Travel Dork: Keith Savage, Traveling Savage
Travel Dork: Keith Savage
Keith Savage’s, “Traveling Savage,” captures the spirit of backpacking and adventure-driven travel better than most out there. Even if Keith just got lucky with a name like that, there’s nothing tame about this savage—not his content, not his diction, not his ability to encapsulate all things wild and wonderful about travel. He’s a dork when it comes to traveling, alright; but he’s no geek. This Savage will rip your head apart with his words and teach you things you never knew you didn’t know.
The Traveling Savage is best at giving us a spattering of travel in all sorts of different aspects— not only does he tell us how to navigate the central market in Salta, Argentina, he also recommends good music to listen to when traveling (in a reoccurring feature called “Trackpacking”). Unlike a lot of other travel bloggers, the Savage really is a traveler, not a tourist—anyone who’s a friend of Couchsurfing is a friend of ours. On the techy side, he gives us reliable advice about which phone to buy when embarking on a world trip and has turned us on to the customizable map iPhone application. It’s a crutch, but it’s damn useful sometimes.
Even though it’s “only a blog,” all his articles are well-researched and are more than regurgitated advice from an aggregate of other travel sites. Mr. Savage might be a wild man, but his writing is quite refined. While giving us the inside scoop on good travel blogs he reads, he toots his own horn by showing us sites that have featured him or his work—and it’s a pretty impressive catalog.
Traveling Savage’s one year anniversary is December 13, 2010 and our title of Travel Dork is OTP’s little birthday present. Keep writing, Savage man. We’re all prey to your words.
Skipping the seas and spreading her word seed, Lisette is a Brooklyn-based writer, editor, poet, and adventeress. If you feel like feeding monkeys in South America or getting naked on the Great Wall of China, she's your go-to gal for advice.
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