Is there really such a thing as “us” and “them”?

As we travel around the world, one of our most important goals is to connect with people and find out what common threads exist that bind humanity together. It is so very easy to categorize people and to explain away the worlds ills with generalizations and dinner table chats on politics.

But who are the individuals who inhabit our earth? Who are the people we talk about dismissively during those dinner table chats, sandwiched … Read more »

Posted by | Comments Off on Is there really such a thing as “us” and “them”?  | March 6, 2014
Category: Central America, Ethical Travel

Vagabonding Field Report: Two weeks in a Thai rain forest eco-lodge

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Cost/day:

$60-75/day including nearly all organic meals, outdoor adventures and lodging for three people.  A single person or even couple could probably get away with around half of that by eating at local restaurants or finding a way to cook some meals.

What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately?

I hesitate to call it strange, but it … Read more »

Posted by | Comments Off on Vagabonding Field Report: Two weeks in a Thai rain forest eco-lodge  | March 5, 2014
Category: General

Travel does not always have to be deep or difficult

“Tourists, I could now better understand, were not some lesser species. Like all travelers, they had earned their right to travel as they wished, and if that meant organized tours and checklist sightseeing, who was I to tell them they were wrong? Travel did not always have to be hard or deep. It could even be easy and fun, and even I could do it, guiltlessly.” –Matt Gross, The Turk Who Loved ApplesRead more »

Posted by | Comments Off on Travel does not always have to be deep or difficult  | March 3, 2014
Category: Travel Quote of the Day