Backstory: Our guide, Bishnu and and porter Drupa, loved this Nepali Musician (watch video to listen). As we started our trek in some small town, they bought a little tape player and the tape of this artist. Almost every town we came into, Bishnu and Drupa would break out into a dance and start jamming, Nepali style. Eventually Adam and I caught on and just didn’t care that we looked like wankers and just danced.

So, it was a great time. I am thinking of seriously going back for a 2 or 3 week trek later this year. Who wants to go?

originally posted on BnA Videos

via Money Players

Lunchtime reading - a good sense of humor for this Aussie.

Thomas Kohnstamm, who has written a book on his misadventures, also said he didn’t travel to Colombia to write the guidebook on the country because “they didn’t pay me enough,” The Daily Telegraph reported.

“I wrote the book in San Francisco [California],” he is quoted as saying in the Telegraph. “I got the information from a chick I was dating — an intern in the Colombian Consulate.”

My questions for this arse hole are:

1) Why did you take the job if you didn’t think it would pay you enough?
2) Lying, cheating - and now you get another book published - who is publishing it? Do you believe him this time?

Anyway - this guys sounds like a 1st class jerk. Yeah - it slipped through Lonely Planet’s editorial staff. I can’t blame them, considering the volume of data that produce, stuff like this is bound to happen.

It goes to show you, you don’t necessarily need to travel to a place to write about it factually these days. The data is there, it just needs to be brought together in an easily understandable format.

They guy on this images is awesome. Could totally pass for a Portland Hipster, which as I get older, is hard to be. But a lot of the BnA die hards over the years are bad arse experts on a part of travel in their own right. If you got some travel skillz, share it there with an intimate non-troll bait community.

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Is this why they call us “Yanks”?

Hilarious stuff. I love that folks are not afraid to bring this sorta stuff up, and still keep it reasonable.

CNN featured some of our content last friday: Gadgets for the Road.

An interesting sidenote on it from a traffic perspective, even though our site is linked prominently in the flash display of the article/feature, it has driven only 22 visitors to Travel Gear Blog since the article almost 6 days ago. When I clicked the link, the firefox pop-up blocker stopped my browser from opening the window. Oh well.

Get ready Phoenix, when he’s done with you Steve Nash, he’ll tell the world how bad you treated him etc. History is the best indicator for the future.

Agreed with Pat Riley - it’s sad.