How to Survive a Plane Crash
A plane crash is every flyer's worst nightmare. And while you may think there's nothing you can do to live through one, many airplane accidents are survivable. Here's what you need to do to increase...
View Article10 Places to Go While They Are Still Cheap: 2014 Edition
Do your travel ambitions eclipse your bank account? We've got just the fix: destinations around the world that offer plenty of cheap ways to stay, play, and eat. Whether you're on the prowl for a...
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Are You a Dromomaniac? -- The 10 Most Common Manias That Affect Travelers
Are you a dromomaniac (insatiable traveler)? Of course you are -- if you weren't a xenomaniac (inquisitive person obsessed with foreign things and places) you wouldn't be reading this. You've come to...
View ArticleNotes From Nicaragua: Listo or Not
The view is breathtaking. But I vomit anyway. Let me back up a little. I was not planning on coming on this zip-lining trip at all. It wasn't that I was scared. I swear. "Just go without me. It's not...
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7 Things You Didn't Know You Could Do on a Cruise
Gone are the days when the height of cruise entertainment was limited to poolside lounging and fancy evening soirees. Sure, you can still do both of those things, but today's cruise ships are more like...
View ArticleTime-Lapse Video Shows How Quickly Older Arctic Sea Ice Is Disappearing
Take a second and watch older Arctic sea ice -- represented by white and lighter colors -- expand and retreat in this animation. By the end of the time-lapse, it's strikingly clear that older sea ice...
View ArticleSurvey Reveals the World's Best Lovers as Ranked By Americans
At the start of the new year, HostelBookers.com sparked a little controversy by offering a 200£ (roughly $334) prize for an enter-to-win giveaway: Just answer the anonymous "Holiday Romance Survey,"...
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5 Hotels in Sochi You'd Actually Want To Stay in
Sochi has been getting a bad rep when it comes to hotels, particularly since the #sochiproblems twitter madness, revealing yellow hotel water, stray animals occupying hotel rooms, etc., etc. But...
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15 of America's Coolest Small Towns
Photo of Berlin, MD, courtesy of Worcester County Tourism. Article by Robert Firpo-Cappiello of Budget Travel. At Budget Travel, we know a cool town when we see one, and these 15 finalists -- the...
View ArticleJason's Birthday and Missing It All
A few days ago on February 12, my wonderful oldest son, Jason, celebrated his 43rd birthday (how did that happen, anyhow?) without me and I am feeling melancholy and far away from everyone I love. I...
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A Black Sea Cruise Picks Up Where the Olympics Leave Off
You can keep your inland towns that rise up over farms or crouch beside a busy river. Give me a city that turns its face to the sea. I like looking out at urban skylines from the deck of a ship. From...
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Svalbard: 5 Fun Summer Adventures
Svalbard lies at the end of the world, quite literally. At 78 degrees north, Longyearbyen is a pretty remote settlement, although getting there is surprisingly easy -- a direct flight from Oslo is all...
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Zurich: A Big Swiss City With Small City Charms
Make sure you arrive in Zurich on a sunny day. I did not, and its charms eluded me under a nasty gray, drizzling sky. The Linmat River was gray, the buildings were gray, the people were gray, and my...
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'Pow! Wow! Hawaii' Transforms America's Most Beige City
We all know that Hawaii is gorgeous, but the city of Honolulu, it turns out, is actually pretty ugly. The majority of the city's buildings are a muted and unsatisfying beige color, "making the city...
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Discover France's Mysterious Rebel County: Languedoc-Roussillon
Photo credit: Guillen Perez. France's Languedoc-Roussillon region has had a long, bloody, complicated history that has left its mark on the landscape. Medieval fortresses and Roman aqueducts rise...
View ArticleWildLeaks Website Offers A Safe Place To Report Wildlife Crime
Several organizations have converged to combat wildlife and forest crime -- the fourth-largest transnational crime that's worth $17 billion annually -- but they need your help. WildLeaks, is a place...
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Catching Up With the Ticket Agent at the Delta Counter
When I originally wrote the article, "To the Ticket Agent at the Delta Counter," I was not prepared for such an overwhelming response. In fact, I only wrote the article because my wife suggested I do...
View ArticleRepatriation: A Dirty Word?
I am 29 and had been living outside my home country for almost a decade. It all began with a Rotary scholarship to Switzerland at age 18 where I became bitten not by the travel bug but by the "living...
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10 Reasons to Visit Hamburg
Most tours to Germany include Berlin, Munich and perhaps the Black Forest or a trip along the Rhine. These are fantastic areas to visit, but there is so much more to Germany. Tucked away in northern...
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5 New NYC Hot Spots Sizzling This Winter
After months (years?) of trudging through mucky snow and filthy streets, it's hard to imagine anything wonderful about New York in February. But the city's sexy new haunts will keep even the bitterest...
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