The logic goes like this: If Japan invented sushi, then they must have the best sushi in the world. To find the best sushi in Japan, you must find the best fish. To find the best fish, you must find the best fish market. And thus if you find the best sushi bar at the best fish market in the country that invented sushi, then you would therefore be eating, “The Best Sushi In The World.”

I received some good feedback on my post a while back about English names in China, I Bought A Camera From A Guy Named Fish. For those interested in learning more on the subject, there is a great post today on Learning Cantonese—-a blog by National Geographic Traveler columnist and travel writer Daisann McLane.

I have read nearly a dozen books specifically on how-to “travel around the world.” Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, Practical Nomad, etc, and they are all good in their own way and each targeted a specific audience. But, my first recommendation to those of you wishing embark on such an adventure is to pick upRolf Pott’s Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel. Read more about why.

What country is full of young people drowned in work, awash in money, obsessed with fashion, equipped with the hottest mobile gadgets, consuming excessive amount of alcohol and fried foods and displaying a relentless obsession with all things cute?

National Geographic Traveler’s Inside Traveler Blog featured a link to the noboundaries.org site today. If you haven’t taken the time to check out the Inside Traveler Blog as noted in my previous post, you really should—it was recently picked as the “best travel related blog” on the web. Also, the National Geographic Traveler […]

Six months ago I quit my job, sold most of my possessions and packed up my car headed west with the goal of circling the globe in two years or so (I eventually sold my car…and used a plane to cross the Pacific Ocean). My strategy for my around-the-world trip is a bit different […]

If you were on a trip around the world, and you decided to interview 100 random people in a few dozen different countries, and you could ask them only one question, what would you ask?

A few years ago my friend Andrew ventured to Germany to study abroad, regularly senting email update to his family and friends back home. Reading about his wild adventure and seeing his postcard perfect pictures, I began to notice one day the he was not in a single picture. I began to suspect a hoax—he wasn’t in Germany in fact, I begin to think–he was simply hiding in a cold stale dorm room somewhere else creatively writing about a trip that didn’t really existed.

I really didn’t know what to expect before we arrived at the Great Wall, and I have been greatly disappointed more than once in the past upon seeing famous landmarks in person for the first time. In the end The Great Wall of China far surpassed any expectation I had, and now gets my vote in the on-going election to name the new ‘7 Wonders of the World.’ See some photos from our walk on The Wall.

Chairman Mao (aka Mao Zedong), the leader of the Communist Revolution in China reportedly said, “You are not a man, unless you have climbed the Great Wall…and survived the swindling of the taxi drivers in Beijing.” Or something like that. Since Erick and I wanted to prove we were men, we not only climbed the Great Wall, we did it in our underpants…with temperatures well below zero….with broken glass in our shoes.