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5 Questions For The Guy That Traveled To 26 Countries To Make A Wedding Proposal Video
If you’ve used any type of social media the last few days or so, chances are you’ve come across the story of Jack Hyer, the Montana man that put together a 26-country wedding proposal, 4 years in the making (see above), featuring him trouncing around the world, lip-syncing to The Proclaimers’ “I’m Gonna Be (500 […]
TBEX 2014 Is Heading To Cancun
It’s official, TBEX North America 2014 is heading to Cancun and will take place from September 11 -14. It was recently announced that TBEX North America 2014, the world’s largest conference for travel bloggers, is heading south of the border (the U.S. border that is) to Cancun, Mexico, this year, this after being held in […]
The Syrian Refugee Crisis: My First-Hand Account From The Turkish Border
More than three years have passed since protesters took the streets in Syria. What began as a call for democracy, a mass movement to end Bashar al-Assad’s 43 years of family rule, has turned into a foreign-funded proxy war without a foreseeable end. So far, the war in Syria has produced an estimated 150,000 casualties, […]
London Was The Most Visited City In The World Last Year
According to statistics released today, London took the crown as the most visited city in the world for 2013, with an estimated 16.8 million visitors in 2013, more than a million more visitors than in 2006, its previous record year. Buoyed by a huge amount of publicity following a little sporting event called the Olympics […]
Putumayo Releases Latest Album: Music Of The Andes
I have to admit, I’m a huge, unapologetic Putumayo music fan. In fact, there was a point in my life where my iPod (this was pre-iPhone era) was maxed out with Putumayo albums and one Vampire Weekend album — classic hipster, I know! Good news recently came for everyone of the world music label with […]
Travel Guide To San Francisco [Travel Video]
In this travel video guide to San Francisco, I travel to San Francisco, California, one of the most scenic cities in the United States, if not the world. In town for a conference for only four days, only one of which was going to be sunny, I headed out to see as much as I […]
Street Food In New York Time: The 3rd Annual Choice Streets Food Truck Event
Interested in checking out some of the best street food New York City has to offer? Silly question, of course you are. Well, you’re in luck, the 3rd annual Village Voice Choice Streets Food Truck Event is happening this week on May 7 at 7:00 p.m. here in New York City at Pier 86, better […]
Your Guide To The Biennale Of Sydney
Sydney is Los Angeles and Melbourne is Manhattan, or so the stereotyped comparison often goes, implying the former Australian city is all sun and surf while the latter is the only location for serious arts and culture, but as anyone who’s been to Sydney recently knows, this generalization is long outdated. In 2007 Sydney’s Lord […]
10 Ways To Improve The Flying Experience Outside Of The Plane
On my way to a recent flight, while I was frantically putting my shoes back on among a pushy crowd in that tiny space past the scanning machine, my mind began to wander from its immediate train of thought (which, at that moment, included a fantasy involving my shoe coming into contact with the person’s […]
The Top 50 Travel Blogs (1st Quarter: 2014)
Below is a list of the top 50 travel blogs for the 1st quarter (January — March) of 2014 ranked by visitor traffic. There are a few other sites that have put together their own lists of the “top” travel blogs. However, each has their own subjective means of ranking sites, using everything from Alexa […]