World Hum’s Most Read: Aug. 30-Sept. 5

What We Loved This Week: Jose Feliciano, Rub’ al Khali and Raw Oysters

Don’t Be Cruel: Traveling ‘Elvis’ Draws Attention, Groans

It’s Not Easy Being Green and Crucified

A Tourist With a Shovel and a Hoe

When she arrived in Kenya to volunteer with the Maasai, Daniela Petrova looked down her nose at tourists there to have a good time. But was her own motivation much different?

How Should I Spend My Time in Spain?

Vagabonding traveler Rolf Potts answers your questions about travel

Paul Theroux: Invisible Man on a Ghost Train

Jim Benning asks the author of “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star” about his new book, aging and the challenge of disappearing in the age of the BlackBerry

Eat Ceviche in Lima

Grab a Cusqueña and get comfortable. As Nicholas Gill explains, a trip to a Peruvian cevichería can be an all-day immersion in good conversation and raw seafood.

Unsentimental Journeys: Wrestling With Paul Theroux

Bronwen Dickey considers “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Great Railway Bazaar”

My Travels, My Feet

After taking one too many headless torso shots of herself, solo traveler Sophia Dembling started snapping photos of her feet around the world, from the Grand Canyon to Red Square

Seven Reasons to Have a Foreign Fling

Sure, having an overseas romance is fun. But Terry Ward points out seven other benefits to cross-border love, mon petit chou.

‘7 Tourist Traps You Love’? Um, Not so Much.

"It is—how do I put this delicately?—hell on Earth.”

Hah.  Kudos.  I would add that Pigeon Forge is also the “absolute” best place I can think of to stock up on stylish cement geese to go in your front lawn next to the gazing ball, American flags, trash, and screaming kids!

I’m all about Wall Drug and the jackalope.

Pigeon Forge is the obnoxious, attention seeking, little sister to the older, but still bratty, Gatlinburg.  The favorite son is the Smokies themselves.  It’s like going to a birthday party for your best friend and you know his annoying siblings are going to be there, yet you go anyway because he’s your friend and it’s worth putting up with his snot nosed sisters just to see him.