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I am proud to be part of Passports with Purpose once again. I really am! That might sound like a platitude but it’s not. See this? This is the school we built in Cambodia last year. That’s right. Through the efforts of travel bloggers the generosity of readers and sponsors, we raised $30,000 and now [...]
San Diego, California; January 2010 Before I saw these paddlers in San Diego, I thought stand-up was a comedy genre not a sport. I’ve since learned that stand-up kayaking is all the rage in paddling circles. Apparently the sport started in Hawaii and is favoured by anglers because of the better manouevrability when casting a [...]
How a crackdown on illegal immigrants would affect all foreigners and could hurt the state’s biggest industry. What the hell is Florida thinking? Seriously! Tourism is Florida’s biggest industry, injecting $65 billion into the state’s economy every year. Sixty-five BILLION dollars. And over a MILLION jobs. Yet the state could be about to jeopardise all [...]
I’m en route to New York City for TBEX, the Travel Blog Exchange conference. Through the miracle of Virgin America’s in-flight wifi, I’m writing this from thousands of feet up in the air. Pam at Nerd’s Eye View has a Q&A for travel bloggers going to TBEX. Some people are responding in the comments but [...]
Cities have a bad rap for being environmental baddies and that’s not always justified. While I love visiting beautiful wilderness areas, I know that my impact on the planet’s ecology is often less in a city because I don’t need a car to get there or get around. I’ve previously written about greening your city [...]
Trafalgar Square, London; December 1998 After last week’s trip down memory lane to a childhood holiday in Fiji, here is another time travel edition of Photo Friday. This is Trafalgar Square in London in 1998, with the Canadian High Commission in the background. My mother was living in Cambridge at the time and I spent [...]
This is a guest post from Ariana Svenson, a mate of mine from university back in Australia. Originally from Western Australia, Ari travelled extensively over five continents before ending up in Peru. She is a director of sustainable travel agency Apus Peru Adventure Travel Specialists and also a director of Peruvian NGO Threads of Peru. [...]
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