On blogging best practices, the ‘influencer’ term, and my promises to you
One thing I love about travel blogging is the community of people blogging about their travels. Over the last decade, I’ve gotten to know hundreds of travel bloggers in person or via the internet. I’ve used quite a few of their blogs in preparing or...
About the Worthy Go chart
Every destination found on Worthy Go uses a four-quadrant chart that looks like this: Think of this as a rating of 1 to 10 on two axes: Value and Effort. The closer to the edges, the stronger the opinion. On the vertical axis: Value, or the value you get from a place....
10 takeaways from TBEX Europe 2015
TBEX Europe (the Travel Blog EXchange conference) just wrapped up last night (Saturday, May 2nd) — my head’s still spinning from meeting a bunch of folks in real life after having chatted with them in Facebook groups or on their blogs for months (and sometimes years)…...
On the Pyramid Syndrome, and Why They’re Still Worth Checking Out (Egypt)
Most travelers have heard of the Paris Syndrome: the mental breakdown a small number of people suffer from after realizing a place isn’t what they expected. The Wikipedia page offers a few reasons for this: the language barriers, the cultural differences, the...What is weird?
As you might guess, I get asked this a lot. Updated 29 May 2016 Weird, in my book, has three pre-requisites: It’s about weird places, not weird people, weird food, or weird cultural practices. People or food may well factor in, but I focus on places you can see,...
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