At the end of the year, there is a tendency to look backwards -- the crushing beat of the "Best of 2012" articles, posts, television shows and more is upon us. And it frankly annoys the heck out of me every year.

With that in mind, I decided to...

As 2012 draws to a close, I am looking to make my plans for 2013 and the year is already looking very exciting. As those of you know that follow me along, I try to avoid winter as much as possible. One bonus to being on the road basically year-round...

Summer is about to come to a close (at least in North America), so for those that are just getting back from their big family vacations of the year and are ready to think about their next big adventure, I'm here to help. Sometimes making plans in your head is...

Last September, I, along with two of my travel blogging friends, Jeannie Mark of Nomadic Chick and Nora Dunn of The Professional Hobo, set out on a bit of a travel challenge.

Lisbon to Saigon in 30 days. All on trains, of course.

It was...

Recently, I have had my mind turn to travel spots that can handle my desire for a bit of adventure. Don't get the impression that I'm always hankering for danger: There are plenty of times that I just want to go to a mellow spot and drink some good wine...

The last six or so months of news out of the Middle East has unfortunately scared tourists away from this amazing part of the world, where they would have learned the other side of the grim story you see in the media.

From March to June, I traveled through Lebanon,...

Perhaps the single travel plan in all of 2011 that I am most excited about is the Ultimate Train Challenge that I will be participating in this September. It is going to be a chance to combine a lot of my personal highlights: lots of train travel, meeting...

As I was making my way around-the-world trip in 2009-10 without getting on a single airplane, I chewed up thousands of miles on the Trans-Mongolian train from Moscow to Beijing. Luckily, I stopped for a couple days in Ulan Bator, the capital of Mongolia.

It was September and...

I was reading Johnny Jet's post last week on 10 great travel resources to follow on Twitter and thought that some readers might also want to check out some of the really good travel bloggers out there.

Not too long ago, I started an interview series on...

In February of 2009, I made my first visit to Colombia, near the beginning of my overland RTW adventure. This September, I went back for a couple months to see some parts of the country I didn't see last time through.

The difference in tourism could not have...

Any sort of third world travel means that you are going to have to decide what you want to do about begging -- and the related issue of children attempting to sell you little trinkets and such. From the heart wrenching to the highly annoying, begging is unavoidable when you...

On my forty-first birthday in late 2008, I left Fayetteville, Arkansas on a quest to make it around the world in a year without making any reservations or taking a single airplane. Sixteen months, forty-four countries, and six continents later I succeeded, and though I was forced to violate the...