Posts under Tag: road trip
A Very Hokie Road Trip
Day 1 of the Hokie Cross Country Trip

Back in August of this year, Hokie & his lady Kelsey picked up and moved from Maine to California. You know I love road trips, so I made sure he let me repost his trip. Here it is, in tasty blog morsels. Enjoy! What follows is a quick daily journal of the happenings during a five day road trip across [...]

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A Different Kind of Road Trip: Challenges on Two Wheels

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 [...]

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Road Trip Food: Eating Healthy in the Car

Erin Dow is chef/owner of Eatswell Farm, a Maine-based catering firm. She is also the Expert Chef for the Guiding Stars Licensing Company and the Consulting Executive Chef for Professional Catering Services, a company that provides backstage production catering to the music industry. I do two kinds of travel: business travel and mommy travel. For business, my travel generally involves [...]

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4 Awesome Podcasts for the Road

When I started podcasting in early 2005, I had no idea how the medium would evolve, but I knew that I loved listening to random strangers babble on about random stuff. Five years later, my tastes have changed, and so has the podcasting world. Now, mainstream “old” media has started to catch on, re-purposing content, while the less professional shows [...]

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Drive In, Drive Out: One man’s road from passenger to driver.

Scott Josephson is a native New Yorker who grew up on Long Island and moved to the Boston suburbs in 2007. He has predominantly traveled by train, plane, and cruise ship to over 30 States, Canada, the Caribbean, Western Europe, and Israel. He is the proud owner of his first car — a 2010 Prius named Jet — and recently [...]

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6 Tips for the Discount Vagabond Traveler

My Guest Poster this week is Alexandra Munier of Broke207. She’s one of those people who you want around when you go bargain hunting because she knows a thing or two about saving pennies. I love her wit and wisdom, and I think you will too. Hopefully she’ll become a PTV regular! For now, let’s get into spending wisely on [...]

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My Top 5 Short Road Trips

Road trips don’t have to be epic cross country battles that take days, weeks, or even months to complete. “Epic” is a word that people throw around a lot to describe the wonderful feelings they have after a long road trip, but epic can be used to describe even the shortest of journeys. As a Part Time Vagabond, I don’t [...]

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POLL: When did you take your first road trip?

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AUDIO – Rest Stops

Photo by Nancy Updike As travelers, inevitably we’ll come across those oases of the asphalt deserts called Rest Stops. These one-stop-shops can be a haven for travelers on their way to destinations unknown. But as with any place that attracts travelers, there are people of all sorts who visit, and they all have some kind of story. The producers at [...]

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Help decide my next trip!

Now that the cooler temperatures of fall are making their presence known, it’s time to start planning a short fall trip. I have a few ideas of adventures I want to pursue, but I’m not sure which one to do. Being the indecisive tool that I am, I’m leaving it up to you, my dear and friendly reader. Bearing in [...]

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