Travel Lifestyle

FINCA TATIN, Guatemala- A group of four young French backpackers came into the Finca Tatin. We picked them up in Livingston, they rode our boat to the hotel, everything was normal. My wife, Chaya, gave them an introduction to the finca, she requested that they mark the price of the boat ride on their tab. [...]

FINCA TATIN, Guatemala- Four walls of unpainted planks stacked end on end, a corrugated steel roof, and a cement floor is all I need. I have extravagance: I sit on a beer crate and my computer sits on two, we both have luxury. I hear voices coming from far away. Far away is the key [...]

FINCA TATIN, Guatemala- The day begins before 7 AM in the eastern Guatemala jungle on the Rio Dulce. I wake up, quietly slip out of bed to avoid waking my still sleeping wife and baby, slip on a pair of shorts, grab my computer bag, a tooth brush, toothpaste, and walk outside. This will probably [...]

Caitlin Evans from WanderEverywhere.com is a traveler — she acquires the resources that she needs to live and travel while on the road. She does not have to go home, her trip does not have an undisputed end date, she does not have to go back to living a real life again once her vacation [...]

SUCHITOTO, El Salvador- Petra came down with a fever a couple nights ago. It was a stressful night and morning for the Shepard camp — doctor visits are generally pretty gruesome ordeals, much more so when it is your baby that needs to go. The situation has now stabilized, Petra’s fever is now gone, she [...]

Do you have to stop traveling once you have children? Hello Wallace, If your life is set up for traveling then it does not seem to me as if having children will be that much of an obstacle — they will just change your parameters, but they won’t stop you from moving about the world [...]

FINCA TATIN, near the Rio Dulce, Guatemala- I have always known that it would come down to this: a hut on an off shoot of a river, in the middle of a jungle, somewhere. A place where the rain comes down as it will, where the ground is waterlogged, where walls of green surround you [...]

They live on the road, they travel full time in circuits around Guatemala, they have fake names that I can hardly understand, and they seem squeamish about having their photos taken. Carnival workers are travelers, or derelicts. I met up with a couple of them who run a traveling pizza booth in Rio Dulce, on [...]

PUERTO PLATA, Dominican Republic– Two Ways to Argue when Traveling, A lesson in conflict resolution

When I don’t get my way when traveling, when tossed through the rounds of some kind of costumer service system, my reaction is to become a little irate. This usually works reasonably well.

But this is not the only way to flounder through a situation in travel where you are stand on the precipice of being ripped off or those times when you try to assuage an error of your own judgment.