Tag: Why We Travel
Video You Must See: A 25-Second Sunrise
by Eva Holland | 11.19.09 | 2:07 PM ET
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Yahoo! BuzzDon George: ‘Anticipation is one of Travel’s Great Gifts’
by Eva Holland | 11.11.09 | 1:22 PM ET
In the latest issue of Recce, Don George looks back at his first trip to Japan, and realizes—as he prepares to board another flight for Tokyo—that the pre-trip excitement still hasn’t waned, thirty-two years later.
Christoph Rehage on Foot Travel and His Beard
by Eva Holland | 10.28.09 | 2:31 PM ET
Brave New Traveler has an interview with the creator of “The Longest Way,” a viral travel video that’s been making the rounds—it landed in our What We Loved This Week awhile back.
Here’s the video one more time—it’s a classic.
Audio Story: Ukulele Diplomacy
by Pam Mandel | 10.23.09 | 10:36 AM ET
Photo by UJ Sommer Nothing makes Pam Mandel feel less like a lonely traveler than her four-stringed diplomatic tool
Video: Above the Clouds
by Eva Holland | 10.22.09 | 4:57 PM ET
Up in the Air director Jason Reitman just posted this short clip from cruising altitude. It’s lovely.
Interview With Nicholas Kristof: Traveling and Tweeting Under ‘Half the Sky’
by David Frey | 10.21.09 | 10:53 AM ET
Photo by Fred R. Conrad David Frey asks the author about his dream vacation, Twitter, travel to hellholes and the trip that changed his life
Video You Must See: Where Would You Want to Wake Up Tomorrow?
by Eva Holland | 10.20.09 | 9:56 AM ET
A film crew asks 50 people the same question on a Brooklyn street. (Via The Daily Dish)
The Mystery of the Kashiwa Mystery Cafe
by Michael Yessis | 10.16.09 | 12:43 PM ET
Cabel Maxfield Sasser calls his visit to the Ogori Cafe in Kashiwa, Japan, an unforgettable travel moment. I agree. Read to the end for the payoff. (Thanks for the tip, @sophiadembling)
‘The Making of a Flyover American’
by Michael Yessis | 10.15.09 | 4:09 PM ET
Feel a traveler’s love for the United States bloom through the excerpts of a 32-year-old letter World Hum contributor Sophia Dembling shares at Flyover America. She wrote it during her first cross-country drive when she was a teenager.
Partway through the drive, I started writing a letter to my brother documenting the trip. I wrote 14 pages, all the way through the final leg of the drive, San Francisco to L.A. Nick saved the letter and returned it to me a few years ago. As literature, it’s unimpressive. But as a record of the awakening of a provincial city girl, it’s kinda special.
Indeed.
Find Your Own Damn Zihuatanejo
by Peter Ferry | 10.14.09 | 11:08 AM ET
iStockPhoto Peter Ferry has been there, and he isn't going to help you find it
Alain de Botton: In Praise of Airline Food
by Eva Holland | 10.12.09 | 11:21 AM ET
In one of the dispatches resulting from his stint as Heathrow’s writer in residence, de Botton visits an airline food factory—and explains why he loves the much-maligned meals.
Naturally airline food is dismal when we compare it to what we’d get on the ground but this is to miss the point. The thrill of airline food lies in the interaction between the meal and the odd place in which one is eating it. Food that, if eaten in a kitchen, would have been banal or offensive, acquires a new taste in the presence of the clouds. With the in-flight tray, we make ourselves at home in an unhomely place: we appropriate the extraterrestrial skyscape with the help of a chilled bread roll and a plastic tray of potato salad.
Chinatowns: A Reminder ‘You Don’t Have to go Far From Home to Really Take Off in America’
by Michael Yessis | 10.08.09 | 3:00 PM ET
After her interview with “American Chinatown” author Bonnie Tsui for World Hum, Jenna Schnuer reflects on the Chinatowns in her life and how they’ve shaped her. She writes: “[U]nlike Tsui, whose trips to Chinatown offered a chance to connect with her family and heritage, mine have always been a chance to experience something, well, other.”
How Habitual Travel Sharpens the Intellect
by Michael Yessis | 10.07.09 | 1:12 PM ET
Travel can lead to disorientation, which can improve learning. Benedict Carey explains.
David Lynch: ‘Interview Project’
by Kevin Fay | 10.06.09 | 4:10 PM ET
David Lynch’s excellent travel web series, Interview Project, follows a team of filmmakers (led by Austin Lynch, David’s son, and Jason S.) as they take a 20,000-mile road trip across the States and back, talking with local folks. The resulting webisodes each feature one subject and function like intimate four-minute character studies.
We think a lot about how liberating a journey can be for the traveler, but often that liberation is contagious, and people we meet on the road open up to us in ways they normally wouldn’t. This project is a lovely example of the unique exchange between the traveler and the local. As Lynch puts it in his intro “it’s something that’s human, and you can’t stay away from it.”
A Poetry Traveling Scholar Busts Out the Maps
by Michael Yessis | 10.05.09 | 5:11 PM ET
Where would you go if you won a scholarship to travel for one year outside of North America? That’s the question facing former Army infantry team leader and 2010 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholar Brian Turner. He writes about his deliberations—and the gift of travel—at the New York Times Home Fires blog.
How Can I Convince my Friends to Travel Overseas?
by Rolf Potts | 10.05.09 | 1:42 PM ET
Vagabonding traveler Rolf Potts answers your questions about travel and the world
Interview With John Rasmus: ‘The New Age of Adventure’
by Jim Benning | 09.16.09 | 10:03 AM ET
Jim Benning asks the National Geographic Adventure editor about a new travel anthology, and about how technology is changing our sense of adventure
Young Travelers, Education and 17th-Century England
by Eva Holland | 09.08.09 | 9:33 AM ET
Academic David Evans has just discovered a practical, real-world application for his graduate studies in 17th-century English literature: Encouraging young students to join the global community.
It turns out that the reading I did about young male English travelers to the Continent in the mid-17th century is remarkably relevant to our current needs. For example, one of the prevalent elements of the conversation in the 1640s and 1650s had to do with various attitudes towards Catholic countries on the Continent, and how young travelers should manage their interactions with those countries. We are, oddly, having a very similar discussion now about travel to Muslim countries, and for some of the same reasons and from some of the same (good and bad) motivations.
In 17th-century England, the big question was, “Why travel?” The encounter with difference, even the relatively mild difference between Dover and Calais, was a tremendous leap for many people in 1640. But the advocates of foreign travel at that time believed that knowing the world, even if just a little, would give young travelers tremendous benefits and advantages when they returned home.
The Best Travel Photo I Never Took
by Doug Mack | 09.04.09 | 11:20 AM ET
iStockPhoto His Facebook friends would have loved it, but Doug Mack has no regrets
Skip the Colosseum? Give Prague a Pass?
by Eva Holland | 09.02.09 | 10:24 AM ET
Eva Holland sees an emerging trend in the world of travel advice, and she's not happy about it
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