Last year, Rainer Jenss traveled around the world with his wife and two sons, and blogged about his experience here on Intelligent Travel . Now he's writing a column that focuses on traveling with kids. When asked for travel advice, I usually recommend people try to...
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This weekend I took advantage of a free Zozi deal I blogged about last week and tried out stand up paddleboarding for the first time. After driving about an hour southeast of Washington, D.C., to YK Kiteboarding and Stand Up Paddleboarding in ...
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Senior editor Norie Quintos , who edits the annual Tours of a Lifetime package in the magazine, just returned from a trip to the Galapagos and mainland Ecuador with her teen sons. This is the second of a four-part series. To see the first post, click here. The biggest logistical decision travelers to...
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This week, we asked some of our female writers to explore how the themes of "Eat Pray Love" have played out in their own travels. Today, Associate Editor Amy Alipio writes of how her first time scuba dive became a spiritual ...
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British explorer Ed Stafford has become the first person to hike the entire length of the Amazon, completing a 4,000-mile journey that began on April 2, 2008 at the river's source in Peru. Stafford, who was accompanied by Peruvian forestry worker Gadiel "Cho" Sanchez Rivera for the majority of the trip, set out...
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National Geographic Emerging Explorer David de Rothschild completed his four month journey across the Pacific yesterday traveling aboard the? Plastiki , a catamaran constructed from 12,500 recycled plastic bottles. Deriving the name from Thor Heyerdahl's 1947 Kon-Tiki expedition from South America to Tahiti, this voyage ...
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Sara Zeglin , associate producer for Digital Media for National Geographic Kids , is just back from a trip to the Florida Keys, where she had the chance to explore Dry Tortugas, one of the country's least visited national parks. I'm not ashamed to say it--I'm in love with the national parks ....
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In our March 2010 issue, Traveler contributor David Swanson counted San Diego among North America's top bike-friendly cities . With SoCal as the first stop on my nine-day California road trip, I decided to put San Diego biking to the test. The result...
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Alison Ince , manager of Collections in National Geographic Libraries and Information Services, headed down to explore the Caribbean coast of Colombia . Who would have thought that lying in a pool of thick gray mud would be one of the highlights of my trip to Colombia? ? But there I was, in...
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The extremely delicious dessert of choice in Ottawa: a BeaverTail. While the East Coast was getting pummeled with snow earlier this month, I managed to sneak away for a few days and escape snowpocalypse . But instead of an island paradise, I headed north, up to Ottawa, Ontario, and got a taste of...
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