Posts Tagged ‘RTW travel’
Press coverage for “Two Laps Around the World”
I have to take time for a bit of book promotion here, as there was some nice press coverage in today’s Arizona Daily Star newspaper about my travel memoir, Two Laps Around the World. It was the trip of a lifetime. Two trips, actually. In 2002, Bob Riel and Lisa Higgins, wed the year before, embarked [...]
Dancing around the world
Now, this is the way to travel around the world. Matt Harding‘s latest dancing/travel video… You can read more about Matt at his website, or in this recent NY Times profile.
Round-the-world travel resources
Last week, I provided you with a page of information on life sabbaticals. Today I have sort of a companion piece to that, with an overview of round-the-world travel. An excerpt: Sure, you can spend a few months traveling around Europe. Or Australia and New Zealand. Or Southeast Asia, which is more of a bargain [...]
Two Laps Around the World
2007 has been a big year. I recently wrote about the birth of my first child. Now, I’m here with news about a different type of birth – that of my first book. Two Laps Around the World: Tales and Insights from a Life Sabbatical is now on the market. The book is about the experiences that [...]
Surf the world on a sofa
Just last month, I linked to a Boston Globe article about an organization called Couch Surfing that connects people around the world by offering free places to stay in each other’s homes. Apparently, couch surfing is the new hot thing, because now the NY Times has published a long article about the topic, which seems to [...]
Couch surfing around the world
Travel is always interesting, no matter how you do it. But the chance to interact with locals tends to take the experience up a level. So I was interested to read this article in the Boston Globe about an organization called Couch Surfing that connects people around the world by offering free places to stay [...]
1,000 places to see on a sabbatical
First came the book, 1,000 Places to See Before You Die. Then the Travel Channel decided to base a television series around the concept and selected a Denver couple, Albin and Melanie Ulle, to embark “on a 14-week excursion across 13 countries.” The Ulle’s experiences were filmed for the series, which premieres March 29, according [...]
Around the world by foot, bike and rowboat
Sure, round-the-world travel has gained a certain measure of popularity. But most people do it by plane, train, bus or motorized boat. No one has ever before circumnavigated the globe completely under their own power — that is, until Colin Angus and Julie Wafaei recently completed a two-year journey by biking, rowing and walking their way [...]
Dancing your way around the planet
Well, here’s a rare and unorthodox way to fund a round-the-world trip… In 2003, Matt Harding posted on his website a video of himself dancing in a dozen countries. As the video made its way around the web, it found its way into the offices of Stride gum company. The company then offered to fund a six-month trip [...]
Round-the-world travel
Sure, a round-the-world trip can sound daunting. But it can done more cheaply than you might imagine, and a few months (or more) on the road and away from home is a great way to reinvigorate yourself while having a few adventures and discovering a thing or two about our planet. Now, the NY Times seems [...]
Travels in rural Ghana
Ever wanted to know what it’s like to travel in rural Africa? Joshua Berman and his wife are in the midst of a round-the-world journey and just spent two weeks visiting villages in northeastern Ghana. He writes about their experiences on his blog, the tranquilo traveler: We returned to Accra last night, stiff and loopy after [...]
Educational benefits of travel
Today’s NY Times has an excellent column by Nicholas Kristof about the educational benefits of travel. A few brief excerpts: Universities are – oh so slowly – recognizing that they need to prepare students to survive globalization. But most overseas studies programs are both too short and too tame. So here’s my proposal. Universities should grant [...]
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