archives: Travel Stories

Christine Garvin counts down the best ways to get high on travel without getting arrested.  More »

Does a woman have to accomplish incredible feats in order to be considered a great woman traveler?   More »

This type of tourism is on the rise, but is it ethical? Eric Weiner offers 4 criteria for saving slum tourism.  More »

"There is an unsung liberation about the ability to stop and go on your own accord. Eat stick after stick of beef jerky."  More »

Famous Author quiz. Who said: "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness." ?  More »

The airport provides the most interesting of backdrops for someone who enjoys imagining other people’s stories.  More »

Tim Patterson rounds up a new crop of evocative travel stories.  More »

Tim Patterson reveals why good travel writing must be intensely personal.   More »

These stories give color, depth and humanity to the people behind the headlines.  More »

True travel gems from around the web, as collected by Tim Patterson.  More »

Tim Patterson rounds up another crop of travel gems from the web.  More »

Travel, oddly enough, is often a quest for rootedness and connection. The travelers who penned the outstanding stories that feature in this weekR  More »

To celebrate the wedding of BNT and MatadorTravel, this week’s collection of inspiring travel tales highlights the best writing from the Matador  More »

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  More »

Sometimes, when I tell people I’m a travel writer, they ask if I studied journalism in college. “No,” I answer. “I didnR  More »

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  More »

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  More »

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  More »

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  More »

Aside from honesty, curiosity is the most important ingredient of good travel writing. The best stories come from authors who are both ignorant and   More »

I’ve long been fascinated by Myanmar (Burma), a large country of diverse geography tucked between Yunnan, India and Thailand. Since 1962, Burma  More »

“No charge,” said bike shop man in Mont St. Anne, Quebec. “You’re on a long trip, you need help, it’s no problem.”  More »

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  More »

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  More »

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   More »

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  More »

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  More »

Who would have thought putting together this weekly round-up of outstanding travel stories would be such a hazardous job? First Rory Stewart’s   More »

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  More »

What makes for a quality travel story? According to Ernest Hemingway, “good writing is true writing.” Honesty is especially crucial in t  More »

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  More »

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  More »

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   More »

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  More »

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  More »