Episode #024 F E A T U R I N G * 4 5 * B O N U S * S E C O N D S The New York Times Travel Show attracts three types of people: crusty travel vets looking for contacts, casual travelers (some keen for group tour deals) and travelers pulling rolling suitcases to fill with freebies. In … Read on
Episode #023F E A T U R I N G * 3 2 * B O N U S * S E C O N D S Some of the reasons why virtual travel, while a nice aid, will never replace the non-virtual version. Recorded during my Siberian trips of 2005 and 2008 while updating Lonely Planet’s Trans-Siberian Railway guide.
Episode #020F E A T U R I N G * 1 1 4 * B O N U S * S E C O N D S “You’re a photographer?” I had just snapped a shot of New York’s only living landmark, a four-floor-high magnolia tree that was moved to Brooklyn’s Bedford-Stuyvesant in 1885 from North Carolina. I put away my camera … Read on
Episode #017 F E A T U R I N G * 6 0 * B O N U S * S E C O N D S COLD STUFFIn Charlie English’s spotty, but occasionally interesting, book The Snow Tourist, he builds a (failed) igloo in Nunavut, hikes in avalanche country in the French Alps, visits the snowiest city in the world in … Read on
Episode #016F E A T U R I N G * 6 0 * B O N U S * S E C O N D S THE CITIZEN KANE OF TRAVELI always call Italy the ‘Citizen Kane of travel’ — it has the accolades, the press, the attention, the love. And anytime I go, I leave feeling all the hype was justified. … Read on
I made the claim in Tuesday’s 76-Second Travel Show that travel is kinda like Chris Jagger. That the biggest things we pick up from trips aren’t usually from a glimpse of the leaning tower of Pisa, Red Square or that big Jesus in Rio — but what we find around it. Meaning, extended conversations with rice-bag clerks, minor-league hockey games, asking to speak … Read on
