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Travel > Travel Diaries & Adventures (Other) The benefits of travel in your life experiences
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Only about 10% of Americans have a passport. This fact, albeit an overused one, continually beguiles and intrigues me. Why is it that such a small percentage of the population of my country is interested in seeing 'what lies beyond'? What is it that keeps Americans in America, more or less (save for the occasional cruise to ... More..

Travel > Asia Travel destinations: Northern Laos
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Tucked away in the shadows of rippling limestone mountains and inaccessible by road sits the tiny riverside village Meuang Ngoi Neua. About four hours north of Luang Prabang (6 hours by boat), and an hour upstream from Nong Khiaw, Meuang Ngoi Neua is a serene and isolated illustration of simple serenity. Here, life is unrush... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Environment (Other) Is it fair to ask underdeveloped countries to "go green" when many advanced industrial countries owe their success to destructive environmental practices?Smallicon
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Asking a developing country to go green as we go on with our own destructive environmental practices is blantantly wrong, ethnocentric and arrogant. Instead, we need to address what our own industrially 'advanced' countries are doing, or not doing, to propogate environmentally and socially sustainable practices. Remember: th... More..

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