I just simply don’t understand Monaco. It is one of the cities in the world, like Beirut or Hong Kong that just sort of mystifies me. It is a city of immense wealth of course. It boasts the highest Gross Domestic Product per capita of any country in the world, […]
One of the things that I love about China is the slightly off English that you see in signs and hear from people. “Clinglish” or “Changlish” or whatever one calls it (similar to Spanglish, which was supposedly an actually good Adam Sandler movie, though I’ll never know), China was […]
I was aware of the Hmong people before I went up to the mountains in Northern Vietnam, near the Chinese border, to take photographs of the amazing rice terraces near Sapa (those photos coming later). It turns out there is a fairly large population of Hmong immigrants back in my […]
I would have never thought that a visit to the Berlin Music Festival would be one of the more emotional experiences I have had in quite a long time, but as I came through the terminal entrance of the Berlin Tempelhof Airport, on my way to the runway side of […]
Janice, like last week’s Lucky 13 interviewee, Keith Jenkins, defines classy and thoughtful. I finally meet both in person this summer at TBU in Innsbruck (they spoke there, quite eloquently, on the topic of making money travel blogging) and I wouldn’t have expected that my high expectations of her would […]
Keith is not only a travel blogging inspiration, he is a life inspiration and one of the few people that I believe has really researched and thought through the future awaiting those in the travel blogging profession. I have had a few chances to sit down and talk to Keith […]
I wanted to post this first on the Ultimate Train Challenge website, so I did — on this video post of the Trans-Manchurian — but I figured I would put it up over here also. It is my first video effort. More of the story on the link through… and […]
