The Perils of Traveling by Private Jet

Smoke-Free Hotels On the Rise

Los Angeles Native Jonny Olsen: Huge in Laos

Saving Chekhov’s Yalta ‘White Dacha’ Home

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.

Top Five Forbidden Vacations for Americans

From the Mogadishu write-up, I love this: “A 2004 Economist article noted that hand grenades go for a mere $10, and other popular items include antiaircraft guns and mortars.”

Forget Mexico and Nevada, sounds like Somalia is the place to stock up for my 4th of July party.

If you can’t visit Myanmar, Cuba, North Korea, Somalia, and Iran, you might want to try Mindanao in the Philippines where you might run into some FARC rebels for a chat, Siera Leone where you can almost certainly risk getting mugged or killed on an evening stroll in Freetown (what’s life without a little risk) , the Algiers Section of New Orleans AND Paris where there are enough truely bad people to keep you on your toes, and the Buenaventura neighborhoods in Columbia offer you the opportunity to encounter some real narco-terrorists.  Best thing is that NONE of these places are off-limits. So go for it!

Neil Woodburn wrote a fascinating blog account of his five action-packed days in North Korea last year, on Gadling, which starts here:
http://www.gadling.com/2007/12/06/infiltrating-north-korea-part-1/

This list is pretty good.  Of course, it ignores a favorite hotspot - Iraq.  I was a tourist there in January 2004 during winter break at Harvard.  Took a fun tour of the region from Beirut to Dubai and stopped off in the land between the rivers