Features

The Delicacy of the Andes

The Delicacy of the Andes Photo of cuy doll by morrissey, via Flickr (Creative Commons)

In Peru, people go crazy for cuy. In the U.S., they're household pets. When faced with eating them, Matt Villano confronts childhood memories, nausea and the costs of cultural immersion.

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Chris Doyle: The Art of Jumping on Beds and the ‘50,000 Beds’ Project

chris doyle Photo of Chris Doyle, courtesy of the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.

Forty-five artists shot videos and films in hotel rooms. Michael Yessis asks the man behind the effort what intrigues him about hotel rooms, as well as the seductiveness of jumping on hotel room beds.

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Confessions of a Born-Again Cowboy in France

cowboy boots Photo by Omar Omar via Flickr, (Creative Commons)

At home in the United States, Peter Wortsman is more Woody Allen than John Wayne. But to his adoptive French family, he is "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance."

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The Critics: ‘Shadow of the Silk Road’

Michael Yessis checks out what reviewers are saying about the U.S. release of the new book by Colin Thubron, "the dean of British travel writers"

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Honeymooning with Jaws

Bora Bora Photo by Nancy Smay.

She went to Bora Bora on her honeymoon. She had a few tropical drinks. Someone suggested scuba diving. Then Nancy Smay found herself in way over her head.

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Leo Hickman: In Search of the True Cost of Travel

Are travelers destroying cultures, economies and the planet? Are they making the world a better place? Frank Bures chats with the author of "The Final Call" about the ethics and consequences of world travel.

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How to Eat Weisswurst in Munich

weisswurst Photo by Chris Gray

It's hard to find a restaurant in the German city that doesn't serve weisswurst. But it's said that the white sausages should never hear the noon church bells. Chris Gray explains.

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Has Long-Term Travel Abroad Hurt My Chances of Landing a Job Back Home?

Vagabonding traveler Rolf Potts answers your questions about travel

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Crying Uncle in Italy

italy road Photo of Italy by gualtiero, via Flickr (Creative Commons)

Todd Pitock planned to play a little golf and see a few works of art. He didn't factor in the wrong turns and ramblings of a man named Joe.

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Seven Wonders of the Shrinking Planet

Chicago O'Hare Airport Photo by Idle Type, via Flickr (Creative Commons)

Jim Benning and Michael Yessis unveil World Hum's seven wonders: places, things and people that embody ways the planet is shrinking and cultures are colliding

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‘Travels with Herodotus’: Kapuscinski and the Weight of History

Frank Bures considers Ryszard Kapuscinski's newly translated book -- and the Polish writer's controversial legacy

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The Horse Spirits of Big Sky Country

Deanne Stillman ventures to the site of the Battle of Little Bighorn in Montana to remember the nearly forgotten warriors of Custer's Last Stand

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Suffering and Smiling: Vanity Fair Does Africa

Africa is hot. Why? So we can save it? Frank Bures deconstructs the magazine's latest issue and what it says about Western views of the continent.

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Fire in the Night

Fire in the Night Photo by Bill Belleville.

In a Florida lagoon, Bill Belleville paddles among the manatees and mangroves on a quest to see the dazzling blue-green light of bioluminescence

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We’ll Always Have ‘Charlie’

Alphabet Letters Photo by Gaetan Lee, via Flickr (Creative Commons).

In the spirit of global misunderstanding, Jerry V. Haines reveals the worst phonetic alphabet ever

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