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Festival Of Colors: New York City

Festival Of Colors: New York City It's the weekend of one of New York City's Holi Festival of Colors and spring is just beginning to appear in the cloudless and bright blue sky. This particular event is being held outdoors in an elusive location in East Flatbush, Brooklyn. The address was only released a ...

Video Of The Day: Walking Sri Lanka

The folks at The Perennial Plate have done it again, just like they always do. They've created another video that manages to pair perfectly suited music against beautiful and intimate shots of a country's land and people. In this video from their time spent in Sri Lanka, ...

International Budget Guide 2013: Oaxaca, Mexico

International Budget Guide 2013: Oaxaca, Mexico If you are seeking an authentic and affordable taste of Mexico, look no further than Oaxaca. The southwestern Mexican city has come a long way since the political protests of 2006, where non-violent activists clashed with corrupt government officials and militia in ...

Layover Report: Where To Eat At Miami, Lima, And Bogota International Airports

Layover Report: Where To Eat At Miami, Lima, And Bogota International Airports I just returned from three weeks in Bolivia and Paraguay. In that time, I had 12 flights, five of which were required to get me from my home in Colorado to La Paz. Now why, you may ask, in this age of expedited air travel, does it take so many connections to travel 4,512 ...

Love French Wine? You'll Love the French Wine Metro Map

Love French Wine? You'll Love the French Wine Metro Map There's something about the design of subway maps, and not just for plotting metro lines across cities. For those looking to master French wine regions, look no further. Combining the simplicity of the Paris metro map and the complexity of France's numerous wine ...

The Kimchi-ite: A Tour Through Hongdae, The Center Of Korean Youth Culture

The Kimchi-ite: A Tour Through Hongdae, The Center Of Korean Youth Culture Seoul has no shortage of unique neighborhoods worth visiting and it is certainly not at a loss for places to go drinking. However, there is only one true place where the youth of South Korea go en masse for so many of their desires and that place is Hongdae. Taking its ...

How To Eat Bolivian Street Food (Without Shame)

How To Eat Bolivian Street Food (Without Shame) There's a certain breed of traveler who will, often to their detriment, go to extreme lengths to avoid looking like a tourist. I know, because I'm one of them. Whatever spawned this phobia is anyone's guess, but I really, really, really dislike standing out in a crowd, ...

Eating With Locals The Easy Way

Eating With Locals The Easy Way There was once a time when travelers were a rare species, so venturing off into foreign lands often meant being invited into the homes of generous locals where you were treated to lavish meals. This kind of thing still occasionally happens in developing countries, but ...

Travel Like A Boss: Secret Speakeasy, Please Don't Tell - Secret New York Food Spots Part III

Like "Best Pizza" and "Most Delicious Bagel" lists, New York City also has its own unofficial hot dog competition outside of Nathan's annual gorging-on-the-beach. Amongst the contenders, I side with Crif Dogs in the East Village, hands down. While you can always grab a bun ...

Get Personalized Guides For Food And Drink With Eight Spots

Get Personalized Guides For Food And Drink With Eight Spots If you are traveling in a big city and want restaurant recommendations, it can be overwhelming to turn to online review sites like Trip Advisor or Yelp that list hundreds of places, many of which are irrelevant to your tastes and preferences. A new website launches today, ...

Video Of The Day: Brooklyn Stop-Motion Tour

"Brooklyn Brewery Mash - A trip through BK in 3000 photos" from Paul Trillo on Vimeo. This stop-motion tour of Brooklyn is pretty cool. As a tribute to Brooklyn Brewery's MASH tour, Landon Van Soest and Paul Trillo put this video together. Using over 3,000 images, ...

5 Destinations For Excellent Coffee Culture

5 Destinations For Excellent Coffee Culture Cafes are often a travelers hub, not just because you can kill your jetlag with a cup of espresso, but because they are inevitably the place where you go to sit and do some people watching and, while you're at it, take a moment to get immersed in the local coffee ...

A Q&A With Plastiki Adventurer David de Rothschild On The WHOLE WORLD Water Campaign

A Q&A With Plastiki Adventurer David de Rothschild On The WHOLE WORLD Water Campaign Three years ago, adventurer, entrepreneur and activist David de Rothschild sailed from San Francisco to Sydney on a catamaran made of 12,500 reclaimed plastic bottles. His goal with the Plastiki project was to bring awareness to environmental issues like global warming ...

In America's 'McFarthest' Place, Strippers And Coyote Hunting But No McDonald's

In America's 'McFarthest' Place, Strippers And Coyote Hunting But No McDonald's If Rebecca Bierman gets an urge for a Big Mac, she has at least four options to satisfy the craving. "I can go to Pierre or Sturgis, here in South Dakota," says Bierman, a farmer and rancher who lives in Glad Valley, South Dakota. "Or I can go to Dickinson or Bismarck in ...

Travel Like A Boss: Tehuitzingo Tacos - Secret New York Food Spots Part II

A number of years ago while hitchhiking up Baja, Mexico, I ended up on the bed of a pickup truck, rolling around with pickaxes, rakes, bags of trash and my backpack. Gripping the edges of the truck's frame, I was so hungry; I wondered what would be worse: dying in Mexico ...

The Gastrointestinal Gamble: Eating A 'Dirty Water Dog' In New York

The Gastrointestinal Gamble: Eating A 'Dirty Water Dog' In New York I was feeling adventurous. After all, it had been a whole month since I'd had food poisoning. On a recent trip to India I got the infamous "Delhi belly" – not once, but twice. And here I was sitting in my West Village apartment feeling the need to play Russian roulette ...

The Perfect DC Museum Cafe: Mitsitam

The Perfect DC Museum Cafe: Mitsitam Somewhere between pointing at planes at the Air & Space Museum and browsing the day's headlines at the Newseum, my baby fell asleep. We had a small window of time to eat and maybe even have an adult conversation, and a McDonald's inside a food court didn't seem ...

How To Stay Healthy On Spring Break

How To Stay Healthy On Spring Break Whether you're a beach-bound college student or a middle-aged couple headed to the Rockies for some end-of-season snow, spring break presents the same health risks every year. Fortunately, they're all easily preventable by using common sense and following a few basic rules. ...

Travel Like A Boss: Le Parker Meridien's Burger Joint - Secret New York Food Spots Part I

While it's really not the best kept secret in all of midtown Manhattan, The Burger Joint, tucked inside of the Parker Meridien is certainly a gastronomic underdog. About 10 years ago, this local favorite was essentially created from scratch, carved from a tiny nook ...

Pillow Soft: A Love Letter To Gnocchi

Pillow Soft: A Love Letter To Gnocchi The first time I ever saw a bidet, I peed in it. I was young; I wasn't very well traveled, and, well, the porcelain bathroom apparatus for washing one's nether-regions found in many European hotels and homes looked like a toilet. That was in Florence. And it was also on ...

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