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What Do You Think Of Our New Site Design?
Notice anything new about the site? Less cat pictures — yes. Removal of that late-night rambling post I wrote late one night connecting the JFK assassination to the Illuminati, the moon cycles and Rick Steves’s khakis — check. Complete site redesign and overhaul for your reading pleasure — hell yeah! If you haven’t noticed already […]
12 Stunning Panoramic Photos Of Maui
I normally don’t take my cell phone with me while traveling (as I recently wrote about prior to my trip to India). This is due to a wide variety of reasons including the cost of buying local SIM cards and topping them off with data plans, the potential for sticking out as a target for […]
Behold The Sight Of Luna The Surfing Dog
As if I wasn’t feeling bad enough about my skills the first time on a surfboard, Luna, the unofficial mascot of the Maui-based surfing school Maui Surfer Girls, had to show me up by effortlessly riding the waves, with barely any effort even being shown on her part. In all seriousness, I have to say […]
If Guidebooks Were High School Students, DK Travel Guides Would Be Captain Of The Cheerleading Squad
If guidebooks were all students at a high school, this is who each of them would be: Frommer’s = The popular Lacrosse Player Well liked by almost everyone, reliable, always on time for class, and doesn’t stir up too much controversy. Lonely Planet = The Stoner Hangs out behind school smoking cigarettes between classes, friends […]
Travel Guide To India (Part 3): Varanasi
In part three of my video travel guide to India I travel to Varanasi, one of the holiest cities in the Hindu religion. In this video I visit the famous ghats, or steps, which lead into the Ganges River, the holy river where visitors and locals come every day to wash themselves and perform religious […]
Travel Guide To India (Part 2): Bodhgaya
In part two of my video travel guide to India I travel to Bodhgaya, one of the most sacred places in all of the Buddhist religion. It was at this location 2,500 years ago that a young Prince Siddhartha sat under a fig tree, meditated and found enlightenment, thus becoming the Buddha. I start off […]
The Expeditioner Presents (Episode 5): Budget Travel with Nomadic Matt [Video]
The Expeditioner Presents (Episode 5): Budget Travel with Matt Kepnes (Nomadic Matt) In the fifth episode of The Expeditioner Presents, I sit down with Matt Kepnes of NomadicMatt.com to discuss budget travel. As the founder of NomadicMatt.com, Matt has been providing tips and advice on budget travel to his readers for years. Matt and I […]
Your Instagram Travel Pictures Are Making Your Friends Miserable
In case you thought that sharing on Instagram that #picoftheday of your #amazing picture from your #incredible #vacation from that exotic location that you happen to find yourself in is something your friends want to see, well you’re wrong. It’s actually making them miserable, and there’s science to prove it. As Slate recently detailed, scientists […]
Is It Possible To Actually Enjoy Bali? (Here’s How)
Full disclosure: I’ve never been to Bali. It’s not that I haven’t been in the general vicinity, or have had the chance to go there over other destinations that are roughly the same distance from New York, but I’ve got to admit, it’s quickly become one of the few places in the world where my […]
The Top 50 Travel Blogs (2nd Quarter: 2013)
Below is a list of the top 50 travel blogs for the 2nd quarter (April – June) of 2013 ranked by visitor traffic. Update: Click here for The Top 50 Travel Blogs (3rd Quarter: 2013). There are a few other sites that have put together their own lists of the “top” travel blogs. However, each […]