About

We like to travel. But not generically. We want to show up in a city and know where the free drinks are. We want to watch a movie at every drive-in theater still standing. We want to do yoga on the beach in Costa Rica at sunrise after waking up to the howls of monkeys. We want to hunt down the local storyteller in St. Martin and ask her to show us where the skulls of slaves are buried in her backyard. We want to visit creepy ghost towns–even if our car won’t start when we try to leave. We want to meet people all over the world who feel like family and trade stories with them. This is not about being a tourist. This is about being a traveler.

We believe there’s enough negativity in the world. The Anti Tourist exists so that we can recreate and share our positive experiences through our stories. If we don’t have anything good to say, we don’t say anything at all.

The Anti Tourist was started by musician/writer/traveler Elizabeth Seward in early 2008. By that point, Seward had sung her way across the USA a few times over. She spent her nights playing shows and sleeping anywhere she could (floors, vans, the occasional lucky hotel), but she spent her days exploring. Eager to share her stories, she started filing them all onto The Anti Tourist and soon after invited other travelers, many of them also artists, to document their experiences as well.

And now, here we have it: an always-expanding collection of travel stories we hope you enjoy. Go where we go, if you want, or live vicariously through us from the comfort of your office chair.

OUR WRITERS
The Anti Tourist is a collective travel journal with many contributors from all over the world. Here are some regulars:

Elizabeth Seward, Founder/Editor-in-Chief
Ben Britz, Editor/Photographer
Ashley Halligan, Assistant Editor