"Though some travellers will miss the nostalgia of collecting passport stamps, many have plans to mark their travels in other ways instead, such as collecting fridge magnets or other souvenirs." There's nothing quite like the handheld/portable memento. Can anything truly take its place? #passports

TikToks are everywhere (well, except countries like Australia and India, where they've been banned.) We talk to the creators of some of the year's most popular reels from the Global South. n.pr/3Lgj65w

There are more than 1,200 works by 125 artists and collectives in this year’s Bienal de São Paulo, titled “Not All Travelers Walk Roads,” with many of them proposing ways of creating new, kinder, more just forms of existence. Our critic examines some of the exhibit’s most venturesome works.

“What I planned as a lovely time in Florence living the life of Hemingway has turned out to be living on a train living the life and observe the diet of Ghandi [sic].”

Last week, I and others reported 5+ ICE flights had landed in Ghana since it began taking third-country nationals on Sept. 5. Now eNCA confirms at least one of those flights held Liberian, Nigerian and Togolese nationals, who were driven to Togo and dumped w/o papers. www.enca.com/news/west-af...

Tourists visiting America: *Hand over your social media *At risk of being detained, imprisoned and deported for the vaguest of reasons *Now being asked to pay $250 for the privilege Intl tourists contribute more than $200B to the US economy. But lets fix that problem! www.cnbc.com/2025/07/18/v...

A train attendant’s use of both Dutch and French — “goeiemorgen” and “bonjour” — to greet passengers during rush hour last year could easily have gone unnoticed in multilingual Belgium. But it rubbed one Dutch-speaking commuter the wrong way.

‘My parents got me out of Soviet Russia at the right time. Should my family now leave the US?’

Alternatively, are there things about traveling in 2025 that you’d never want to give up, no matter what? open.substack.com/pub/postcard...

For those who don’t know (or forgot) what it’s like, we take a trip down memory lane on our Substack and also ask whether some of that nostalgia is a trap. We’re also curious to know where you land. Is there any part of traveling in the 1990s that you’d like to bring back, or try anew?

In case you haven’t noticed, the 1990’s are really having a moment. We’re right in right in the middle of #90sSummer, which is trending as people try to get away from screens and enjoy simple pleasures. Which got us thinking: is it possible to travel like it’s the 90’s? A 🧵

The Grand Canyon Lodge, the only lodging inside the park at the North Rim, was consumed by the flames, park Superintendent Ed Keable told park residents, staff and others in a meeting Sunday morning.

PhD alum Erika Polson is the author of "A global sense of workplace? rethinking the (dis)locality of digital nomads." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The U.S. inbound tourism recovery is stalling, not strengthening. June's roughly 3% year-over-year decline masks the real story: overseas arrivals remain stuck at just 80% of 2019 levels, six years after the pandemic. skift.com/2025/07/09/t...

A drastic increase in unregulated production of rare earth minerals in Myanmar is causing serious environmental concerns downriver in Thailand, as China's influence in the sector looms large.

Federal regulators repeatedly granted appeals to remove Camp Mystic’s buildings from their 100-year flood map, loosening oversight as the camp operated and expanded in a dangerous flood plain in the years before flood waters swept away children and counselors, a review by AP found. buff.ly/JlzquQZ

As usual the answer is: try to "blend in." That works for some people (what about the ones who *can't,* in racially homogenous places like Estonia?) but also it is cowardly. Why not either speak out against or (more likely, for typical WSJ readers) stand in their support of the admin's policies?

Does the modern way of trip planning, which seems to boil down to searching for hotels, restaurants, and major sites on websites rather than leafing through context-rich guidebooks, make it so we know little more than points on a map at our destinations rather than anything about who lives there?

Thinking about this again after coming across influencer talking about their vacation to Belize; for which they "did a ton of research, read so many reviews on Reddit and Trip Advisor," but didn't know until they got there that English was the official language. Would this have happened in the 90s?

John Yang recently flew to Edmonds to interview me for @pbsnews.org, and we had a wonderful time strolling through my hometown, participating in a little civil disobedience, unearthing my 1977 journal & sharing laughs as he artfully drilled into my travel philosophy. Got 10 minutes? Check it out!

"Is [USAID] a good use of resources? We found that the average taxpayer has contributed about 18 cents per day to USAID," says James Macinko, a health policy researcher at UCLA... "For that small amount, we've been able to translate that into saving up to 90 million deaths around the world."

“[The name] references children of immigrants from ex-colonies. But when we come together, we can create a colony of our own – like ants – to be a nice and powerful force.”

HAPPY BOURDAIN DAY! To celebrate, let's hit the open road with … ANTHONY BOURDAIN IN LATIN AMERICA latinamericawanderer.wordpress.com/2025/06/25/a... Safe Journeys! #AnthonyBourdain #BourdainDay #travelogue #TVShow #gastronomy #travelbloggerscommunity #travelblogshare #traveladdicts

There's a lot of content out there about embracing the idea of a 90s summer, which raises an interesting question: what does that look like when it comes to #travel? Is it about using printed guidebooks, maps, and generally going analog as much as possible? Is anyone considering it?

READ: U.S. citizen and journalist D. Musa Springer was detained, searched, and had his devices seized—for supporting a friend targeted for Palestine activism. mondoweiss.net/2025/04/my-e...

Salvadorans share their opinions with CNN after a Maryland man was mistakenly deported from the United States to El Salvador and is currently being held in CECOT, a maximum-security mega-prison.

“The Trump administration is asking us to reimagine America as a country that not only does not value public service but actually torments its public servants,” writes @elainegodfrey.bsky.social :

Greenland documentary forces Danes to confront their colonial heritage

This week’s #TravelBlogShare is Fave posts. This one is on language learning, comparing a year of Duolingo and 1 week of immersion class. Interested in hearing your experiences. #TravelBloggersCommunity #TravelAddicts #Portugal careyontravels.com/language-imm...

NEW: Elon Musk's DOGE guys are dismantling the Wilson Center, a key foreign policy research group funded by private money and Congress. Its head, Mark Green, a former GOP Congressman, resigned after DOGE entered this week. Our @nytimes.com story: www.nytimes.com/2025/04/02/u...

"My wife and I accounted for two of the four Black passengers. The dozens of other passengers were white — mostly foreigners, but also a handful of South Africans. It was the other way around for the staff..." #travel #blackskytravel

Our application for Summer 2025 is now live! If you know any rising high school juniors or seniors who are interested in going to either Italy or South Africa with our partners at Global Leadership Adventures please forward this link (deadline is Friday April 4): www.thewanderingscholar.org/apply

Moreover, should they be able to travel unencumbered, free of hurdles and hardships, when so many people are being searched and detained coming into the US?

Something about the way Americans want to sidestep discomfort by hiding behind other languages, passports, and currencies to conceal their Americanness when they travel feels like a cheat. Also: how many of these travelers are also Tr*&^ supporters who simply don't want to suffer the consequences?

💸 Gutting the Department of Education will hit rural and low-income schools the hardest. Your education shouldn't vary by zip code.

Arizona, the model for voucher programs across the country, spent so much money paying private schoolers’ tuition that it faced hundreds of millions in budget cuts to critical state programs and projects. (Published July 2024)

If you are visiting the United States, having a negative view of Trump is enough to get you denied entry. If this was coming out of Russia or China, we would deplore such an authoritarian attack on freedom of expression.

András Schiff, an eminent concert pianist who has boycotted strongman rule in Russia and his native Hungary, said on Wednesday that he would no longer perform in the U.S. because of concerns about President Trump’s “unbelievable bullying” on the world stage.

Leaders from across the #Caribbean are seeking clarity after a draft of a U.S. government list of over 40 countries which could face sweeping #travel bans was made public. www.reuters.com/world/americ...

Quilts as a tool for global learning? Dr. Erin French is pushing the boundaries of quilt-making, transforming it into a medium for storytelling and education. Read how she is reshaping the way we see textiles: www.innovation-and-insights.com/post/breakin... #InnovationInsights #QuiltMaking

Hey, can I share some historical context with you about “race-baiter” Ebrahim Rasool? When I see a South African who’s a little older, I always check what they were doing before 1990. 🧐 Found something surprising: As a boy, Rasool and his family were expelled from District Six.

This is my new slogan: 🌍 MAKE GLOBAL CITIZENSHIP GREAT AGAIN 🌎 Global citizenship is the idea that individuals are members of a broader global community, transcending national borders, and recognizing shared responsibilities and rights for the benefit of all humanity. #globalcitizenshipsky

Tourism is already down skift.com/2025/03/17/t...

Worth noting that they added "dei" to the url (before "sports") to make it fit their category/narrative and justify its excision, but the original remains online: www.defense.gov/News/Feature...

Open letter from Canada Council for the Arts's CEO. "We need the arts right now as a powerful, cohesive force... And we need the arts to let the world know who we are, an open, diverse, and globally minded society." canadacouncil.ca/spotlight/20...

Yes, these travel boycotts CAN work if Americans join them in ways that maximize their impact. If we boycott domestic air travel - a huge industry that Trump/Musk are exploiting & corrupting - we can use that economic leverage to pressure Congress and force out fascists. More: groundtheplanes.com

Wild scenes out of Argentina as protesters are clashing with the police. Cops have deployed water cannons, tear gas, and are shooting people with rubber bullets. President Javier Milei has slashed pension funds, inflation is over 23%, and over 50% of people live in poverty.

So many of us would not be here without these programs. I got a FLAS and Fulbright-Hays in graduate school and would not be the same person or scholar without them. Entire careers destroyed, among current DOE employees and future academics alike, in one fell swoop.