Traveling USA

After the desert sun goes down over San Jacinto Mountain, Palm Springs really heats up. The nightlife is colorful, diverse and exciting with a casually elegant vibe that’s all California.

Hunters is a trendy club with spirited DJs, go go dancers  and a pounding dance floor that gets busier and wilder as the night goes on. While the party’s getting started, play billards, surf the ‘net or lounge on the finely misted outdoor terrace with a happy hour special. It’s all good. 

The Oasis has charismatic DJs running an amazing sound system, two bars, an indoor courtyard, a game room, theme nights, a piano bar with sing a longs, and perhaps the biggest dance floor you’ve ever seen.  And The Oasis stays open until 4 am!

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.post .storycontent .subtitle { width: 52%; float: left; margin-right: 3%;} Meet two 23 year old filmmakers who turned a trip to Mongolia into a documentary on PBS - which has now become a series.

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Christopher Rufo and Keith Ochwat / Roughing It Creators

Drinking and travel tend to go hand in hand.

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.post .storycontent .subtitle { width: 52%; float: left; margin-right: 3%;} Here are 10 people who stood up for peace and human rights. And inspired countless others to do the same.

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When looking back through the mystique of history, we tend to impose super-human status to those who stood up for their beliefs in a revolutionary way.

For some of them, the decision to act was conscious defiance to the status quo. For others, they were simply in the right place at the wrong time, and found themselves acting on behalf of others lacking the courage to speak out.

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Movies have the power to inspire, to take us on a trip without requiring us to get off the couch.

A scene from “O Brother Where Art Thou?”

One traveling garden gnome. A star-crossed couple on a sinking ocean liner. Eleven crooks on a European heist. And Bond??”James Bond.

These are just four of the travelers who didn’t make it onto our roundup of the twenty greatest travel films of all time. Not because we didn’t like Amelie, Titanic, Ocean’s 11 or the Bond movies, mind you, but because we just didn’t have the space.

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Knowing ourselves and our communities, and seeing them in unison, is the first step in fostering the divine world spirit.

A wise Indian man once said to me, “Perfection is a rare and sporadic event.” For travelers especially, this rings true.

From a traveler’s perspective, every foreign country is a chance for something to go ridiculously, horribly amok.

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