Bulgaria is one of Europe’s great roadtrip secrets. In places like Veliko Tarnovo, you can rent cars for as little as $25/day. Roads cross mountain ranges, and buffalo yogurt stands and woodcutter towns and weird monuments like the one below. Years ago I bought a great old Soviet 35mm camera for about $20 at a flea market in Sofia, Bulgaria. Sometimes I remember … Read on
Episode #003 F E A T U R I N G * 9 4 * B O N U S * S E C O N D S Paul Brady (@p_brady) offers the SSTS* its first-ever viewer query: which is the preference, window or aisle. We’ve turned over the question to some travel experts: Jim Benning (World Hum, @jimbenning) Pam Mandel (of Nerd’sEyeView), … Read on
‘UNUSUAL’ IS THE NEW USUALSomething unusual happened to me last week. I got invited onto CNN International’s morning broadcast with Anjali Rao to talk about ‘unusual travel.’ That meant make-up, sitting with other guests in a compact ‘green room’ and talking with one’s fiancee (a Hawaiian living in Las Vegas) before staring into a blank monitor and talking about life in the world’s … Read on
