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Most people will never understand the thrill of being on a stage because, actually, they have never been. That complex array of mixed emotions, gut feeling and embarrassment which sometimes spawns some of the World’s greatest awesomeness may be related to travel in many ways.
As I previously wrote , by bringing an instrument on your travels you may enhance the chances of casual encounters with locals, volunteer … Read more »
Many moons ago I was flown to the Nicoya Peninsula in Costa Rica to evaluate a business plan for horse tours on a 2,024 hectare family owned ranch. It has mangroves, jungle, two river estuaries and 3.5 km of undeveloped shoreline. The family was in the beginning stages of protecting a good chunk of that land as a nature preserve and wildlife refuge. At the time I knew very little about … Read more »
Emile Baizel
Age: 35
Hometown: San Francisco, CA
Quote: “Be open to anything. And you do that by not planning so much.”
Last week, So Many Places posted this biggest, baddest RTW to do list, an extensive task list beginning a year before departure. I imagine this will be very helpful to many planners and am happy to see this information available.
As evidenced by this list, there’s a lot involved in planning a trip – and most of it doesn’t actually involve “planning a trip” but rather tying up loose ends from … Read more »
Recent buzz around the web has suggested big changes in travel, but these trends are much more complicated than gradual increases in tourism as discussed last week by Chris and Marco. We know we can expect at least one billion tourists by 2012, but not everyone is joining the great migration.
A controversial New York Times article suggests quite the opposite for Americans of Generation Y. It suggests that Americans born … Read more »
I was a guest on The Breaking Free Show with Marilyn Shannon tonight. We were talking about freedom and breaking free from the ideas and mindsets that keep us captive.
At one point in the interview, Marilyn turned to me and said, “So what are dreams for you? If you’re living your … Read more »
Travel is an iterative process of experiencing, ruminating, and growing – with the growth often occurring long after we’ve returned from our adventures. Through the sites and sounds and smells of the unfamiliar we test our assumptions and lose the loosest notions of our long-held beliefs. In leaving the familiar we willingly leave behind who we are for a time. By embracing the promise of travel, we embrace the unknown in ourselves and in the … Read more »
“Travel is a transition, and at its best is a journey that begins with setting forth from home. I hated parachuting in to a place. I needed to be able to link one place to another. One of the problems I had with travel in general was the ease with which a person could be transported so swiftly from the familiar to the strange, the moon shot whereby the New York office worker, say, is … Read more »
Back in January I wrote a post about our efforts over at BootsnAll to make shopping for and purchasing a round the world ticket easier. I explained the round the world flight research project that we were working on – where we shopped three fictional itineraries among eight different companies who sell round the world plane tickets. Just this past week we published a free, downloadable report presenting our findings.
Download the free … Read more »
This post is the third in a series on pre-trip planning (see the Intro, post #1: research, post #2: travel insurance, and post #4: technology).
Ahh. Gear. The expense I always fail to calculate into my trip budget. Each of us packs differently, and each of us has different “must-have” items that we take on the road. Here is my own personal must-pack list. Daypack: My latest obsession is to … Read more »