Vampire Tourism Good Enough to Sink Your Teeth Into
Imagine Danny and Sandy with fangs - it just doesn't get better! With vampire books, movies, and television shows abounding, it’s no wonder vampire tourism is now taking off as well.  Billed as the current cultural phenomenon, vampires  are now welcoming outsiders to share their lives for a short time as cultural tourists. We all know that vampires have long been shunted to the side in favor of other “my

Frugal Traveler DC Baby-Centric Story Leaves a Lot to be Desired
"Dad, let's spend all day on a bus together so we can bond." In one of the most inane traveler stories we’ve read in a while, the NYT Frugal Traveler takes his infant daughter for a day trip to Washington, DC.  From the ludicrous reasoning to spend 8 hours total in one day on a bus (so the 10 month old

“Surviving Paradise” a Wonderful Read
Peter Rudiak-Gould’s new memoir, Surviving Paradise: One Year on a Disappearing Island, is a unique and conflicted account of his year as a young adult volunteer living among the Marshallese people of the small island of Ujae.  When he says small, he means small:  the island is home to only arou

Interview with Ayako Ezaki of The International Ecotourism Society
Last week, Ayako Ezaki of The International Ecotourism Society (TIES) was kind enough to answer some ecotourism-related questions we had for her.  See her thoughtful and informative answers below, followed by her bio.  Thanks, Ayako! 1.       What’s the difference between ecotourism, responsible tourism, sustainable tourism, etc?  Are they really different words for the same thing?   I think that the differences between these terms lie in the ways they a

The Onion’s Weekend Edition
As we’ve said before, the headlines are the best part of The Onion so here’s their front cover/headline-only weekend edition for this week.  Of course, we don’t condone violence but we don’t you have to chuckle just a bit? Courtesy of The Onion