Destination: Honduras
World Travel Watch: Dengue in Nicaragua, Instability in Bosnia and More
by Larry Habegger | 10.23.09 | 12:11 PM ET
Larry Habegger rounds up global travel news
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Yahoo! BuzzThe Heat Seeker: ‘Between Unseemly and a Little Slutty’
by Alison Stein Wellner | 05.14.09 | 10:48 AM ET
Alison Stein Wellner likes her food hot and spicy. To find out how hot and spicy, she searched the world for heat. Part four of five: What happened in Honduras.
Video: Alison Stein Wellner: The Heat Seeker
by World Hum | 05.11.09 | 11:16 AM ET
Alison Stein Wellner traveled around the world to eat the hottest food she could handle, a quest she chronicled for World Hum
Given the Dire Economy, Should I Travel Overseas This Year?
by Rolf Potts | 04.20.09 | 10:12 AM ET
Vagabonding traveler Rolf Potts answers your questions about travel and the world
Should My Black Friend and I Worry About Race While Traveling Overseas?
by Rolf Potts | 03.30.09 | 10:14 AM ET
Vagabonding traveler Rolf Potts answers your questions about travel and the world
Exploring Eco-Tourism in the Original Banana Republic
by Jim Benning | 06.05.08 | 2:25 PM ET
Honduras, we learn in Elisabeth Eaves’s fourth Slate dispatch this week, is where short-story writer O. Henry had been exiled to in the 1890s when he coined the phrase “banana republic.” Her fine series of stories, beginning with Monday’s installment, looks at whether the country is benefiting from the rise of eco-tourism. Tomorrow’s piece, she tells us, will touch on Mel Gibson and the ancient Mayans. Eaves reviewed “The Darjeeling Limited” for us last fall.
Photo by Lauri Vain via Flickr, (Creative Commons).
Soccer, Football or the Beautiful Game (Call it Whatever You Want): Three Great Books
by Jim Benning | 06.12.06 | 1:17 PM ET
Beyond being the world’s most popular sport, soccer—or football, as it’s called in most of the English-speaking world—reverberates well beyond the fields and stadiums where it’s played. The sport often reflects centuries-old ethnic, nationalist and religious tensions. It’s a global business. Its fans are wildly—and sometimes violently—passionate about their teams. In short, soccer is far more than just another game. While some writers have explored the subject as part of larger works—Ryszard Kapuscinski’s The Soccer War features (despite what its title might suggest) one compelling chapter on the soccer-inspired war between El Salvador and Honduras, for example, and Paul Theroux’s “The Old Patagonian Express” includes a terrific passage about a soccer-related riot in San Salvador—other writers have devoted entire books to soccer and the culture that surrounds it. Herewith, just in time for World Cup 2006 in Germany, three great books:
Henry Rollins Hits the Road—With the U.S.O.
by Michael Yessis | 11.16.05 | 5:08 AM ET
How did anti-war punk-rock legend Henry Rollins end up on tour with the U.S.O., supporting United States military troops in hot spots around the world like a latter-day Betty Grable? “[T]here are reasons beyond sheer love of country that influence a performer’s decision to tour with the U.S.O.,” Susan Dominus writes in Sunday’s New York Times Magazine. “For Rollins, the travel provides creative fodder, but it also gives him access to places he wouldn’t ordinarily visit, among them Iraq, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan, Qatar and Honduras.”
Enrique’s Journey
by Michael Yessis | 09.30.03 | 11:56 AM ET
The Los Angeles Times debuted a massive six-part series Sunday about Enrique, a teenager from Honduras who traveled to the United States alone in search of his mother. The series continues today, Wednesday and Friday. The Times goes all out for this story, highlighting it on the front page yesterday and today, and presenting it on the Web with maps, charts, footnotes, photos and a video interview with writer Sonia Nazario. After two installments, it looks like Pulitzer material.
“His mother steps off the porch,” Nazario writes in part one. “She walks away. ‘¿Dónde está mi mami?’ Enrique cries, over and over. ‘Where is my mom?’ His mother never returns, and that decides Enrique’s fate. As a teenager—indeed, still a child—he will set out for the U.S. on his own to search for her. Virtually unnoticed, he will become one of an estimated 48,000 children who enter the United States from Central America and Mexico each year, illegally and without either of their parents.”
A Room with a Shark View?
by Jim Benning | 11.14.02 | 11:24 PM ET
Travelers may be asking for just such a room soon if 28-year-old hotel visionary Karl Stanley has his way.
Stanley is planning to build an underwater hotel that drops a whopping 1,000 feet below sea level and features, among other amenities, a bubbling hot tub. “I think that would be the ultimate luxury,” he tells National Geographic Adventure. “You’re hanging out in the Jacuzzi looking out a four-foot window at 800 feet, seeing sharks.”
Given Stanley’s track record, it could happen. He started building his first submarine at the age of 15. Not only did it work, but it now takes tourists down more than 700 feet off the Honduras coast. Stanley’s hotel would be a quantum leap from Key Largo’s underwater hotel. It drops just 30 feet.
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