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 18 Travel Inspiration articles. Scroll down to view.
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 ...
2007 Gonzo Travel Writing Contest Short List
After being inundated by over one hundred entries for our 2007 travel writing contest , Road Junky is proud to announce our short list of the top twelve entries. ...
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 ...
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 ...
Ernest Hemingway - Macho Traveler
“To me heaven would be a big bull ring with me holding two barrera seats and a trout stream outside that no one else was allowed to fish in ...
Paris Hilton Hotel Heiress
“People think I’m stupid. But I’m smarter than most people.”
She’s beautiful, she’s famous, and she’s rich. She was raised in a very sheltered way – Paris and her sister didn’t ...
The Beatles Travel to India
“The farther one travels, the less one knows.” (Lao Tzu)
“1968, the Beginning of the End for the Fab Four and much else. That traumatic year for those who lived ...
Borat - the real Kazakh
Jewish-British comedian’s invention Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat is the most interesting satirical statement since Jon Stewart’s faux-political Daily Show. For those of you on Mars or way out in the ...
Syd Barrett - Traveler to the Stars
Syd Barrett (1946-2006) co-founded the psychedelic band Pink Floyd. Before he went crazy from stardom and too much LSD, he penned beautiful Tolkien-esque songs about gnomes, scarecrows ...
Pink Playgrounds in Gaza
Code Pink, Patch Adams and the attempt to bring toys and chocolate into Gaza
The Yes Men - The Travelling Pransksters\Activists
Impersonating big-time criminals in order to publicly humiliate them.
