I’m a gadget geek. There, I admitted it. I love them, I envy those who have them, and I lust after the latest and greatest. And I know that you are JUST… LIKE… ME. When you’re taking a road trip, leaving home without a gadget feels like leaving behind a limb. Not necessarily essential, but pretty awkward without it. With [...]
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’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, [...]
Last week, Part Time Vagabond was featured on the new blog “Travel Blog Sites,” which is run by the same people who run TravelPod. I’m really honored to be counted in such esteemed company! Woo! We got a nifty badge in the sidebar of PTV now too. Looks good!
I am a sucker for time lapse videos. People are shooting some fantastic footage of landscapes, cityscapes, and everything in between. The video below is from a Vimeo group called “The Good Stuff,” and showcases some gorgeous time lapse footage from around the world. Shot by Sean Stiegemeier during his travels to locations like Prague, Japan, Banff, Utah, Oregon, and [...]
As a television cameraman, every so often, I get to go to some cool places and do some cool things. On this particular trip to San Francisco and Silicon Valley for the Hugh Thompson Show, we made trips to Google, Yahoo, and Sun Microsystems. But as any good traveler knows, it’s the unplanned events and places that make for the [...]
In Part 4 of my interview with Russ & Laura from The Path Less Pedaled, Laura describes one of her favorite parts of their trip: Coasting down into the redwoods from Oregon. Take a look.
Our daily lives can be quite hectic without us even realizing it. Even if you take a vacation, you try to pack as many sights into a short period of time as you can because you see the end before the trip even begins. But when you have no firm end date in sight, when you don’t have to cram [...]
A few years ago, I was sent to London, England for work. My crew and I were there to video tape some very cool technology segments for a show we were working on. One day of the week we spent there, I had some time where I could go shoot what’s called b-roll: it’s the footage that covers other video [...]
Stuff. Everybody has it, and most of us have too much. It hides in corners and under beds. It clutters our closets and our drawers. We hide stuff in pantries and under sinks and hell, right out in the open. Knicknacks, curios, trinkets, souvenirs, and thingamajigs fill our lives, and because we clean and neaten and straighten, most times we [...]
