...every night around the world bars are flooded with a mosaic of patrons, from happy-go-lucky students to desperate professionals to crusty old timers in the corner. For many, it's a race to gather as much information as possible about romantic prospects before opportunity stops knocking...
...perhaps the best thing we can do as travelers is share these finds and divest ourselves of any presumptuous feelings of "place ownership." So with that, here are three of my best-kept travel secrets:
...over the last couple of months I've met loads of people looking for more from their travels than fancy hotels, tourist-bedecked beaches, and thronged monuments. That experience can be lackluster especially when you're seeking something deeper or more challenging...
...my first thought was not about virtual travel, but rather how technology is changing the way we travel. I'd had the same thought as I researched an article on Edinburgh's watering holes and used Google Maps to relocate the pubs I visited last summer...
Certain songs can send you cartwheeling through time and space to the inception of a memory...I can't even count the number of hours my wife and I have spent trip planning with Thievery Corporation spinning on the iPod...
There are many moments in life when you know a change is needed, but the course of action is unclear. Without a little courage and a dash of serendipity, it's how we end up with useless degrees, unfulfilling jobs, and dead-end relationships. And a great big stash of regret down the road...
...we are uniquely situated at the nexus of cheap and easy world travel, burgeoning disillusionment with the routine, and instantaneous means of self-expression. Multitudes of people don't know what they want to be or what they want to do, but they know all too well what they don't want. All it takes is some currency in courage to fund the expedition...
...it struck me that perhaps the "home" in homesickness corresponds to the culture with which a given person most closely identifies...
...I'm advocating that writers turn off that nit-picky voice in their heads and just write. Don't worry that someone else just wrote about the same city you're covering in a future post. Travel. Write. Share your insight...
...as I contemplated the change in the works I started to feel, of all things, guilt. Guilt on many levels, including the anticipation of guilt if I don't hold my initial impulses in check. Was this the residual effect of a Catholic upbringing? Was it my internal editor's latest Machiavellian attempt to bump me off this trajectory?
A hunter, oft-stubbled and bleary-eyed, driven by an insatiable hunger for exploration and experience - and perhaps a chance to thin the herd of caffeinated and alcoholic beverages. From distant locales around the world to local spots in the neighborhood, I recount the triumphs, trials, and tribulations of life on the road and in the new.
This native is restless.
Get my story from my interview by the awesome Nomadic Chick.
Belly up to some classic Edinburgh watering holes. Thanks go to Aldo Singer, who can also help you with air tickets.
There's a nice Traveling Savage feature over on TravelBlogSites.
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