Undoubtedly one of the best aspects of traveling abroad is bringing back wonderful photos to share with family and friends (or sharing them while on the road!). As a professional photographer and avid traveler I get asked time and again, “Which lens should I buy for my DSLR before I go on my trip?” Along [...]
My next trip will take me to the far reaches of the middle of the country. Colorado, to be exact. It’s where the mountains end and the flatness begins. But on those last few mountains I hear there’s some great rock climbing so I’m heading to Boulder to find out for myself. The people I’m [...]
Some of us write for newspapers. Some write for magazines. Others pen guidebooks or ghost write. Almost all of us have a blog of some sort or write for one. All of us love the Puget Sound and Seattle. All of us call this area home. All of us have a passion for writing and [...]
Jet lag. Let me say it again to help instill fear if it’s not there already. Jet lag. It can be ungood. It can be unfun. But luckily my friend Angela over at The Gypsy’s Guide published a nice round up of advice from other travel hungry freaks like me. Heck, she [...]
Let’s say you went to Travel Blog Exchange 2010 and got one of the fancy Bootsnall Moleskine notebooks. They are red, they are fancy, and they look like this: And if you weren’t at TBEX’10, you can still get a Moleskine on BootsnAll’s Facebook page. It’s really simple, just leave a comment for a [...]
I’m not normally an alarmist but when I saw one of the price increases going into effect on July 13th of this year, I nearly choked on my Cocoa Pebbles! While there are a number of increases across the board, like first time adult passport fees going up 35%, the one that caught my eye [...]
Since my last post on Summer Plans just two weeks ago, some new and exciting additions have been, uhhhh….added! A couple of press trips to sunny locations (even though the weather around Seattle is really trying to make up for most of June) and some rock climbing. June and Twitter saw the creation of the [...]
If you are a stalker, your life is about to get easier. I’ve had a number of friends and acquaintances ask me what my summer plans are. Just coming back from Nepal and Africa, with a Nevada trip sandwiched in-between, it seems most people think I’ll just keep moving. Some have even expressed anticipation of [...]
I’m heading to Nepal in two days. EEEkkkk! I’m only halfway packed and then I get packages with more stuff. In this case it’s good stuff I want. One is a hoody (picture here) from Makalu Wear which will serve me wear on the cold Khumbu nights. Don’t ask about the blow torch, it’s not [...]
I’m not even close to being finished with sorting through pictures from Africa and I’ve got one week to get packed for my next adventure, likely the last big adventure for the year; trekking and climbing in Nepal. I went to Nepal for the first time a year and a half ago and like many [...]
