Winter in Kandahar, Afghanistan
Esha Samajpati presents an excerpt from a book by Ana M. Briongos call Winter in Kandahar: Life in Afghanistan Before the Taliban.
Travel Resources
Review: Ecotourists Save the World
The book Ecotourists Save the World supports this growing trend by offering readers profiles of more than 300 volunteer programs around the world.
Traveling the World Without Taking Flight
By Emily Grund Grounded: A Down to Earth Journey Around the World by Seth Stevenson is a nonfiction journey that takes readers around the world without ever taking flight. As he circumnavigates the world with his girlfriend Rebecca, Stevenson describes each leg of each trip in extensive detail. Their decision…
The Titanic Awards: Celebrating the Worst in Travel
The Titanic Awards: Celebrating the Worst in Travel By Christa Romano Traveling is hard work. An infinite number of disasters potentially await you the minute you book your flight and oftentimes some sort of disaster actually does happen. But despite the inevitable bumps along the road, or turbulence in the…
How I Wrote My First iPhone Travel App
How a card-carrying member of AARP learned a new trick By Ginger Warder For someone born B.C. (before computers), writing a mobile travel application seemed a daunting task. However, all of us in the travel writing industry know that mobile apps are the next paradigm shift in our business, so…
Layover Guide: Look Forward To Your Next Layover
Christa Romano writes about a new travel blog called Layover Guide that suggests fun things to see and do during layovers at airports around the world.
NYC Underground City: The Land of the Sandhogs
New York City. A trip under Manhattan where sandhogs are building a third water tunnel to keep the city supplied with water. A book by David Grann.
Competitours: Amazing Race Without the Stress
Stephen Hartshorne writes about Competitours a low-stress travel competition in Europe based in part on The Amazing Race.
Skycouch: Fly to NZ and Sleep in Comfort
Skycouch: Folds out like a bed for sleeping If you’re anything like me, you just can’t sleep on planes. I’m not a great sleeper as it is and no matter how hard I try, being stuck in an upright sitting position for hours at a time on a red eye…
5 Ways Credit Card Laws Affect Travelers
Credit card changes are having an impact By Charlie Leocha There have been many articles in newspapers and reports on TV analyzing how legislative changes will affect the credit card world. Here is a quick overview about how these changes will impact travelers. Yes, some credit card issuers have jacked…
Getting Ripped Off In-flight
Brian Peters shows that in-flight theft and other rip-offs are a lot more common than you might think. By Brian Peters [Editor’s note: This story is excerpted from Brian Peters’ award-winning blog: NoDebtWorldTravel.com] In a previous post, I talked about a flight from Tokyo to Paris where someone stole over…
Angelina: From Italy to New Zealand
An Italian family emigrates to another New World Gerard Hindmarsh has written a “true tale” of his grandparents who, in the early 1900s immigrated to New Zealand from southern Italy. Part history, part embellishment, he recounts the experiences of his grandmother, Angelina, as she adjusts to life in this beautiful,…