New Orleans Keeps An Anxious Eye on Hurricane Gustav

Ever Had Your Computer Freeze While Booking Tickets Online?

‘Golfcations’? Enough Already!

The Next ‘Into the Wild’? With a Touch of ‘The Motorcycle Diaries’?

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.

Can ‘Burning Man’ Go Green?

I’ve always been concerned with the impact that Burning Man has had on the surrounding landscape. Although there’s “no driving”, art cars and other motorized vehicles are an exception to that rule and consequently, the land there is torn up badly, I’ve seen the before and after arial photos. And I’m sorry, driving hundreds or even thousands of miles to get to this remote location seems wasteful; it’s not as though these folks are traveling to experience another culture, they’re traveling to meet up with people who are just like them. Who’s “fossil-fuel addicted”? It’s always astonished me that when I ask people I know who are going why they go, invariably they say that this is the community they feel connected to; my response has always been that if they invested the same amount of time (sometimes months), money, and energy into their local community as they invest in Burning Man, they might actually have a meaningful impact on the world, as opposed to just having an experience. The bottom line is that the Black Rock Desert is too delicate for these crowds; they either need to move it or call it quits.  After all, it all started because some dude was upset about splitting up with his girlfriend; it’s not like it’s the Cheyenne Buffalo Hat Ceremony or anything.