One of my fondest memories in the three years I spent backpacking around the world was the three weeks I hiked along some of the world’s highest mountains on the Annapurna Circuit in Nepal. It was the perfect long-term trek: gorgeous scenery, places to stay in every village, and no roads, just footpaths. Alas, that …

Often when I visit a country I take a stroll through a typical supermarket looking for the screaming bargains. What’s a deal here? I’m writing this while traveling through Guatemala, which is certainly one of the cheapest places to travel and one of the cheapest places to live. Here’s what I picked up yesterday in …

Now that my home country has a national tourism campaign with a budget instead of relying on the 50 individual states to do all the work, the USA is actually acting like it gives a s%#t whether people come visit or not. Last year we eased up the daunting visa process for countries like Chile …

When a place is getting bad press, do you follow the sheep who run away? Or do you act like a contrarian traveler and take advantage of the temporary opportunity? Like an investor who shuns the hot stock at its peak and buys the out-of-favor values for bigger returns, the biggest payoff for your travel …

We kicked things off with an eight-year retrospective in January, then presented some of the best travel writing of 2014 the rest of the year in the virtual pages of Perceptive Travel. That issue marked the debut of Canadian writer Jerry Kobalenko, a man who thinks its fun to hike across snow-blown plains in sub-zero …