I’ve kind of made fun of travel food for a while. Sure I like food. Food is often the best part of a trip, as I recently concurred. But the rising stream of food images — usually on plates of food — sort of wore me out over time. But maybe I was wrong. So recently I attended Feast Portland food festival. I … Read on
–> Click HERE to visit the PLATE OF FOOD TRAVEL MUSEUM If I were smarter, I’d write a little list of key travel etiquette tips, and see what Google and social media would do to drive people here to read it. (Like this blog, this blog, this blog and this blog did.) Actually I did that once, while at Lonely Planet, with … Read on
Over six weeks ago, I launched the promotional trailer for the new travel show “Right Pants” — the scheduled release of the first video-episode has long passed — prompting much heated skepticism and rebukes in the travel community. Here is my video response: Please tweet #RightPantsISplanned
I wrote today for National Geographic Traveler that you can’t know a train until you’ve slept on one. I’ve spent about 40 nights on trains in my travels (once while counting moustaches in Russia), but I have hardly any idea what the USA looks like from the rails. That’s changing now. Over the next couple weeks I get to tag along the Millennial … Read on
It’s fashionable to tout “travel like a local” (usage of the term in blogs, for one, is up 376% in the past five years), but I don’t think that nails it. It’s more like travel in the company of locals. I say this because seasoned travelers quickly learn to filter what advice is or isn’t lodged in a particular local’s blinders from mere … Read on
Everyone wants online travel video, but few know how to make it. Those in the film/TV crowd frequently tout there’s only one way, which can seem like building up 60-second online piece with the same costly, back-scenes architecture of a Hollywood epic. But this is dated thinking. While the DIY video world can ruffle the feathers of industry TV/film types — much like … Read on
