This article is part of a series that answers basic questions many have about travel. If you have a question you’d like to see answered, please send me an email with your question. When you’re traveling, visas are as essential to entering a foreign country as your passport. Yes, your passport is the single biggest …
@cyberdyne Have you considered changing your twitter icon as you travel to represent where you are ? I made a conscious decision to keep my avatar the same. In fact, I use the exact same photo on every network I belong. People recognize images before they read names. The Easter Island photo I think is …
Ryan Ricard via Facebook: What is the weirdest thing you ate? Tastiest thing you ate? Weirdest thing would probably have to be grasshopper (which gave me food poisoning) or some BBQ pig intestines I got from street vendors in Bangkok. I also had some Mekong river weed in Luang Prabang, Laos, which was actually pretty …
Kara Williams tweets: Do you get lonely traveling by yourself? I’ve always been the type of person who has done stuff by myself. Some people are terrified at the idea of going out to eat or seeing a movie alone. I have always done this, so traveling solo was never that big of a deal …
I’ve just arrived in Valencia, Spain where I’ll be speaking at a social media conference on Thursday and watching the Formula 1 race on Sunday. It has been a crazy week flying from Istanbul to Vancouver to the Yukon and now back to Europe. However, it is time once again to open up the old …
@BrooklynNomad Are there days when you just want to give up your travels, call it a day and go back to a 9-5 life? Never. There are days however when I feel I need to just stop moving for a week or two. I sort of feel like that now. I found a month in …
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 …