My #1 travel rule is ‘Never give to beggars.’ There are some instances where this is more difficult than others.

The best way to see a new place is always with a local, here’s a bit of story how 100 living poets helped me come to love New Delhi.

Learn more about Halong Bay, Vietnam’s biggest tourist attraction. A beautiful bay with a slow pace and a cheap touring price.

One of the more popular features here at noboundaries.org, is the randomly rotating travel quotes that appear in the right-hand column of the homepage. These are quotes I’ve gathered during my three-years of work planning and researching my trip, as well as others passed along to me by friends. Since planning a trip around-the-world must always start with a bit of inspiration, I share these quotes with you in hopes that they do just that for you.

I’ve been getting a lot of email requests that begin “So there was this quote on your website…” and end with “but it disappeared before I could write it down…” So, today we introduce a new feature on the presently “under construction” redesign of the noboundaries.org site: a single page containing all the quotes that have ever appeared in the quote section of the front page.

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.

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 [...]

The first lesson that we should have learned, was if approach by an English speaking guy insisting he has a taxi, when you are in the middle of a Chinese speaking city of 15 million, you should be a bit skeptical. Unfortunately, we were so taken off guard by the man’s miraculous appearance and his English, that we didn’t have any time to be skeptical before he whisked Erick’s suitcase away and was hauling us off towards the taxi line.