Perhaps the most amazing aspect of travel is its ability to reach down inside us and change the very bedrock of our thinking.
Approached with an open mind and an open heart, travel not only helps us better understand ourselves and others, it can also explode the myths and prejudices we grew up with—preconceived notions we might not even know exist.
Take the case of a friend of mine who was raised in Rhodesia (now the very sad country of Zimbabwe).
When she was growing up in the 1960s and ’70s, she thought it completely natural that 8 million black people lived, literally, at the beck and call of 100,000 white people.













Los Angeles and San Francisco may generally get the headlines when it comes to travel, but California’s third city, San Diego, is a hidden gem.
Flying standby is a common enough practice, but what do you need to know about it?
There’s lots of stuff in the news, most of it not good—surcharges are going up, fees are going up, aging airplanes. But right now it’s all about the ongoing tragedy in Myanmar, where the death toll may be up as high as 100,000 and disaster relief is being stymied by the government.
With the summer months approaching, it can get more difficult to secure a campground in one of the United States’ national parks.