. I mean [...]

“Tell me baby, where have you been?” “Oh, baby, I’ve been everywhere. From the temples of Tibet to the beaches of Barcelona. Do you like that?” “Oh yes! Tell me more. Please tell me more.” “After college I took a gap year — went all over Europe.” “Yes. Keep going!” [...]

Sometimes we get caught up planning out our next epic adventure to exotic lands and far-off cultures, driven, in part, by eating extraordinary cuisine, meeting those that call the corners of earth home and seeing sites one has only heard about. This idea of exploration reaches out its age-old fingers [...]

Forget artsy time-lapse travel videos of market vendors in Hanoi, sunsets over the Manhattan skyline or commuters crossing the street in Tokyo. A new bar has been set in the world of time-lapse videos, and it comes from Tomislav Safundžić of Croatia, who combined images taken from the International Space [...]

Captain and Clark (a.k.a. Chris Staudinger and Tawny Clark) head to Seattle in this video to show travelers the right way to order coffee in the unofficial coffee capital of the country. Do it correctly and you’ll maybe get an unironic grin. Do it wrongly and be prepared for mumbled [...]

Campsites vary from the most primitive of settings to truly exceptional sleeping quarters. Some may only have simple pit toilets (nose-pinching and breath-holding required), while others have full-on hot showers, laundromats and convenience stores with coveted goodies such as Clif Bars and miniature bottles of bourbon. While no summer road [...]