“The blog posts that were read at the TBEX community keynotes were as well-written and meaningful as anything I’ve read in glossy travel magazines lately.” — Here Comes Everybody: TBEX 10 || Chris Around the World
“…it struck me as the perfect bookend to the panel on travel writing: examples of great stories in action. And I want more more more!” – We Tell Ourselves Stories in Order to Live* – TBEX’10 Wrap Up || Allison Stein Wellner, Perceptive Travel
The links in the list below go to the original blog posts we selected for the TBEX community keynote. In almost every case, we asked the writer to edit for brevity, so the versions you heard at TBEX vary from the versions you’ll find online.… continued…
I’m in a HomeAway sponsored vacation rental while in NYC. FYI.
I like vacation rentals because they allow me to migrate more easily into the fantasy that the place I’m visiting is actually my home. I can carry a bag of groceries up three flights to my temporary flat. I can have a neighborhood where people live, where bicycles are locked up on back balconies and my window looks not into an impersonal wall of hotel rooms, but into other apartments where dishes pile up on counters and conversations about work leak out into the weird narrow spaces between buildings.… continued…
It’s just about a month now since we rolled back in to Seattle. The Routan was unloaded and returned to VW’s fleet supplier pronto, but there’s still a pile of REI gear that I have to ship back along with a few other odds and ends. And part of my brain, or maybe it’s my heart, is still leaning back towards the Hi-Line, that northern Montana strip of road punctuated by old grain elevators and barbed wire fences and gas stations where time stopped in 1967.… continued…
Do people keep telling you that video is the “new thing for your blog!”? Yeah, they keep telling us that too. I have personally been terrified to head down that path, fearing that I will be lured in to a false sense of confidence about the ease of producing decent short video and then, I will waste countless hours trying to unravel the tools and processes of video editing. No way, I said, no way, repeatedly quoting a speaker I heard at a blogging conference: “If you’re going to do video, do it well.”
You know where this is going, right?… continued…
