If you’re looking for a culinary experience that takes you back to nature, how about something known as foraging?

Foraging means you pick the ingredients for your next meal, which guarantees that your food is fresh and local.

WaterColor Inn in Northwest Florida offers a four-day foraging package for $1,500.

Adventurous foodies learn how to harvest honey, go crabbing, and even try something called oyster tonging and flounder gigging.

After all your hard work, chefs prepare your harvested goods into a meal for you.

At the Treetops Luxury Lodge and Estate in New Zealand, a Maori chief helps you forage for edible bites along an indigenous food trail, starting at $185 per person.

And believe it or not, you can actually forage for your food in …

My four-month study abroad sojourn in Stirling, Scotland was just like the pamphlets claimed: an educational immersion into a local university.

But, for all the counselors, books and informational sessions meant to make my adjustment easier, nothing prepared me for being chased from pubs by men in kilts, from offending locals when I declined a cup of coffee, and all the other misadventures I experienced as a college student let loose in Europe.

While I still maintain that experience is the best teacher, here are a few tales of caution from those of us who have been there:

Between bed bugs and blacklight exposés, hotel cleanliness has become a hot topic.

The truth is, it usually doesn’t matter how nice your hotel is, the very nature of hotels makes them susceptible to all manner of germs, dirt, and general grossness.

Fortunately, you don’t have to avoid hotels and public accommodations. There are plenty of rather simple things you can do to make your hotel room cleaner.

Find out what they are in this video–and what to watch out for–after the jump. (click “More Travel” below)

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Although I have visited Ireland more than any other country on the globe, my first stint there was not a pretty sight. I was traveling alone and trying to convince myself that this was a good thing.

But the truth was I was miserable. My sister and I had traveled through Scotland and Wales and England together and when we got to Ireland she announced that she wanted to go off on her own.

Which worked fine for her—my sister has always been infinitely braver and more adventurous than me. But I was pissed and terrified.

Luckily, I had also been an English major. Faced with no idea whatsoever what to do with …

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