archives: Travel Stories
Tales From The Road: Angola, New Orleans, Rio, India, Mexico
Tim Patterson reveals why good travel writing must be intensely personal. [...]
Tales From The Road: Focus On China and Tibet
These stories give color, depth and humanity to the people behind the headlines. [...]
Tales From The Road: China, Vietnam, Nigeria, Mexico and Disney World
True travel gems from around the web, as collected by Tim Patterson. [...]
Tales From The Road: Agent Orange, Naypidyaw, Surfing Panama, Sudan, Nazis In Paraguay
Tim Patterson rounds up another crop of travel gems from the web. [...]
Tales From The Road: Wilderness Survival, Sea Turtles And Acid Trips In Tokyo
Travel, oddly enough, is often a quest for rootedness and connection. The travelers who penned the outstanding stories that feature in this weekR [...]
Tales From The Road: Matador Edition
To celebrate the wedding of BNT and MatadorTravel, this week’s collection of inspiring travel tales highlights the best writing from the Matador [...]
Tales from the Road: Antarctica, Moldova, Egypt and Wyoming
I’ve got Antarctica on the mind. A lot of terrific travel writing has emerged from the White Continent of late, but my attention is more pers [...]
Tales From The Road: Antarctica, Biafra And A Little Town Called Bethlehem
Sometimes, when I tell people I’m a travel writer, they ask if I studied journalism in college. “No,” I answer. “I didnR [...]
Tales from the Road: Afghanistan, Thailand, Canada, Nigeria
One of my favorite parts of the Best American Travel Writing anthology each year is series editor Jason Wilson’s foreword. With each new edition [...]
Tales From The Road: Argentina, France, Cameroon And … Home
I’m typing in a cozy armchair in front of the fireplace in my Uncle’s house in Connecticut, recovering from Thanksgiving dinner and the tr [...]
Tales From The Road: Scotland, China, Cambodia and Easter Island
Every week I search for hidden treasure, scouring the Internet for travel writing that resonates, narratives that slap me across the face with wit and [...]
Tales From the Road: Bearing Witness
The most powerful travel stories are like lanterns in the night, heart-felt reports from dark corners of the world where truth is obscured by poverty [...]
Tales From the Road: India, Egypt, Argentina and Montreal
Aside from honesty, curiosity is the most important ingredient of good travel writing. The best stories come from authors who are both ignorant and [...]
Tales From the Road: Focus on Burma
I’ve long been fascinated by Myanmar (Burma), a large country of diverse geography tucked between Yunnan, India and Thailand. Since 1962, Burma [...]
Tales From the Road: Spain, California, Caribbean, Nevada, Japan
“No charge,” said bike shop man in Mont St. Anne, Quebec. “You’re on a long trip, you need help, it’s no problem.” [...]
Tales From The Road: Mexico, Mt. Everest, Ladakh, and Haunted Motel Rooms
This week Tales From the Road travels from the summit of Everest to motel room floors haunted by ghosts of dead rock stars, from the high desert of La [...]
Tales From the Road: Tibet, Xinjiang, Bangkok, Kenya
We all know the feeling. It comes in airport shuttles and on mountain passes, in subway cars and deep in tangled jungles. It comes from breaking out [...]
Tales From the Road: Macau, California, Pakistan, Papau New Guinea, Italy
Travel can be a journey into the realms of fear and loathing, or a happy-go-lucky search for wildflowers. It can be an exploration of animosity, or [...]
Tales From The Road: Hong Kong, Bangkok, Cairo, and Jamaica
Finding great travel tales often entails getting a little dirty. The best stories are the ones that smell, the kind you can’t hope to spot from [...]
Tales From The Road: Spotlight On Argentina
Last Tuesday I decided to move to Argentina. Sometimes this kind of decision takes a while to percolate before coalescing into a concrete plan, but th [...]
Tales From the Road: Montana, Afghanistan, Bulgaria, St. Vincent and the Naked Country
Who would have thought putting together this weekly round-up of outstanding travel stories would be such a hazardous job? First Rory Stewart’s [...]
Tales From the Road - Congo, Iraq, Mongolia, El Salvador
Travel, and travel writing, are born of curiosity. Some travelers hit the road to answer a specific question. An example: Are Bonobos really the g [...]
Tales From The Road: Japan, Colorado, Burma, New Orleans, and a Long Walk
What makes for a quality travel story? According to Ernest Hemingway, “good writing is true writing.” Honesty is especially crucial in t [...]
Tales From The Road: Miami, Kyrgyzstan, Japan, Italy, India
This week’s edition features a mix of comedy and cultural insight. You’ll laugh your way through a lesson on orgasm control and learn h [...]
Tales From the Road: Cuba, Alaska, Iraq, Colombia,
As an American, I’m distressed and saddened by the conduct of my government under Dick Cheney and his pet prince. Despite Cheney’s fetis [...]
Tales From The Road: Greenland, USA, Nepal, India
I’ve got a lively and eclectic batch of stories for you this week, but before I get to the picks, here are some thoughts about the intersection [...]
Tales From The Road: Thailand, Iran, Iraq and the Caribbean
This week we take a turn to the dark side with hard-hitting, emotional and provocative travel narratives from Iran, Iraq, rural Thailand, and the Cari [...]
Tales From The Road: Bejing, USA, Nepal, and Siberia
This is the first edition of a new weekly column, celebrating the best inspirational travel writing on the web. We all love a great travel story, but [...]
