If you like to travel and have your own blog, you may have entertained the idea of being a travel writer. Imagine getting paid to go and do the same fun stuff you're already doing, going all over the world. The reality can be quite different, however. Lonely Planet guidebook writer Leif Pettersen wrote this...

Those of you who are regular readers of Vagablogging know the value of a travel blog when you're looking for information or a community of like-minded people. Just because you enjoy reading travel blogs, however, doesn't necessarily mean you'll enjoy writing one. There's a checklist of things that long-term travelers generally have in common when...

Travel and writing can both be lonely endeavors, with friends and family not understanding why some of us are obsessed with both. The best fix for the blues is to surround yourself with people who have the same dream, and even better, have achieved success. For anyone into travel writing, Travel Blog Exchange (TBEX) is...

As we prepare for travel it is easy to get caught up in all of the new and beautiful things we will see and experience. It can be enticing to daydream about new foods, the sound of foreign languages, navigating new cities or means of transportation, or gazing at profound shrines or sights around the...

Every month we bring you the latest RTW ticket deals from BootsnAll - and we routinely call them "RTW tickets." If you're paying attention, however, you'll notice that they almost always don't technically circle the globe. What gives? Instead of being traditional RTW tickets, the tickets we sell on BootsnAll are a series of one-way...

As vagabonders, we love the feeling of "getting into the culture." Where you finally understand how the people think, how their society works. Inc magazine had a fantastic article titled A Constant Feeling of Crisis , about the struggles of entrepreneurs in Argentina. I once talked to Antoni, the New Zealand owner of a gourmet...

The academic schedule is like a shell game. For all of our school years, we get used to having summers off. Then once we start working, those glorious three months get cut down to two weeks. For those of us who live in the United States, that is. Every once in a while, the media...

Chiang Khong, Thailand It was seven years ago this week that a Honda dealership in Mae Sai , the northernmost town in Thailand, begrudgingly rented me a motorbike for the day. “We don’t want to do this,” the woman at the counter said, since it wasn’t profitable for them, but she also said that thanks...

In my last couple of blog posts, I waxed poetic about the life of a digital nomad. As a counterpoint, here's a fine article that appeared in the Orange-County Register : Digital detox for a trip to Italy . Gary Warner, the newspaper's travel editor, decided to cut off the electronic umbilical cord for an...

Looking to take your work on the road with your travels? The technology is available. There is a lack of role models, though. It would be great if we all knew digital nomads we could learn from. What would you ask a successful one if you had the chance? Enter Chris Jankulovski. The CEO of...

Hat Yai, Thailand Hat Yai is known as southern Thailand's transportation hub and sex capital. But too few know it has the West Side Saloon , where bartenders and waitstaff are dressed in cowboy gear, serving jovial customers -- mostly Malaysians who've hopped across the border for a short holiday -- as a band plays...

The cost of traveling is in a near-constant state of flux, and most people who take the usual annual vacations know that certain times of year are more expensive for traveling than others. We're heading into one of the busiest seasons for several popular destinations, including Europe and the U.S., and we're seeing airfare costs...

Kanchanaburi, Thailand The photo above, which shows a gravestone belonging to one of the nearly 7,000 Allied POWs buried at the Kanchanaburi War Cemetery in Thailand, illustrates the difficulty we have in making sense of tragedy. Last week two talented photojournalists, Chris Hondros and Tim Hetherington , were killed in the Libyan city of Misrata....

In my post last week, I talked about whether it's safe to travel now . As a bit of a follow-up, I'll talk about when it's dangerous to sit still for too long: always . Have you ever been stuck in class or at the office and felt like you were dying inside? It might...

When you're planning a one- or two-week trip somewhere, figuring out your route is essentially the same as figuring out your itinerary. You'll fly into Rome, take a train to Florence , rent a car and drive around Tuscany for a week, and then spend a couple days in Venice before flying home again. People...

There's always trouble going on somewhere in the world, but 2011 has been a particularly wrenching period. Revolution has swept the Middle East; Japan has endured disaster after disaster; America is carrying out military operations in three countries. One has to ask, "Is it safe to travel now?" The answer is "Yes," according to travel...

Dahab, Egypt There are a gazillion things to observe when on the road, and here's one of my favorites: the books people read. Anytime you see someone reading a book, they're traveling. There is of course the geographic location in which they are actually reading. The English fellow above, for example, is sitting on the...

China is a huge country, and an even bigger topic to tackle in a movie. Filmmaker Brook Silva-Braga took on that daunting challenge in his new documentary, "The China Question." This is the divisive issue that causes American workers to worry, politicians to vacillate, and businesspeople to make deals: "What does China's rise mean for...

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...

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:...