Cost: $20 a day What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen recently?

Volcano boarding down the slopes of  Cerro Negro, outside of León, Nicaragua has become a popular activity with travelers, especially since making number two on CNN Go’s Thrill Seeker’s Bucket List.  Ignorant as to what was involved in this new sport I had visions of cutting sharp turns in powdery volcanic ash, much as as snowboarder would in fresh powder. In actuality … Read more »

This past week on BootsnAll, we focused on the idea of career breaks, a movement that has been gaining steam in the United States over the last decade, but one that is still quite foreign to most of the population.

Our friends over at Meet, Plan, Go are gearing up for their third annual nation-wide event on October 16, 2012, in 10 cities across North America, where they promote the idea of career break travel … Read more »

Located in a classy but nondescript building in the Kensington neighborhood of London, the Royal Geographical Society is not your normal tourist attraction—but it should hold a special place in every traveler’s heart. Founded in 1830 as a dinner club hosting lectures from hearty travelers, the Society (or RGS as it’s often called) became a world-class institution for the advancement of knowledge about the planet.

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For this week I would like to stay away from my usual “reflective topics” and investigate something much simpler: food. I started thinking of travel and food as I stumbled upon this article on Asia’s 10 greatest street food cities. As I am currently in Bulgaria and have seen many countries and sampled much of their cuisines along my way from Asia, I reckon that food, and especially, street food, is … Read more »

You’re excited.  You’ve just boarded a plane to start your vagabonding journey.  Then it happens: a baby starts crying. Sometimes it gets worse: other babies start crying too. What was going to be a relaxing flight has turned into a scream-fest. If you don’t have noise-cancelling headphone on hand, what can you do?

Air Asia X has approached this problem by creating a Quiet Zone on its long-haul … Read more »

Kids are naturally curious and have an innate desire to make sense of the world around them.  In other words – they want to learn.  Have you ever seen your child out digging in the ground, trying to pull earthworms out of the dirt?  And then that same child proudly shows you all the segments … Read more »

“The great geographical Other, the faraway rest of the world, has been transformed by the pure possibility of access. The numbers of distance and time no longer mean what they used to. Every place, once unique, itself, is strangely shot through with radiations from every other place. “There” was then; “here” is now.” –Sven Birkerts, The Gutenberg Elegies: The Fate of Reading in an Electronic AgeRead more »