I grew up in logging country. Oregon, Washington, Northern California. In logging country they had something that people in the rest of the world may not be familiar with. It was called ‘Beauty Strips’. Here’s how beauty strips work. Timber companies go in and they clearcut all the old growth forests. They harvest everything they…
I’m not sure if it is the intersection of Covid-19, technology, and travel or if I’m just older and grumpier but the only conclusion I can reach is that travel is awful and if you don’t need to do it to see friends or family or escape death squads – you should probably avoid it….
To see the original NFTs of the Vagobond Bald Jesus Tarot and read the card descriptions, you can visit https://opensea.io/collection/baldjesus. This is also where I am selling other Bald Jesus artwork.
I’m going to be brutally honest here. Travel, for me, has become stale. Travel was always about the people and while it’s astounding to see new places and ancient sites – famous views and iconic landscapes and architecture – the truth is that we live in a world where that stuff is available to experience…
…and just like that, everything has changed again. After four relatively boring years living in the same bland apartment in the same bland Honolulu neighborhood, our landlord decided that the end of the pandemic was the perfect time to end our tenancy so she could remodel and sell. It’s not the first time that this…
The world has always been filled with most extraordinary vagabonds, explorers, wanderers, and travelers.
Melissa’s great adventures and fun writing are not strangers to Vagobond readers, but we thought it might be fun for you to get to know her a little bit better.
Barbara Weibel is one of my favorite travel bloggers. Barbara puts the focus on writing incredible posts with sometimes startling insights into the world of travel and culture.
In 2007 while hiking in Hawaii, my friend Leo was asking me questions about my book Rough Living: Tips and Tales of a Vagabond. When I told him it was about how to live without being a wage-slave, he said “So you’re like Tim Ferriss, the guy who wrote the the 4-Hour Work-Week.” “The what?”…
If you haven’t heard of Lonely Planet, you’ve never taken a trip. Tony and Maureen Wheeler were the founders of this global travel empire which is now owned by the BBC. The story of Lonely Planet is the story a story which has inspired travel writers for a generation. Tony Wheeler is an Amazing Vagabond….