My earliest world-wanderings were undertaken through others’ words. As my mother’s voice wove magical word-carpets, I was transported to Narnia by C. S. Lewis, the Sahara and beyond by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, and Great Places by Dr. Seuss. In high school and college I journeyed...
About two hours into our first hike, I stop dead in my tracks. To my right, a herd of guanacos perches on a rocky hillside nonchalantly nibbling on grass. To my left, the modest Aviles River tumbles down a small-scale slot canyon toward the Chacabuco...
Candace Rose Rardon is an American writer, photographer and artist who sketches as she travels. These sketches, combined with the stories behind them, poignantly portray those moments of encounter and illumination that become the stepping stones of adventure, inner and outer. We are extremely pleased...
Puffed up in mango-tango-colored life vests, the six of us were separate people to start, but on the river, we became one, surging over whirling eddies and jerking into sharp currents, holding tightly to the inflated walls of the raft, issuing quakes of laughter between...
I am walking down a cobbled alley in Venice. The stones are irregular under my feet, and the buildings on either side are so close that I can touch both of them with my outstretched hands. The street is dark and dank; at an opening...
The greatest gift of my undergraduate education was a truth I discovered one sunny June morning shortly after graduation. I had gone to Paris on a three-month internship arranged by the Princeton Summer Work Abroad Program. As I would do every morning, I took the...
Dubrovnik is my new favorite European city. ...
On a journey in Italy three Aprils ago, I took a train from Venice to Verona. As the suburbs trailed away, we moved into exquisite countryside of green rolling hills, terracotta-roofed houses, and spiring green cypress trees. At one point...
Lonely Planet’s new anthology, “A Fork in the Road,” presents 34 stories that explore the intersection of travel, food, and cultural epiphany. Each of the pieces in the book, writes editor James Oseland in his introduction, “says something ineffable about how we process and remember...
I have just returned from Namibia, the Africa that I never knew existed, where I attended the 2013 Adventure Travel World Summit (ATWS). This 10th gathering of the ATWS was a mosh pit of ideas and creative energy emanating from tour operators, destination specialists, journalists,...