“From childhood I had dreamed of climbing Fujiyama and the Matterhorn, and I had planned to charge Mount Olympus in order to visit the gods that dwelled there. I wanted to swim the Hellespont where Lord Byron swam, float down the Nile in a butterfly boat, make love to a pale Kashmiri maiden beside the Shalimar, dance to the castanets of Granada gypsies, commune in solitude with the moonlit Taj Mahal, hunt tigers in a … Read more »

As we turn the calendar over to another page (and quietly wonder how three months of the year can already be behind us), many of us will be moving ever closer to our next trip. For some, that will simply mean finally clicking the “buy” button on those airline tickets to Mexico that we’ve had our eye on, while for others it will mean completing yet another task on our RTW travel checklist.

Planning … Read more »

Lots of people want to travel, right?  Who wouldn’t?  However, precise numbers are hard to come by.  Gallup, a polling organization, spent 2007-2010 asking this question to young people in 148 countries: “If you could move permanently to another country, to which country would you move?”

To see their answers, check out this cool infographic: Youth Movement.  The researchers specifically targeted people aged 15-29 and educated adults.

It won’t surprise anyone to know that … Read more »