Sep 11th, 2012 at 11:00AM: "Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation – coming home again." ~ Madeleine L'Engle, "Meet the Austins"
I had been dreaming peacefully – well, as peacefully as one can when riding a sweltering overnight bus along winding roads of Ecuador with a TV blasting low-budget murder movies – when I suddenly woke in a panic. My backpack – it was gone.
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When Travel Helps You Appreciate Home
Sep 11th, 2012 at 11:00AM: "Maybe that's the best part of going away for a vacation – coming home again." ~ Madeleine L'Engle, "Meet the Austins"
I had been dreaming peacefully – well, as peacefully as one can when riding a sweltering overnight bus along winding roads of Ecuador with a TV blasting low-budget murder movies – when I suddenly woke in a panic. My backpack – it was gone.
...In Praise Of Service Journalism
May 9th, 2012 at 11:00AM: My career in the travel world started out by pure luck. I was assigned to work a temp office gig in the PR department of Condé Nast Traveler for two weeks, which turned into two years at the magazine, four more at a PR agency for hotels and travel providers and two more here at Gadling. Before and throughout my career, I've always been a major consumer of travel media, whether I've used it ...The End of Traveling the American Road
Sep 16th, 2011 at 12:00PM:
It takes a long time to drive 9698.8 miles, no matter how fast you're going. This summer, it took me more than 246 hours behind the wheel to log the distance, for a pace of just under 40 miles per hour. At times, I crawled along much more slowly, inching my way through Chicago traffic jams or creeping back to Orlando in stop-and-go bottlenecks after the launch of STS-135. On the empty ...The secret formula for writing a successful travel narrative
Aug 31st, 2011 at 8:00AM:
For years people have been asking me for the secret formula for writing a successful travel story. I did my best to conjure this formula into my book Travel Writing, but as you know, there really isn't any secret formula. Or is there? This year, in preparing for a spate of appearances where I was talking about travel writing – notably TBEX, a talk with Julia Cosgrove of Afar magazine, ...
