Found you from 's entry post to the Curation Contest. We for the most part try and keep our travels inside the US and try hard to get off the beaten path a little to see more then just the tourist traps as I call them. Heck we make running around the City of Chicago a vacation sometimes as there is so much to see there that even as a lifetime resident I haven't seen it all.
RE: Experiential Traveling: Avoiding the Carnival Cruise