Tag: World Travel
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Vagobond in Vietnam – Hanoi
I could write a lot about Hanoi and I probably will – but for now, I think these pictures express it all pretty well. Amazing country, amazing people, amazing city.…
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Vagobond in Vietnam – 2024 – Part 1 – Planning and Expenses
The people you meet along the way are the real payout in travel. As the weather started to get cooler in Otaru, Hokkaido, Japan in late October, I realized that…
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A Father/Daughter Trip to Japan – December 2022 – Part 1
I love Japan. I’ve only spent a little bit of time here – but in that short period, I’ve learned that it offers everything I want from a place. The…
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Extraordinary Vagobond – Tarzan of Manisa
I never expected to find out that Tarzan came from Turkey!
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Ibn Battuta – Moroccan Vagabond
The greatest adventurer of all time for me is the Moroccan vagabond, Ibn Battuta. He not only traveled everywhere in his known world, but he wrote about it in ways…
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Herodotus – The Father of History (and all Vagabonds)
Not only the father of history but of anthropology, and one can equally (but not so forcefully) argue he is the father of all travel writers and vagabonds.
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Papa Vagabond- Ernest Hemingway
When it comes to famous vagabonds, people often forget that respected writers now often had their roots as shiftless vagabonds. Ernest Hemingway is no exception.
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Around the World with 40 Bloggers – From Lonely Planet
Around the World with 40 Lonely Planet Bloggers introduces readers to the world of professional travel blogging. Lonely Planet knows what it takes to produce amazing travel writing and photography,…
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World travel in a hundred different ways!
Certainly there is no shortage of ways to travel the world. You can buy a jet, walk, stay a long time, pass on through, or choose to do those things…
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Sypil Magnesia aka Tantalus – The Magic Mountain of Manisa
My travel to Sypil Magnesia, rarely visited by tourists, but also known as Tantalus.
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Southern California Wine Travel
Southern California’s two most impressive wine countries, Temecula and Julian, filled with fun people, all looking to have a blast as they sip, swirl and nosh their way through the…
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Taking Better Travel Photos
We all want to be great photographers and the age of digital photos has made that much easier.
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The Longest Beach in the World – Cox’s Bazaar
World travel is a funny thing. The longest beach in the world is in a place you’ve probably never imagined. Sounds impossible, but guest blogger Imran Hasan Anik tells us…
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Enchanting Lakes of Coron on Palawan
Crystalline coves and mysterious jungles make up Coron’s dramatic tropical sights. But a dip into the lakes open to a sublimely primitive world that can only be described as “ethereal.”…
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Around the World Through a Photographer’s Lens – Myanmar
Myanmar through the photographer’s lens of Dave Stamboulis.
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Koycegiz – Our Favorite Place in Turkey
Lake Koycegiz is incredibly gorgeous. The water is rich with minerals and so has a pale turquoise color that reminds me of glacial lakes in Alaska. As we biked around,…
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Travelling in Turkey – More Greek and Roman Ruins than Italy and Greece!
Again, not a lot of time to write, but we are having a wonderful time in Turkey. From cruising the Bosporus to marveling at the Iskander Kebap in Bursa, this…
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Holiday in the Interzone – Tangier – Playa Blanca
Freedom led us to Playa Blanca, a small beach just outside of Tangier. The entire Tangier area was once known as the Interzone and made famous by William S. Burroughs…
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World’s Strangest Hotels
Exploring the world’s strangest hotels is certainly a fun thing to do, given the extremes hotels have gone to, just in the name of being “strange”.
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Belgrade’s Nikola Tesla Museum
Tesla himself was a U.S. citizen and died in New York City where he was working on a way to create ‘free energy’ which conspiracy theorists believe was sabotaged by…
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The Basilica of St. John at Selcuk – Revelations and the Anti Christ
I had no idea that I would be visiting the place where the idea of the Anti-Christ was born or the book of Revelation was composed, but there I was…
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North Korean Expats and Pig Blood Sundaes – Sokcho Part 1
I walked towards a large iron bridge and noted the thousands of fish drying on the roofs of nearly every house I passed.
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Whirling Dervishes in Istanbul, Turkey
“The dervish whirls so that the true form of the world can be seen. When we whirl all the individual pieces we think are separate blend together and we begin…
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How Not To Enjoy World Travel – Part 2
Don’t read anything about the country of place you are going to. That way you won’t understand the culture, the traditions, the history, the climate, or anything else. You will…
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