My co-host Chris Christensen attended TBEX Europe in Girona, Spain recently and was asked to step in and do a live version of the show as one of the keynote sessions. Our guests included: Dylan Lowe Veronica Montuges Jaume Marin William Bakker Pam Mandel Keith Jenkins Subscribe on Apple Podcasts
This is by far my biggest Q&A column ever. I had a over 30 questions asked this month. If you would like to ask a question for next months Q&A, just follow me on my Facebook page and pay attention to when I put out my next request for questions. Without any further ado, here …
I have this crazy thing I do where I categorize people based on the number of continents I’ve met them on in person. It all started in the first year of my travels with some random German girl who I first met in Japan and I later saw in Australia. I realized “Hey, we’ve met …
Regular hosts Jen Leo and Chris Christensen are joined by this week’s guest hosts Lowell Thomas Award winning journalist Kara Williams of TheVacationGals.com and PracticalTravelGear.com and Sean Keener from BootsNAll Subscribe on Apple Podcasts
As I was leaving Elche, Spain a few days ago, I packed up all my things as I’ve done hundreds of times and headed out the door. When I arrived in Granada later in the day I realized I had committed a grievous error. I had left my European electrical adaptor in the hotel. In …
After my trip to Antarctica in January 2012 I wanted to go someplace where I could relax and work for week or two. I ended up going to Caye Caulker, Belize. With the exception of the exceptionally slow interent (which made uploading my photos extremely frustrating) I found it to be one of the most …
Chris Christensen, my co-host of This Week In Travel, is also the man behind the Amateur Traveler Podcast, one of the most popular travel podcasts on the internet. I recently did my 4th appearance on the show talking about the micro-states of Europe: Monaco, San Marino, Liechtenstein, and Andorra. My previous appearances include interviews on …
In November 2011 I took a trip through Germany, visiting UNESCO World Heritage Sites in the central and eastern parts of the country. Perhaps the most fascinating city I visited on that trip was the city of Dresden. Dresden has been through a lot over the last half-century. Firebombed in WWII, subject decades of communism …
The impetus for this post comes from a discussion I had with my assistant Amy over 10 years ago. I commented to her that there were only 3 things that you really needed to travel. If you had those three things, then you really didn’t need anything else. Moreover, all three of those things could …