Image credit This month marks the beginning of student-travel season in Europe, which means that -- at any given moment -- continental McDonald's restaurants will be filled with scores of American undergraduates. Quiz these young travelers, and they'll give you a wide range of reasons for seeking out McDonald's -- the clean restrooms, the air...

"I love Paris and Rome, but students will learn far more if they step into different worlds where life is rather more different — say, India, or Burundi, or Bolivia. It's important to get out of our comfort zones, both because of what we learn about the rest of the world and also for the...

[Note: Each Saturday this month, Vagablogging has featured self-published travel books reviewed by self-published travel authors. We finish this series with Douglas Jewell's review of Imagine: A Vagabonding Story .] Review by Douglas Jewell Most American students are content to finish their years in school and jump right into the business world. But then there...