Susan Michelle's Compass is a guidance site for the anti-tourist who looks for real culture on their trips, be it the hippest club in London or an undiscovered village in Venezuela--a site whose mission is to help the information-overloaded hipster who embraces a fashionable, but still practical, life when on the road. Here, you won't find a thousand travel website links, a zillion articles about beautiful places, me blogging my every move, and content that is as vast and overwhelming as this entire planet, aimed at every person on it. Most people don't even have time to travel as much as they'd like, let alone read about it. So, here at Compass, I do all the reading for you, and only list the best of the best, for the niche traveler known as the Cosmopolitan Traveler. Here, you'll find:

• The most useful travel websites, not every travel website in the world.
• The coolest places this season, not three seasons ago.
• Tips and articles based on my own experiences that aim to improve your travel lifestyle.

In short, less is more.

Compass is not about travel--it's about the lifestyle of travel. Home lifestylist Martha Stewart showed the world how to make their home life better. I'm a travel lifestylist who wants to make your world away from home a better one. So the time you spend preparing, and recovering, from a voyage doesn't leave you feeling worse than if you'd never taken your trip at all.

Come explore my site. Then go explore the world. With Compass's help, you'll never be lost.