Our best travel guides, stories and lessons from almost twenty years of traveling the world together — guided by curiosity and respect. Explore offbeat destinations, epic hikes, delicious street food and the kind of encounters that change how you see a place. Pick a topic or a destination and dig in.
Food Guides: Eat Local, Eat Well
One of the best ways to explore a place and connect with local people is through its cuisine — the dishes, street food and markets worth traveling across the country, or even the world, to find. Our comprehensive food guides from around the world provide you with all you need to know to navigate a new cuisine and seek out the best traditional dishes, street food, snacks, drinks and more. Read all food guides here.
Hiking Guides: How to Plan, Prepare and Pack for Your Next Hike
Our comprehensive hiking guides are ideal for travelers interested in day hikes, multi-day treks or just immersing in nature to recharge. We highlight all the details from our favorite hikes from around the world, including a focus offbeat and unusual treks that provide an incredible experience, but often without the crowds. You'll find all need to know to plan, prepare, and pack for your next hike or trek. Read all Hiking Guides here.
Country and City Guides: Explore the Unusual
These are not your ordinary destination travel guides. Our Experiential Travel Guides highlight offbeat and local experiences that help you create your own itinerary that goes way beyond the top ten list. They are intended for curious travelers who want to connect locally, go deeper into a place and are interested in unusual destinations. Our country, city and regional guides include practical travel planning details like transportation, accommodation, and other information to help with the logistics of organizing your trip. Read all Experiential Travel Guides here
How to Travel More Sustainably: Travel with Purpose and Impact
Our articles on sustainable travel show how travel can be a force for good and how the decisions we make to travel more sustainably can not only enrich our own travel experiences, but also benefit and contribute to the people and places we visit. Ideal for respectful travelers interested in intersection of deeper travel experiences and caring for our planet and its people as they are filled with practical ways to do this. Read all Sustainable Travel articles here.
Personal Growth: Life Lessons Learned on the Road
How travel can be one of the best tools for personal growth and enrichment. We share some of the life lessons we've learned from twenty years on the road together that has provided us insight into empathy, mindfulness, meditation, comfort zones, two-way storytelling, being present, connection and more. These are life and professional skills that we can bring back home. Travel doesn't just teach us about the world, but it teaches us about our place in the world. Read all personal growth articles here.
Destinations: Browse by Place
Prefer to start your exploration with a part of the world or country? Select one of the regions below to see everything we've written about the region and the countries we've visited. All our travel guides and stories are based on first hand experiences from our travels around the world. See all Destinations here.