I’m not sure what kind of bug got under my skin during one college spring break, but I decided that rather than join my friends on whatever adventures they were planning, I was going to go... Read more >>

Going separate ways as a couple is often read as a prelude to separation (which has its own pressures), but it doesn’t have to be… Read more >>

I would never travel with a group, or on an organized tour. I want to do what I want, when I want, and how I want. Last year, I did take a guided tour in Budapest, and one in Prague, for a few hours,... Read more >>

Dear 4-Way, In a little over a month, I’m going to Australia for two and a half weeks, and it’s the first trip I’ve ever taken alone. I’ve been looking forward to it for... Read more >>

I prefer three things on airplanes if I’m traveling alone: window seats, a good magazine, and no talking. It’s not that I don’t like saying hello or engaging in small talk with my... Read more >>

I’m getting ready to travel for business, something I do very rarely. I love to travel with my family, but alone, not so much. Maybe I’m a freak, but I almost never leave my husband and... Read more >>

As I ran after the bus that was carrying my passport, my wallet, my phone with the dead battery, and pretty much the whole of my existence on the opposite side of the world, I wondered how people get... Read more >>

When the Australian university I was studying abroad at announced a two-week fall break, three expat friends and I rushed to plan a road trip up the east coast of Oz. Before we departed, we fantasized... Read more >>

I just returned from a twenty-eight-day trip. I left my home in Texas on the 23rd of January 2010 and drove to Arkansas for a four-day stay with my best friend. From there I went to New York and... Read more >>

You’ve left on a jet plane or driven across country, and now you’re on your way back home again. To make your real-world re-entry a little easier, we enlisted the help of the... Read more >>