I’m heading out to Europe and taking a small side trip to get there. The first part of my itinerary is:
PDX-LAX-NRT-HKG-JNB-DOH-TXLOn the outbound I’ll be finishing up a Round-the-World itinerary I began in Johannesburg earlier this year—and then I’ll be beginning another one from there. Read More
You don’t write a book because it’s a good thing to write a book. You don’t write a book to “build your platform.” You write a book because you can’t bear not writing a book. You have something to say and you’re willing to put in the effort, day after day, to craft that message in the best possible manner.
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Last year for my birthday I went to Norway with 200 of my closest friends. Fun times! This year I went to Bali... by myself. It was a very different experience, but also good.
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Today I'm on a plane to Hong Kong and then a bit further beyond. I'm taking a few days to decompress last week's big experience, but I'll be working from afar as always. More adventures are in store... we're just getting started.
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Tom asked me what lasting impact travel has had on my life. I thought it was an interesting question. After I came home from Norway (country 193/193), I did a number of radio interviews where the host asked me similar things.
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The other day I took on a mini-quest with my friend and fellow traveler Stephanie. We went to ten restaurants, cafes, and food carts in six hours as part of a challenge to earn dining miles. Here's how it went down.
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Instead of toiling away in a basement, writing boring posts that no one reads, I'm fortunate to write boring posts for a lot of great people. Last week's post on How to Travel Alone elicited a lot of opinions and stories, and I thought I'd highlight a few of them.
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Last month in Hong Kong, I went to the New Territories, a part of the region I'd never visited before. It was only half an hour from bustling Kowloon, but it felt like a totally different part of the world.
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It’s a common myth, yet at first glance it doesn’t make sense: booking plane tickets on short notice should be cheap. If there are empty seats, why wouldn’t the airline discount them as the flight approaches? But as you may have discovered if you’ve ever tried to jet off on a whim somewhere, you’re inclined…
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Doha, the capital of Qatar, isn’t the kind of place you usually pop into without a task at hand. You might come on assignment for your company, or you could be transiting on Qatar Airways, or you might drop in because Qatar is a country and you’re on a mission to visit all of them.…
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Greetings from the road! I’m in Johannesburg and preparing to board a Qatar Airways flight to Doha. From there it’s Paris, Doha (again), London, New York, Los Angeles, and Dallas … in just over a week. What can I say—2014 is going to be a kick-ass year. Once the calendar rolled over to January 1,…
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Reentering the world of long-distance travel after a month’s absence, there’s a moment that comes when I realize what it’s all about. It’s hard to predict the precise arrival of the moment, but I never miss it. Sometimes the moment arrives in the taxi ride to the airport, but that’s usually too early. There’s still…
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Last month in Hong Kong, I went to the New Territories, a part of the city I'd never visited before. It was only half an hour from bustling Kowloon, but it felt like a totally different region.
On the eve of my departure, before I'd fly to Tokyo and then to Los Angeles, I was feeling anxious. I went for an hour-long run, my longest in a while. I set out just as the sun was setting and ran along the water, looking at the Kowloon skyline across the narrow harbor. Read More
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For the first time since publishing AONC in 2008, this year's travel roundup is quite different. Every other year, I've been to at least fifteen new countries (and many other countries I'd visited before). This time, my list is greatly abridged.
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Update: This post contains outdated offers and should only be used for reference. Click the following link for the most up-to-date offers on my favorite travel hacking cards. -cg — Last week I flew to one of my favorite countries. Ever since I first got stuck in Australia after being denied boarding for Nauru, it…
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