All along the backpacker trail you hear it. The talk. The chatter. The snarls. The attitude. That’s right. I’m talking about how backpackers feel about tourists. Backpackers view tourists as non-travelers- those who go for the pictures and the hotel but never the place. Backpackers on the other hand are true travelers- they go for [...]
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Interview with Lara Dunston, part 2
Continuing our interview with writer Lara Dunston, this week with discussing the future of travel writing, online tools, the nitty gritty of the business, and whether or not travel writing is actually any fun.
Nomadic Matt: Chuck Thompson said last month that he thought travel writing was great but that you couldn’t make a living doing [...]
Interview with Lara Dunston
Lara Dunston, author of many Lonely Planet, Rough Guides, and Eyewitness travel guides, is this month’s travel interview. Lara provided such a depth of answers that this interview will be spread out over two posts and will cover a wide range of topics, including addressing some of the issues Thomas Khonstamm and Chuck Thompson brought [...]
How to Travel the World, Part 2: On the Road
Now that you have finished your pre-trip planning, booked your cheap flight, and have landed in a foreign country, what do you do? Well, the truth is that time on the road is pretty much whatever you want it to be. Suggestions on where to go, stay, and eat will come at you from [...]
Are Guidebooks Worth It?
A few months ago, it was reported that Thomas Kohnstamm made up stories he wrote for Lonely Planet, saying he never went to the country he was supposed to review. The story received wide press coverage and brought up the credibility of guidebooks and travel writers. In reality, he was assigned to write about the [...]
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