Category: Travel Talk
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Better Understanding the World Through Pictures
The Ted Talk below by Rosling Rönnlund explains how she’s showing reality around the world and how it differs from the way media often portrays it. Her project has photographed 264 homes in 50 countries. While the photos are interesting at face value, the data they provide in comparing income levels within and against countries…
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50 filmmakers, 23 countries, 1 dance
Globe Trot (50 filmmakers, 23 countries, 1 dance)
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Business Travel Déjà Vu
My early flight home from Minneapolis yesterday morning was delayed by two hours. After a while I gave in and bought a magazine in the airport gift shop. I was halfway through before realizing I had already read it–and that I’d bought it two business trips ago. The day before I insisted I was in…
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Is Business Travel Really Traveling?
Despite my lack of travel posts around here lately, I’ve been on the road quite a bit. In September I flew to Denver to see my sister, took connecting flights both ways to Connecticut to work (and got stuck in Philly overnight) and made my way to Houston. When I’m traveling for work I take…
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Meet, Plan, Go! 2012
Less than a week to go until Meet, Plan, Go! I’ll be speaking in a breakout group at the Chicago event this time around, but there are tons of amazing and experienced travelers at all of the events. So, if you’ve ever been jealous of my trips and wondered how you could possibly travel around-the-world…
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I’m Still Here, Somewhere
October? Has it really been that long? There’s so much I’ve been planning to talk about here but I’ve been really bad about getting around to it. I don’t think I’ve even mentioned my New Mexico vacation, or finished writing about my All You Can Jet trip. There’s a few months of my Where I…
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Move, Learn, Eat
I’m not sure anyone could resist the urge to travel after watching these wonderful videos. MOVE from Rick Mereki on Vimeo. LEARN from Rick Mereki on Vimeo. EAT from Rick Mereki on Vimeo.
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Meet, Plan, Go! 2011
It’s hard to believe that it has already been a year since I was on the first Meet, Plan, Go! panel in Chicago. Two of the women who attended Chicago’s talk last year are already on their own RTW trips. Katie cornered me after the event let out last year because she’d never met anyone…
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How Do You Waste Time in Airports?
Often times flying internationally means leaving at odd times of the night but I’ve never seen an airport this empty. I only hope that this video doesn’t mean a further crackdown of rights for the rest of us. STUCK from Joe Ayala on Vimeo.
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Shinkansen Surprise
Before I went to Japan in 2004 I thought riding the magical Shinkansen train would be just like it seems in this video (I wish!):
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French Travel Machine
J’en veux un!
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Creating Bicycle Cities Around the World
Over his lifetime my uncle has been involved with many charities and told me about one where he helped to send bicycles to India. At the time I wondered why anyone would go to the trouble to ship containers of old bicycles to the other side of the world. During my travels I have seen…
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North Korea in HD
A tourist named Steve Gong was able to shoot HD video with his Nikon 5D camera by training himself to compose and focus blindly, with the camera hanging around his neck. Along with many detractors I agree that the hairstylist in this video, (even if she agreed to be filmed), could be at danger from…
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Inspired by Iceland
I love this video from Iceland’s tourism department! A bicycle trip around the island has been on my list for a while now, I just need to decide when and find someone who can keep up. Inspired by Iceland Video from Inspired By Iceland on Vimeo.
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Site Maintenance
I’m fiddling around with the layout and design of Me-go at the moment. Sorry for any inconvenience, carry on!
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New York Times ‘All You Can Jet’ Article
Those of you following my Twitter feed may have read that Seth Kugel, The Frugal Traveler, from the New York Times interviewed me last week. The article went up late last night. You can see my pictures and read about mine and others experiences during the All You Can Jet promotion here on the NYT…
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Me-go Subscribers
Now that my site is back up and I’m currently traveling I’ve finally reinstalled my subscriber list. If you received a confirmation email from my site (via Feedburner) you can confirm and follow my updates by email. If you are no longer interested in receiving email updates feel free to disregard the email. As always,…
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Talking Travel at Meet, Plan, Go!
Last night’s Chicago Meet, Plan, Go! was a success! REI’s community room was full and I was surprised at how well-traveled the audience already was. We even had someone who had been to Uzbekistan—I was impressed. Hopefully everyone had a good time and left with a reignited passion for RTW travel. As always, I always…
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Jetting on jetBlue
My first leg of jetBlue’s All You Can Jet is finished and it was pretty exciting. Washington D.C. was so amazing that I changed my flight at the last minute to skip Baltimore and stay in D.C. another day. Since my friend was flying out at 6am on an adventure of her own I ended…