How to Travel the World on the Cheap: Planning

Like snowflakes and fingerprints, each person is different when it comes to traveling. The innumerable possible variance of positions on the spectrum of why people travel, for how long, on what budget, with whom, and so on makes the planning process unique to each individual.

A Walk in the Heavens: Three Weeks in the Everest Region

With the sun bearing down on a jagged Himalayan horizon, casting golden light and long shadows on the snowcapped peaks surrounding me, I stretched up to place a small stone on the summit cairn of Kala Patthar. Clad in the bright blues, yellows, reds, whites, and greens of Tibetan prayer flags, this precipice of rock…