1. Historical Travel Can Help History Come Alive I think it is valuable to show children where battles were fought. Gettysburg’s field of battle was only 4 acres in size. Over 7,800 soldiers died. Those are just numbers. But standing on the field and realizing how small that was, how gruesome the sight would be… …
I asked my friend and fellow travel photographer Peter Carey to assemble a collection of his photos from his travels. He collected a sample of photos which show the way that major cities on our planet have grown and developed. In addition to his personal blog, Peter is a regular contributor to the popular Digital …
I’m leaving American Samoa today and will be in Tonga tomorrow. I have several hours to kill while I wait for my flight to Apia, so I might as well get my thoughts down now before I leave. I didn’t know what to expect before I came to American Samoa. This is a place that …
I’m feeling much better now. Thank you to everyone who sent me well wishes in the comments and on Twitter. The worst of it was over in a few hours, but I spent over a day just sleeping with my entire body sore and tired. I’m back at 100% now, and oddly enough, as one …
It is time once again to open up the virtual mailbag and answer the questions which you have been dying to know…. Marianne Schwab asks: What are your top five tips for taking GREAT photos? Get a little technical please. :-) I am a self taught photographer. I’ve never taken a course or read a …
One problem with traveling for so long is that you lose track of what day it is. There is really no distinction between weekdays and weekends for me anymore. Everything just runs into each other. Normally that isn’t a big deal, but it has really screwed me up this weekend. For starters, i had no …
To date, all my travel by train (save for 48 hour hell trip from Dallas to LA) has been pretty uneventful. Getting from The Hague to London, however, was sort of a nightmare. It started on Thursday when I was planning on leaving Amsterdam and going to London with a stop in The Hague to …
Uluru is one of the most iconic images of Australia, which is odd because there really is no one image of Uluru. Every angle you look at it is different from the last. Every hour of the day, the color of the rock changes depending on the light. Not only does the look of it …
Latitude: 17° 46.8330’ S Longitude: 11° 31.5789’ E The next stop for the G Expedition is Angola, which is the first real country we visit which will require visas for everyone. Traveling to West Africa with a boat full of people from multiple countries is a giant immigration nightmare. Most of the countries we will …