I was reading Johnny Jet's post last week on 10 great travel resources to follow on Twitter and thought that some readers might also want to check out some of the really good travel bloggers out there.
Not too long ago, I started an interview series on my website, Go, See, Write, called The Lucky 13 Questions -- where I asked some of the best travel writers on the web 13 mostly irrelevant and non-travel related questions. So in that spirit today, I thought I'd give you 13 travel bloggers you should check out, read, and hopefully start following.
I am assuming if you are on the Huffington Post Travel section, you are a lover of travel. No doubt you have read numerous issues of Travel and Leisure or National Geographic Traveler or have browsed through a guidebook or three thinking, reading, and dreaming about travel.
These folks give you the excellent writing, photography, travel tips and insight you would find in magazines, but don't charge a dime for it online. If you are a travel lover and aren't addicted to some of them yet, I apologize, because you are about to add to the things that take up hours of your normal week.
- Fox Nomad by Anil Polat. Anil is one of the most knowledgable technology travelers out there today. Aside from being incredibly well traveled (he just spent a few weeks in northern Iraq), if you have any questions about how to cheaply use an unlocked cell phone on the road, or work around internet blocks in countries like China, or any other technology question you can think of, his website is the one for you.
Well, I'll give you a bonus one also. Unbravegirl, otherwise known as Sally. Sally has a special place in my heart for two reasons: she is one of the few travel bloggers that is actually somehow less tech savvy than I am and, like me, her posts tend towards the long-winded. Normally a bad way to write for the short attention span of the internet, but I challenge you to go read a few of her posts and somehow not be enchanted enough to make it all the way through. Funny, snarky, thoughtful -- she's a great read and some smart book agent should snap her up now, because her form is perfect for that format.
So there you go. If you go and give these folks a chance, I bet you are going to agree with me that some of the finest travel writing out there today is not in magazines or books, but is right there for free on the internet. Pass the good word to your friends -- the more people reading good writing, the better for good writing. Enjoy.