Los Angeles Native Jonny Olsen: Huge in Laos

Saving Chekhov’s Yalta ‘White Dacha’ Home

Alain Ducasse: ‘I Am Not a Fan of Airline Food’

‘Australia’: The Next Big Travel Movie?

How Can I Save on Transportation During a Round-the-World Trip?

Vagabonding traveler Rolf Potts answers your questions about travel

13 Great Travel Horror Movies

The Hollywood horror archives are filled with tales of bad trips. To celebrate Halloween, Eva Holland and Eli Ellison sift through the carnage to pick their favorites—and lose a little sleep doing so.

Matt Weiland: Through 50 States With 50 Writers

The coeditor of “State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America” talks to Frank Bures about the book, the WPA and how the United States hasn’t been “bulldozed for speed”

Love Herring in Sweden

From artery-clogging casseroles to a fermented concoction that smells alarmingly like vinegary flatulence, Lola Akinmade digs in to a smörgåsbord of herring and explains how to best appreciate Scandinavia’s favorite fish. 

The Water Is Wide

Bronwen Dickey considers Tim Butcher’s “Blood River: A Journey to Africa’s Broken Heart,” which takes readers deep into the Congo

Vagrant Ruminations of a Compulsive Traveler

Where does the urge to hunt for that “fleeting fix of elsewhere” come from? Peter Wortsman recalls a life of travel inspiration. 

Notes From an Unofficial Tourist Greeter

Summer is over, and so is Julia Ross‘ season as an ambassador to travelers in Washington, D.C.’s Woodley Park neighborhood. She’s happy to be off duty.

‘Climb Everest For a Discount Rate’

Good point! The number of people trying to scale Everest each year is already dangerously high, and this encourages people to go when the weather is even more brutal than usual. Plus, the environmental damage done by having more people on that mountain is also a factor. I always hate seeing photos of discarded oxygen tanks that are probably going to just sit there on the slopes for eternity.

I wish that some of the money spent during the high season would go towards cleanups in the off season. Or that there would be more regulations of the climbing teams to keep the mountain clean and free of leftover climbing gear. And agreed with Rachel - it’s going to be pretty dangerous to go at other times of the year, as if it wasn’t dangerous enough already.