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Ever wonder what a guidebook writer does all day?
What will travel look like in fifty years? Will heavy suitcases and lineups be annoyances of the past? It is hard to know, but we can speculate.
These stands were decorated with real or paper marigolds, photos, favorite foods and belongings. Each had at least one sugar skull, with the name of the dead written on its forehead.
In the past, vacationers booked chain hotels because they knew what they were getting into. Now it's easy to find user reviews online and take a reasonable risk.
Whether you're on a ski trip, a cruise, at the beach or filming your kid's baseball game, there is one prominent button on your video camera that you're going to want to press -- and should avoid at all costs.
Two of the most important tips I can recommend to help people shoot better travel videos are holding the camera steady and not zooming. So here's how to hold steady.
If you are in need of some rays to emanate through your computer screen, pump up the brightness and bathe in these seven sunny beach escape videos.
For two seasons of The Amazing Race Kent Kaliber and Vyxsin Fiala around the world with a single backpack without leaving behind the black eyeliner and glitter polish.
There are true stories, and then there are Irish stories.
Under ragged shreds of clouds and swirling mist we knock the van down a skinny rock and dirt road and park at the beginning of the Meanean Pass in the round-shouldered Maumturk Mountains. At a signpost made of recycled tires, we equip ourselves with backpacks and wind up a stony pilgrim's path.
Guglielmo Marconi made the first transmission connecting Europe with North America here in 1907 with a 10,000 word memo. And the first non-stop transatlantic flight, a modified World War I Vickers Vimy bomber, crash-landed in a bog here in 1919. Now gulls hang in the air like kites.
Up the stunning R478 coastal road, full of scoops and cuts, pleats and tucks, bights and coves, where the cold Atlantic is engaged in its never-ending battle with the rocky shore: By mid-afternoon, we pull into "The Cliffs of Insanity," as so aptly termed in The Princess Bride.
We pass a string of shuttered pubs. "A good puzzle would be to cross Ireland without passing a pub," James Joyce quipped. But with the fall from Celtic Tiger to Celtic Kitten in the past years, and with new indoor anti-cigarette laws, and stricter laws on drunk driving, folks are staying closer to home.
Since launching AFAR magazine in 2009, we've wondered how we might create events that bring the spirit of experiential travel to life.
Equipped with a GoPro camera -- the small HD recorder usually reserved for action sports -- we explored a variety of neighborhoods in Berlin to make this short film about "urban motion." 
Christmas in Barcelona or Hanukkah in New Jersey? Either way, take a holiday trip with these five holiday-themed clips.
