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Portland, OR
Las Vegas *
Chicago, IL *
Phoenix, AZ
Snowden, WA
Eugene, OR*
Hollywood, CA
Honolulu, HI
Poipu, Kauai*
Bucharest, Romania
Kathmandu, Nepal
Pokara, Nepal
Random Villages, Nepal
Delhi, India
New York, NY
Boston, MA
San Diego, CA
Del Mar, CA
Enterprise, OR
Lake Tahoe, CA
Chico, CA
Orlando, FL*
Santa Rosa, CA
San Francisco, CA
Seattle, WA
* denotes more than 1 time, separate occasions.
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
I just saw this article on CNN about a LP writer that plagirized, didn’t goto the countries, and was a general arse.
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.
On the way back into Kathmandu the other day, I video’d a huge line of buses waiting for Diesel Gas. Lotsa these petrol lines all over the city.
Note: Just slopped those subtitles on there using iMovie again. Not that polished – but easy.
I am interviewing Lonely Planet Founder Tony Wheeler this upcoming Monday. It is exciting to be able to spend a little bit of time to talk about his new book, Badlands as well as other travel and Lonely Planet stuff.
If you read the book, do you have any questions that you think I should ask?
If not, any other questions you’d like to ask?
Check out what BnA members would like to ask Mr. Wheeler.
Mt. Kilimanjaro, Tanzania
Moshi, Tanzania
Nairobi, Kenya
Capetown, South Africa
London, England (4 times)
Venice, Italy
Bucharest, Romania
Warsaw, Poland
Snowden, Washington
Pleasant Hill, Oregon
Berlin, Germany
Los Angeles, CA
Las Vegas, Nevada
Chicago, Illinois
Bampf National Park, Canada
Spokane, WA
Wallowa National Forest, Oregon
That is all I can remember. Let’s hope I make it to some new places in ’07.
Here is my 2005 list in cities.
Just read this interview of Robert Pirsig. It was very interesting to read about this man…I had read this book shortly after travelling for about a year, over 10 years ago and it was a book that made me think and not just entertain me. If you are thinking about travelling, or have just travelled for an extensive period of time, check out this book, “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintainence
Happy Thanksgiving Folks!
Who know’s if he was the 1st, but Nick has been travel blogging in Bali, Indonesia for almost 4 years now. Way before Blogs were what they are today. I just had a chat on the phone with him and he is still cranking out the information on Bali.
We have changed the design and platform for his blog about 6 times in the past 4 years. Not easy to be changing that much – but we used BaliBlog as a test platform for a lot of the Travel Logues that we are doing today. I think we have found the platform we are gonna stick with now. (WordPress hacked)