About GoNOMAD.com and the GoNOMAD Cafe

Max Hartshorne outside GoNOMAD's offices in South Deerfield MA.

Max Hartshorne outside GoNOMAD's South Deerfield MA
offices.
GoNOMAD CAFE, S. Deerfield, MA.

Inside the GoNOMAD Cafe, an internet and coffee
haven in South Deerfield, MA, where travelers and
coffee lovers merge.

WHAT IS GoNOMAD.com?

GoNOMAD .com is not a travel agency - we don't sell tours, book flights, or reserve hotel rooms. Instead, we publish great travel writing and own a fantastically cozy community cafe that brings the best people in the area together over coffee, good food and conversation.

GoNOMAD.com is a comprehensive resource center, designed to provide independent and alternative travelers with all the information and inspiration they need to plan their travels in the U.S. and abroad. We'll point you in the right direction for any trip you want to take.

GoNOMAD is well known among tourism boards, travel writers, anyone who is well-versed in travel and wants to get the skinny on the unexplored, the unseen and the unwritten about.

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GoNOMAD.com features:

* Original, unusual and inspiring travel articles written by top
travel writers

FROM ONE OF OUR WRITERS

When I saw GoNomad for the first time, I immediately understood why it was so popular. Max and his cousin Steve Hartshorne both have a tremendous eye for true talent--the writing and photography in GoNomad are above-par. Like WorldHum.com is now, and the Salon.Com travel site that once was, GoNomad offers intellectually stimulating and enormously satisfying writing.

Each time one of my stories is posted on GoNomad, I am honored. His is not just another run-of-the-mill travel Web site, and Max Hartshorne is not just another everyday editor. He is a true traveler by nature, a fine editor of a fabulous site and a kind person with whom I'm honored to work.

* Detailed guides to off-the-beaten-path destinations and favorites from a new perspective

* A gathering place in South Deerfield, Massachusetts called GoNOMAD CAFE where you can check email, enjoy coffee, attend computer classes and talk about travel with fellow devotees.

* A robust, searchable database of thousands of tours and unique trips to exotic destinations around the world and around the U.S.

*A specialized marketplace for travel books, music, films, goods and gear

*A commitment to sustainable and responsible travel

*A link to sites where you can purchase air tickets, visas, passports, travel insurance, rental cars, airport parking, hotels, and hostel rooms in one place.

*A place where you can ask questions about travel and get answers from pros.

WHAT IS ALTERNATIVE TRAVEL , ANYWAY?

At GoNOMAD, we define Alternative Travel as "Participatory Travel." Beyond passive sightseeing, Alternative Travel engages travelers with the people, culture and environment of a destination. It is travel that teaches, travel that challenges, travel that enlightens and rewards.

Whether through taking a weaving course in Guatemala, volunteering in Nepal, joining an active, educational tour through Europe, or staying with a local family in Africa, alternative travel brings travelers into close contact with communities and destinations, and returns them home changed by their experience: enlightened, challenged, rewarded.

A vital aspect of Alternative Travel is an emphasis on sustainable and responsible tourism. Alternative travelers are concerned about the environments and cultures of the destinations they visit, and want to help preserve and conserve those resources for the resident communities and future travelers. Thus, Alternative Travel is also participatory in this regard: helping to maintain and sustain communities and people around the globe through awareness and support.

WANT TO LEARN MORE ABOUT GoNOMAD AND ALTERNATIVE TRAVEL?

Send us an email and we’ll be happy to send you more information.

Read the GoNOMAD Editor's Blog, Readuponit, for an inside look at us.

Read about our story, about how we got to be one of the largest travel websites.

Read Our GoNOMAD Writer Profiles:

Kent St. John

David Rich

Max Hartshorne

Paul Shoul

Sony Stark

Tim Leffel

Cindy-Lou Dale

Kelly Westhoff

Mridula Dwivedi

Lucy Corne

Rick Millikan

Habeeb Salloum