What’s the difference between a tourist and a traveler? Tourists are only on vacation while a true traveler is in it for the learning and the experience. And after four-and-a-half…

An American passport is like a golden ticket to go almost anywhere you want. Visa? Letter of invitation? Pre-approval? Excessive paperwork? Ha — not for nine out of ten countries….

Last week on a press trip I discovered that many of my fellow travelers were unaware of the recent changes Google has made to its search results, including the addition…

Let’s say you have a month of freedom…where would you travel to and why? There is only one catch: it is July, the peak of the Western summer, and heat…

Have you ever heard of Bangladesh? It’s okay to say no, you won’t be the first one…and I’m sure you won’t be the last. It’s a small country, originally part…

No one will ever tell you being a blogger is easy work. It is a long, slow, painfully tedious process, often filled with doubts such as “is anyone reading this?”…

Okay, so they didn’t copy it so much as just use a slightly different version of the same template. But still it made Wired news, which I find hilarious. From…

Missed Any Facts? Collection #01 Collection #02 Collection #03 It is with a little bit of sadness that I announce this final round of #TravelFacts. While I am sure more…

Although SXSW (South By Southwest) is a hard to compare experience — over 2,000 bands in one week! — I did try to capture some of the essence on video….

Like a good cheese or a fine wine, the list of #TravelFacts just keeps getting better with age. I saved these ones until now because they are the best. So,…

For those of you who read last week’s post about our new slogan debate and Jared and I’s differing views on the direction that the core HoliDaze site should take,…

The first Travel Facts article was just not enough, I’ still have over a hundred more! And given the success of my #TravelFacts Twitter hashtag* I figured that I might…

I did not want to, but I had to. Yes, unfortunately I was forced to turn my back on the blog this last week in order to give me time…

Today during round two of #TTOT an interesting topic was brought up. I know, you’re probably thinking ‘so what, a dozen interesting subjects get brought up every week during TTOT’…

I want to go some where were a young backpacker can stretch their dollar. My friend suggested today that we wing it and backpack it to Mexico I think we…

Ugghh, another Monday right? I know that feeling well, especially today. It’s cold and dreary here in Austin, and I would much rather just crawl right back in bed and…

Arriving in Nashville, Tennessee, we actually had a family waiting to take us in. Max’s godparents live on a large piece of property off 12th avenue, just south of downtown….

So if you have read the main part of the site at all you know that we recently went to Costa Rica. Well I promised when my sister was old…

Drunk and on the airplane getting ready to depart. These bastards are making me shutdown my laptop though. No more music, no more writing, no more drinkin’ until I can…

As I knew it would, I received lots of mixed feedback about my earlier blog entry, LBFM Vs OOSM, and I just wanted to clarify things a little, so as…

Some of you may have heard me mention the acronym LBFMPBFR (“Little Brown Fucking Machine Powered By Fish & Rice”) prior to my departure, a term I was introduced to…

So while out drinking at this bar Jared and I got in a political discussion with one of the bartenders and a few locals sitting alongside us. While we managed…

Ever embarrassingly thrown up in public in another county!?!? Well I have : ) twice now actually first time in the UK I think that was number 4 for the…