Mark Twain’s wit, humor and knack for misadventure are so hilarious, his words remain fresh to this day.
Mark Twain enjoying a cigar on the porch.
Good sex can distract you from a relationship??s deeper problems.
The same principle applies to books. A good plot is like good sex - it can distract you from the sort of sloppy, dispassionate writing that some people refer to as ???bestsellers.???
The worst thing about hippies: they??re out there. Somewhere. And you can??t tell by looking at ???em anymore.
Photo courtesy of hippies.
Why don’t all you damn hippies get a life?
Looking around, you don’t see many hippies these days. Sure, you see bellbottoms, tie-dyes and Birkenstocks ?? why not, they’re comfortable ?? but the people in them don??t consider themselves hippies.
Ekaterina Petrovna, BNT??s resident fortune teller, explores an abiding question of love on the road.
Photo by Konstantin Sutyagin
For single travelers, there is always an anticipation of meeting someone on the road. You wonder: maybe this special someone will be the love of your life?
My travel experiences have always been one big disaster in the love area. Some say planes are a good place to meet handsome men, but I either end up on a seat all alone, or next to a family packed with children.
Tags: The, Laws, Love, The, RoadMusic reminds us of our travels, just as much as it inspires us to travel. It urges us to unfold the maps, pack your backpack and hit the road.
Photo by Cedric Pieterse
Every time I listen to Pink Floyd??s Shine on You Crazy Diamond, I think back to the Makgadi-kgadi Pans in Botswana. These pans cover 6 177.6 square miles, and from the middle, you can see the curvature of the Earth.
Tags: Reasons, Love, Music, The, JourneyIt’s that wonderful time of the week where I round up the latest and greatest that has caught my eye. Here’s your weekend reader:
Photo from Virgin Galactic
If you use your cellphone, the plane will crash. Cruise ships are all-inclusive. Recirculated cabin air on planes will make you sick. Just three of the busted travel myths in this article from Yahoo.
Jeff Nickles was so inspired by a BNT post, he wrote his top excuses for staying stuck in a travel rut.
Tags: BNT, Best, the, WeekOnly by choosing the right retreat will you achieve the relaxation necessary to let go and discover the true depths of your yogic journey.
Photo courtesy of Cam Karsten
Yoga is the art of release. It is the study of one??s concentration upon the diverse layers of the body, mind and spirit.
This ancient tradition of breath, movement and meditation, developed within the Hindu culture of the Indian subcontinent, becomes the practitioner??s sacred ritual.
Tags: How, Choose, Your, Perfect, Yoga, RetreatThe world is beautiful and harsh in all its infinite possibilities. Whenever I travel, what I call ???The Tramp and the Kid Doctrine??? guides me.
Photo by FreaksAnon
“You are a hobo,” declared my friend of a decade. I stared at her, perplexed, and racked my brains to figure out why she was calling me a bum.
Maybe it had something to do with the fact that I was planning a trip to Peru despite not having worked for several months.
Tags: Lessons, Hope, From, The, Kid, Saigon
Has flying kept you from exploring the world? Here’s some easy ways to help you get over your fear.
For years I found excuses not to travel out of the country. It cost too much. I had to finish my education. I simply couldn??t go when the weather was cold.
The truth of the matter, however, was that I was afraid to fly.
This went on until my desire to explore the world overpowered my innate fear of rising above the clouds in a steel soda straw. So I had a few martinis and hopped on a flight out of the United States.
Tags: Simple, Ways, Conquer, Your, Fear, Flying
I’d like to kick off this week’s edition of Tales From the Road with a quote from the stellar travel journalist Robert Kaplan, from a speech originally published in the Columbia Journalism Review:
“Journalism desperately needs a return to terrain, to the kind of firsthand, solitary discovery of local knowledge best associated with old-fashioned travel writing.
Tags: Tales, From, The, Road, Agent, Orange, Naypidyaw, Surfing, Panama, Sudan, Nazis, Paraguay
Illustration by Jacob Bielanski
Take a look at this website. The text, the picture above, the pictures below, the logo - all of them represent a separate request by your computer to a server hosted somewhere else on the planet.
With each request, a packet was generated that had to find a path in myriad of trails. It is very likely that each one of these requests took a different path. And it will be a whole new set of paths and destinations when you click away from here.
Tags: Does, The, Internet, Cheapen, Your, Travel, Experience