Beirut or bust

05/20/2008 | Location: Beirut, Lebanon

At Someriya on the outskirts of Damascus, minivan and cab drivers await passengers looking to make the two-hour trip across the border to Beirut.

(Photo by Thushan Amarasiriwardena, caption by Michael D. Kurtz / LongJaunt.com)

02.06.2008 | Colonia, Uruguay

Just an hour speed boat ride across from Buenos Aires, we take a jaunt to lazy (in a good way) town of Colonia, Uruguay.

01.24.2008 | Isla de Ometepe, Nicaragua

This place seems straight out of our dinosaur books when we were little kids: an island made by two volcanoes in a lake so big it looks...

02.07.2008 | Buenos Aires, Argentina

Care to dance? We hit up a milonga (dance parlor) where late owls dance the tango until three in the morning.