A while back I wrote how I think most folks are bad tourists in their own hometown. I plead guilty.... Read More
Like snowboarding? Like volcanic ash too? Try ashboarding in Nicaragua. It’s the Olympic Winter Games meets Pompei. Without all the... Read More
Ian of Brave New Traveler fame (yes, that Ian! Who’d you think I meant?) recently launched a contest to submit... Read More
As a perfectly fitting adjunct to a post I made earlier railing against American hyper-consumerism, I found this SNL skit... Read More
Lately, there’s been a number of memes passed around this great clique of travel bloggers of which I consider myself... Read More
“If you’ve nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” That’s what mum always taught me. I think bloggers... Read More
Lately I’ve been thinking about the strange irony of writing a travel blog while not actually traveling. In my heart,... Read More
One of Wordpress' best, little-known features is the ability to schedule posts to automatically publish to your travel blog on a future date. Read More
The Tribewanted project is part Myspace, part reality-TV show Survivor. With over 1,100 inhabitants so-far, this unique social experiment seems... Read More
Huh? I like to think I’m a reasonably smart guy. No really – even my grandmum agrees. But there’s clearly... Read More
Bourdain throws all caution to the wind given the slightest chance of a travel or culinary adventure. Read More
Hangovers are an inevitable consequence of many a young traveler’s foray into the seedier and more exciting places around the... Read More
In an unintentional yet timely follow-up to this past Sunday’s post, Vagablogging offers this advice via Fight Club: “You buy... Read More
Are you a writer and a traveler? Have you read Thomas Spurling’s post On Travel Writing? If not, you’re doing... Read More
(I easily spent seventeen or eighteen seconds crafting the title of this post. Seriously.) As if returning home from an... Read More
Stacy from Rambling Traveler points us to a gorgeous selection of hyper-colored travel photos using a technique called HDR or... Read More
I’m not going to lie – traveling solo around the world scares the hell out of me. And when the... Read More
As my RTW departure draws nigh I’ve put everything I do, buy, eat, and consume under a microscope. At first,... Read More
The top ten links from this week in budget travel: Perpetual Travel presents a no-nonsense guide to RTW travel NuNomad... Read More
Travel writing isn’t easy. I certainly won’t claim to be an expert. How many different ways can you describe a... Read More