Chris Gray Faust

My trip planning routine has changed in the past few years. I've always done the bulk of my research online, then bought a country or city-specific guidebook to carry with me on the ground. But now I find that I'm often skipping the bulky Lonely Planet or Moon Guide in...

Should this year's travel fantasy Eat Pray Love drive you to wanderlust, you're in luck. On September 14, free seminars on how to plan extended travel will be held around the country.

Gathered together under the umbrella Meet Plan Go, the seminars will feature speakers who have taken career...

Every year, especially around this time, all-inclusive resorts in the Mexico and Caribbean start advertising too-good-to-be-true rates. Should you take advantage of them?

Leaving aside the fact that it's hurricane season, the question you should ask yourself before you choose an all-inclusive resort is simple: What kind of vacation...

I remember exactly when I heard Nirvana for the first time.

I had taken up residence in a hostel meant for long-term travelers, on leafy Store Street a few blocks from the University of London. Armed with a work permit and a...

One of the first lessons learned in travel is that things don't always happen the way that you plan.

Planes are missed. Or pictures are lost. Or a bank of clouds plants itself in front of the volcano that you drove several hours to...

I'm not going to lie: If I had my way, I'd live in hotels full-time. And if I'm really honest about things? My hotel of choice would be one of the sprawling Victorian fantasies built by the Canadian Pacific Railway in the late 1800s.

Attending your spouse's high school reunion can be a daunting experience. You're faced with lots of people you don't know, in a situation that can be high stress, depending on how your spouse felt about high school. Insecurities can easily re-emerge when you come...

Travel can teach you much about a potential mate. I knew I would marry my husband shortly into our first trip together; as he maneuvered our 4 x 4 through narrow mountain roads in Dominica, dodging chickens, dogs and children without breaking a sweat,...

I'm no stranger to health problems on the road. That's why I tote a virtual drug store with me when I travel, including Cipro, sleeping pills, Neosporin, Visine, Tums, Claritin, Imodium, insect repellent with DEET, several types of band aids, Ibuprofen and baby aspirin.

But none of this prepared me...

Be it the Shroud of Turin, Jim Morrison's gravesite or any house where the Real World filmed, pilgrimages have always been a motivation for travel. Our collective soul, it seems, yearns to visit the source of the things that move us, whether the place...

Today is the last day that I'll walk through USA TODAY's glass and marble lobby, itself a monument to flusher times.

I've been laid off from my dream job, and I'm not going to lie. It sucks. I enjoyed almost everything about my immediate world there, from my globe-trotting reporters...