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Eating Your Travels – Sweden

Special thanks to Jill Thorngren for these awesome Midsummer’s Recipes! Salmon and Ryecake This classic Swedish salmoncake is perfect for the close of summer. The salmon and dill flavors are...

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(Drunkenly) Sprinting Across Town at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe

by Will Johnstone with pictures by Eloise Hindle I woke every morning at the Edinburgh Fringe with a heart of full of optimism, a head that felt like it was full of steel wool, and a set of...

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Pretending to Sleep in Madrid

If New York is the city that never sleeps, Madrid is the city that pretends to sleep but is actually always awake. When the Metro reopens at 6am every morning, it is packed with people who have...

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Peeling Back the Layers of Doha

Doha, the capital and largest city in the peninsular country of Qatar, draws many comparisons to its larger, flashier Gulf neighbor Dubai. To a great extent, these comparisons are valid… Both cities...

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Climbing Into Kathmandu

The South Asian country of Nepal is perhaps most notorious for its sherpas, which shepherd (usually Western) climbers through the treacherous passes and across snow-laden peaks to reach the zenith of...

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Celebrating the Journey: So Fly

You’ve been dreaming about getting away… you’ve got the “away” part down, it’s the “getting” there that’s problematic. If you’re determined to fly, it’s not just the price that matters; you can improve...

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Handling Awkwardness While Traveling

If travel allows us to escape the banality of routine, it also forces us to challenge our conceptions of normal by presenting us with the new, the contradictory, the frustrating. I think that if we’re...

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Why Do So Few Americans Have Passports?

Nearly every time I go abroad—especially to Europe—people remind me that most Americans do not possess passports and express wonder at our unwillingness to travel. This always stings for a few reasons,...

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