The Tranquilo Traveler
The Tranquilo Traveler is a celebration of voluntourism, slow travel, and other interesting ways to see the world. Travel writer and award- winning Moon Handbooks author Joshua Berman created The Tranquilo Travel as a resource for world trippers and international volunteers, a window to the author’s travels in Nicaragua, Belize, and beyond, and an update of his books and articles.
Learn a language online for free: Travel tips from Brave New Traveler
By Joshua | 
2 Comments » Speaking a foreign language while traveling or living abroad — or simply making humiliating, hilarious attempts to speak it — is one of the surest ways to make real connections... [Read this entry]
Tranquilo Tip of the Hat to David Arnold, Worldview Magazine Editor Extraordinaire
By Joshua | No Comments » I’d like to belatedly join Peace Corps Polyglot (blog of the National Peace Corps Association) in wishing Worldview editor David Arnold well as he moves on. After 14 years of... [Read this entry]
Interactive Ansel Adams Tribute in NYT Travel
By Joshua | No Comments » This is wonderful—a narrated slide show about how Ansel Adams shot each of his most famous Yosemite landscapes.
Travelling & Seeing: Johnny Just Come
By Joshua | No Comments » Travelling & Seeing: Johnny Just Come, by Kofi Quanston, as found in the university bookshop in Accra, Ghana. I didn’t buy the book, already had too many things in my... [Read this entry]
Lonely Planet “scandal” passes; guidebooks left in the debris
By Joshua | 4 Comments » Now that Thomas Kohnstamm has revealed that the global uproar over his alleged “plagiarism” wasn’t really all that (he’d just done a “desk update,” which is occasionally standard in the... [Read this entry]
Blogosphere buzzes with juicy Lonely Planet guidebook scandal!
By Joshua | 5 Comments » I posted a brief blip a few weeks ago about the allegedly scandalous upcoming title from Random House, Do Travel Writers Go to Hell? by Thomas Kohnstamm. Since then, lurid... [Read this entry]
PerceptiveTravel.com Round-up of Fellow Bloggers
By Joshua | No Comments » To blog? Or not to blog? I join a few fellow writers over at Perceptive Travel to answer the why and wherefore of this question. Writes the interviewer, Liz Lewis:
Ghana girls dorm is finished!
By Joshua | 2 Comments » Last October, I posted a plea from Peace Corps Volunteer Carl Allen in Northern Ghana, who was raising funds to build a girls’ dorm at a business school in the... [Read this entry]
Living abroad: life changing AND a nice resume liner
By Joshua | 1 Comment » “Young people who study abroad for a year often come back with a newfound passion for social change, a fresh worldview and even different career interests.” So begins Seth Green’s... [Read this entry]
Guardian Article on Nicaragua’s Lingering Sandalistas
By Joshua | No Comments » After the Frente Sandinista ousted the dictator Somoza in 1979, they began one of the most important socialist experiments of the century. Leftie internacionalistas arrived from around the world to... [Read this entry]
Joshua Berman is an award-winning author for Avalon Travel Publishing's Moon series. He is a writer, editor, and trip leader, based in Central America and Boulder, Colorado. Learn more about Joshua or contact him here.- 0. Volunteering Abroad
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Hi -- We are finding the Peapod Plus a very useful ... [read more] - Khawaja T ariq Mahmood on Why We Came to Pakistan: Gordon College, Rawalpindi, and our search for Dr. Stewart
I attended Gordon college from 1965-1970 , I was a ... [read more] - SAJJAD HAIDER on The Mir of Hunza, Part 2
Dear All The acrimonious attitude exhibited by th ... [read more] - [F]oxymoron on Belikin Beer: It’s Not Just for Teething Anymore!
This is classic! - Melody on Belize with a Baby: My Daughter’s First Trip Abroad
a wonderful adventure!! I am loving it!! I feel l ... [read more] - nomadic matt on Belikin Beer: It’s Not Just for Teething Anymore!
mmmm belikins are very good. crack one open for me ... [read more] - Julie on Belize with a Baby: My Daughter’s First Trip Abroad
Your baby is truly adorable, very cute. And hope s ... [read more] - Madeline on Belize with a Baby: Shanti Heads South
Hi Shanti! I hope you are having a good time! I ca ... [read more] - Matt Harwood on Belize with a Baby: Shanti Heads South
Looks like a great time. I will definitely have to ... [read more] - Jenny on Belize with a Baby Part 2: Gales Point and Belize City
That is so darn cute!!!
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