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The Radar: Travel Lately
Posted by Intelligent Travel on March 13, 2013 
The Radar: The top travel news, stories, trends, and ideas from across the web. Got Radar? Follow us on Twitter @NatGeoTraveler and tag your favorite travel stories with #NGTRadar. Check back on the blog each Wednesday for our Travel Lately roundup.
Posted by ![The average hike per day for clean water in this village was 3.7 miles a day. Now it's a few steps. [Photo - John Langford]](http://intelligenttravel.nationalgeographic.com/files/2012/05/Impact_2-396x590.jpg)
San Antonio native Mark “Rev” Smith is all about good, sure, but he also has a secret. You can tell by the way he talks. But what Mark “Rev” Smith doesn’t know is that I know he’s hiding a secret, and I plan on finding it out in three simple steps, with three simple questions.
Go Wild in Bonaire
Posted by Intelligent Travel on October 13, 2010 Kristin Luna explores Bonaire’s wild side. When I stepped off the plane at Bonaire’s bright pink-hued Flamingo Airport, I expected the usual palm-fringed Caribbean setting. What I found instead was an arid desert landscape with towering cacti and tangled masses of mangrove forests, wild donkeys and goats roaming the terrain and often causing roadblocks, and…
Adventure Travel with Heart
Posted by Intelligent Travel on August 20, 2010 On the first and last days, it poured rain. At 9,000 feet, I came down with a bad case of bronchitis. At 12,000 feet, my face and my hands swelled disproportionately as a result of altitude sickness. At 15,000 feet, I worried about whether I would make it through at all. Seven days, six nights…
Kickstart Your Travel Dreams
Posted by Janelle Nanos on February 18, 2010 Most of our New Year’s resolutions are already distant memories (as I type this, I’m munching on handfuls of jellybeans, oops). But Seattle-based travel writer Charyn Pfeuffer made her New Year’s resolution, and made a pact to keep it. Pfeuffer could easily be considered a jetsetter: She clocks more than 150 flights a year and…
Volunteering at Kindness Ranch
Posted by Intelligent Travel on August 18, 2009 Former National Geographic Books editorial assistant Hunter Braithwaite spent his vacation helping former laboratory research animals in a Wyoming sanctuary. We wake at dawn to black coffee. A murderous sun will soon beat down. Vultures, wafting in the carrion breeze, cast the only shadows. In the distance is a persistant howling. But all is well on…
The Sounds of New Orleans
Posted by it on March 17, 2008 We recently asked for your voluntourism stories, and were glad to hear from Traci Angel, a health and science freelance journalist from Columbia, Missouri, just back from a trip with Hands on New Orleans. Scratch, scratch, scratch. Scheesh, sheesh, boom, boom. BOOM. Sheeesh. Sheesh. Three hours crawled by as we heaved and lunged our bodies…
