Pico Iyer on the 10 Things Every Traveler Should Do

Photo by Rupert Ganz

Just wanted to point you, friends, in the direction of a new travel article in Real Simple Magazine by one of the world's greatest living travel writers,  Pico Iyer. Frankly, I was surprised by some of the advice in it. (I don't think its a good idea to eat at McDonald's on vacation; and "overview" tours of a destination are usually a waste of time, in my opinion). But on the whole his contemplation of the tools one can use (such as glossy hotel magazines, public buses and more) to improve a trip take the usually cliched top ten list article to a new level. Click on the link above to see the piece.