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September 29, 2004

Not an ad for iPod (though it may sound like one)

It's been nearly eight consecutive years now that I've been living in a semi-permanent state, taking a bare minimum of...
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September 28, 2004

Sasha Cagen on why travel is for lovers

"It's much cleaner to hook up with someone in a foreign city, or even across the state line, than to...
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September 27, 2004

A tale of three Rolfs

I'm currently back in Baja after a weekend trip to Los Angeles, where I had the rare opportunity to hang...
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September 24, 2004

Neil Armstrong on the appeal of non-lunar destinations

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September 22, 2004

Keeping your employment prospects while vagabonding

I have one more piece of advice to share from the Vagabonding.net Q&A. The question comes from David Kliman of...
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September 21, 2004

A monster poem from my nephew Cedar

My nephew Cedar, who is now five years old and attending kindergarten in north-central Kansas, has written a new poem....
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September 20, 2004

A quick note about history and culture

"It might be a good idea if the various countries of the world occasionally swap history books, just to see...
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September 18, 2004

Punditing (and paddling) in Georgia

If this blog has fallen silent late this week, it's because I've been at the Governor's Conference on Tourism in...
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September 15, 2004

How do satellite phones (and blogs) alter the travel experience?

I noticed I was quoted this week in Casey Kittrell's Travel Weekly piece, "Tools for the Trade: Staying in Touch...
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September 14, 2004

Tools for the trade: Staying in touch on the road

[This appeared today in Travel Weekly. See above for comment.] Tools for the trade: Staying in touch on the road...
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September 13, 2004

Travel works best with a minimum of baggage

"Unaccustomed to direct experience, we can come to fear it. We don't want to read a book or see a...
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September 10, 2004

Is it OK to go vagabonding right out of high school?

Over at the Vagabonding Q&A, Andy S. from Woodbury, New Jersey writes: "I am currently 18 years old and have...
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September 09, 2004

Good news from the Lowell Thomas Awards

My thanks to everyone who alerted me about the results of the 20th annual Lowell Thomas Awards in travel writing....
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September 07, 2004

From India: Booze in a bag

[Above: An empty liquor bag from Rekong Peo, India.] Today I'm proud to start a new category on this...
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September 06, 2004

Jen Leo interview at RolfPotts.com

This month at my RolfPotts.com Travel Writers page I interview Jennifer Leo, whose latest women's travel humor anthology, Whose Panties...
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September 03, 2004

Vagabonding interview on Canada's Radio Outpost

This week I was interviewed by Daryl Richel for Canada's Radio Outpost show, which focuses on adventure and independent travel....
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September 02, 2004

Anywhere Out of This World

The essay below appears in this month's Harper's. I'll comment on it later. ANYWHERE OUT OF THIS WORLD On why...
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September 01, 2004

Paul Theroux's litmus test for dictatorship

"Any country which displays more than one statue of a living politician is a country which is headed for trouble."...
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