Upgrade Your Travel Experience
Great works of fiction have the power to transport us to different times and places. In a similar vein, reading an involving piece of fiction in a new travel destination can open doors to understanding you’re the world around you. You read guidebooks for the places you visit, so why not a novel? Like guidebooks, [...]
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Recently, we launched our recommended travel journals page in our special offers section. It’s been one of our more popular offers ever since, so it sounds like there are some budding travel journalists out there. But the question I get a lot is how to writer a better journal? It’s a great question. After all, [...]
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I have been pouring through what I think will be my key coffee table book of inspiration next year: Lonely Planet’s 1,000 Ultimate Travel Experiences. I know we all have our own travel bucket lists: some of the public, some of them private, and a jumble of ideas and destinations in between. Now, I know [...]
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When Grant Lingel got in touch and asked if I’d read his new book, Imagine: A Vagabond Story, I said sure – why not – by title alone it sounded great, and it was his tales of exploring Central America, an area of the world I don’t know all that well. If you’re active in [...]
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Today’s guest is famed travel author Bob Riel. As you’ll see below, Bob’s been a busy guy, especially since his book, Two Laps Around the World: Tales and Insights from a Life Sabbatical, has been published. Here’s the links to get your own copy (dollars on left, pounds on right) – and I suggest you [...]
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We’ve been talking a little bit about location independent living lately – our most recently location was Phuket and we’ve got more great places to live and work coming up. As I mentioned recently, Lea over at Location Independent has a ton of fantastic resources if you’re considering a location independent career/business. If this is [...]
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For some who is an avid reader, most of my favourite books tend to have a history of some sort – where I found them or who recommended them, etc. But one such item on my bookshelf has been there for years and I’ve not got a clue where it came from: Weird Europe. For [...]
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Are you: busy with work and can’t find the time to take a holiday? afraid of getting out of that armchair and seeing the world? need some guidance for getting out there and getting inspired? Do you want something better for yourself? Getting Help We spend a lot of time here sharing experiences and talking [...]
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For my latest trip to Cambodia and Hong Kong, I was looking through my bookshelf for some reading materials to take with me – there’s nothing better than spending that long flight catching up on books and watching a good movie or two. My eyes fell upon the art deco-like cover of Ayn Rand’s Atlas [...]
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While browsing the ‘web, I ran across this interesting video about a book with just an interesting name: Step Back from the Baggage Claim. It’s funny as I usually find books and then stumble across the video afterwards. I really like what Jason has to say. The ‘blurb’ for his book states: Barger spent 7 [...]
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