Have a few hours to spare before that connecting flight, and want to grab a few winks? Or maybe your plane doesn’t leave until the following morning, and you’ll need to find a hotel room in a strange city? If you don’t feel like leaving the terminal (and subsequently having to endure another pass through security) you may soon be able to relax in style — as long as you’re in the UK — with … Read more »

Throughout many years of travel—from vagabonding with a backpack for months at a time to two-week vacations from a full-time job—I have found that creating an itinerary based upon visiting festivals around the world has resulted in the most memorable experiences. I have been able to see and meet jazz musicians such as Dizzy Gillespie in Nice, France while actively participating as a stagehand; feast with drunken police in local festivals while cutting up with … Read more »

A reader named Scott recently wrote me with the following question:

How do you get published? I am working on a book proposal, but publishers don’t take unsolicited manuscripts or proposals and agents don’t seem to want unpublished writers. The book is nonfiction, about living and working in Russia for the last two years. I think I have a unique perspective to offer because I am in the Russian branch of a company and I … Read more »