Longboard surfing women By Lisa Palac
Bonding with a brave new breed: The Capitola Women's Longboard Surfing Contest brings out a brave -- and benevolent -- new breed of surfer
(03/27/98)
Passages: "In Light of India" By Octavio Paz
Beholding Bombay
- Books on India
- Getting there
(05/20/97)
Passages "Full Circle" By Michael Palin
In an excerpt from his book, Michael Palin describes his journeys through Cambodia
(11/18/97)
Where am I gonna go today? By Aaron Paulson
Finding a job overseas through the Internet
(09/16/98)
My junior year abroad By Edith Pearlman
A 60-year-old's adventures in a classroom called Jerusalem
(08/26/98)
High on Huautla By Derek Peck
Mushrooms are still the best way to travel in this legendary Mexican mountain village
(10/05/98)
The men who moil for gold By J. Franklin Pierce
A century after the race for the Klondike gold fields, a hiker traces the argonauts' northward course
(01/06/99)
Seduced and sated in Costa Rica By J. Kingston Pierce
Exploring overabundant wildlife on an eco-cruise
(04/21/98)
Over Africa By Maryalicia Post
An open-cockpit ride in a reproduction 1935 plane
(08/06/98)
Helen of Troy is in my taxi By Rolf Potts
A wanderer discovers the ambiguity of language and love in the Philippines
(03/19/99)
Korea's no-man's-land Rolf Potts
The DMZ is one of the planet's oddest tourist attractions, where visitors can pick up everything from propaganda to perfume
(02/03/99)
Backstage on "The Beach" By Rolf Potts
A backpacker's quest to storm Leonardo DiCaprio's movie set ends in an epiphany that won't play in Peoria
(02/10/99)
Storming "The Beach" By Rolf Potts
A backpacker in search of adventure in Thailand puts the moves on Leonardo DiCaprio
(02/09/99)
Sex and fate in Macau By Rolf Potts
Inspired by a sidewalk fortuneteller, a traveler tries his luck at an erotic cabaret in this soon-to-be-transferred Portuguese colony
(01/20/99)
Man bites dog By Rolf Potts
Koreans and Americans both love dogs -- they just have a different way of showing it
(10/28/98)
Ignorants abroad
By Rolf Potts
Mistaking "breasts" for "prayers" -- and other adventures in language learning
(06/22/98)
Letter from Pusan: The party's over By Rolf Potts
The heady rise and fall of expat decadence in South Korea
(09/24/98)
Letter from Jakarta: After the sky falls By Jeff Pulice
When expats flee, foreign guys become very attractive -- and other bits of wisdom
(06/11/98)
Letter from Jakarta: Part 2 By Jeff Pulice
Expats drink, rumors run amok, Habibie has an amazing week
(05/29/98)
Letter from Jakarta By Jeff Pulice
When all hell breaks loose, what's an expat to do?
(05/22/98)
Student protests bloom By Rolf Potts
Spring is here -- time to put on the riot gear!
(05/19/98)
The Mystical High Church of Luck By Rolf Potts
How I went to Las Vegas with $5 and ended up losing $100
(04/28/98)
My Serengeti crapshoot By Rajiv Rao
What do you do when you have to go in the middle of the night -- and lions have taken over the outhouse?
(07/10/98)
Adventures of my youth
By Louise Rafkin
Can midlife travelers recapture the carefree wanderings of old?
(06/15/98)
Above
the volcano By Robert Riddell
Climbing Mexico's newest landform offers unexpected lessons
-
Books on Mexico
-Getting there
(05/24/97)
White dreams By Mary Roach
Why I was wandering around Antarctica with a white
plastic garbage pail over my head
(12/01/97)
The yuckiest food in the Amazon
By Mary Roach
What tastes even worse than rodent knee and saliva-flavored manioc mash?
(12/15/98)
Sensual sands Photos and text By Pamela Roberson
A desert portfolio
(09/16/97)
Postmark: Brighton, England By Andrew Ross
Salon's managing editor sends a provocative Postmark about Tony
Blair, monsoons and the British sense of the absurd from rain-soaked
Brighton, England
(07/08/97)
If you film it, they will come By Steve Rushin
A passionate sports fan begins his cross-country pilgrimage with a visit to Iowa's Field of Dreams
(12/18/98)
A passion for Pelago By Tanya Shaffer
An unlikely village hosts a Rainbow Gathering meets Burning Man meets rave music festival in Italy
(01/25/99)
Dirty laundry By Tanya Shaffer
A simple request forces a Western woman to face her prejudices
(12/11/98)
Ring in the loser By Mark Schatzker
What you do on New Year's Eve 1999 says more about your economic -- and social -- status than anything else
(03/26/99)
Irredeemably wealthy in Patagonia
By Mark Schatzker
An unexpected idyll turns bittersweet in the wilds of Chile
(06/29/98)
Cuba
libre! By Mark Schapiro
A hot art scene brings the world to Havana's door
- A
Gallery of images
- Books
on Cuba
(06/03/97)
The camel market of Daraw
By Kristan Schiller
In Egypt, a centuries-old business thrives at the end of the 40
Days Road
(03/22/99)
Passionate and penniless in Paris By Maxine Rose Schur
A magical memory: lust and romance blossom when a young couple camps out in the City of Light
Discovering Petra By Maxine Rose Schur
At dusk, after the tourists have left, Jordan's ancient ruin comes to splendid life
(11/26/97)
Señor Gringo By Maxine Schur
An innocent encounter turns crazy for two travelers and a heartbroken, gun-toting Mexican sheriff
(10/16/98)
This place has legs By Catherine Seipp
In search of the perfect Hollywood hangout
(10/14/97)
Running with the Hadza By Eric Seyfarth
Tanzania's Stone Age tribe represents a living link to our earliest ancestors
(09/28/98)
Losing their shirts By Tanya Shaffer
Seeing a fetish priest requires unbuttoned giving in Ghana
(06/04/98)
Online ticketing, Part 2 By Jenn Shreve
Which service is best?
(02/02/98)
I booked it online By Jenn Shreve
There really are advantages to making your travel plans on the Web
(01/30/98)
Ode to the road By Jenn Shreve
Five great books in search of the American dream
(07/01/97)
Postmark: Seattle By Jenn Shreve
The Liquid City
(06/10/97)
Romancing the Road By Jenn Shreve
First tango in Paris: Marriage and a small-town home are left behind on a liberating trip to
the city that's still haunted by Hemingway
- Books
on Paris
-
Getting there
(04/29/97)
The camel market of Daraw
By Kristan Schiller
In Egypt, a centuries-old business thrives at the end of the 40
Days Road
(03/22/99)
A day in the life of a longhouse By Maxine Rose Schur
Drinking and dancing with the headhunters of Borneo forges some unexpected connections
(06/02/98)
Mother load By Tanya Shaffer
An invitation to stay with a woman's family in West Africa opens the door to more than her home
(01/07/99)
Looking for Abdelati By Tanya Shaffer
An unexpected journey into the heart of a family in Casablanca
(02/08/99)
Death in Ghana By Tanya Shaffer
A simple succession of events in an African village
leads to a tragedy -- and a traveler's haunting sense of hopelessness
(02/23/99)
Passages: "Desiring Italy" By Mary Taylor Simeti
A young woman's Sicilian journal
(08/19/97)
Ramadan By Mona Simpson
In Egypt to search for her father's past, a woman first finds a young lover on a journey from Cairo to Alexandria
(06/05/98)
Eating around in Boston By Larry Smith
The way to the heart of Boston is through its stomach
(11/04/97)
Postmark: Harlem, New York By Tessa Souter
Forget the horror stories -- Harlem is a great place to live
(06/17/97)
Cajun Mardi Gras By Margaret Spillane and Bruce Shapiro
Singing, dancing, drinking and other mayhem in rural Louisiana
(02/27/98)
The Deep Fried Potato Bug By Richard Sterling
An American challenges a Frenchman to a culinary duel
(09/02/98)
Luzviminda By Richard Sterling
A tale of lust and illusion
(01/15/98)
Love & Romance By Robert Strauss
An American couple discovers the perfect place to stay in Japan: Love hotels
(04/30/98)
In
praise of lipstick-red convertibles By Shirley Streshinsky
Cruising topless on Hawaii's Big Island
- Books
on Hawaii
- Getting there
(04/29/97)
Luzviminda By Richard Sterling
A tale of lust and illusion
(01/15/98)
Passages: "FOOD: True Stories of Life on the Road" Edited By Richard Sterling
"Waltz at the End of Earth" By Paula McDonald: The poignant tale of a life-changing encounter on a remote isle, far from the shores of mainland China
(04/08/97)
Maiden voyage By Susanna Stromberg
A 19-year-old finds lust and illusion on a Love Boat cruise to Alaska
(10/07/98)
A tipsy tasting in Burgundy By The Surreal Gourmet
It's not easy sipping 200-300 great wines a day, but someone's got to do it
(10/27/98)
Running with the bulls By Andrew Taber
Horny tradition: Dodging pissed-off bovines in southern France
(04/20/98)
Passages: "Open Lands:
Travels Through Russia's
Once Forbidden Places" By Mark Talpin
Forbidden Russia: A traveler takes the road less traveled into Russia's newly opened territories
(11/13/97)
The Chinese friend By Chris Taylor
Fate brings together an outcast and a foreigner on a bus tour in China
(04/06/98)
Transylvanian nightmare By Jeffrey Tayler
A young man bears the lasting burden of Romania's depraved dictator with a dignity that transcends his grim surroundings
(03/23/99)
Siberian dawn By Jeffrey Tayler
An overland journey exposes a traveler to the hazards of radiation, desolation and snowstorms
(03/05/99)
A midsummer night's bacchanal in Moscow
By Jeffrey Tayler
Inhibitions -- and underclothes -- are tossed into the air on Ladies Night at the Hungry Duck
(08/04/98)
Escape from Tashkent
By Jeffrey Tayler
A Peace Corps volunteer unwittingly falls into a romantic adventure with a Russian waitress stranded in Uzbekistan
(02/25/99)
Death on Ios By Jeffrey Tayler
Could he recapture his youth with a passionate encounter on
Greece's most hedonistic island?
(11/02/98)
Behind the red curtain By Jeffrey Tayler
A
night at the official Communist Party hotel in China leads to everything
but a good night's sleep
(01/11/99)
Nigerian nightmare By Jeffrey Tayler
A death-defying bus adventure
(01/13/98)
Descending the Congo By Jeffrey Tayler
He wanted to canoe the Congo, but didn't count on the storms, mosquitoes -- and cannibals
(11/10/97)
Lost in the Sahara By Jeffrey Tayler
A simple overnight trip becomes a battle for survival
(09/16/97)
"Save me, wild qahba!"
By Jeffrey Tayler
In a hashish den with the fallen women of Marrakech
(03/10/98)
Passages: "Bad News From a Black Coast": Part Two
By Moritz Thomsen
Part Two of Moritz Thomsen's unpublished memoir
(07/15/98)
Passages: Bad news from a black coast By Moritz Thomsen
In an exclusive excerpt, a renowned writer reflects on wealth and poverty, sand spits and pigs in rural Ecuador
(07/14/98)
