Back in September I traveled to rural Wales for the excellent DO Lectures series, which features talks and presentations by cutting-edge experts from a wide variety of disciplines -- from mountaineers to sustainable architects to graphic designers. I spoke on vagabonding and the ethic of long-term travel, and video from that lecture is now available...

Next month I'll be a speaker and panelist at the Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference , which takes place just north of San Francisco, in Corte Madera, California. The conference runs from August 13-16, and features such travel-writer luminaries as Tim Cahill , Isabel Allende, Don George , Pauline Frommer, Jim Benning, Jen...