Great news, especially since it was in the writing category. Other sites also honored for the quality of their writing include NPR, BBC World Service and Vanity Fair. Thanks, Webbys.

Does travel make us wiser but less happy, as Thomas Jefferson famously suggested in a letter to a friend? I consider the question in a short piece on the escalating drug war in Michoacán and my own memories of traveling through the Mexican state, which also happens to be home to the largest avocado-producing region [...]

Last night, after months of work, we finally posted the newly redesigned World Hum. I loved the old design, but it was in dire need of a fresh look, and it was a bit prehistoric in its architecture. This site, designed by the Travel Channel’s Joe Rivera, is a huge improvement. It’s got everything a [...]

I don’t talk about this much because, frankly, it just intimidates people, as it should. But back in 1998, when I was but a young magazine freelancer with a dog-eared copy of Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” on my bookshelf, I enrolled in bullfighting school. The California Academy of Tauromaquia in San Diego, to be [...]