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.

Anderson Cooper on the Rewards of Rough Travel

After you’ve returned home from a trip and look back at the things that happened that you thought, at the time, sucked...you will find that it was an adventurous time. Life is an adventure and it sucks sometimes too but, try living without it!

Anderson raises a very interesting point there, I agree.

I’ve experienced many travel situations that sucked. But they really do make the best stories! Trying to buy a train ticket in Warsaw, getting lost in the Czech Republic and sleeping on a rainy beach on the French Riviera weren’t pleasant at the time, but they inspired me to travel even more.

nice article.. thank you..

There is something about the hardships of travels. The more you are actualy able to overecome the difficulties the more confident that you can do without almost anything you become. The truth is that to travel you relly don’t need money. You need to know the ways though.