I have a hate/love relationship with cab drivers. After hundreds of taxi rides, both in the U.S. and abroad, I have determined that 60% of cab rides leave you with some bad taste in your mouth, 35% are fairly neutral experiences and 5% are some of the most life-saving or […]
Ken is going to end up being the luckiest Lucky 13 interviewee yet — the internet is so horrible here in Lebanon that I haven’t been able to download any embarrassing photographs to add to his replies. Given how much I love his photography, perhaps that is just karma working […]
After four and a half months of traveling overland from Cape Town to Cairo in the summer of 2009, I was so ready to get out of Africa and get to someplace where things worked. I was fed up, frustrated, exhausted and just sick of it all. I can’t wait […]
I’m sick of hostels that don’t do the basic (and cheap) things that make an average hostel stay a really good one. I know that one of the prime draws to staying in a hostel is a cheap price and that you certainly should not expect the amenities of a […]
Rogers, Arkansas to Cincinnati to Paris to Beirut. It was my first time flying though multiple time zones in years, and so my first experience of jet lag in what seems like forever. It was a necessary evil. After my round-the-world (RTW) trip without leaving the ground, I’ve become quite […]
Rolf Potts is a bit of a young travel writing/blogging legend. Author of Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel and Marco Polo Didn’t Go There: Stories and Revelations from One Decade as a Postmodern Travel Writer (Travelers’ Tales Guides) and also dozens and dozens of published […]
In honor of “Blog for New Zealand,” which is an effort to get the word out via dozens of travel blogs that New Zealand is open for business after the latest massive earthquake in the Christchurch area, I thought I’d do a post highlighting some of the many great reasons […]
I think it is finally time to come clean and talk about my secret love affair in public for the first time. Let the chips fall where they may. I know many of my friends have wondered why I haven’t settled down and I have always been a little evasive […]
The Banff Squirrel came to my attention via Twitter and Thursday’s travel talk with the #TNI hashtag. He has more followers than me. According to all ranking systems, he is more influential than me. He’s often times funnier than me. And all the women love him.
Christine gave up a great career in the high tech industry to move to France and bartend and work on her fabulous tan…. didn’t get the travel bug fully out of her and is headed to Australia to work, write and have more fun.
Everyone knows how much I hate Top 10 lists, but after some reflection and convincing from some of my fellow travel bloggers, I have decided to give in and try my first one. I thought it was important to pick a topic that would appeal to everyone. I didn’t want […]
Earl is my idol. On December 25th, 1999, he left the USA for a three-month, post-graduation trip to Southeast Asia. He’s basically been traveling ever since. Amazing. As you can imagine from someone that has been on the road, and writing, for that long, he has scores of wild and fascinating […]
