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It’s the End of the Week As We Know It

Well it is of course Saturday and thus the end of the week. It’s also the end of the Week. I’m referring to my This Week in Offbeat Travel series actually – the one I usually publish every Saturday at noon. I’ve instead devised a nifty way to post “stream-of-thought” style posts to my sidebar [...]

Questions for Bloggers and the Readers Who Love Them, Part 1

(In my case, the reader who loves me. Hi, Mom!) I’m always interested in the work flows of others, be they photographers, web designers, or fellow bloggers. I love to hear what makes other people tick and compare and contrast how they work. I’m splitting this up into a two-part series, so first, a few [...]

On the Strange Ways People Find My Blog

I like to check my Google Analytics stats from time to time to see how folks are finding my blog. A few of the stranger keywords that some of my readers have Google’d in June: “ladyboy thailand”: This is a big one and there’s quite a few variations on this theme, including “partnership with ladyboy” [...]

How to Create an RSS Feed for Someone Else’s Blog

Ever visited a blog you love, but are frustrated because they don’t have an RSS feed? How 2004 is that (Sorry, Brooke. You know I love your blog anyway =) )? PonyFish.com is here to the rescue! It’s free and technically you don’t even need to sign up for an account to set up an [...]

My 5 Favorite Non-Travel Blogs

I subscribe to a ridiculous number of blogs, but there are a select few which are not travel related that I relish reading every day. I thought I’d share my top five: Dooce: I couldn’t possibly have less in common with Heather Armstrong, the blog’s wonderfully hilarious author. She’s a married mother of one adorable [...]

How to Setup a Contact Form for Your WordPress Blog

If you don’t have a contact form on your blog, I highly recommend setting one up. I receive a surprising number of e-mails through my contact form. Many of those e-mails have been to ask how to set one up. Fortunately, if you have a WordPress blog, it’s super easy. First, which WordPress hosting option [...]

Be A Better Blogger By Breaking Your Wiki-ddiction

We bloggers are a lazy lot. It seems the de facto target to direct our readers for further info is always that treasure trove of truthiness: Wikipedia. The problem is that Wikipedia reads like stereo instructions – it’s unengaging and lifeless. Which better explains travel: Wikipedia or Rolf Potts’ Vagablogging? An even better example: Tim [...]

How To Make Sure No One Ever Reads Your Travel Blog

“If you’ve nothing nice to say, don’t say anything at all.” That’s what mum always taught me. I think bloggers and travel writers could learn a bit from this. More appropriately: “If you don’t have anything good or worthwhile to say, don’t say anything at all.” What Not To Do Our Man in Granada had [...]

A Non-Traveler’s Travel Blog for Travelers / Montreal in Retrospect

Lately I’ve been thinking about the strange irony of writing a travel blog while not actually traveling. In my heart, I’d like to think I’ll always be a traveler, regardless of where I am and whether or not I’m on the move. But it feels a little odd – like penning a child rearing blog [...]