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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”

How Unhappy Are American Travelers With the Airlines?

I really hate the thought of traveling by air. Unfortunately, it is the least espensive way to travel across the USA and abroad. Now that my sister is retired, we can’t go on the trips we long dreamed and talked about taking once she had the time.
It also means she can’t see her children and their kids because traveling with three teens is almost impossible for a family that doesn’t have a lot left over after the essentials.
Even if the costs weren’t so prohibitive, the delays and sitting like packed sardines in those clastrophobic planes just make traveling really annoying. Yep,traveling sucks now.

If you are ever traveling in a place where taking a train could be affordable and you have the time, I highly recommend it. Traveling by train allows you to see the landscape and also to mingle with locals.  If you travel by train in Asia especially, be ready to be immersed in the culture of the lower to middle class of that country.  Be polite and soak up all you can because it’s experience worth remembering, unlike the sterile, zombie like atmosphere of the average airplane ride.