Independent Travel Articles

On Open Tickets - Odds'n'Ends
Thinking of buying open tickets? Think again - it's for your own good, says Edward Hasbrouck.

Emma Beyn - Author Biography
The Premier site for travelling and travel information. Author bio/profile for BootsnAll photojournalist Emma Beyn.

In Search of Savages - Gamo-Gofa, Ethiopia
Outside Gamo-Gafa, K searches for members of the Mursi tribe, despite their rep for being, well, a bit mean.

Day 9: Kampala, Uganda - Big Brother's African Brother
Big Brother's African Brother: Day 9 - The group are in disarray due to the news about the gorilla permits.

Day 1: Nairobi, Kenya - Big Brother's African Brother
Big Brother's African Brother: This trip was three years in the making before September 11th set things back another six months. The good news is the extra ...

Day 36: Dar Es Salaam to Iringa, Tanzania - Big Brother's African Brother
Big Brother's African Brother: Day 36 - Natasha and Jason drop the bombshell that they are deserting the truck. Our distraught tour leader wails 'This is ...

India: Kerala - Hippies, Hikers, Hookahs and Harems
Hippies, Hikers, Hookahs and Harems: A sedate cruise through the Keralan backwaters, the 'Hugging Mother' roadshow and a talented, fortune-telling parakeet ...

Day 37: Iringa, Tanzania to Chitimba, Malawi - Big Brother's African Brother
Big Brother's African Brother: Day 37 - The group are excited by the prospect of crossing into a new country, while Ed and Sue contemplate if they have a ...

Day 35: Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania - Big Brother's African Brother
Big Brother's African Brother: Day 35 - Not everyone in the group are overjoyed at being reunited on the truck as it does not take long for reality to set ...

Lilongwe to Blantyre via Zomba - Big Brother's African Brother
Big Brother's African Brother: Sue discovers the etiquette for stowing your live chicken aboard a Malawian bus, but she's a little uncertain when it comes ...

Day 3: Crescent Island, Kenya - Big Brother's African Brother
Big Brother's African Brother: Day 3 - The group go on their first excursion to Crescent Island.

Sri Lanka: West and South Coast - Hikkaduwa, Galle & Ambalangoda ...
Hippies, Hikers, Hookahs and Harems: Squalid train travel, wailing blind beggars, the baby milk scam and lolling on the beach. The Taylors finally make it ...

Day 28: Lushoto, Tanzania - Big Brother's African Brother
Big Brother's African Brother: Day 28 - Woke up to Jason and Natasha having yet another argument - this time about Natasha not wanting to participate in ...

Baker City, Sumpter, Halfway - Rural Oregon Travel Guide ...
In her first entry Sarah Greenbaum crosses the Cascades into Eastern Oregon, where little-visited but friendly towns await.

Local Services - Ashland & Medford - Southern Oregon Travel Guide ...
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Bars and Dance Clubs - Eugene, Oregon Travel Guide
Online travel guide to Eugene, Oregon. Tank up and get down with Eugene's online guide to local bars and dance clubs.

Tillamook - Tillamook County - Rural Oregon Travel Guide
Head up the coast, or just west from Portland, to visit the cheesiest town in Oregon.

Oregon Shakespeare Festival - Ashland - Southern Oregon Travel
A visit to Ashland would be incomplete without seeing a performance at the world-renown Oregon Shakespeare Festival.

Coffee Shops - Ashland - Southern Oregon Travel Guide
From roadside coffee huts to sit-down hangouts, coffee consumption is a passionate pastime in Ashland.

Columbia River Gorge & Hood River - Rural Oregon Travel Guide
From amazing microbrews to more waterfalls than you have film in your camera, a drive through the Columbia River Gorge is mandatory, says Sarah Greenbaum.