My article on Famous Fat Dave‘s checker-cab food tour of NYC (link here) appears in the April issue of Lonely Planet magazine. I seriously enjoyed it more than I expected. Perfect if you have three others as a mini splurge that will get you into parts of the boroughs you wouldn’t see otherwise. I’ve been in New York for 13 some years, and … Continue reading
Last week, I appeared on MSNBC with Alex Witt to share how to relive the settings of three Oscar-nominated films in Paris (“Midnight in Paris”), Kauai (“The Descendants”) and LA (“The Artist”).
I shared a few good-value destinations for 2012 — and talked a bit about Al Roker’s ‘pal’ Marco Polo — on the Weather Channel’s Wake Up for Al this morning.
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com Must admit it’s kinda nice to be back in my regular role as US Travel Editor in New York after five on/off weeks crossing Canada to create web videos. I appeared on Fox News Live yesterday to discuss Lonely Planet’s new ‘Not for Parents’ series of books — sort of a comic/history/pop cultural/travel book on New York, … Continue reading
When Chris Christensen of the Amateur Traveler asks if you want to talk about Oklahoma, you ask ‘how high?’ It was a pleasure to record this podcast: Amateur Traveler Episode 295 – Travel to Oklahoma with Robert Reid from Lonely Planet For more Oklahoma, here’s my Top 22 list for Lonely Planet.
A few years ago, a purple-haired woman from Dobrich, Bulgaria asked me to do a TV interview for Dobrich TV on travel in Bulgaria. That’s not something you EVER say ‘no’ to. And I lost a research day in a town I ended up cutting from Lonely Planet’s Eastern Europe guidebook to do it. When I was in Regina, Saskatchewan last week, I … Continue reading
ROBERT REID is a travel writer (Lonely Planet, New York Times), travel expert (Today Show, CNN, GoogleTalks), travel videographer (his 76-Second Travel Show) and "travel artist" (staging the Manhattan Bridge's 100th birthday, training with Mounties). Read more...
