Hey, look -- that's me! Last week, I got to talk with a reporter from the San Jose Mercury News about the growing popularity of place-based social media, travel blogging, and other means of "social storytelling." While he didn't use any of my oh-so-deep thoughts about why people enjoy place-based social sharing (e.g. developing a deeper connection with places and people, recommendations ...
For Travel Inspiration, Throw a Round-The-World Dinner Party
How do you feed your wanderlust between trips? My favorite way is quite literal: With food. Last week, I was invited to a travel-themed potluck at my friend Emily's house -- she called it her "Round-The-World" dinner party. She said she was inspired by our recent SweetsCrawl (blush)! I've been to lots of other potluck dinners, but this one was so cleverly and carefully organized it's worth ...
Drinking Tea With a Ninja and a Samurai
There's a saying about time: Always forward, never backward. In Japan, though, that isn’t quite true. The Japanese people carry their past along with them in their daily lives. They perceive the world in cycles and seasons, in destruction and rebirth. They live alongside their ancestors, heroes, and legends. These experiences build up in layers over time, and this can make it very difficult for ...
5 Romantic Places To Experience Nature
In honor of Earth Day, an online dating company asked me and some other travel bloggers to share five romantic destinations that also allow you to connect with nature. For me, romance is all about getting away from the crowds to experience beautiful places alone with your partner or spouse. To that end, here are 5 of my favorite beautiful and remote places around the world. 1. Frenchman's Cove ...
The One Thing You Need To Do in Jamaica
Like many vacation resorts, our hotel in Jamaica had a tour company representative stationed at a booth in the lobby. She had a fat binder filled with glossy brochures highlighting dozens of ways to spend money. I'm always wary of the packaged tours sold in this environment, knowing that some of the options are overpriced, manufactured activities with little connection to the natural environment ...
Time-Lapse Video: Riding the Shinkansen, High-Speed Rail in Japan
Japan may be the easiest country in the world to travel around. The country has an impressive rail transportation network allowing both commuters and travelers to move between every major city, and most small cities, by train. A subset of the overall rail system is the large and rapidly expanding high-speed rail network, called shinkansen or "bullet trains". On these lines, these long-nosed ...
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