Six weeks, 10,000 miles, dozens of countries, and one little vehicle: this is the Mongol Rally. Teams from around the world pile into improbable cars and attempt the only-barely-probable – the long drive from London to Ulanbataar. Our correspondent is updating from the road.

Drew Gough gets out of Hanoi, the city of scams and grief. In part two of The Long Road to Bangkok, he explores the sea and the rails, winding up somewhere near Danang on the Central Coast of Vietnam.

Not all travel is easy, nor should it be. Drew Gough found that reflecting on and writing about travel isn't necessarily easy, either. In this, part one of a four-part series, he recounts the difficulty of looking back at an overland journey from Hanoi to Bangkok. Not to mention the difficulty of being ripped off at every turn.

Actor and documentarian Charley Boorman takes a break from adventuring to sit down with Thought Out Loud, sort of, to talk about life on the go, his recent visit to Canada, and his dream trip.

If a picture is worth a thousand words, then this is a 7,000 word essay by Kate Gilbert, who wandered around snapping pictures of the unique, bizarre, and sometimes beautiful homes of Yellowknife's Old Town.

We've all been there. And by "we," we mean "the editors of Thought Out Loud." And by "there," we mean "living abroad," but also that hard-to-define moment when, while living abroad, something familiar has triggered an unpredictable onrushing of emotions: homesickness, absence, loss, longing. Often, these triggers are brands. Why do we connect ourselves to brands? We try to think it out.

Shanghai: the Paris of the East. A legendary city of myth and legend. And expectations. Travelling in Shanghai -- and China, in a larger sense -- is half about trying to fulfill the expectations of what travelling in Shanghai should be, writes Drew Gough.

Jovana Jankovic spent the summer in Weimar, Germany. When she wasn't drinking cheap beer or strolling in lush/picturesque/perfect riverside meadows, she was quietly fuming about losing her place in line. Again and again. Also, her travel advice rhymes.