During my recent adventures in the Indian Subcontinent, I tried to steer off the beaten tourist trail as much as I could. Thanks to some contacts and friendships I cultivated in other parts of the world – very often a great key for successful connections in other places – I was fortunate enough to venture...

If you're like me, you like to just throw down a tent wherever the fancy strikes you, and camp your butt off. Sometimes you don't want to deal with the hassle of going to a campground, sometimes you don't want to deal with the COST of going to a campground (I almost choked when I...