Heading upriver into the Darien Gap of Panama, you have to time it right. If the tide goes out while you are in the jungle, you’re up the creek without a channel. So we ventured in as the tide was swelling and got out while it was still high. Unfortunately, this makes for a pretty …

In the Pearl Islands of Panama we pulled up to one beach and went snorkeling around a submerged submarine. The tides vary so much in the Pacific that a couple of hours later, the sub was fully exposed. The weird thing is, it’s a submarine built for the U.S. civil war. What the..?!! A guy …

In the latest issue of Perceptive Travel there’s a review of the recent Marco Polo biography from Laurence Bergreen. This is an interesting guide to the life of the original world traveler, a Venetian who ended up going to Constantinople, Palestine, India, Indonesia, Burma, Vietnam, and along the Silk Road from Pakistan through Mongolia and …

“What do you do?” It took me a few years to get to the answer I wanted, but I was pretty darn excited when I could start truthfully answering, “I’m a travel writer.” Now that I’ve been answering that way for quite a few years now, I’ve noticed that nearly everyone seems to ask one …

I had to laugh when I saw this short piece in World Hum, About that Canadian Flag on my Backpack. If there’s one thing that never fails to bug the crap out of me when traveling, it’s those damn maple leafs on every Canuck’s backpack. I even had a man in Sumatra once ask me, …