Cheap Asia Travel

If you happen to be near a newsstand this month, pick up a copy of the great drinks magazine Imbibe. I’ve got an essay on the last page about biking around the wine country of the Czech Republic. The story is not online yet (that link is to an old blog post of mine), but …

If you’ve ever been to India, you’re bound to snicker a bit every time you read some business story about India becoming an economic superpower. Doesn’t that require some decent roads first, and air you can actually breathe? India may be a cheap place for travelers, but it doesn’t come easy. The cities are just …

In the days of the intrepid explorers, getting from point A to point B was a death-defying experience. And you had to be either very wealthy or be financed by royalty. Think how far we’ve come in the past century, just with commercial flights, rental cars, subways, and air-conditioned buses. The staggering thing, though, is …