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How Travelers Are Destroying the Destinations They Love
At my first stop in Italy, I envisioned late night gondola rides down the canal with golden lights flickering all around, glasses of local wine enjoyed in quaint, quiet restaurants by the water, and a...
View ArticleIn Defense of Repeat Travel
Puttering down Iceland’s south coast in a beat-up rental, we pulled off Route 1 in Selfoss. With 6,500 residents, it was the largest town we’d seen since leaving Reykjavík and the biggest we’d see...
View ArticleInstagram Is Ruining Expectations…and Destinations
On one of my last visits to the Moroccan seaside city of Essaouira, I was struck by the number of fashion shoots taking place in the streets of the medina. Women in full makeup and lavish clothes...
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Ethical Travel Photography: An Interview With Alex Reynolds of Lost With Purpose
Alex Reynolds of Lost With Purpose grew up traveling, and now spends months of each year living in India and Pakistan, as well as traveling to places like Iran, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and elsewhere....
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How to Be a Better, More Sustainable, Traveler This Earth Day
“The Earth is what we all have in common” – Wendell Berry If you’re like us, you love that commonality. You like to feel at home in the world, and the sense of a shared human experience that crosses...
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How to Be a Better Travel Influencer
Influence begets responsibility. These days, travel Instagrammers have a lot of influence, yet aren’t always responsible in what they share. How they portray things – a place, a person, a culture–...
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Travel Influencers Behaving Badly
Instagram has given regular people the ability to become role models with powerful access to skewing the way others view the world. Some welcome this opportunity with responsibility and grace, while...
View ArticleWhy You Won’t See Photos From My Work With Refugees
As someone who lives abroad, my life is told through a series of social media posts for friends and family back home. There are only so many hours in the day, so I’m not able to catch up with everyone...
View ArticleYear One of Curiosity Magazine
It’s our birthday! A year ago today, we clicked publish on our very first story, about cocoa and politics in Chocó, Colombia. We weren’t sure anyone would visit the site, but we had a feeling people...
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Should You Go There? A Guide to Visiting Controversial Countries
Travel is easier than ever before, and it seems there’s almost nowhere that hasn’t been written about or Instagrammed to death. It was no surprise then, that when Saudi Arabia announced it would start...
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