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NYT travel writer Seth Kugel on travel experiences that go beyond what you can buy
The travel industry is here to help you; feel free to ignore it (with Seth Kugel)
10 Insights from Pico Iyer’s 2022 TravelCon Keynote Address
Pico Iyer has published 15 books, on subjects ranging from the Dalai Lama to globalism, from the Cuban Revolution to Islamic mysticism. They include such long-running sellers as Video Night in Kathmandu, The Lady and the Monk, The Global Soul, The Open Road and The Art of Stillness. At the same time he has been…
Deviate Live in NYC: The Vagabond’s Way (onstage at KGB Bar with Ari Shaffir)
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Ari Shaffir and Rolf discuss “The Vagabond’s Way” onstage at KGB Bar in NYC.
Reinvent what it means to be an “explorer” (with Kate Harris)
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Kate Harris on reinventing the notion of exploration
The subtler risks of travel carry rich rewards (with Carl Hoffman)
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“Lunatic Express” writer Carl Hoffman on the merits of traveling on local buses, ferries, and trains.
Uncertainty makes for the truest adventures (aka Tim Cahill’s Travel 101)
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Travel-writing icon Tim Cahill on the counterintuitive rules of adventure travel.
Traveling solo opens up new possibilities in a place (with Stephanie Rosenbloom)
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Author Stephanie Rosenbloom on going solo, and savoring travel experiences.
Keeping a journal helps you make sense of the journey (with Lavinia Spalding)
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“Writing Away” author Lavinia Spalding on why you should journal when you travel
Faroese art isn’t exclusive to museums in Tórshavn
The setting of the Listasavn Føroya, the Faroe Islands’ little national art gallery, can at times feel less like a museum than the parkside home of a person who really enjoys art. Michigander Matthew Landrum, who translates Faroese poetry into English (check out his translation of Katrin Ottarsdottir’s Are There Copper Pipes in Heaven), was…
Paul Theroux on the merits of travel and the paradoxes of the global economy
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Paul Theroux on his novel “The Bad Angel Brothers,” and the contradictions of the global economy.
Oh me! Oh life! by Walt Whitman
Of the endless trains of the faithless, of cities fill’d with the foolish, Of myself forever reproaching myself, (for who more foolish than I, and who more faithless?) Of eyes that vainly crave the light, of the objects mean, of the struggle ever renew’d, Of the poor results of all, of the plodding and sordid…