First Step to a Great Airplane View: Get a Window Seat

Dead Sea Scrolls Go Digital

The Ethics of Nicholas Kristof’s Travels

The Art of Noticing: ‘People Don’t Notice That Noticing is Important!’

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.

Rebranding Libya: We’re Eco-Friendly!

To my knowledge, Hands Up Holidays is the only travel company with trips in Libya that blend sightseeing in this fascinating country with meaningful interaction with the local people through a taste of volunteering...so in the World Heritage city of Ghadhames, you can help restore the buildings, including the old mosque and learn more about the Islamic faith...or you can help renovate a hospital for disabled people, and even take one of them on part of your trip, enabling them to experience their own country, a pleasure hitherto now denied them. Come and join us for a true adventure that counts!

I am disgusted that the naive have fallen for the War Criminal Abu Minyar("colonel"Muammar Gaddaffi)’s slick public relations campaign for tourism, and that the diplomatic and tourist communities have not insisted on his trial and conviction for supporting terrorism, suppressing freedoms of dissent, assembly, jailing dissenters, bombing planes, and deporting the Libyan national population, and enslaving the population in Libya. If you want to learn more about the Islamic faith, a simple trip to the local library should do. The real adventure has been for survivors of the Libyan terrorist regime to prosecute his accomplices and boycott businesses who turn a blind eye to his criminality.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

We’ve got to ride the global-warming issue. Even if the theory of global warming is wrong, we will be doing the right thing - in terms of economic policy and environmental policy.