The Travel Bloggers

I link my favorites in the highlights section that's on the front page of travelblog - but I have a confession - I no longer read all the journals! There are now too many 😊

What am I missing? Which are your favorite journals - be it for the photos or writing or just the crazyness!

So a few that I follow: russ, aspiringnomad, Sken like a Ribble fluke

To link to bloggers you can use [blogger=142] on travelblog - that would link to Russ, I've got make an easier way to find out the ID eg. 142 - but for the moment - hover over the "contact name" link on the info page and in the status bar (very bottom of the browser) you can see a to_user_id=xxx - the xxx is the id. Hmm - that's a real pain - I promise to fix as soon as I've finished the gallery features.

So what have I missed? Who else's journals are highlight material? Who is inspiring you? Reply to this

Then we have some great journals and photos from Italy - Cristina and Areesa - inspires me to write more from Hungary - interesting stuff happens everyday (ok, somedays), just I spend too much time coding already - not enough hours in the day 😊 Reply to this

The 3 ft path shrinks to a one foot wide rock laden test of acrobatic balance, the skies decide to unleash a deep bellow of thunder as if to challenge our intrusion into this leg of the climb. So picture us city hicks-we uncork our heavily fortified, mineralized water bottles - take several hard swigs hoping down below that it was a brave enough gesture of defiance at the threatening elements and then we pray and hope that our legs follow our will & the non-existent path.

- from Flipping back the Pages, by Deep and photos by Sombhit Gupta. Awesome. I felt I was there. Reply to this

Sken like a Ribble fluke - just added a fantastic journal, really funny - if laughing at the near misfortune of others is your thing! - be honest - who doesn't find that funny 😉

Easy tiger - adventures on the Trans Siberian Express - I wish he'd write more! There must be no-end of stories and things that happen in those cold shakey carriages.

Keep em' coming Ryan! (ps. doggy style photo doing well in google 😉 - not that I'm recommending this blatent misuse of power)

What else have I been reading: Today - Is the 'People's War' safe? - more seat of the pants travel dodging officials, Casablanca - don't believe everything in the Lonely Planet!, but My month in Culiacan, Mexico - do believe the believe the bits about Taxi's in Mexico City!

Plus a few photos that I love:



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No doubt about my favourite blog - Aspiring Nomad's. This guy could have a future as a travel writer, and I'm particularly interested as I'm planning a very similar trip this summer.

Also, Sken Like A Ribble Fluke's - I don't know, I just love the whole overland thing Reply to this

Hi Ali, I agree 100% - you might be interested in this piece from Paul Theroux's 'Dark Star Sfari'

"What was I doing? Making progress, I felt. Proceeding from the shore of the Mediterranean, via the Pillars of Hercules, by degrees, deeper into Africa. Travel is transition, and at its best it is a journey from home, a setting forth. I hated parachuting into a place. I needed to be able to link one place to another. One of the problems I had with travel in general was the ease with which a person could be transported so swiftly from the familiar to the strange, the moon-shot whereby the New York office worker, say, is insinuated overnight into the middle of Africa to gape at gorillas. That was just a way of feeling foreign. The other way, going slowly, crossing national frontiers, scuttling past razor wire with my bag and my passport, was the best way of being reminded that there was a relationship between Here and There, and that a travel narrative was the story of There and Back."

Sorry for the long extract, but it's so relevant in the blogs we have mentioned.

My planned trip is alarmingly similar to Aspiring Nomads. I was planning Central Asia, then found this site, and his blog, while he was in Uzbekistan. I started thinking about Bangladesh, then what do you know, he's there. It was always in my head to go to the Andamans, and guess what? He got there first. I'm worried when I start my blog in July, it'll be very similar, although I am planning a slightly different route. Reply to this

I'd also like to add that I'm disappointed Sasha has stopped updating his blog - I believe he's our only blogger to have reported from Afghanistan. Reply to this

I'm a little concerned for Sasha - posting "I'm in an area that everyone says is dangerous but it's fine" - then nothing - not even login... Reply to this

Guys, I can't make head nor tail of 'Simon Says' - One minute he's in Malaysia, then Indonesia, then back to Malaysia.....any ideas? Reply to this

Just mail 'Simon Says' and ask him; He's a friend I met in Baku - and the guy I was with in Tashkent, Uzbekistan: journal title 'Mollifying the Melancholy"!
Some of his entries are a little cryptic but fantastically well written in my opinion.

...and as for Theroux; despite the fact that he's not the most adventurous traveller in my opinion, and the situations he describes are fairly run of the mill, he writes so damn well that reading his books are still exciting and allow you to virtually live the journey with him. Especially if you've visited some of the places he writes about - the undisputed master.

If you have the book 'Dark Star Safari' available Conor maybe you could find the quote where he talks about travel writing being banal if everyone simply writes about how 'nice' everything is.

Jason.
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