Most people aren’t born savvy travelers. It’s something that only comes with on-the-road experience. Travel savviness is a process born of missed buses, foolish behavior, cultural unawareness, and countless tiny errors. Then, one day, you begin to seamlessly move through airports and integrate yourself into new cultures like a fish to water. In the beginning, you’ll make a lot of travel mistakes.But I want to help speed up the process and help you avoid my mistakes (and I often make a lot of them), so I put together this giant list of my best travel tips that cover everything under…

  Hiking Europe’s Tour du Mont Blanc was a totally different slice of European culture for me: Coming upon a remote farmhouse-turned-thriving-cafe serving wonderful lunches…flowers and cows (with classic bells) scenically sprinkled throughout…and an esprit de corps where everyone is like family.   Our trail went through three countries — France, Italy, and Switzerland — before returning to our starting point in France. This cow is totally Swiss. One of the delights of the TMB is coming upon an old farmhouse on a mountain alp (or pasture) that, these days, is a thriving little restaurant for…

Cláudio Silva reflects on moving from Angola to the United States as a child, founding Angola’s largest food and travel platform, and what the country’s current flourishing means not just for Angolans but for the world. I was born in Luanda, Angola. My father moved myself and my siblings to the Washington DC suburbs when I was five years old for political reasons, and I immediately understood that this place is not like the other place. There’s a huge difference in development, in wealth, in the way people live—I’ve never forgotten that feeling. There was also profound ignorance about where…