Festivals. A place where people looking to have a great time can dance, listen to great music, celebrate, party, have fun, and relax. They happen all over the world for many different reasons. Some celebrate religion, some the new year, some art, some the harvest- whatever the reason, every month, somewhere in the world, you’ll [...]
Tag Archives: Travel Lists
Thirteen Other Great Travel Websites
July 3, 2010 – 12:51 pm
As I mentioned in a previous post, last week was the 2nd annual travel blogging conference. Besides having an awesome video that re-inspired me and being a great excuse for 250 travelers to party together, it was also a chance to meet some of the other travelers I spent most of my day talking to [...]
Great Places to Teach English
February 24, 2010 – 5:35 pm
Every year thousands of people leave their home to travel and teach English overseas. They go to experience a new culture, work overseas, put off getting a “real” job, and earn lots of money doing it. Sometimes they are just backpackers who ran out of money and are looking for an easy job [...]
Great Reasons to Visit New Zealand
February 15, 2010 – 7:25 am
New Zealand’s far away location ensures that its natural beauty is protected from the hordes of tourists who would overwhelm this place if it was easy to get to. True, New Zealand’s greatness has been exposed to the world by movies like Lord of the Rings but, surprisingly, few people make their way down here. [...]
More Great Travel Movies
January 29, 2010 – 3:40 pm
Way back in 2008, I created a list of ten of the best travel movies even created for film. It’s a great list. Check it out. However, since then, there have been a lot of great travel movies made and, even on the first list, I neglected some others that inspired us to get out [...]
The Top Travel Tweeters
December 8, 2009 – 11:34 pm
Just like everyone has their own good iPhone travel apps list, everyone has their own best travel Twitter list. Most just create a long list of a lot of names. With this list, I broke it down into categories and tried to give you people who are considered experts in what they do and command [...]
Good iPhone Travel Apps
November 25, 2009 – 3:50 pm
I’ve been traveling around with my iPhone for a few months now and playing around with the various travel apps to see which are worth using. To be honest, most suck. They don’t work well, they cost too much, or are too basic. Moreover, there are just too many redundant apps. How many apps do [...]
What Type of Backpacker Are You?
July 29, 2009 – 7:26 pm
You always hear about the distinction made between tourists and backpackers, but even among backpackers, we love to group each other into categories by who is the better traveler. Check into any hostel, and you will find a variety of different travelers wearing their distinctive tribal gear. Here are some of the more common that [...]
Perpetual Nomads You Should Read
July 13, 2009 – 3:38 pm
There are a lot of travel websites on the internet. It seems that anyone who has ever hit the road has also started a travel website. But most trips only last a year before people head back to the infamous “real world.” And when they do, they stop blogging. Yet some of us don’t ever [...]
