What do you think of when you hear “adventure tour”? Rugged hikes and pitching a tent that you’ve carried for 10 miles? Or a walk in the woods and then some wine by a fire pit before retiring to an air-conditioned suite? There are options for everyone, but they require different levels of involvement…
Feynan Ecolodge and Wadi Dana beyond. Photo © Feynan Ecolodge The sun had already set when we arrived at Feynan Ecolodge, after a long, winding drive into this remote corner of Jordan. We’d gotten off our bus at the “Feynan Reception Centre,” where we transferred to smaller four-wheel-drive vehicles, owned and driven by local Bedouin….
I started my first year-long backpacking trip around the world in the early 1990s and did two more after that. Since then I’ve heard and read a lot of bad travel advice, much of it written by people stuck in a NYC or London office who don’t travel much. A lot of that travel advice…
With high profile neighbors like Los Angeles to the south and Santa Barbara to the north, the seaside city of Oxnard tends to linger in the lesser known shadows of the stunning California coastline. A long history of agriculture combined with wide, soft sand beaches, and the most direct access to Channel Islands National Park,…
Travel decisions have a way of sticking with you and haunting you with regrets long after the other bad memories have faded. The year was 1998 and it was our fourth or fifth time landing in Bangkok. We were losing count, but we had been there enough times that we knew how to get around…
As a Slow Travel practitioner for more than a decade now, I’m clearly partial to the many benefits it provides. But I also believe that my experiences make me an astute observer of why this approach to travel works so well. At the risk of provoking controversy, I’ll just come right out and say it: I…
Would you sleep in a cell at Saintlo Ottawa Jail Hostel? Do you think a regular hotel is too boring? Want the chance to see a ghost? Then if you’re visiting Ottawa, Canada’s national capital, you might want to book a stay in a jail cell — in a former jail turned boutique hostel, that…
One of Los Cabos first big hotels built in the 1990s, Marina Fiesta Resort has an incredible spot right on the city’s marina. The hotel takes full advantage of this location offering private boat trips out to see the Los Cabos arch and was built so that most rooms have a view of the boat-filled…
When searching out a road trip stay, I look for places close to whatever interstate is taking us from here to there and near don’t miss attractions. I found that perfect road trip stay at My Place in Jamestown, North Dakota. This smaller hotel chain has a few locations in 26 states from Alaska to…
