Travel Essay Archive

How to Maintain a Career and Take on Long Term Travel

Posted on October 19, 2010 | 21 Comments
Note: For those of you viewing this in an RSS reader – there are two videos embedded in the post that are likely not displaying for you. Please click over the to site to view them. Thanks! I am now almost exactly mid-way through an...
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The Street Where I Live (Sometimes…)

Posted on October 1, 2010 | 8 Comments
The street I call my own isn’t actually mine. It’s only mine in my heart (for now), and it’s located in the middle of my neighbourhood in Budapest, Hungary. Király Utca (King Street) is my adopted street for many reasons. It’s my community when I’m...
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Travel Bloggers Pledge – Towards a New Ethics in Travel Writing

Posted on September 27, 2010 | 16 Comments
Jump directly to the Travel Bloggers Pledge This Stuff Matters Why do so many of us feel compelled to travel? Why do we save up for months, years even, and forgo other luxuries like bigger houses and nicer cars in order to feed our compulsion...
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Forgotten Places – Playa Hermosa Hotel, San Blas Mexico

Posted on August 23, 2010 | 15 Comments
San Blas, Mexico was founded in 1531 as a busy port of call for the Spanish navy. In the late 1700s over one hundred Spanish families were sent to settle there and shortly afterward the small seaside town became an official naval base. According to...
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Eat, Pray, Love and Safety in Women’s Solo Travel

Posted on August 3, 2010 | 6 Comments
As the cinematic release of the Elizabeth Gilbert’s best selling travel memoir Eat, Pray, Love draws nearer it is inevitable that people will become engaged in debating not just the artistic merit of the book and movie, but also the phenomenon of women undertaking travel...
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Making Temporary Places Feel Like Home

Posted on August 3, 2010 | 2 Comments
I have been on the road now for just over three months. I love to travel but like many people I also crave some stability: a little corner of the world to call my own. Sometimes it’s challenging to recreate a sense of comfort and...
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The Decline of Casa Kimberley – Puerto Vallarta, Mexico

Posted on July 23, 2010 | 18 Comments
Puerto Vallarta wasn’t always the tourism mecca it is today. Prior to the 1960s it was just a small port town with about 10,000 inhabitants; and then in 1964 Hollywood royalty Richard Burton, Ava Gardner and Director John Houston moved in to film The Night...
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Eating on the Road: Local Food and Long Distance Cravings

Posted on July 19, 2010 | 11 Comments
We’ve been on the road now for just over two and a half months and upon reflection, the experience has really outlined how much I relate food with comfort. The namesake for this website, Mark Twain, spent a great deal of time in Europe eating...
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Going to Haiti

Posted on July 16, 2010 | 3 Comments
On January 12, 2010 my life changed a little bit but for many Haitian people it changed a lot. When the earthquake shook that nation it destroyed infrastructure, separated family members, left many children without parents and wounded hearts around the world. Following the earthquake...
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Seeing Australia Through Its Telescopes

Posted on July 12, 2010 | 4 Comments
I took my first flight 12 years ago, when I was 22. I’d just started my Astrophysics PhD, and it was ‘my turn’ to head out to Australia to use one of the telescopes. The other members of my academic group never really seemed that...
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