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I’m the kind of traveler who hardly can contemplate a trip to the store without tossing a small camera in my bag – so the concept of setting out for a long-term trip without a camera is inconceivable to me. Yet that’s just what BootsnAll member circusoflife is planning to do.
Circusoflife is currently without any cameras in his life, and is about to set off on his second long-term trip. This time it’s … Read more »
Kayaking is a great way to explore a place. The skinny craft is multi-faceted: It goes through churning whitewater, along lake and estuary coastlines, and can even catch a wave. But when you’re traveling, how do know which operators are truly professional and which you should avoid?
Prices for kayak rentals and short, guided trips can be affordable for vagabonders, depending on the … Read more »
Bargaining in Chatuchak Weekend Market in Thailand. Photo: Eugene Tang / BangkokSights.com
One of the biggest obstacles to traveling is the language barrier. Simple tasks like asking where the bathroom is, telling a taxi driver to take you to your hotel, and others can seem like impossible missions.
Can technology bridge the gap? Some new … Read more »
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Life, today more than ever before, often involves the navigation of cultural stereotypes. It’s a tricky business, as world leaders, soldiers, missionaries, and Kentucky Fried Chicken will tell you.
Stereotypes aren’t necessarily negative. Like stories, they help us frame and understand the world. They give us … Read more »
You’re about to head off to travel around southeast Asia for six months, and you want to bring along a camera to record the experience. You’ve been using the same cheap point-and-shoot for years. Is that going to meet your needs? You decide that it might be a great excuse to get a new camera, but what to get? There are so many options! Fully automatic, or … Read more »
This recent New York Times piece highlights old age as a never-ending adventure, but there are far more desperate, fundamental reasons why elderly people are deciding they’d rather be abroad than at home.
Here are three less-discussed motivations for senior long-term travel (the first two are illustrated below by Lawrence Osborne‘s unflinching Read more »
Okay, actually I didn’t. Candice Walsh did. And on her blog, Candice Does the World, she makes a pretty good case for why that is perfectly okay.
Among many vagabonders and travelers, the term all-inclusive is practically a dirty word. Saying that you traveled to a foreign country and did little more than lounge on the beach and drink frozen cocktails will get you shunned, … Read more »
Simplicity and, by association, frugality, are key traits of most successful vagabonds. Want less, do more is a good — if oversimplified — soundbite description of the way most long term travelers live.
Naturally there is considerable variation within that tenant. Some vagabonds get rid of everything entirely, others simply throw their possessions in a cheap storage … Read more »
The coolest things I see while traveling are the deserted, ruinous old buildings and the weird desert art projects or memorabilia of things that used to be there, like Tinkertown or Pioneertown or the Desert Christ Park.
One of the coolest among the cool is the currently fully functioning but oddly deserted Mojave airport (technically the Mojave Air and Space Port). Mojave is a small desert town about two hours north … Read more »
The images and news reports coming out of Haiti after Tuesday’s 7.0 magnitude earthquake are heartbreaking. Many people are wondering how they can put their skills to use to help those in need.
Volunteer Abroad offers a database of volunteer opportunities through their own search engine.
Médecins Sans Frontières is a noteworthy organization … Read more »