travel

Swann Galleries Offers Virtual Travel Via Travel Posters
By Everett Potter Exotic travel is at a standstill right now for most of us, but the next best thing may well be acquiring a vintage travel poster. Maybe an Art Deco example that depicts a beach on the Riviera, or a midcentury airline poster or perhaps a Cunard poster
Why Right Now Is The Best Time To Plan Your Travel Bucket List
By Larry Olmsted “When we travel again, having had time to think about how much we miss traveling and exploring, will we do anything differently? Will we make better use of our time investment by ensuring that our travels have a defined goal in mind?” I sure hope so.

Foiling Pick-Pockets: The New Women’s Line From Clothing Arts
By Everett Potter I first met Adam Rapp in Namibia a few years ago at the Adventure Travel World Summit (ATWS). He was there to show off some rather cool shirts and pants that he called Pick-Pocket Proof, designed after a year of vagabonding around the world. His company is

The 10 Coolest Places to Go in 2017
By Ann Abel The world keeps getting bigger. Every serious traveler I know has a wish list that grows longer, not shorter, every time they dip into a new region or hear about where someone else has been. So how to prioritize? What’s newly (or still) safe or newly uncovered?

Bluffworks: Pants for the Road
By Everett Potter The ideal semi-dressy pants for traveling don’t wrinkle and are light enough for warm weather but give you a bit of warmth when temperatures plunge. They should have a few clever pockets but not endless appendages consisting of cargo pockets, buttons, loops and zippers that you never

Artful Traveler: Travel by Cookbook
By Bobbie Leigh With so many recipes online, who is buying cookbooks? There is no reliable answer, but for all the home cooks who clip recipes from newspapers. print them from the web and file them away somewhere, a cookbook you can pull off a shelf and refer to easily
Gifts to Go
By Jules Older For travelers, there’s no shortage of toys and tools, gear and gadgets. The best of the lot make great gifts to go. Here are some of my favorites. Trekking Poles You will get funny looks. You will be asked, oh, five times per mile,

Travels with Larry Olmsted: How to Travel to Cuba — Legally & Expertly
In the nearly two decades that I have been writing on travel, few destinations have interested my audience as much as Cuba – I am asked about it all the time. For sure some of this is based on the principle of forbidden fruit, and some people are interested simply

West on Books: Ode To Lawrence Osborne
By Richard West The British novelist and travel writer, Lawrence Osborne, writes in The Naked Tourist, “Few writers have a real voice, and when one does, the effect is nothing less than amorous…Mead [Margaret] has a voice in the act of travel.” Exactly what I vastly admire about Osborne’s five
The Interview: Paul Theroux
Interview by Everett Potter I can’t think of a better guide to Africa than the travel writer and novelist Paul Theroux. He went to Malawi in 1963 as a Peace Corps volunteer when he was 22 and traveled extensively through the eastern half of the continent to write the bestseller