You get into some crazy situations when you travel. The food you eat, the people you meet and the things you see. Yet on later reflection, those are the same things that build character and allow you to evolve as a person. Derek Sivers described this well in his blog post: Push, push, push. Expanding...

Perusing the Lonely Planet website recently, I was drawn to this April article of Top 10 Cities for Artistic Inspiration. Travel can inspire us on a multitude of levels. It can inspire us to move somewhere new, embark on a new career or educational path, to write a novel or memoir, or even to produce...

Can seeing new places, meeting new people, and living new lifestyles spark your imagination? SpyreStudios, an online magazine for web designers, thinks so: 5 reasons travel can improve your design work . Here's an excerpt: " Traveling rocks. Practically everyone likes to travel, whether by land, sea or air. And why not? You get excited...

Each week Rolf brings us a new quote that makes us look at travel from a broader perspective, or perhaps in a different light. It’s interesting to note that some of these quotations come from all manner of sources, and not simply travel related literature. Indeed it seems easy to find fragments of writing that...

One of the gifts of aiming big is that sometimes, you actually reach your goals. It's all too easy to fall into the idea that if you've never done something before, well, then, you probably can't do it at all, or at least not right away. You've never lived abroad? Best not to jump into...

The number one question I've ever been asked by anyone when I'm preparing to go anywhere is: Why on earth are you going alone? There is a pervasive fear that solo travelers, particularly women, will probably be raped, maimed, or at the very least, incredibly lonely within seconds of setting foot outside your apartment. Instead,...

I had some snippet of poetry floating around in my head the other day and couldn't figure out what it was from. Then I (naturally, being a child of the Millennium) Googled it and realized that it came from the lush traveler's anthem, Tennyson's Ulysses. For those of you who might have had to write...

As a writer who's often trying to keep herself on track for stories, poetry, and whatever novel might be in the cooker, inspiring yourself to write while you're traveling is sometimes hard. But if you're always traveling, then you're never writing...and then you can't really call yourself a writer anymore, can you? It's easy enough...