In this interview with writer, professor, community builder, kayaker, and self-professed “post-hippie Deep South anarchist,” John Lane shows Matador writer Julie Schwietert around the textile mill being converted into an environmental studies center, and talks about the relationships between people and place, between traveling and settling, and how to form community. Click on the audio links to hear clips from their walk along Lawson’s Fork Creek, and read on for a conversation about Lane’s book and writing about place.

In this interview, filmmaker and Everest Peace Project creator Lance Trumbull discusses reaching the summit of Everest with a team of Palestinian and Israeli climbers, the challenges of making a documentary, and what it takes "to help sew the seeds of peace and reconciliation."

"A road to me has often meant a promise--of adventure, of something new. More than anything else, I look at roads the way an explorer might, as a means of getting to the unknown, a route toward experience and knowledge," says award-winning author and intrepid traveler Ted Conover in an interview with Matador writer Tim Patterson.

"From Dresden to Sarajevo and from Hiroshima to Hanoi, Kat traveled through bustling cities that had once been devastated by the brutal machinery of modern war," writes Tim Patterson in this in depth interview of Matador traveler Katharine Burgess.

Tom and Anne Andrus embark on the ultimate family vacation with their four kids, a year-long, six-continent journey of more than 30 countries, which ends not only with a greater appreciation and understanding of different cultures, but of each other.

Outside's Eric Hansen discusses rowing boats in Italy, visiting the Human Pain Research Lab, how to make a living writing good travel stories, and the most beautiful place he's ever been.

An honorable mention in the 2007 Traverse contest, "Hands of the Child" captures a young woman's experience traveling through the Casamance region of Senegal where, with the help of a local non-profit cultural exchange organization, she makes a special connection with the Casamance drummers.

"These people have lost everything – some even watching as their fathers, brothers and uncles were murdered right in front of them, but somehow their humanity, culture and spirituality stay intact,” says photojournalist Mark Brecke in this profile of his work with the people of Darfur.

An interview covering b-boy turned artist and entrepreneur, Nopal's Daniel Sanchez.

"A Little Less Conversation," a look at one of America's strangest tourist attractions, is an excerpt from Graham Reid's award-winning travel book Postcards From Elsewhere (Random House).