Traveling is under-rated, unless you’re traveling for work. Then it’s usually over-rated. For the most part I’m grateful for the travel I was able to do while working. There’s nothing better than getting to see other parts of the world by traveling on someone else’s dime. The caveat to this is that when you’re traveling for work, they expect you to get a lot done, because work travel in expensive. So long days, long agendas, late night emails, and co-workers constantly are the guarantees for your days.
Traveling for pleasure is something altogether different. For me, traveling for pleasure is about relaxing, learning, and eating. In that order. If you’d like to read a little about places I’ve traveled to, check out the categories on the right hand side of this page and choose “Travel” or one of the specific countries or regions listed to see my posts.
I’m also a fan of reading travel blogs. Especially the very personal ones that you can tell are being written by travelers that are in it for the pleasure and experience. Here are a few travel blogs I find interesting, many focused on Asia, but some others are about traveling around the world:
I’m excited to link this new site just recently released by my friend, Gillian Gaucumo, a journalist who writes for one of the large newspaper publications in Manila. I met up with him one of my trips to the Philippines and hope to visit him again soon.
A site I found via Instagram –> Justin Vawter has a variety style blog, but a lot of good information about some popular Philippines travel sites.
Another Philippines travel site that I check out a lot –> Pusang Kalye – I don’t just blog travel, I live it.
If you like eating and traveling, like I do, here’s a blog site that combines the two quite well –> Dish Our Town
Another travel site for the Philippines that I’ve followed for a long time via Instagram –> Pinoy Travel Freak
Here’s an interesting option for hiking tours around the globe, I had a great hiking holiday in Italy with them. –> Holiday Fellowship
Great website, great stories, told well –> Explore Inspired
Pretty complete Philippines travel site –> Traveling Morion
A blog that includes travel in Asia –> Excuse My French
Kind of a general blog, but a lot of information on the Philippine as well –> Urban Tribe
A couple of new good ones –> The Big Black Backpack and The Curious Traveler blog spot
How about this? –> Daily Voyage
Singer / travel writer, Mikah Meyer, here
Here’s a gay couple’s travel blog. It’s quite popular and called Nomadic Boys: two greedy boys exploring the world.
Here are the countries I’ve visited… Looking at it like this makes me think I have a lot more exploring to do…
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