Category: Dan’s Blog
Best of Two Go RTW: July 2009
Looking for something great to read? Check out our ‘Best of the Month’! In it we feature our fabulous five: our five most-read posts, our five busiest comment contributors, and our five top referring sites.
Snap de la semaine: Namdaemun Market, Seoul
Ginseng root at Namdaemun Market in Seoul, South Korea. Namdaemun means ‘Great South Gate,’ and was the main southern gate to the old city. The market is one of the oldest continually running markets in South Korea.
Couchsurfing Alternatives
The theory that almost everyone on Earth is connected to anyone else via a small number of acquaintances seems to hold true for backpackers, too. In the years following our time spent abroad (we were worked abroad in the period 2002–04), a number of online services sprung up to illustrate this interconnectedness and help fellow travelers escape the tourist bubble.
What’s on the back of your toilet?
Our goal was to create a ‘one-question interview’—a question that could stand alone and pierce through the veneer of generalizations! Today, we think that we might have found it:
What We’re Reading: July 24, 2009
Each friday, Kathryn and I share those sites and articles that we are currently reading or have recently read. In this week’s “What We’re Reading”, we’ve compiled a number of articles discovered as we wound our way through the web.
Snap de la semaine: Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh
Water taxi driver nearby Varanasi’s ‘Old City’—a quarter full of crowded narrow winding lanes that are flanked on other side by by roadside shops and an immeasurable number of temples.
Buying into a tourist trap? Reward programs revisited
Chua, over on THINKChua, takes a look at travel credit cards, citing our post on choosing a travel rewards program as well as well as Tim Morrison’s post on why he uses the Starwoods Amex and Schwab Visa Cards as his primary credits cards. Their concusion? Travel rewards programs are a trap—and define you as a tourist.
Ten Tunes To Download Before Your Next Trip
Picking the perfect song playlist for your travels can make a trip more enjoyable—whether you’re chilling on an airplane listening on your headset or bouncing around in the back of bus.
What We’re Reading: July 17, 2009
Each friday, Kathryn and I share those sites and articles that we are currently reading or have recently read. This week’s theme: Tips for travellers!
Building a better travel blog
Often, a blog takes on a life of its own. Because of its organic nature and the way that readership and comments shape content, a blog often deviates from its planned concept into new spaces.
Snap de la semaine: July 11, 2009
A longboat at anchor rests in the sand at low tide in Loh Dalum Bay, Koh Phi Phi, Thailand. This picture was taken just a few months before the tsunami in 2004. We’ve forgetten the name of the resort in back.
What We’re Reading: July 10, 2009
Each friday, Kathryn and I share those sites and articles that we are currently reading or have recently read. In this week’s “What We’re Reading”, we’ve compiled a number of articles discovered as we wound our way through the web.
Down and Out: Scammed in Ho Chi Minh City
The city that bears Uncle Ho’s name is both delightful and disconcerting. HCMC is Vietnam on methamphetamine. The ante’s always up in this city.
Gary Arndt needs your help to get to Antarctica
Travel blogger and photographer Gary Arndt needs your help to get to Antarctica. Quark Expeditions is searching for an official blogger for an Antarctic expedition. You can help Gary get there!
What We’re Reading: July 3, 2009
Each friday, Kaythryn and I share those sites and articles that we are currently reading or have recently read.
Happy Canada Day! Two Go Round-The-World site launches!
On this day in 1867, Canadians bravely banded together and accepted the British Government’s bureaucratic restructuring of their provinces! Well not really. While popular concepts of rebellion are a lot different in a country like Canada (where no revolution or war of independence provided a precedent) the notion of rebellion does exist in our country, but perhaps not to the extent that it does elsewhere in the world, where we can find different perspectives on the legitimacy of violence.
Jeff Patch checks out the Flip UltraHD and Travel Savvy Mom gives one away!
Jeff Patch at “Have Pack, Will Travel” takes a look at the Flip UltraHD Camcorder that we reviewed last week. His conlusion? Similar to ours.
From Small Beginnings Come Great Things
We’re quietly reminded of the adage attributed to St Augustine: “The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page”.
