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.

Movies and Books That Inspired Travel Booms

Hey, maybe state tourism authorities should commission famous writers to writebooks with plots situated in-state. Certainly be more productive than spending millions of dollars on television ads.

Not a bad idea, Ling! 
Then there are state tourism boards who wish a movie had never been made in their state, like Alaska trying to figure out how to deal with the Fairbanks city bus where Chris McCandless died in “Into the Wild,” which has become an unwanted tourist attraction:
http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/2007/10/into-the-wild-t.html

Since seeing The Shawshank Redemption years ago, I’ve wanted to visit Zihuatanejo, Mexico.  Even though the final scene was shot in the US Virgin Islands, in my mind it’s exactly as Andy Dufresne describes it.