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Greyhound Canada (and Its Passengers) Can’t Catch a Break

The Paris Greeters: Helping Dispell Notions of ‘Inhospitable Locals’

Forget About Having a ‘G’Day, Mite’

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. 

Rolf Potts: Revelations from a Postmodern Travel Writer

His new book “Marco Polo Didn’t Go There” includes his best stories from the past 10 years. Michael Yessis asks him how travel writing has changed in the last decade—and what he sees for the future.

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.

10 Great Travel Race Movies

Slow travel is well and good. But there’s something irresistible about a great travel race movie. World Hum Travel Movie Clubbers Eva Holland and Eli Ellison share their favorite vicarious thrill rides.

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.

How Should I Spend My Time in Spain?

Vagabonding traveler Rolf Potts answers your questions about travel

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”

Fury Grips South Korea in Wake of Namdaemun Gate Burning

Does anybody yet know exactly how this guy managed to ignite such a large structure?  I must surf the web, and enquire of a Korean friend of mine.
This incident reminds me of the Daegu subway fire of 2002, when a madman splashed gasoline inside a subway car, then lit it.  The car blazed away, with the passengers inside unable to escape, and another subway train coming from the opposite direction was ignited, too.  Many people burned to death, and just their bones were left.  Throw these two pyromaniacs in with the Korean who went berserk at Virginia Tech, and that indicates that quite a few Koreans are homicidal.