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My week in Hanoi was wrapped up with visits to contemporary art galleries and bucolic parks and gardens. (All of these were steps away from ...

Health and safety are always major concerns when I'm traveling alone around the world, but my month-long trip to Southeast Asia, includi...

Journeying along the Mekong River that courses through Laos, and driving along the rough roads that rise and dip through the lush interior, ...

      The stifling weather in Southeast Asia where I spent a month recently dictated the clothing I carried along in my carryon-only piece o...

With temperatures in the high 80s, and the humidity soaring above 80%, I walked around Hanoi, Siem Reap, Luang Prabang and Bangkok in perfe...

Most women love shoes. I'm not one of those women -- one reason why I have no trouble traveling for a month, as I recently did in Southe...

What's a vacation without more than a few surprises? But my idea of the unexpected includes mountain biking through a pine forest and co...

Bangkok and Chiang Mai are both cities that embrace the ancient and the contemporary. Ramshackle wood huts teeter on stilts beside tree-lin...

Travel writers employ a variety of methods to record their experiences. I favor small, lined, bound notebooks. But, while the market is crow...