Sometimes I hear from people I have a ‘dream job.’ I do get to travel a lot, talk about travel, think about travel — so, yes, it can be pretty good. For 2011 I spent a lot of my time in Canada — five separate trips! — and with heavy metal singers. Here’s my 51: 1. Quebec City’s better in winter, but the … Read on
Two years ago, the 76-Second Travel Show noted how the use of ‘robust’ had risen steeply on both sides of the Atlantic, while creating a new Christmas carol for the ages, ‘Robust Christmas (Let’s Make It Robust).’ Here’s the video: And the trend continued last year too in the US, with a steep rise from 900 usages to over 1400 in the New … Read on
A couple days ago I noted, on Twitter, that some of the entries in the new Best American Travel Writing: 2011 aren’t really travel stories. One is a New Yorker piece on the Shinnecock reservation at the Hampton of Hamptons, Southhampton. Writer Ariel Levy talks with officials on efforts to create/block a casino that will likely further clog the Long Island Expressway. Another … Read on
I’m in the long process of digitizing a couple dozen journals put together on Lonely Planet, and other, research trips over the past decade or so. I really liked this guy, met in Omaha on my first LP assignment: updating the Great Plains chapter of the USA guidebook in the spring of 2001: William Reeves volunteers at Omaha’s Great Plains Black History Museum. … Read on
I resisted its charms for awhile, but just starting to Tumbl on Tumblr. Still figuring out why. See the madness here.
More sandwiches. Last week, in tribute of National Sandwich Day, I shared my sandwich map, which prompted to write this: why the sandwich is travel’s MVP for my column with the Daily Oklahoman.
