‘Australia’: The Next Big Travel Movie?

National Geographic’s ‘Herod’s Lost Tomb,’ FTW

Additional Measures Taken to Ease Holiday Travel Woes

‘Frozen Skyline’: Architecture and the Recession

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.

‘Has the Romance Gone Out of Travel?’

That’s very interesting… an “I said, he said” debated might have been really worth doing, but hard to organise for obvious logistical reasons. How it worked was they rang me up and said “Write1750 words on how travel is rubbish these days” and I said “Fine.” That sort of opinion journalism is partly showbiz - you want to divert or entertain or annoy the readers—and partly like being a lawyer: you represent your case as strongly as possible.

The thing is, I didn’t know Russ Frater was going to be put in opposition to me, and he quite possibly didn’t know I was in opposition to him. So it’s not really a debate, just two people putting opposed arguments.

And on one hand, I thoroughly agree with him about the urge to see round the next corner or across the next hill. But, on the other hand, I don’t think a simple day-trip in Ladakh is part of most people’s regular experience; the hideously pointless, scorching flesh-roast in a package hotel is more like it, and that really IS pants…