Here’s some weekend wanderlust inspiration for you. Get out and explore. Photo: kara_allyson MatadorU Travel Photography Program MatadorU’s Travel Photography Program gives you direct feedback on your work, and lifetime access to the most supportive, dynamic, and fun community of Travel Writers, Travel Photographers, and New Media Professionals on… Read More
In what is becoming an annual thing for me, I’ll be starting on another North American road trip soon. Compared to my road trip around the western US and Canada last fall, this should be relatively short. I am pretty apprehensive about this trip. My father left the hospital… Read More
When I visited Hawaii’s Big Island last month, I was lucky enough to go on a helicopter ride. First, let me admit: I get motion sick on Amtrak’s Acela, claustrophobic in line for the bathroom at a rest stop along Interstate 95, and queasy when I lean too close… Read More
A few weeks ago, we introduced you to Marybeth Bond , author of the National Geographic book Girlfriend Getaways . Now Bond, her daughter Julieclaire, and goddaughter, Laura Maxwell, have gone on an extended getaway: They’re biking cross-country to raise awareness about bone health, and blogging about their experiences… Read More
Matador co-founder Ross Borden gets way off the trail in this African island nation. See what he finds. I went to this corner of the world stoked to see the animals, landscapes, and sunsets I’d read about in the travel lit, but of course it was the beauty of… Read More
You won’t find any Hamburger Helper here. Join beef patty lovers this weekend in Akron, Ohio , for the fifth annual National Hamburger Festival . The city, which lays claim to having invented the beloved sandwich, invites upwards of 25,000 burger eaters to the Buckeye State to sample more… Read More
Check out National Geographic Adventure’s Ultimate Adventurers 2010 Gallery , which features this year’s most adventurous people, like Oh Eun-Sun, the first woman to conquer all 14 8,000-meter peaks , or Jessica Watson, the youngest person (at age 16) to sail solo around the world, or eco-adventurer David de… Read More
The challenge: Raise $9,830 through whatever means necessary , for the financing of a documentary about digital nomading. The funds will go towards buying camera/lighting/sound equipment and the computer/software for editing. Deadline: July 1st. This Week’s Results Best week yet, raising $2685 — a big piece of which was… Read More
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This week’s guests are legendary travel writer Don George and Jessica Speigel. Subscribe on iTunes | Become a Fan on Facebook | Download the iPhone app Originally posted on the Everything Everywhere Travel Blog . Discover great travel photos .
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Last Minute has a concise run down of London’s Chinatown. There’s pan-Asian ( Ikkyusan ), contemporary Cantonese ( Golden Harvest ), “the best roast duck in the world” ( Four Seasons ), Taiwanese ( Leong’s Legends ), and plenty more.
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