After all the time and attention we devote to travel, it seems that we travelers have a good foundation for joining the travel industry. I'm curious to ask today -- do you work in travel? What do you do? How did you get started? Even if your work isn't an obvious travel gig, let us...

It's a question based on the "walk a mile in someone else's moccasins" premise: To fully understand and experience travel, do you have to spend time on the hospitality side as well? Some might argue that not all travelers are customers of the hospitality industry. True, not too many vagabonds will be booking Club Med...

Western manners don't teach us how to respond to non-Western hospitality. I'm talking about generosity that's over-and-above what we're used to. The sort of generosity where saying please or thank you is shunned as unnecessary, or even taken as slightly offensive. India is famous for its hospitality, and lately I've been feeling confused about how...

If you're a fan of alternative hostel sources, you might already be familiar with Couchsurfing , the wonderful website where I've found both one of my best friends and a place to live here in Perth. But if you're a touring cyclist, and you're looking for a place to lay your wheels while you're biking...

Back when I wrote Vagabonding , I designed the end-of-chapter resources so that they could be continually updated online and stay as useful and relevant as possible. Recently, with the editorial help of Justin Glow and input from dozens of readers, I added to (and reorganized) my online resources at Vagabonding.net. I've copied the index...