archives: Inspiration

Sure, the economy is (still) in the tank. But that's not about to stop Anna Brones and her business partner, Emily Nuchols.   More »

From Tehran to Cairo, Arabic women are redefining politics and society.   More »

There's good news coming out of Africa. Just ask Chioma and Oluchi Ogwuegbu.  More »

Spanish teens take photos of space by tying a cheap camera to a balloon.   More »

More than five years after Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans continues to need help rebuilding. Enter the Culinary Corps. Photo: Julie Schwietert Fo  More »

Blogger Scarlett Lion recently offered up some really thoughtful, motivational tips on becoming a correspondent in Africa. She knows a thing or two a  More »

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  More »

Photo by Lollie-Pop (Creative Commons) Stephanie Nolen, the Globe and Mail’s one-woman African bureau, is one of my favourite journalists ̵  More »

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  More »

Though it’s widely rumored that Barack Obama will be named TIME Magazine’s Person of the Year regardless of election outcomes, the decis  More »

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   More »

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   More »

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  More »

“Our way of life,” write the Ginger Ninjas, “threatens our way of life.” For that reason, they started the Pleasant Revoluti  More »

Find out who's committed to going beyond the photo ops, and truly making a difference.  More »

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  More »

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  More »

Photo by dmax3270 (Creative Commons) Well, not quite. South Africa’s first post-apartheid president – and, to my mind, one of the most   More »

Adam Beach isn’t just one of the more high-profile Canadians in Hollywood these days – he’s also almost certainly the most high-prof  More »

Photo by Victor Geere (Creative Commons) Digging through the (sadly pretty limited) online archives of the excellent Virginia Quarterly Review recen  More »

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  More »

Photo by lakshmi prabhala Here’s an inspiring travel thought for this quiet Tuesday afternoon: South Florida Sun-Sentinel travel editor Thoma  More »

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  More »

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  More »

Photo by Chach Coati (Creative Commons) Over at Vagablogging, Aaron Hotfelder has some inspiring words about the power of pre-trip research: “  More »