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Life changing travel experiences: Memories of Syria, 25 years on (with Ari Shaffir)
Life changing travel experiences: Memories of traveling to Syria, 25 years on (with Ari Shaffir)
Notes on my (never published) first travel book, part IX: The journey was the point
Pilgrims in a Sliding World, my first attempt at writing a travel book, was (and will always remain) never completed. Though I’d set out to write the account of an eight-month van journey that had meandered its way through 37 states, I gave up on the book a little over halfway – describing just four-and-a-half…
Malekula’s “laplap sosor” version of Vanuatu’s national dish is delicious
Vanuatu’s national dish, laplap (a kind of stone-cooked yam-paste pudding) is so unphotogenic that I wasn’t necessarily looking forward to eating it on my trip to the South Pacific. It probably didn’t help that travel writer J. Maarten Troost, at one point in his humorous 2007 Vanuatu memoir Getting Stoned with Savages, declared: “I hate…
Notes on my (never published) first travel book, part VIII: The seeds of Vagabonding
For all of the shortcomings I’ve identified in Pilgrims in a Sliding World (my never-published first attempt at writing a travel book), it’s worth pointing out that it contained some of the earliest seeds of what later did become my first book, Vagabonding. At a certain level that makes perfect sense, as Pilgrims in a…
Travel memoir lab: How to fast-track your travel book by working with a hybrid publisher
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Travel memoir lab: How to fast-track your travel book by working with a hybrid publisher
Travel writers who visit Vanuatu overlook (or ignore) this part of local culture
Read any number of travel memoirs about Vanuatu, and you will find repeated use of such hard-K words as kava, kastom, cargo cults, and cannibalism (as well as such non hard-K words as volcanoes and land-diving). Oddly, these same travel memoirs only mention Christianity in passing — or, when they do mention it, they take…
HoneyTrek: A case study in making a full-time living as travel influencers and content creators
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Mike and Anne Howard of Honey Trek talk about working as travel influencers and content creators
Notes on my (never published) first travel book, part VII: Neurotic young-manhood
In re-reading Pilgrims in a Sliding World (my never-published first attempt at a travel book), I’m often struck by how young the narrator seems. This makes perfect sense, of course, since the book evokes a 24-year-old version of me trying to narrate the exploits of a 23-year-old version of me. Admittedly, I didn’t feel all…
On finding familiar things in some of the most isolated parts of the world
Reaching the village of Tenmaru in the Melanesian South Pacific was quite the task. First, it took Kiki and me nearly 20 hours of trans-Pacific flights to reach Vanuatu by way of Fiji. Then, because Air Vanuatu had just gone out of business, it took us 16 hours on an industrial ferry to reach the…
Live from Bali: How tourists, influencers, and nomads transform destinations (for good and for bad)
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How tourists, influencers, and nomads transform destinations
A new film, shot in Kansas, aims to show what is possible for women’s artistic voices in rural America
Jenny Inzerillo of High Plains Public Radio’s “High Plains Morning” chats with actress/writer Kristen Bush about her film THE GAME CAMERA, the Rural Women Films initiative, and its artistic mission to uplift female voices in rural America. CONDENSED TRANSCRIPT Jenny Inzerillo: Folks, you are tuned to High Plains Public Radio. I am so excited to…