Travel Inspiration

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 and ...