To escape the suffocating traffic and staccato of firecrackers that besiege Taiwan every Chinese New Year, several friends and I booked tickets on a budget carrier, Spirit of Manila, to the city of Coron on Busuanga Island in the Philippines for five days of snorkeling, island hopping, and rum drinking. The tickets were very cheap, … Read more
After seeing these photos, what do you think of Kyrgyzstan? Would you travel there?
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I met Rita in Batad, one of the small villages perched among the 2000-year-old rice terraces of the jagged Cordillera mountain range on the island of Luzon in the Philippines. No roads reach the mountain village. To get to Batad my friends and I hired a jeepney in Banue and rode an hour along a windy dirt … Read more
A lot of my travel blogger friends are always on the move. They count the number of new countries they visit each year and many seem to have the goal of visiting every country in the world. I don’t.
Photo credit: Alexander Hahn Iceland isn’t a typical travel spot. It’s a vast and mystical place a place that draws tourists back year after year. It may seem puzzling that people are putting a destination with chilly temperatures, sleepy towns (aside from the country’s capital), barren land, and roughly 18 hours of darkness in the winter months … Read more
My greatest passion is telling moving stories about people and places around the world through words, images, and video. I studied writing and photography (both formally at the University of Victoria, and on my own) for my entire life. I’m an award-winning blogger, the About.com Snowboarding Expert (now rebranded as thought.co) a Huffington Post columnist, and have written Travel + Escape, Transitions … Read more