Please Tear Apart My Website

My website is The Savvy Backpacker — http://thesavvybackpacker.com

I started this site back in 2010 and I just finished a complete redesign. I'd love to hear your general thoughts and ideas on any improvements I could make.

Overall, I feel like my site feels a little too "cold". Maybe a font change could help?

Any suggestions would be great.

EDIT: Another question... would bringing in illustration/icons help make the site feel a little more friendly? I was thinking of adding subtle travel related icons to the background on a few of the home page sections, or I could add illustrated images to the section headers like this... http://jordanawan.com/New-Yorker-web-icons