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.

U.S. Embassy in Italy: Naples Stinks!

"Often, the garbage on Italian streets comes from grubby, thoughtless tourists.”

PC crap.  Neapolitans may not be grubby, but they are cheery, thoughtless litterers—worse than most tourists.  Naples has always been filthy.  This garbage problem shows a complete breakdown of municipal government.

I know for a FACT that the garbage piling up on the streets is NOT from the tourists! I lived in Naples for 3 years and the residents in rural areas haven’t had regular garbage pick up in over a year. The streets on the outskirts fill up first and it slowly creeps into the neighborhoods as they run out of places to dump. It isn’t just the residents dumping, businesses are also dumping anywhere and everywhere- everything from farm equipment to toilets, couches, mattresses, freezers for Popsicles- all that to go along with the regular everyday garbage that families produce. I wrote a report last year for anyone thinking of traveling to Naples, unfortunately the report remains true today. I have only recently came back to the U.S., I am glad to be out of that cesspool- but, I really feel bad for all the friends I made there- friends that must live in it until....?

Please see the report I wrote-
http://www.globosapiens.net/travel-information/Naples-2336.html