Travel By Lightfoot: Baking With Bedouins In The Sinai Desert
In the arid wilderness of the Sinai Desert, fresh-baked bread nourishes body and spirit.
Vermont travel writer Jen Rose Smith covers human-powered adventure, exploration, food, and spirits from her home in the Green Mountains. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic Adventure, CNN Travel, AFAR, Rolling Stone,USA Today, and Outside Online.
In addition to her work as a freelancer, Jen is the author of five travel guidebooks to Vermont and New England, including Moon New England Road Trips, which was selected for the 2018 New England Society Book Awards.
Lonely Planet: The best day trips from Montréal
Between Montréal’s chic cafes and open-air markets, getting out of town can be hard to do. But venture into the surrounding Eastern Townships, the mountainous Laurentians, or Montérégie’s rolling farm country and you’ll be rewarded with French-accented villages, shady pine forests, and maple syrup fresh from the tap.
CNN Travel: Exploring American Territories
White sand, turquoise water and an American flag lofted by tropical winds -- it's a scene worthy of a picture postcard.
But if you're imagining Key West or Kauai, try again. Think beyond the 50 states that claim a star on the American flag, because from the island of Saipan to American Samoa's Pago Pago harbor, the United States' territorial claims stretch across the globe.
Adventure.com: What can an economist teach travelers about risk?
After a close call on a flight over New Jersey, writer Jen Rose Smith wanted to learn more about how travelers can better deal with risk and uncertainty. So she got in touch with Allison Schrager—an economist, of all things.
USA Today Go Escape: Katahdin Woods and Waters
Clear rivers and hiking trails unspool through dense forest in Katahdin Woods
and Waters. An ancient landscape, it’s also one of America’s youngest national monuments.
WorldNomads' USA Guide: A Slice of Portugal on Cape Cod
Steering between Cape Cod’s cranberry bogs and sand dunes, I spin the car radio dial in search of music. What I find surprises me, because instead of pop hits or country, I pick up the haunting sounds of a fado song coming from a Portuguese station.
USA Today Go Escape: Historic New England Hotels
Treat yourself to old-fashioned comfort on your next visit to New England, where hotels that combine modern luxury and vintage charm offer
travelers a chance to step back in time.
Backpacker Magazine: Four wildflower day hikes
No Instagram filter needed: Find a world of color on these four trips to springtime
blooms.
Fodor's: 12 Ways to Learn a Foreign Language While Traveling
Ditch the classroom for a real-world adventure and learn a language along the way.
Air Chicago Magazine: Discover Cairo's New, Old Kingdom
When the billion-dollar Grand Egyptian Museum opens in Giza
in 2020, Egypt’s oldest treasures will gleam within a brand new
frame.
Condé Nast Traveler: Hotels Where You Can Chase the Midnight Sun
For the ultimate midnight sun experience, travel beyond the Arctic Circle—at 66˚ of latitude, that invisible line marks the place where the sun stays above the horizon for 24 hours on the solstice.
CNN Travel: Amazing destinations with almost no tourists
In 2017, nearly 87 million international tourists arrived in France. That same year, a mere 2,000 international tourists visited the South Pacific country of Tuvalu, where it's easy to find a beach — or even an entire island — to yourself.
HuffPost: Weirdest historical diets
According to historian of medicine Louise Foxcroft, fad diets have been around since the 16th century, when a tell-all weight loss book by Venetian merchant Luigi Cornaro became a surprise bestseller with tips on extreme calorie restriction.
AFAR: 11 Lost Cities You Can Actually Visit
Whether you’re among the dusty palaces at Xanadu or walking along ancient Troy’s battlements, you can channel your inner explorer while visiting these ruins, whose cultural breadth and evocativeness show how enduring lost cities can be.
Nexos: Colombia is for Cyclists
An adventurous bikepacking trip through the Andes reveals a culture where cycling is sacred.
CNN: Visiting a country that doesn't exist
A buffer zone splits this easternmost Mediterranean island in two, a 180-kilometer scar maintained by United Nations peacekeepers in one of the longest-running missions in history.
Backpacker: Hard Hikes
Whether it’s big elevation changes, big miles, or big moves, these 23 routes prove that the best hikes are often the hardest. There’s a world of adventure out there—if you’re strong enough to seize it.
Atlas Obscura: The Istanbul Food Detectives Recreating Ottoman Cuisine
Here’s a basic shopping list if you’re chef to the Ottoman sultan: The dried glands of a musk deer, a bushel of violets, ambergris from whale bellies, and handfuls of desert-harvested frankincense.
Adventure.com: The Human Carpentry of Catalonia's Castellers
Equal parts flesh and architecture, the castellers’ craft is a kind of human carpentry, using their own muscle, sinew and bone as tools.
Backpacker Magazine: Holy Hikes
Make a modern-day pilgrimage to one of these sacred sites.
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