Independent travelers often have a love/hate relationship with the travel industry. The love: Transportation networks make things easy. Beds of all calibers are usually easy to find. Information about places we've never been to has been collected and bound into books. The hate: The industry's ability to funnel large numbers of people into a single...

The seasons are changing, and for so many people a new season is a trigger for travel. Leaf-peeping, skiing, winter sun, road trips, summer sun. However, seasonal travel seems to be absent from the world of vagabonding. Maybe because it's "cliche", maybe because it implies doing the same thing as everyone else, or having your...

As a child, you often rode a bus that crossed a bridge over a river. You would look out the window at the river meandering toward its source in the mountains, and you would wonder. You grew up, went to college, found work on another continent and forgot about the river -- for a while....