In this month’s National Geographic Traveler, Costas Christ questions the ever-blossoming voluntourism industry in his article, The Giver’s Conundrum. As both a traveler and a staff member at a non-profit volunteer travel organization, this …
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Snoop Dogg and Shakira have shacked up here. (Not together, I’m assuming.) Italy’s PM Silvio Berlusconi has parked his Pradas in these closets, and His Holiness the Dalai Lama of Tibet has hung his saffron robes. QE2 and her royal crew took …
Sunday marks the six year anniversary of the devastating tsunami that swept through southeast Asia. It’s a day that always sticks in my mind, as I was in southern Thailand when the tsunami occurred, and the ensuing mourning that took over …
