World Hum’s Most Read: Aug. 23-29

What We Loved This Week: Las Vegas, Maui and the Street Art of Sao Paulo

R.I.P. ‘Staycation’

‘The Internet is About the Best Thing to Happen to Geography Nerds Since the Sextant’

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.

Mapping ‘Where I’ve Been’: Hope for America’s Lost One-Fifth?

My Map is missing most of Asia, Working on it but who knows how long that will take. as the world gets smaller we as America need to notice the others outside our borders, i can’t think of a better way of doing this then actually going and seeing another country, culture and experience.

If this face book app helps, well I salute it too.

These maps are really entertaining, and a good travel resource: I’ve discovered that close friends have been to places I didn’t know they’d visited (or maybe interactive maps are just encouraging everyone to inflate their travels).

I also enjoy the maps that display what percentage of the world the user has visited--it’s kind of enlightening to know that you can feel so well-traveled and still have seen so little. Always more to explore!