Do You Want To Travel Around The World?
Are you itching to leave your day job and travel full time or have you already left, like Gary Arndt, Nomadic Matt, and many others?
Do You Want To Travel Around The World?
- Yes I'm planning on it one day (66%, 19 Votes)
- I already am (14%, 4 Votes)
- I'd rather take a couple of vacations every year (14%, 4 Votes)
- Not really, I'm happy where I am (7%, 2 Votes)
- I've already traveled around the world (0%, 0 Votes)
Total Voters: 29
Loading ...Louis CK Says Stop Complaining About Flying
June 15, 2009 by Anil P.
Filed under Pictures and Video
Comedian Louis CK gives us a number of reasons to appreciate technology and the entire video is hilarious. Skip ahead to 2 minutes and 40 seconds in the video to laugh about how we all complain about air travel.
Mostly, I have to agree. Flying through the air is pretty amazing…but I’ll still complain anyway.
Nomadic Matt’s eBook Teaches You: How To Make Money With Your Travel Blog
Nomadic Matt makes $3,000 a month with his travel websites. His eBook, How To Make Money With Your Travel Blog teaches you how he does it. The book is straightforward and informative for travel blogging beginners and veterans alike. I decided to review the book for Matt and will send a copy to the first person to comment on this post.
Making money with your travel blog sounds like a great idea but few travelers understand how to leverage multiple sites (yes, you need more than one), search engine optimization (SEO), and how to get connected with their peers. How To Make Money With Your Travel Blog brings you from the ground up and leaves it up to you on how far you want to go.
The eBook is short, only about 30 pages, but is dense with information. You’ll learn how to create a travel blog with monetization in mind and for those of you with travel blogs, uncover some mistakes you’ve already made.
Many of the general ideas covered in the eBook may be old news to some of you, but the sections on SEO and increasing traffic offer more than generic advice. There are specific examples in each section that teach travel bloggers how to implement the key elements to creating a successful travel blogs and making money from them.
What makes the eBook How To Make Money With Your Travel Blog so compelling is that Matt is actually doing it and he spells it right out for you. The advice is sound and simple and attainable, provided you put in lots of work and don’t expect immediate results – two points Matt makes very clearly.
How To Make Money With Your Travel Blog is available for download for $27.
You can follow Matt’s blog at Nomadic Matt and his Twitter feed, @nomadicmatt. I’ve also posted advice on how to build a successful travel blog and keep your travel blog going for further reading.
A Whimsical 48 Hours In St. Petersburg, Russia
One of the potential topics to post on your blog when you haven’t traveled in forever is an imaginary trip to a place you haven’t been yet. Priyank from Final Transit and I decided to exchange travelogues to two cities we haven’t been to but the other has to compare our perceptions and expectations with reality. You can read his first 24 hours in Manila and later this month he’ll dissect my trip to St. Petersburg. Here is Part 2 of my imaginary trip.
St. Petersburg, Russia is a widespread city that has European flavor that still has a chilly wind even in the middle of June. Vibrant, with an air of distinction, getting around town isn’t easy and you’ll end up paying a lot for just about everything. Having only 48 hours in the city I’ve decided to forgo the cost of a hotel or hostel and sleep at the airport. Once I cleared customs my first stop was to the Russian Academy of Arts.
I was disappointed by the art gallery, not for the art but for the poor selection of a first stop. The most impressive part of the gallery, outside of the giant sphinx outside. The metro stops are far apart in the city so there is plenty of opportunity to look lost and confused, which you will in a city that feels like it’s getting by you.
While wondering around I made my way into a small shop (generally the worst looking restaurants have the best tasting food) and decided to pick up a local favorite, “blin“. A blend between a French crepe and Turkish borek, the soft dough can be stuffed with meat, potatoes, or sweeter items like jam. Looking out over the Neva River I hopped on the first ferry I could find to get to a more active part of town.
First Impressions
I’ve found St. Petersburg to be intimidating without being engaging. The city is active and while everyone appears busy it doesn’t seem that they wouldn’t mind a conversation. Historical towns can be tough to navigate and it’s easy to twist a 48 hour vacation into a history class and miss out on the culture right in front of you. Distinctly Russian, I can’t help but feel that St. Petersburg has a strong Western European influence which steals some of the mystique.
To find out more I’d have to dig deeper and skip the museums and get a taste of St. Petersburg, which oddly enough tastes like vodka.
[photos by: wili_hybrid, lisso, Jouni Lehti, edbrambley]
