Posts Tagged ‘Consume & Update’

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 [...]

Get ready to consume a whole lotta good stuff.
How Can I Resist This Title?
Vagabondish is a travelzine I keep my eye on and with good reason, as this week they posted How to Master the Art of Interesting Travel. I’m hooked! Amy Baker describes interesting travel in a way that makes sense, thanks to the [...]

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 [...]

What a smorgasbord! There is great material across the travel community this week, and here are some of the highlights.
Poetry in Motion
This looks like a truly lovely opportunity:
Imagine being given one year to travel outside North America. That’s exactly the situation I’m now in after being chosen as the 2010 Amy Lowell Poetry Traveling Scholar.
The [...]

After perusing the web for the most interesting goodies, here are my suggested reads and views for the week!
Burning Man Timelapse
World Hum and Eva Holland displayed a video by Ben Wiggins of stunning, time-lapse footage that gives a visual account of Burning Man, an annual art festival that seemingly cannot be truly described by even [...]

If you’re always learning, hopefully you’re never bored. Here’s my attempt at bringing you the quality information I’m learning by this week.
Christine created a series this month on what she knows best: giving a lifestyle some massive alterations to become one’s dream life.
This series seeks to give you the practical, real world steps you need [...]

This week’s RSS feeds and reading sessions resulted in some good finds. Here are the articles and book excerpts I’ve found relevant, as well as an update on Nomadderwhere.
This must be why my hometown of Wabash, Indiana has been calling to me these past few months. For years, I felt odd when visiting the town [...]

I did a little reading this week, and this is what stuck from the lot. Click on the images to read the articles.
Good Investments
I’ve only recently come to hear of Rolf Potts, and I look forward to reading his novel “Vagablogging” in the coming months. Here on his blog, fellow writer Scott Gilbertson discusses possible [...]

One thing I missed while frantically running across the globe for the STA internship was the downtime to enjoy some of my favorite reading material: The Matador Network.
Click on the images to follow the stories!
In Traveler’s Notebook
Josh says your active earbuds stand in the way of experience the audio sensations of a destination. For me [...]