The Problem With Little White Girls (and Boys)

Why I Stopped Being A Voluntourist

Adventures in Cambodian Bathrooms

Sanitary Habits the First World Should Implement

Six Months of Road

Travel advice for the long-term traveler.

Questioning Travel Truisms

Offering alternative truthiness.

You Won’t Eat at McDonald’s

You Don’t Risk Enough to be Happy

How being truly happy means doing the things that you fear most — 

How to Ride a Motorbike and Not Die

We call them mopeds, scooters or motorcycles. In Asia, they’re all…

Questionable Travel Tips

Best for those of dubious moral character.

[How To] Take A Refreshing Shower On An Airplane

Because you’re tired and smelly.

It’s hard enough to stay fresh traveling short distances. But what about when you’re an international traveler, stuck on a hot plane between two other exhausted…

An Open Letter to All Travelers: Stop telling me traveling is difficult.

Travel as a Second World…

A Brief Personal History of the Jersey Shore

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