Why You Should Travel When You’re Over Fifty: the benefits of travel at a mature age versus when you’re young and how hostels can help
Helena Wahlstrom reviews a new book by Ted Conover, The Routes of Man: How Roads Are Changing the World, and the Way We Live Today.
Solo traveling can be lonely at times, and the author shares tips for overcoming those bouts.
Peru mysticism: A journeys to the jungle of Peru to search for ayahuasca, or yagé, a powerful hallucinogen known to local peoples as ‘the vine of the soul.’
Philip Smith writes about a bummer of a beautiful place, Thailand’s Phi Phi Islands, which he says have been ruined by too many rowdy tourists.
To overcome his lifelong fear of monkeys, Ashutosh Ratnam takes a sack full of rotting bananas to the Galtaji Temple in Jaipur and hosts a feast for the monkeys there.
Greg Roensch spends two weeks in Rome in the ‘cramped and cobbled’ neighborhood of Trastevere, writing about the sounds of daily life there.
Jordan: Lessons From the Other Holy Land By Janis Turk But tell a real traveler, and he’ll say, “I’m jealous.” Just before dawn, the dark streets of Amman feel more cool than dusty, like the way clay feels cold in […]
Even in Thailand, an American can enjoy July fourth festivities, complete with American foods and fireworks!
Living in Jordan as a woman: Sophia Jones shares a box of chocolates with a Jordanian woman on a park Bench in Amman, and reflects on the lives of women in the Middle East.
Jean Miller Spoljaric attends bullfighting in Valencia Spain and is so horrified she cheers for the bull, hating seeing an animal die of stab wounds.
A quiet Sunday night in Antigua, Guatemala. Dinner at his favorite cafe, El Viejo, music of Ignacio Elejalde at a nightclub called Santo Pecado, ‘Holy Sin.’
Janis Turk writes about Morocco, a country which, she says, ‘opened to me like a jack-in-the-box, popping up with surprises at every turn.’
