Travels on Planet Earth - A blog
If you are in Sydney and have the opportunity before next Saturday then get ye to Paddington to see the Murray Fredericks’ Salt exhibition at the Australian Centre for Photography. It is one of the most beautiful things I have ever seen. Fredericks camped solo for weeks on end at Lake Eyre, the vast salt [...]
Chic, cosmopolitan and with a relaxed, happy-go-lucky vibe, San Francisco has much to offer visitors, as Caitlin Fitzsimmons discovers. When gold fever struck in 1849, San Francisco was transformed from provincial shanty town to thriving multicultural city. As much an idea as a place, it has seduced fortune seekers ever since – from the wide-eyed [...]
The idea of a ghost town has always enthralled me. There’s something about the emptiness and the weird relationship with time that fires my imagination. You don’t get the usual modernisation and general change that comes with the forward progress of time but it’s not quite like travelling back in time because of the decay [...]
When Woody Guthrie sang of redwood forests and diamond deserts in “This Land is Your Land”, his lyrics suggested his roaming and rambling was entirely on foot. But the reality is that the United States is so vast and diverse that these days, motorised transport of some kind is needed for serious exploration. When I first moved [...]
Sunday was Mother’s Day in Australia and my first one as a mother. My twins were born exactly three months earlier. They are obviously very advanced babies because they brought me breakfast in bed – scrambled eggs on toast with coffee – and gave me money to treat myself to a massage. Clever babies! Being [...]
Running in Rock Creek Park, Washington DC. This is a guest post by Steve Roll, the creator of Travelojos, a blog about traveling to and living in Latin America. Follow him on Twitter @travelojos. It was a cold Sunday morning in winter and just as I accelerated through a curve on a wooded road overlooking Rock [...]
Despite its flaws, Seattle is a city of great food, nature, magical summers and (mostly) friendly people. This is a guest post from Pam Mandel who blogs at Nerd’s Eye View. Follow her on Twitter at @nerdseyeview. Seattle is an imperfect city. We have terrible traffic, our real estate is too expensive, our job market somewhat whimsical. [...]
Hot chicken is to Nashville what sourdough is to San Francisco or shrimp and grits are to Charleston. This is a guest post from Rebecca Crump, a Nashville-based writer who blogs about her life and what she’s cooking at EzraPoundCake.com. The first time we took my husband’s cousin to Prince’s Hot Chicken Shack, I warned him. [...]
It’s been another super-awesome year for Passports with Purpose! We set ourselves a goal of raising $50,000 for LAFTI to build a village in India for people from the Dalit (“Untouchable”) caste. We’ve raised $52,000 so far! That is thanks to the collective efforts of the founders, participating bloggers, sponsors and everyone who has bought [...]
Airship Ventures is giving away a flight for two aboard its zeppelin Eureka, as part of its sponsorship with Passports with Purpose. For your chance to win, buy a $10 raffle ticket at passportswithpurpose.com/donate before midnight (US West Coast time) on December 13. The funds will be used to construct a village in India for [...]
Bad Behavior has blocked 689 access attempts in the last 7 days.
Recent comments