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I don’t know about you, but every time I talk to friends these days they’re all doom and gloom about how the economy is going to make people stop traveling, and they wonder if I’m going to need to update my resume anytime soon. Personally, I’m optimistic about the long-term outlook for travelers – but that’s because the travelers I’m talking about are the ones for whom budget travel has always been the M.O., and … Read more »
Photographs of places you’ve been and people you’ve met have the ability to communicate what words often can’t. Share these images online and now sell them through imagekind.com and start making money to help fund your travels. I have yet to try it out but it seems easy enough and it’s a great way to make a little extra cash while traveling.
You can upload up to 24 images with the free account … Read more »
It’s frustrating to research a trip sometimes. Information is incomplete, incomprehensible, or downright incorrect. Like when I was trying to find a cheap, clean guesthouse in Hong Kong that wasn’t in the infamous Chungking Mansions. Almost impossible. I ended up staying at the Causeway Bay Guest House, which was just okay.
But sometimes I get lucky. I’ve wanted to go to South America for a long time, and I stumbled onto this … Read more »
Last Sunday, October 12, video game mogul Richard Garriott left for the International Space Station on a Soyuz spacecraft. He docked the station Tuesday morning.
Garriott is the latest addition to the list of six “space tourists”, still a controversial term, whose trips were facilitated by Space Adventures.
With efforts such as Virgin Galactic and … Read more »
Sometimes when I discover a really cool place, whether it’d be a temple, a bar or a local restaurant, I get tempted to not tell my friends. I’ll admit that at times I’m selfish and want the fun venues to stay a secret.
The next time you find an interesting town or city, it might be best not to tell all your friends about it, as this recent Washington Post article suggests. It discusses … Read more »
Like many people the recent and alarming economic headlines may have you rethinking your travel plans. However, extended travel might actually be one of the better ways to survive a recession or, if it comes to that, a full-blown depression.
Think about the basic math — traveling in Asia for a year I easily lived on $20 a day, often much less. With many economists predicting … Read more »
A friend of mine has confessed her dream to me: to motorcycle around the world. I tell her ‘go for it’ but that’s an easy thing to do, in comparison to the life changes and research that she faces. It makes me think about the leap from dream to reality—unfortunately it’s not always as easy as you’d hope.
I’ve come across someone who’s in the middle of his own leap of sorts—Christoph Rehage is walking … Read more »
There’s an eye-opening write up over on the National Post about traveler Charles Veley, who is on a quest to visit every country, state and territory on the planet. Let’s be clear from the start, Veley is not a vagabond, he’s a dot-com millionaire with the free time pursue such a goal. It’s worth questioning the motivations … Read more »
Being an Indian, I always get asked for travel tips in India. I can help on the general stuff, but when it comes to routes and places to stay, I have no idea. Whenever I do trips in India, it’s normally with family (a lot of family!) and we book a large guesthouse. The routes normally come out of the brain and adventurous plottings of my grandfather — the rest of us just follow lead. … Read more »
Can you be a vagabonder and stay in your own home country? Some people might argue that this defeats the purpose of vagabonding — seeing unusual sights and hearing strange sounds, experiencing bizarre forms of transportation and even more bizarre gastronomical trials — but there is a lot to be said for picking up and traveling around the place you already hold a passport to.
For one thing, you already know the language, what the … Read more »