Posts Tagged ‘blog’
A Guide to Using Social Media to Plan Your Next Trip
The internet is no longer just about porn and ebay; new tools online (and in your pocket) can help you get inspired to travel the world, plan your trip and share your travels with everyone you know and meet along the way. While a variety of resources are available (Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, blogs,forums, groups and [...]
Travel Dork: Wes, Johnny Vagabond
It happens all the time—you’re on the road, chillin’ in hostels, meeting locals, digging around secret places for off-track experiences—and boom! You’ve found that person you could travel with for the ostensible future, not necessarily because you’re looking to bang, but because this person makes you laugh, has the best stories, isn’t afraid to look [...]
Travel Dork: D Travels Round
What do you do when you’re 30 and you wake up, realizing you are not living the life you ever imagined? That’s the question that Diana Edelman asked herself in early 2010, after a brief stint on the beaches of Croatia reminded her of the glory beyond corporate life as a publicist. Taking her 30-life [...]
Travel Dork: Lillie, AroundTheWorldL.com
Travel Dork: Lillie Some travel dorks are born with the nomadic instinct woven in their veins. Others discover the awesomeness of flight later and find themselves with a bug they can’t shake. 29-year-old Lillie, a self-described “6-foot-tall Boston native” and English teacher, has been suffused with the travel bug for years, spending every summer teaching [...]
The 9 Most Successful Travel Bloggers of 2010
Thanks to the massive growth of social media, geeky tech toys, user friendly blog tools and growing community support (such as Travel Blog Exchange), the travel blogosphere thrived in 2010. With many talented new-comers filling in the gaps, bringing on various, unique approaches to travel blogging, everyone is working even harder to get to the top [...]
Travel Dork: Barbara Weibel, Hole in the Donut
Travel Dork: Barbara Weibel To remind us that it’s not all resorts and guided tours for our middle-aged nomadic counterparts, Barbara Weibel hits the travel blog scene in a big way. She left her 70 hour a week job (which sounds more like a tumor than employment) in search of the finer things in life. [...]
Travel Dork: Hop and Jaunt
Travel Dork: Hop and Jaunt Aly and John, the traveling designers behind Hop & Jaunt, are on a mission to make the travel-related web a “visually pleasing place”. In other words, these dorks bring on the pretty. They ditched the American dream, shedding the shackles of corporate slavery for a 9-month journey across the Caribbean and [...]
Travel Dork: The Brooklyn Nomad, Andrew Hickey
Travel Dork: Andrew Hickey Andrew Hickey (blood bruise from a long—sucky?—sorry Andrew, we had to) keeps it real as the Brooklyn Nomad—a travel-loving, bagel-inhaling, always humble blogger. Not surprisingly, the Brooklyn nomad gives us a lot of information about NYC, but he manages to slip in a few tidbits even the most jaded New Yorker [...]
Travel Dork: 10 Questions with Nomadic Matt
Travel Dork: Matt Kepnes Back in May 2010, Off Track Planet was looking to feature the ultimate travel dork for our first, upcoming magazine release. We choose none other than the feisty Matt Kepnes better known as Nomadic Matt. Matt obliged, but unfortunately the article never made it to print. You see, we wanted to [...]
Travel Dork of the Week: Anil Polat of FoxNoMad.com
Travel Dork: Anil Polat Anil Polat, One of our top travel bloggers of 2009, and the man behind FoxNoMad.com. FoxNoMad urges us to “travel smarter” and Polat gives us the tools to develop that smartness. Polat has been practically everywhere! His blog schools us on everything from how to get over obstacles that prevent you from beginning [...]
