archives: Inspiration
Aspiring Travel Writer Alert: Win a Trip to India!
Our friends over at World Nomads just announced the opening of their 2009 contest for aspiring travel writers. If you include yourself among the le [...]
Stephanie Nolen: Goodbye Africa, Hello India
Photo by Lollie-Pop (Creative Commons) Stephanie Nolen, the Globe and Mail’s one-woman African bureau, is one of my favourite journalists ̵ [...]
Matador Participates in Passports with Purpose & YOU Can Win!
If you’re at all connected in the travel blogging community, it’s likely that you already know about Passports with Purpose. Just in ca [...]
Vote for TIME’s Person of the Year
Though it’s widely rumored that Barack Obama will be named TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year regardless of election outcomes, the decis [...]
C’mon & take a free ride… to Indonesia!
I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Matador members are incredible people. They travel not just to see the world, but to take in what [...]
Remembering Paul Newman, World Citizen… & Actor
Paul Newman died yesterday at the age of 83. He’ll be remembered most as an iconic actor of the 20th century (and a damn handsome one), but I [...]
Pure Genius
Imagine: Your phone rings. You answer. Someone on the other end of the line says: “Congratulations. We think you’re a genius. And by the w [...]
Rock-n-Roll Revolution (with emphasis on “Roll”)
“Our way of life,” write the Ginger Ninjas, “threatens our way of life.” For that reason, they started the Pleasant Revoluti [...]
20 Celebrities Who Are Serious About Changing The World
Find out who's committed to going beyond the photo ops, and truly making a difference. [...]
The Full Circle of Travel
The Matador community always has travel on the mind, of course, but as we gear up for our big San Francisco bash on August 16, we’re thinking m [...]
Ingrid Betancourt: LIBRE!!
I couldn’t have been happier to come home last night to the news from journalist and Colombia-based Matador member Richard McColl that Ingrid Be [...]
Happy Birthday, Nelson Mandela!
Photo by dmax3270 (Creative Commons) Well, not quite. South Africa’s first post-apartheid president - and, to my mind, one of the most inspir [...]
‘It all starts with respecting yourself’
Adam Beach isn’t just one of the more high-profile Canadians in Hollywood these days - he’s also almost certainly the most high-profile Ab [...]
Nadine Gordimer on Writing and Life
Photo by Victor Geere (Creative Commons) Digging through the (sadly pretty limited) online archives of the excellent Virginia Quarterly Review recen [...]
Member Spotlight: Not Your Average Summer Vacation
Ahh… June. Time for the annual family vacation! The average experience of spending quality time with the family is generally equal parts fun and f [...]
It’s The People, Stupid*
Photo by lakshmi prabhala Here’s an inspiring travel thought for this quiet Tuesday afternoon: South Florida Sun-Sentinel travel editor Thoma [...]
Pangea Day: Film Fest Around the World
Plan to be in Cairo, Kigali, London, Los Angeles, Mumbai, or Rio de Janeiro on May 10? (Yes, that’s tomorrow!) If so, be sure to check out Pang [...]
Picks of the Week: Favorite Place-Based Websites
How do you get information about what’s going on around the world? Here are three of the best websites offering dynamic content about countries tha [...]
Research, Ignorance, and the Mind-Opening Powers of Travel
Photo by Chach Coati (Creative Commons) Over at Vagablogging, Aaron Hotfelder has some inspiring words about the power of pre-trip research: “ [...]
