Travel Inspiration

Here are some of our favourite inspirations to help you get on the road or just make sense of your life as you travel.

Hell, it’s actually just a bunch of people we felt like writing about at the time.

Road Junky has 19 Travel Inspiration articles. Scroll down to view.

Hunter Thompson Gonzo Journalist

“We were somewhere around Barstow on the edge of the desert when the drugs began to take hold…”

So Hunter Thompson began his crowning work “Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas”, ...

Here be Pirates: A Guide to Buccaneering in the 21st Century

All over the world, hordes of red-eye Deppendents are cramming themselves into cinemas to catch the latest instalment of Pirates of the Caribbean. It’s not only hormonal tweens reduced to ...

Why I Chose not to Couchsurf with the Nubile Young Massage Therapy Student

Couchsurfing is not a dating site. It really isn’t. It is a global network with some two million members and a specific mission of “creating inspiring experiences”, but it is ...

Lonely Planet Folds!!!

Mediaisdying reports that the travel guide company Lonely Planet will cease publishing at the end of 2009. It seems with updated information being readily available online the BBC ...

World's Funniest Signs

Congratulations to AlexBerger who won $25 via our twitter contest by sending us this funny sign for a scotch whiskey flavored condom ad that reads: “Warning: do not attempt ...

Travel the World for a Dance

So, you thought being a travel writer was the best way to travel the world? Guess again. Maybe a job as a UN ambassador? Nope. How about becoming a photojournalist? ...

Sacha Cohen - Culture Hero

Sacha Cohen a.k.a Ali G a.k.a Borat a.k.a camp fashion guy is one of the greatest clowns of our time, exposing the holes in our culture with his brilliant impersonations ...

Road Junky Launches New Design

Well, it finally happened. We mustered enough motivation to get ourselves off of the beach and around a computer long enough to pull off this brand new design. Now we ...

Across the Andes Finishes

Hikers Gregg Treinish and Deia Scholsberg have completed what must truly have been a life changing epic voyage – 20 months of overland trekking from Ecuador, all the way through ...

Banksy - Graffiti Artist and Culture Hero

Banksy is one of those artists that remind you why it’s worth going on. Against the merciless waves of media mediocrity and conformist pop culture, his graffiti cuts through the ...

Junkies enjoy Man vs. Wild

What? A TV program mentioned on Road Junky?

And you thought we’d be too busy wallowing in holes in 3rd world countries to watch TV!

It turns out that in ...

Travel Quotes

Inspiration can be drawn from humanity’s greatest travelers – poetically distilled down to the Philosopher’s Stone of the travel quote. From Mark Twain to Rumi, from ancient proverbs to Einstein ...