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Announcing the Everything Everywhere Community Site!

Published on 05/15/2013

Everything Everywhere Travel CommunityI’m please to announce that I have launched the new Everything Everywhere Travel Community Site!

No matter how much I travel around the world, there is no way I can ever match the knowledge and experience of the people who read this site. No matter where I go, someone (often times many people) have been there before me. They’ve been there longer, lived there or experienced different things than I have.

I wanted to create a place where the serious hardcore travelers who read this site (and there are many) could share their travel advice and stories with each other. The collective wisdom of my readers is incredible. I hope that this is place where we can tap into that wisdom and have fun talking about travel at the same time. Sites like TripAdvisor or the Lonely Planet forums are huge and rather impersonal. I waned a real community where people can get to know each other and share the advice they gathered from traveling.

I will also be providing exclusive travel tips and advice in the forum. If you have questions about travel this will be the best venue to ask them. If I don’t know the answer, the odds are good that someone else will.

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This Week In Travel – Episode 138

Published on 05/10/2013

This week’s guest Mary Jo Manzaranes from TBEX

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Tuesday Travel Update – Emilia-Romagna Edition

Published on 05/07/2013

Ferrara, ItalyAfter two weeks in Jordan, I’ve arrived in Italy! In particular, I’ve spent the last several days exploring the world heritage sites in the Emilia-Romagna region. I’ve been in the region before but I’ve never spent any significant time here.

In a few days my G Adventures Photography tour begins in Venice and I had a week to kill before it started. The Emilia-Romagna tourism board is running an innovative program called Blogville where they invite bloggers to come and live in an apartment in Bologna. I applied, figuring that the dates and located worked well between my Jordan trip and my photography tour, but they had already filled their slots. However, they did manage to help me get a hotel room and I’ve used the time to go exploring the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of the region.
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May 2013 Desktop Wallpaper

Published on 05/02/2013

May 2013 Desktop Wallpaper

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The image for this month’s wallpaper was taken in Plitvice National Park in Croatia. The weather wasn’t the best, but it made for some amazing photos.

This Week In Travel – Episode 137

Published on 04/30/2013

This week’s guest is Gary Bembridge, from Tips for Travelers and Travel Blogger’s Podcast. I wasn’t able to log on this week due to a crappy hotel internet connection in Jordan.


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Ignorance, Fear and Travel

Published on 04/29/2013

This is NOT Chechnya

This is NOT Chechnya

As I travel around the world I get to talk to a wide range of people. As you would expect, many of them have some affiliation with the travel and tourism industry. I speak to tour guides, representatives of national tour boards, waitresses, hotel managers and even the cleaning staff.

One questions I always ask is how tourism is doing in their particular country or region. Some places are up, some are down and some are very dependent on visitors from another particular area. If the area where the toursits come from suffers economic problems, then the destination will suffer as well.

Back in 2010 I had a front row seat to major political protests in Bangkok, Thailand. During the protests many travel experts, including the legendary Arthur Frommer, were advising people to completely avoid Thailand. With the information I had on the ground, I could see for myself that other than a few square blocks in Bangkok, nothing was happening in Thailand. People who weren’t there were making judgements based on what they saw on television and then extrapolated that to the entire country.

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Tuesday Travel Update – Floating Around the Dead Sea

Published on 04/23/2013

The Canyon in Wadi Mujib

The Canyon in Wadi Mujib

After two weeks in Croatia, mostly exploring the Dalmatian Coast I’ve arrived in Jordan.

I previously visited Jordan in 2009 during my first trip through the Middle East. I arrived via ferry from Nuweiba, Egypt and only explored the southern part the country: Aqaba, Wadi Rum and Petra. When we were contacted by Jordan Tourism (who paid for my trip) about a return trip, I expressed an interest in seeing the northern part of the country and returning to Wadi Rum and Petra to reshoot those sites.

The northern part of Jordan is full of deep history. Ruins on the same site overlap from Nabataeans, Romans, Byzantines, Umayyads and Ottomans. Just to give you an idea, here is a sampling of the sites I was able to visit during the last week:
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This Week In Travel – Episode 136

Published on 04/19/2013

Regular hosts Gary Arndt, Jen Leo and Chris Christensen are joined by this week’s guest Robert Reid from ReidOnTravel.com (recently retired from Lonely Planet). I was on a shoddy internet connection in Croatia so I wasn’t as fully engaged.

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OnTravel Interview – Germany

Published on 04/09/2013

While I was in Germany I did my regular call in with Paul Lasley and Elizabeth Harryman to update them on my 2-week road trip around the country. As usual, the discussion drifted into many different travel related subjects.

Monday Travel Update – Exhausted in Dubrovnik Edition

Published on 04/08/2013

View from my room in Dubrovnik

I’ve arrived in Dubrovnik and am ready to collapse. The month of running around Germany and Croatia have finally caught up to me, not to mention to unseasonably cold weather that I was ill prepared to deal with.

After a month of freezing temperatures I arrived to Zagreb last week to find temperatures slightly warmer, but with no snow. I was happy that it was a move in the right direction.

I then drove to Plitvice National Park (which is awesome by the way) only to get caught in an April snowstorm and the victim of some very poor advice from Google maps. Long story short, I had to get park rangers to drag my car (with no snow tires) up a slippery hill.
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