How To Travel Around Angkor Wat By Bicycle (And Wring Extra Days Out Of Your Pass)

Stop Going To National Parks

You have other options.

How To Visit La Mitad Del Mundo (Don’t) And Pululahua Geobotanical Reserve

Smartphones Are Killing What It Means To “Travel”

Smartphones are making travel easier and more enjoyable. They’re also destroying everything that was once good about it.

Travel Alone

“Go placidly amid the noise and haste and remember what peace there may be in silence.” — from Desiderata

I think about this quote — not all the time or anything, but occasionally, when I’m not looking for food…

Hiking Through El Cajas, Ecuador’s Southern National Treasure

Visiting The Poor Man’s Galapagos In The Lowest Of Seasons

I approached the birds cautiously, but they paid me little mind. One faced the ocean, the other a patch of scrubby dry brush — both, for the moment, disinterested in each other and the world around them. They seemed more like a…

Montgomery: Not Good

As a kid, I learned a song. I don’t know the name of the song, but it’s about Rosa Parks. A Google search tells me it’s…

The Good The Bad And The Terrible When Riding The Bus In Ecuador’s Andean Highlands

I recently had the pleasure and the pain of taking a series of bus rides to and from Riobamba, a city dead center in Ecuador and in the Andes as well. It’s well situated for a trip down…

I Visited the Grand Tetons During the Total Eclipse And It Was Pretty Chill

On the busiest day in the history of Grand Teton National Park, with the moon beginning to eat away at the outline of the sun, I…