Plastic water bottles are causing a flood of harm to our environment, as the vast majority of them end up in landfills, not properly recycled. The PETs in plastics don't biodegrade, instead releasing harmful toxins into the soil and ground water for decades or...

Now that Shark Week is over, our beloved 7-day oceanic feeding frenzy courtesy of the Discovery Channel, many of us are left with a crippling fear of these swimming predators. The images of razor teeth and dismembered surfers haunt our psyches long after...

I have to admit it: the English are some of my favorite people on earth. While I've never been accused of being an Anglophile, it's hard not to take a shine to our friendly neighbors across the pond. So here are 10...

Think back to your last vacation. I bet your suitcases were so stuffed you had to sit on them just to get the zipper closed, and that was just for one week! Now imagine if you had to pack absolutely everything you needed for six months on the road, or...

I remember the first time I saw a bottle of water for sale, thinking it was the most ridiculous thing I'd ever encountered. Who the heck would actually PAY to drink water when they could get it for free at home? That's just...

"I'm thinking about moving to Costa Rica," are words I hear every day, through emails, Facebook messages, and from people who have read my book about life as an expat in that country. More and more, people in the U.S. and Canada are contemplating cashing in their chips...

Every year 6.6 million U.S. citizens call another country home. They do so for a variety of reasons -- work assignments, warmer climates and better medical care, and a cheaper cost of living. But whatever the reason for buying a one-way ticket to being an expatriate, they have...

I glanced around the jungle lodge I had been sipping coffee in with my friend Dickie, noting the citizens of this obscure local: there was a social media expert from France typing away at her Macbook, wild-haired Australian surfers discussing the morning's waves, an American who used to be on...

I really knew it was something when the nuns came out. White robes with black coronets and eyeglasses, wishing people blessings and making the sign of the cross as they passed on the street corner. The church bells rang in alarm, over and over. Somewhere a band played.

We...

I'm a bad man. I commit crimes, under the cover of night in strange places. I perpetrate heinous acts and then sneak the evidence out of hotels, buried deep in the recesses of my luggage.

This will surely be my last blog for the Huffington Post before they take me...

Driving north for an hour from Liberia, Costa Rica, passing skinny cows in postcard-green meadows, one wonders if civilization is ever going to reemerge. Then the taxi driver slams on his brakes. He comes to a smoking halt behind a row of eighteen wheeler trucks at a standstill spanning as...

As our plane touched down in the Philippines, I peered out the window into a soup of pollution and humidity. Manila looked like the jungle was trying to overtake it. My buddy Shane and I were halfway through a yearlong odyssey, backpacking around the world, and travel karma had placed...

I've been fortunate enough to travel all around the world but also witnessed an unbelievable array of street scams and hustles. From Cairo to Caracas, Amsterdam to Amman, someone was always trying to sell me wolf tickets: the fake drunk, the razor blade slash, the Rio shoe scam, money exchange...