Stunning Vistas and Gourmet Nightmares in the Faroe Islands

Raise your hand if you know where the Faroe Islands are and the foods for which they are known! I bet only a handful of you are raising a hand right now. That’s okay. We’re going to talk about both.

Vanuatu: The Places That Become A Part Of Us

Vanuatu was devastated by Cyclone Pam. To help, make a donation at GlobalGiving – Vanuatu Cyclone Relief Fund or text GIVE VANUATU to 80088 to make a $10 donation.

The places we visit become a part of us. They take up residence within us, staking claim to square footage we cannot see. This is the greatest gift of travel: the realization that there are so many places we care about more deeply because we have experienced them. We celebrate their joys and successes the way we would a friend’s, but like a friend, we share their heartbreak, too, in our own tiny and often insignificant way.

The 10 Most Memorable Travel Moments: Nos. 6-1

UPDATED 2/1/15. Between moving, the holidays, good friends visiting from out of state, and getting ready for a month away (I’m currently sitting in the airport in Dubai), it was folly for me to think that I had enough time to get everything written by the new year. So, here is the final installment. If you’ve read Nos. 6 and 5, skip down to the new stuff!

Happy Holidays!

I made a game time decision to hold off on posting the next memorable travel moments until after Christmas. Happy holidays, everyone!

The 10 Most Memorable Travel Moments of 2014: No. 7

Big surprise… We’re back in Antarctica for this one! We’ll probably go back once or twice more over the next few days. As a

The 10 Most Memorable Travel Moments of 2014: No. 8

8. The man in 20B and the things I wish I’d said.

DATE: November 11, 2014, Veterans Day
LOCATION: Somewhere between Seattle, Washington and San Francisco, California

Latitude: ~44° 3′ 38” N
Longitude: ~123° 3′ 47” W

Dear Man in 20B on that Delta flight from Seattle to San Francisco on Veterans Day,

The 10 Most Memorable Travel Moments of 2014: No. 9

Sometimes the moments are memorable because they carry weighty, life affirming significance. And sometimes they are memorable just because they are ridiculous. Enter roadside americana. Here’s number 9!

The 10 Most Memorable Travel Moments of 2014: No. 10

At some point during the year, I started keeping a rough map of my travels. I was curious about the visual, but I also wanted to be able to remind myself of where I’d been this year. More so than in years past, my travels this year have been both a personal journey and a personal statement and it seemed like something of which I might want to try to keep track. Admittedly, I missed a few domestic trips and omitted a few legs, but for the most part, this is what my year looked like:

The Mindful Rebel: Traveling Ethically (What does that even mean?!)

Ethical Traveler’s Best Ethical Destinations Awards for 2015 are in! Plus rumination on the rebellion of travel and the importance of being a mindful rebel.

And the winners are…

That Which Does Not Kill Us: Stories from the Road and My Ultimate Rule of Travel (and Life)

A friend once referred to me as a “travel event.” This came as I was recounting yet another odd travel experience, and given that the previous time I saw her, her attempt to get me to the airport was nearly thwarted by some sort of secret marathon (or at least an insufficiently advertised one), I could see her point.