Frommer’s Top Destinations for 2007 as listed in the full article here * Krakow, Poland * Tokyo, Japan * Minneapolis, Minnesota * Panama * Asheville, North Carolina * Ethiopia * Portland, Oregon * Virgin Gorda, British Virgin Islands * Okanagan Valley, British Columbia * Glen Canyon, Utah * Zurich, Switzerland * Portland, Maine
I know I’m throwing you a lot of products lately. But I keep thinking of all the cool travel products there are out there and I want to share. I just found these Reef Sandals called “Stash” in December’s issue of Caribbean Travel and Life In the heal of the shoes you can store a [...]
I was talking to my grandmother the other day about favorites places I’ve been and she asked me if there was any places I didn’t particularly like. I guessed Tokyo because it was so expensive. But what is my favorite city? Very hard to say…it’s like trying to pick your favorite child, but I would [...]
This backpack has been to almost every continent with me! I love it because it’s so incredibly light, roomy but not too big for me. I’m 5’4″ and medium size and it does not swallow me like the guys backpacks do. I tried on every pack they had at Bass Pro Shop and REI and [...]
I’ve listened to the Amateur Traveler podcast for awhile. Mostly to get ideas on how to make my podcast better (when I’m actually making it at all!) and just to listen to the travel stories. At the end of the episode 71, Chris mentions One Girl, Her Backpack and a Passion for Travel and the [...]
Here were my resolutions and accomplishments I wrote last year 2005 accomplishments• Backpacked alone across South Africa including surfing for the first time!• Drove from Texas to Miami in 2 days• Drove from New York through the Appalachians to Atlanta then Ft. Lauderdale• Went to St. Kitts, Nevis, all the USVI and BVI• Spent an [...]
I’m reading a really interesting book right now called Generation Debt: How Our Future Was Sold Out For Student Loans, Credit Cards, Bad Jobs, No Benefits, and Tax Cuts for Rich Geezers-and How to Fight Back, by Anya Kamenetz. The author is in her mid-twenties, a Yale grad and journalist. She started writing this as [...]
So I was just reading the New York Times article, “The Caribbean, on the Cheap.” It had some pretty good links for cheap(er) hotels, flights and transportation. I’ve discussed ways to get to the Caribbean in previous posts that are a little more economical for the readers of this blog than for readers of say, [...]
My move to St. Martin has been postponed. I have been interviewing with a few yachts. One very cool yacht I have my sight set on has no set itinerary other than worldwide. It’s an expedition yacht so it’s not actually used with owners on board. It’s commercial. Either way, if I get the job [...]
I live on my computer. I have a Mac PowerBook G4 and we are inseparable. Just like my trusty black Old Navy Flip Flops, my computer has traveled with me around the world. And then one day, just like my flip flops, she decided to die. One morning, I turned her on, but she just [...]