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In my routine travels around the 'net, I came across this absolutely fascinating article called "Women of the World." As well-researched news articles go, it's certainly not comprehensive (besides, everything we read on the internet is true, right? RIGHT??), but it sure gives some fascinating names for future research. My favorite is Maud Parris, a...

There's a lot of you-go-grrl-empowerment articles on the web and in travel magazines about women traveling on their own, toting their own backpacks and having exciting adventures. The general themes of these articles usually has to do with being brave and feeling safe walking the streets at night, making friends with locals, avoiding singles supplements...

If you've always dreamed of working in Antarctica (the only continent you can't be a native of, and yet which doesn't officially belong any other country: a treaty made in 1961 suspends all claims of ownership, in favor of promoting valuable scientific research rather than arguing over whose flag flies where...and the penguins don't care),...

I've only recently been introduced to Unbrave Girl, a snarky personal commentary on long-term world meandering, and this post actually rang a few bells for me. People keep asking me, "Where do you live?" and I'm not really sure why, since if I've been in a place for a year or so, doesn't that mean...

There are some really interesting travel statistics about women. For example, MaryBeth Bond, the "Gutsy Traveler" and so-called #1 expert on women's travel in the USA, noted on her website that 80% of travel decisions are made by women, regardless of who's traveling, where they're going, and who's paying. "Hard" adventure travelers (of whom there...

Latourex, short for Laboratoire de Tourisme Experimental, is a couple of French charmers who developed their experimental travel techniques to make their trips more interesting. Instead of just doing the same old same old -- go to a place, look at its museums, drink coffee at coffeeshops, attempt to blend in while suavely writing in...

Fleur Britten's "On The Couch" is the first travel memoir about couchsurfing I've seen; this doesn't mean there aren't any others, naturally, but it does mean that I picked it off the library shelf with a surge of excitement. "Ooh!" I thought to myself. "This is gonna be good!" I was, unfortunately, wrong. Couchsurfing is...

Over at Shetravels , an image-intensive, witty travel blog chronicles the account of a woman and her husband who are spending a year traveling around the world. The pictures are basically travel porn: if you can sit at your desk drooling over them and NOT want to give everything up and move to Cambodia, you're...

Unless you've been living in a place where popular media does not go (like with my mother), you might have noticed that Elizabeth Gilbert's surprise hit memoir "Eat, Pray, Love" has been made into a movie starring Julia Roberts...and it's getting released, on slightly different days, around this time in lots of different countries. The...

The cheerfully indomitable Marsha's blog, Single Occupancy , is well-written, humorous, and packed with links and resources. She calls it her "love letter" to solo travel -- and a bit of a diatribe against those double occupancy rooms and rates. In a world where people look at women traveling alone, even for a week or...

As you may have noticed, Rolf is currently in the midst of traveling around the world with only what he can carry in his pockets. He's got a toothbrush, a change of underpants, and an iPod Touch to do his blog posting from, as well as some presumably bulging cargo pants pockets. I did see...

I happened to be killing time in the Cairns airport flipping through the bookstore when I came across the travel memoir of "catching love, fish and wisdom": Robyn Catchlove's "Somewhere Down a Crazy River." I then promptly forgot about it until I received a notice from the publisher, and I gave it a read. It's...

Want to run away and live in a sustainable treehouse community? Go to Finca Bellavista in Costa Rica. You can build your own stilthouse or other "arboreal dwelling", as long as it abides by the community guidelines , which include such things as small square-footage structures, getting rid of waste through a compact biodigestor, and...

As any health conscious person may know, it’s actually pretty hard to get all of the essential vitamins and minerals that your body needs from food alone. Even for the most health conscious person, it is still a difficult task. So how do you maintain a proper intake of vitamins while traveling? While I’ve moved...

After my previous post about grey nomads here in Australia, you might be inspired to travel by caravan...only you're not grey. You might be nomadic, though. In which case, perhaps you might want to investigate the following: small campervans made out of DIThemselves converted minivans. These wee inclusive vehicles include a queensize foldout mattress, fridge,...

Lisa Alpine’s book Exotic Life: Laughing Rivers, Dancing Drums, and Tangled Hearts is a sprawling anthology of 19 travel tales. Alpine is an inspiration to women travelers everywhere. She fearlessly wanders through one obscure destination after the other, leaving her complete trust in the experience. She answers that timeless question - Can solo women travelers...

As the possessor of two X chromosomes, this means that I am considered by pretty much everybody, myself included, to be a woman. I menstruate, I have a high-pitched voice (as much as I try to convince myself it sounds all nice and low like Marlena Dietrich), and I tend to wear bikinis to the...

The wonderful website Traveling For The Young, Fabulous, and Broke has an article entitled " The Motivation for Long Term Travel ." This interview series profiles 11 long-term travelers, and is packed full of useful, inspirational, or interesting links. The most interesting part for me was the inclusion of children in this vagabonding lifestyle; when...

Some of you may already be familiar with Elderhostel, the hostelling and alternative travel group geared primarily towards retirees or older travelers. Elderhostel has become Exploritas , explained as a combination of explore + veritas -- meaning truth in travel. This is a message I can get behind. The overly slick website aside, I appreciate...