The best travel blogs
The Contrarian Traveler has a list of their favorite travel blogs that can be used for researching an upcoming trip or, if the economy has you stuck at home, an evening of armchair travel. Here are a few to consider.
GridSkipper covers a mishmash of travel topics, including where you can swim with crocodiles (safely, if that is possible), the best places to suck down oysters in NYC, and a hotel that requires you to check your PDA at the door. Your thumbs need a vacation, apparently.
Killing Batteries is a quirky, honest blog written by a guidebook writer who says his kind have these telltale signs:
+ Looks at every business marquee while speed-walking down the street at a scorching 5 MPH.
+ Seems constantly distracted and lonely (by 'distracted and lonely' I mean horny)
+ Grills you and everyone else in the hostel for details about where you went and what you did that day and how you liked it. Then scribbles every detail down in a ludicrously large, bursting filofax or PDA.
+ Seems to have memorized ridiculous amounts of information about the country you're in.
+ Looks exhausted and disheveled, yet still intriguingly...
...sexy.
The Family Travel blog writes about seeing the world with your kids. Look for posts on trips to Belgium, Texas and many places in between.
NationalParksTraveler weaves American history with scenic descriptions of our country's parks. In one recent post he writes about the death of Confederate General Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson.
"Thick forest still hangs over the waning vestige of the Old Mountain Road where the general was riding, beyond the front lines, when members of the 18th North Carolina mistook him and his aides for a Union incursion and fired a volley that cut him down."
Still looking for a travel blog that interests you? Read all of the Contrarian Traveler's recommendations.
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Hi,
Thanks very much for highlighting my Family Travel blog on BootsnAll, and also Leif Pettersen's Killing Batteries, which is one of my favorites.
I need to get out to LA sometime (with or without the kids) so I can write some posts about it!