They Aren’t Just For Kids, Part 1

I'm not talking about Trix cereal. I'm talking about the Nakavika Project classes we've been conducting here in Fiji. Within the first week of teaching the children about English and hygiene/health, the young men of the village expressed their interest in learning what we have to teach. Classes with these boys ...

Street Smarts: Transport Scams

Walking around India with glowing blonde hair, parachute pants, and the backpack/daypack humpback/pregnant belly combo is a sure-fire way to indicate, “I’m not from around here.” What does this mean to the rickshaws slowly following your swagger or the cyclists hoping you’ll turn around and want their transport services? Some ...

Bracing for the Cyclone: Day 13

Various news publications reported Cyclone Mick as a battering, vicious storm, causing a lot of devastation to Viti Levu in December of 2009. BBC showed disheartening video footage of the aftermath. Al-Jazeera accentuated the death count. The Telegraph wove together an anthropomorphic description of Mick using beastly adjectives galore. ...

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Mar 11

Photo of the Day: It’s hard to top this moment

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Nov 01

Consume & Update: Place, Patagonia and Chicago

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What’s better than good reading material on our favorite topic: Travel!
Mental Mileage
New contributor of Vagablogging, Colleen Wilde, brought a beautiful quote to the surface this week with her post of the same title:
Measure Travel Inwards
-Henry David Thoreau
I thought this was lovely, and it got me thinking about my diverse reactions to culture shock and the [...]

Oct 28

Reviewing Jon Krakauer’s Into the Wild

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Jon Krakauer is the reason I traveled to India in 2008 to see the Himalayan mountains. Into Thin Air was a personal account of a terrible occurrence on Mount Everest that for some reason led me to adore and venerate the world’s ability to form this mountain range.
So before I even picked up its predecessor, [...]

Oct 21

Reviewing Lonely Planet’s Travel Writing Book

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I chat regularly with guys and gals around the world pursuing the same interests as my own, and what klobbers us all with confusion are questions like:
-I love to travel. I need to make an income. Should I then be a travel writer?
-In what ways does my writing need help before it’s ready to be [...]

Oct 18

Consume & Update: Gulf States, Piano Stairs and Home Again

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A week at sea leaves Lindsay’s RSS reader mighty, mighty full. Blame the straight day of transit yesterday for this late posting.
Don’t forget about the Middle East!
Gary Arndt and AmateurTraveler.com presented a podcast this week about traveling to the gulf states that gives us an ear into a conversation on countries often left off the [...]