Cost/day: $100 What's the strangest thing you've seen lately? Fulford Cave sits in a national forest near Eagle, Colorado. It's huge! The entrance is an awkwardly-angled pipe, but once you're past the uncomfortable wiggle down the aluminum ladder, the cave opens up into several enormous rooms, passages and even a waterfall. I climbed and explored...

Cost/day: $25 What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? The fire shows that happen every night on Koh Phi Phi Don were crazy. And the partying. People are jumping ropes that are on fire, juggling fire, and swallowing fire. Describe a typical day: We spent two weeks traveling around Bangkok, Chiang Mai, and the Phi...

Cost/day: $40 What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? All of the donkeys or burros that are on the streets. I am not used to that. It's a bit of old world Mexico, and I love it. Describe a typical day: San Miguel de Allende seems to think that everyone should rise at 6:30. That's...

Cost/day: $20 What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? This. In my pants. 'Nuff said. Describe a typical day: I rise at 6 a.m. and do 90 minutes of yoga, 30 minutes of chanting, and one hour of meditation. Three hours after sunrise and plenty of activity later, I'm more than awake and ready for...

Cost/day : $30 What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? I guess I could say that the wild plants and animals are "strange," but a better word might be interesting, or beautiful. A friend showed us some plants that recoil if you touch them ("sensitive plants"), and from what it looks like you could drop...

Cost/day: Ticket cost is $380, but once at Burning Man, the only things you can buy are coffee and ice, so about $5/day. What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? Oh, how can I possibly choose? There was the girl who was carrying an alien, the Pulpo Mechanico octopus art car that towered above me...

Cost/day: $40 What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? The Ossuary in Brno. This place is located on an unassuming street, between pubs and shops. You walk down a flight of stairs from the street and suddenly you are in an underground skeleton cave. The walls are stacked with real human bones. There is a...

Cost/day: $50 What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? While touring a Balinese family's compound, a thin old man came wandering through the home. He didn't live there, and he didn't speak or ask for money. He just stood there, vacant-eyed, with a bag on his back and no shoes on his feet. It was...

Cost/day: Around $40/day What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? I was walking around Ubud, which has so much traffic, and walking down the sidewalk there was a man with his cow!! There is a lot of traffic in Ubud, so it was very surreal to me. Plus, the sidewalks aren't the easiest to navigate,...

Cost/day: Around $60 if you're camping and buying cheap food at the grocery store. What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? I don't know how strange it is, but we saw lots of cute sheep all over the mountain tops that didn't run away when we got close. My experience with sheep is that they...

Cost/day: $50 What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? After haggling over a hat with a friendly saleswoman, I stumbled upon an alley where old women sat in plastic chairs, clutching their purses and negotiating currency exchange with passing foreigners. Black market? Perhaps, but I don't think even the police could rouse these women from...

Cost/day: $35/day-room, Average $10 per meal What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? The cows! I don't know why, but I just didn't expect to see cows on such a small island. I mean you can walk around these islands in about 90 minutes, and when I saw my first one, I thought I'd been...

Cost/day : $30 (includes camping permit and food hiked in) What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? The fact that people are living out here for years at a time is pretty strange/amazing. Kalalau has permanent residents, even a "mayor," hidden throughout the valley. These people grow just about everything they need to live on,...

Cost/day: $20 What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? On my short getaway to Namhae Island, my friends and I noticed globs of a bright orange, paintlike substance floating near the pier. Opting out of a swim, we came back later to find a beautiful, eerie phenomenon: the orange was now sparkling electric blue. Apparently...

Cost/day: $45/day-room, $10 per class, average $10 per meal What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? The coconuts here!! The coconuts here are magic coconuts. I am staying at the Sanctuary Resort on Koh Phangan and, here, the coconut water inside of them is green. It comes with spirulina and all kinds of grasses already...

Cost per day (for a family of five): $68 $18 room $25 food $25 entertainment Strangest things we've seen lately: Back home, before 2011 when we hit the road to become The Nomadic Family, we used to not move without seat belts. I would allow the kids to unbuckle only when the car came to...

Cost/day: $65/day What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? The strangest thing had to be the view looking down at the tree tops when doing a superman over them. The superman zip lines were over a mile long through the mountains and they provided a uniquely strange – but amazing – experience. Describe a typical...

Cost/day: $20 What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? We were on a seven hour train ride from Banyuwangi to Surabaya, and just about every imaginable Indonesian product was being hawked on this train. Fried rice, hot soup, live music, live animals...I was thisclose to buying a bird with a 6 inch beak protruding from...

Cost/day: $100 What’s the strangest thing you’ve seen lately? For the first time in ten months, North Korean soldiers came down from their posts and took pictures of each other right outside the conference building joining North and South--while I was getting a tour inside the building. However high the tension between the countries, it...

There seems to be an interesting trend starting in the theatre world, one which has history lovers and travel addicts like me very, very intrigued. Theatrical companies are facing declining audiences as many now flock to the more realistic experiences of the modern digitally-enhanced blockbuster, and they have been forced to get creative in their...