I got an email the other day letting me know that Russ & Laura from The Path Less Pedaled will be interviewed by Elise from Bike Touring Bliss. This….will be awesome. You need to check it out. The interview goes live TONIGHT! Tune in to Bike Touring Bliss at 9PM Eastern. You can even call in to join the discussion [...]
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I kind of hate the word staycation. Maybe it’s because it’s been incredibly overused in the last few years of financial crisis. Or maybe it’s because what it implies is a little on the depressing side. It gets you all excited with the “-acation” part of things, but then demands that you stay put. Unfortunately, due to some poor pre-planning [...]
I love abandoned places. Ghost towns, decaying hospitals, former amusment parks. There’s something both beautiful and grotesque about a building that has been left behind, subject to the elements, with no humans to make repairs to it, care for it, live in it, that I can’t get out of my head. When I look at an abandoned place, I wonder [...]
I am supremely happy today to announce the first official writer to Part Time Vagabond (other than myself). Alexandra Munier runs the blog Broke207, and has posted to PTV before. She’s a fantastic writer with a biting wit and sharp sense of humor, knows a ton about having fun while living on the cheap, and loves exploring places most people [...]
You’ve seen Russ & Laura of PathLessPedaled.com profiled here on Part Time Vagabond, but I thought it was fitting to have them close out Road Trip Month with a different perspective of life on the road. Long term road tripping has a unique set of challenges, but slow it down with only two wheels, and a whole new world — good [...]
As as a Part Time Vagabond, you likely have some kind of fun tech gadget like an iPhone, iPad, or Android mobile device. Immediately, your cool points are at a level way above most of your friends. But if you want to be the real cool kid, you need to have some awesome wallpapers for your iPad. Forget those stock [...]
I realized something just now. It just hit me. I was reading this article on the Twenty-Something Travel blog, about travel making us smarter, and realized how dumb I’ve been. I was complaining on Twitter that I just didn’t have anything to write about here, that I had lost my inspiration and motivation. And then I figured out why. I [...]
I have the coolest friends. I really do. The geekiest too. My friend Amber has a Life List, where she ticks off things she wants to do before she kicks the bucket. She’s done things like getting a tattoo of a feather on her foot, making a blueberry pie from blueberries she handpicked, and hiking in the rainforest. She wants [...]
I’m going to be traveling to Arizona in a few weeks, and I’m anticipating a fun trip through some of the country’s less appealing airports. The thing is, I love airports. Call me a nutjob, but I like hanging out in the terminals, watching people either bored out of their minds, or running to catch a connecting flight. The kids, [...]
