A deaf-mute from a village near Darong.

Tibet: An Accidental Pilgrimage

Traveling by Jeep and Horseback: Across Tibet’s Grasslands After a false start working as a lab technician, Ivan Cooper spent several years kicking around Asia, including long journeys through Pakistan, China and India. In the following years teaching jobs in Taiwan and Korea sparked an enduring, if love-hate, relationship with oriental…

Kristine Stevens in Juneau, Alaska.

A Woman Alone in Mumbai Airport

If Your Dream Doesn’t Scare You, It Isn’t Big Enough In honor of her 40th birthday, Kristine K. Stevens sold her house, quit her job, and traveled solo around the world. Carrying a backpack and the naïve belief that the trip was nothing more than a six-month-long vacation, she hit…

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Cockpit Confidential: Questions, Reflections

Everything You Need to Know About Air Travel in One Book By Kristina Kulyabina Got a bad case of air travel anxiety? Does your heart drop to your stomach as soon as the airplane starts rolling down the runway even though you’ve done this for the 100th time? Perhaps reading…

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Health Insurance and Travel: What You Need to Know

Health Insurance: Will You be Covered When You Travel? By Rachel Siden You remembered to put a hold on your mail, take out all the trash, and pack a toothbrush. All ready? Not quite. Did you call your health care provider yet? No typical traveler has “call health care provider”…

Cinque Terre, coast of Italy.

The Ultimate Roadtrip Across Europe

Traveling around Europe Without Flying for 954 Days By Davide Vadala On August 2010 I took what would have been my last flight for a long period, going from India to Turkey. Little did I know that for the next three years this option was going to turn into a…

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Shanti Bloody Shanti: A Journey in India

A Search for The Real India: Aaron Smith’s Journey in Shanti Bloody Shanti By Rachel Siden Aaron Smith was having an existential crisis. His failing marriage finally ended in divorce, the girl he started seeing after the break up was simultaneously dating a cocaine dealer, and to top it all…

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Finding Someone to Go With: TripTogether

TripTogether.com: Say Goodbye to Lonesome Travels By Kristina Kulyabina Are you the only one of your friends stuck with the travel bug? Then TripTogether.com is the perfect platform to make connections for traveling all over the world. TripTogether is a social community that allows people to find companions and make plans…

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