Category: Amazing Vagabonds
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Nomad Vagabond – Genghis Khan
Traveling round the world doesn’t usually involve conquest of foreign lands but for Temujin, also known as Genghis Khan, conquest was probably just a means of travel.
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Jack London – Prince of the Tramps, Patron of Vagabonds
Jack London’s life reads like an adventure novel. From being a vagrant to a pirate to working in the gold fields to learning to surf from Duke Kahanamoku, he lived…
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Around the World with 40 Bloggers – From Lonely Planet
Around the World with 40 Lonely Planet Bloggers introduces readers to the world of professional travel blogging. Lonely Planet knows what it takes to produce amazing travel writing and photography,…
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Syncopated Family Travel – The Arizona Painted Desert and Leaving Your Mark
The vastness of the Arizona Painted Desert stretches out all around me, home to the nameless dead.
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Syncopated Family Travel – The Grand Canyon, The Rio Grande, and Grand Theft Auto
Due to its proximity to the Grand Canyon, Williams is a thriving cluster of motels and tourist dives.
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Syncopated Family Travel: The Return Home on Route 66
Each turn of the mother road holds shuttered motels forever locked at “no vacancy”. In those now boarded up rooms, men and women once held each other with the thrill…
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Syncopated Family Travel: Yes, I’m a Mouseketeer at Disneyland!
To quote the Flight of the Conchords, “I’m not crying, it’s just raining on my face.” This is heaven.
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Syncopated Family Travel – Los Angeles – Beaches, Bums, and Cults
A machete wielding maniac in a hockey mask approaches our car ….
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Syncopated Family Travel – Leaving Las Vegans
As we head west we make a brief side visit to the City of Sin to take my daughter to Veggee Delight. I’m a little worried as the GPS leads…
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Syncopated Family Travel: Idaho Sucks
“I fucked up that sonofabitch real good,” drawls one of the dusty men, sporting a mighty handlebar mustache.
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Syncopated Family Travel – Yellowstone, Chinese Tourists, and God Damned Bison
I haven’t felt this inadequate since freshman year gym class. Yellowstone is a nature photographer’s wet dream.
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Syncopated Family Travel – Red Lodge Montana, GPS Disasters, and Never Turning Back
“Maybe we should turn back,” suggests my wife, “see if there is a hotel or something somewhere else.” However, I’m too tired to admit defeat.
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Syncopated Family Travel – Mt. Rushmore, Sandwich Artists, and Injun Killers
We bypass the lot and hang out of the car window, wildly clicking the shutter gangsta style as we do a drive by shooting of the four presidents.
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Travel Writing – A Dangerous Business
Travel writing is a dangerous business. No doubt about it. Most of all, it’s dangerous for your bank account! Of course, that’s just writing in general. The travel part…
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Syncopated Family Travel: Wall Drug and the Dakota Badlands Food Poisoning
I’ll spare the details about what happens next, but it involves me defiling a national treasure. If there is a hell, I’m sure this will not bode well for me…
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Syncopated Family Travel: Channeling Laura Ingalls Wilder
“I can’t have another DUI,” she protests as she chomps down her beer-battered olives and slithers off of her bar stool.
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Syncopated Family Travel : Hitting the Road
It was only for two weeks, but it felt like a guilty luxury, despite other places in the world where three weeks or more was standard—a fact that I was…
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Yodeling Vagabonds Bike Yellowstone
Brian Liebold and his cousin go yodeling and biking through Yellowstone in true vagabond style
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Utah – Beautiful Mormon State but I Need a Drink
Fortunately, Utah has natural beauty in abundance. It’s not a gin and tonic, but it is soothing in its own way.
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Santa Claus – Extraordinary World Traveler Vagabond
Earlier this year, before her 1st birthday, my daughter had the opportunity to visit the real home of Santa Claus.
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World Travel for Almost Nothing #4 – Couchsurfing Friends
One of the keys to mastering the art of world travel on almost nothing is learning to trust strangers and let them become friends.
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World Travel for Almost Nothing #2
All you need is the desire to move to the next second in this life and you already have it or else you’d already be dead.
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Vagabonds: Sometimes Getting Lost Is the Point
Now available on Amazon From ancient times to the present, brave men and women have wandered from place to place without visible means of income, without reason, and sometimes without…
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Vago (CD) Damitio – Extraordinary Free Vagabond Radical
Vago Damitio is the master of Micro Victories. He is a free vagabond radical having fun and pissing on the accepted and the expected. .
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