Cheap travel-With Cheap Airfare, Travel is Limited Only by Your Imagination

With Cheap Airfare, Travel is Limited Only by Your Imagination
In his book, “The World is Flat,” Thomas Friedman argues that the beginning of the twenty-first century can be characterized by one word: globalization. While the Digital Age may or may not become the great equalizer, it has certainly given us access to a worldview that was unavailable to our parents and grandparents. A natural extension of the immediacy we feel when we watch videos about, read the blogs of, and listen to people from other countries is the urge to experience their worlds. Indeed, in survey after survey, when people are asked what they would do if they had true financial freedom, the top response is, “Travel.”

China Travel-Peter Hessler on Country Driving, revisiting River Town, and moving on

Less than a decade after his first book, River Town, was published, Peter Hessler's name has become shorthand for honest, insightful commentary on the charms and contradictions of contemporary China. (If the word "Hessleresque" hasn't yet been defined, consider it now done.)
Having served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Sichuan, a clipper at the Wall Street Journal, and the China correspondent for the New Yorker (he drew on for his work for both publications in his second book, Oracle Bones), Hessler and his wife (Factory Girls author Leslie Chang) now live in Colorado, where he does as much running as he does writing.