Poverty, Privilege, and Positivity: The 3 Things My Travels Have Taught Me We're pleased to have travel blogger and photographer Erick Prince from minoritynomad.com join us once again this Black History Month to share his views as an African-American traveler. I grew up during the...
Back to Africa: Why This Family Left Los Angeles for Ghana The dust kicked up in the market place fills her nostrils, and the beads of sweat come trickling down her forehead. The market is loud, hot, and bustling, but Myra Parks is enjoying taking it all in. Vendors...
On the Road: A Quick Chat with Hip-Hop Violinist Damien Escobar If you already thought Damien Escobar was unbelievable, you might want to sit down as you learn more about the multi-talented hip-hop violinist. You already know the basics: 13-year old Juilliard graduate,...
How the Bucket List Family Travels the World You’ve probably seen them before. The Bucket List Family has been profiled by People, Today, and most recently on the homepage of Yahoo. This family of four -- parents Garrett and Jessica Gee, and kids...
Why I’m Proud to Call Myself a Tourist "And this," my tour guide says with a sense of reserved passion, "Is where the Berlin Wall once stood." His tone is somber, but there is unmistakably a sort of electric zeal in his words that he cannot hold...
Do I Even Want to Go Off the Beaten Path? When I first stepped off of the ferry that took me from Athens to Tinos -- a smaller, cheaper alternative to Mykonos -- I didn't realize that I had gone off the beaten path. After all, I was on a route that...
Why I Lived With a Strange Family in Italy to Learn a Language (and You Should Too) I found myself alone in Florence, suitcase in hand, on one of the most fashionable streets in the city: Via della Vigna Nuova. I was 20. The white taxi had already sped off and I was gazing at two intimidating...
All the Ways to Watch Your Manners in the Japanese Countryside Though most of Japan follows a certain mannerism in the way they greet, dress, eat and live, the touristy areas are more forgiving of westerners “trying” to assimilate in the culture. Once you get to the...
The Wait Is Over: Check Out the Winners of Our Travel Horror Story Competition! We asked, you delivered. Though we received a TON (we mean a TON) of amazingly horrifying travel horror stories, we managed to somehow narrow it down to the top three. Sure, there were some staff...
Been There, Done That: I Partied & Survived The Yacht Week in Croatia “Just jump!” My friends repeatedly called out as I sat on the back of a yacht in the middle of the Adriatic Sea off the coast of Croatia. I was mentally preparing to make the leap. We were anchored with...
Darek & Ilona Take the World: Drinking & Singing at Munich’s Oktoberfest On Monday, October 3rd, we saw the end of the amazing Munich-based beer festival, Oktoberfest. A two-week extravaganza, the festival is an all-out celebration of all things beer: the grounds are stuffed to the...
From Behind the Iron Curtain to the Top of Choquequirao: How One Woman Made Her Travel Dreams Come True When I was four years old, I got a coconut as a gift from my father. It was so different from the fruits I had known. In communist Poland, where I grew up, it was impossible to buy any tropical fruit. There...
Don’t Take My Word For It: Hikes, Hits and Highways “Wherever yer goin’, I’ll take yeh there.” The grizzled man leans over two empty seats in his battered white Chevy truck so that we can hear him over the roar of the Oregon highway. It’s Memorial Day...
Reading This Post Will Inspire You to Go to Burning Man This weekend, the annual gathering known as Burning Man kicks off in the Nevada desert. Famous for its dedication to self-expression and self-reliance, the weeklong event grows in popularity and infamy every...
