State of the Blog: The Future of Everything Everywhere

I’ve been running this blog for over three years now. I estimate I’ve taken over 60,000 photos and every month seems to be a new record for traffic. Over 100,000 people a month are visiting my site and there is still a lot of room for growth. I’ve visited places I never thought I’d visit …

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This Week in Travel – Episode 19

This Week’s Guests: Pam Mandel of Nerds Eye View and Jessica Spiegel of Boots N’ All. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts

Bloggers Take Heed, Tablet World Is Coming

As a blogger, and a very opinionated one at that, I’ve been pretty bullish on the future of blogging. However, a series of events in the last few months have gotten me on edge about the future of blogging as we know it. I think changes will take place in 2010 which has the potential …

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I Come From The Land Of The Ice And Snow

Winter sucks. All the crap you hear about a white christmas and freshly fallen snow is totally bunk. The temperature here has been in the single digits fahrenheit (-13C), the sun sets a little after 4pm, and there is over a foot of snow. It has been below freezing now for over two weeks and …

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7 Things That Are Awesome About America

Washington Monument in America

Being away from my home country for so long—I’ve been traveling the world since 2007—but it didn’t just amplify the pet peeves I had about America. This time away has also given me a greater appreciation of the things that are good about America. Whether you’re visiting the country or you lived here your entire …

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This Week in Travel – Episode 18

This week’s guest is Chris Gray Faust, former travel editor of USA Today. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts

7 Pet Peeves About America

This post is a companion to the article 7 Things That Are Awesome About America When you spend a significant time away from your home country, you get a new appreciation for the good and the bad. Now that I’m back in the US and have traveled around the country for three months, I have …

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Visiting The Most Serene Republic of San Marino

I wrote most of this on the train going from Rimini to Venice as I traveled through the Italian countryside. It has sat on my laptop for half a year since my fittingly short stay in one of the world’s smallest countries, San Marino. I love tiny countries so traveling to San Marino was a …

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This Week in Travel – Episode 17

This week’s special guest is Spud Hilton, the travel editor of the San Francisco Chronicle. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts