Slow Travel — Then and Now

Slow Travel. It’s the art of living in a place for a limited time, immersing yourself in a new culture, learning as much as you can about the people, the language, the life there, and then choosing a new destination and moving on. Repeat again and again. For the last...

City Bus Tours – A Valuable Tool for Slow Travel

Say what you will. As slow travel veterans, we have come to appreciate this staple of city tourism. We arrive in a city determined to know it — to walk, live, eat, shop, and cultivate a deep understanding. These city bus tours offer the opportunity to do the...

Slow Travel & Funky Apartments

The most (possibly only) tiresome part of slow travel  is finding apartments. Sure, if we had unlimited resources or even just lots of money, it might be one of the more fun aspects. But for us, it usually involves a lot of searching and then hoping. Funky apartments...

Guatemala, Slow Travel

Slow travel demands flexibility. For example, earlier this year we had planned to stay in Oaxaca, Mexico, for a few months, get some work done and take Spanish lessons. For a decade or more we had heard about this beautiful city and after a few days there, we...

Slow Travel Four Years Later

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending...