I know this is weird, but I love spam comments on my blog. Every couple of days, I go through my spam filter on my website to make sure that a real comment hasn’t been caught up in there, which has happened on about a half dozen or so times in the last few months.
I got to know Adam a little bit when he was spending four months in Israel on an internship for the Geneva Initiative and doing some really interesting posting from there. It was an interesting time of interesting combinations on his blog, world politics and travel, all in one. For the travel and political junkie that I am, it was a great combination.
In all the hullabaloo about everyone’s best things of the year, I think we lose focus on what is truly important. The best things are great, but by definition they are rare and almost unattainable. Well, apparently they aren’t that unattainable, since everyone has ten of them in a variety of categories at this time of year, but you get the point. Focusing on only the things at the top is quite unfair to the bulk of life, the average.
Amanda is one of the new generation of travel bloggers out there, similar to Brendan. Like me, she has only had a self-hosted blog for the last few months. In fact, she only started her blog in February of this year — and her immediate success is impressive.
In addition to being great graphic artists and web designers, Aly and John also are wonderful travel bloggers and photographers. Their website, Hop and Jaunt website, is a combination of travel, webs design, unique graphics… well, you get the point. They do about everything. And do it really well.
Over breakfast a few weeks ago in Tobago, I was listening to the conversation of a table of four locals next to me. The only man was an older man that looked, and sounded, like he had immigrated from India at some point. He had a big, sweeping, bushy mustache and his English was a mix of proper British style English, that I imagined he learned in India, and more of the local creole dialect, which is damn difficult to understand at the speed they throw it out.
Pete, my buddy at Google, frantically emailed me this morning about this new iPhone app, Word Lens, and told me he thought it was going to be an instant game changer in the world of travel. He also insisted that I do a quickie review of it on my blog. […]
Shannon is an inspiration, and not just to female travelers, but to all of us. She took a traditionally RTW trip in 2008-09 and has never looked back. She is a completely location independent worker now and I have some serious envy of her for that accomplishment.
Today is my 43rd birthday. For those of you that know a little bit about me, I have some peculiar things that help make me, me. One of those is that I really only celebrate my prime number birthdays. Today is one of those. (For the non-math inclined, prime numbers are […]
Brendan’s first post on his website is just from March of 2010, but he has made a splash in a short period of time. One of the things that brought him to my attention (and I think the attention of many other travel bloggers) was when he began his Top 100 Independent Travel Websites list earlier this year. Not only was it a marketing stroke of genius, for me it was one of the big reasons I moved from my previous crappy blogspot.com format to a serf-hosted site run on WordPress.
I suppose there aren’t any cold showers in hell, now that I think about it, but regardless, I hate cold showers. Hate. Hate. Before I first started on my RTW overland trip in December of 2008, I couldn’t remember the last time I took an intentionally cold shower. Like anyone […]
Matt Long is one of the most introspective and thoughtful travel bloggers out there. Perhaps more often than anyone else that I read, his blog most often makes me stop and think. Higher praise I can not think of for a writer, in my opinion.
