The joys of vicarious travel
Tuna roja, a recent fruit of the day on Ultra Fine Food.
These days, travel blogs seem almost as common as traveling. My favorite travel blogs are about big trips, in which someone challenges him- or herself with travel, and sometimes challenges the whole concept of travel.
Over the past few months, I’ve discovered quite a few big-trip blogs that provide some fun armchair (or desk chair, maybe) travel. Here are a few that seem particularly Afar-ish. What travel blogs do you like to read? Let us know in the comments.
- Ultra Fine Flair/Ultra Fine Food. After spending six months living in Buenos Aires, Gillian and her boyfriend are now traveling through Peru and chronicling their adventures on Ultra Fine Flair. Subscribe to the RSS feed of her her Ultra Fine Food to get the semi-regular Fruit of the Day posts, all about the wonderful produce she’s discovering in South America.
- Year of No Flying. Anirvan Chatterjee is embarking on a year-long climate change trip, avoiding air travel and talking to people all over the world about climate change and the environment. He just arrived in Japan by container ship (check out his post about the voyage and the surprisingly comfortable, though cramped, accommodations) and is now immersing himself in Japan’s farming crisis.
- Need2Walk. Two twenty-something Swedes, Rami and Alexandra, recently embarked on an ambitious six-year trek from Fuengirola, Spain, to the Cook Islands–on foot. Though they haven’t gotten terribly far on their trip (or on the blog), this could really be a great trip to watch.
Photo by kittylaroux.
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Hello,
Not really as big-trip as the ones you mention, but I follow the Unexpected Traveller’s blog (http://unexpectedtraveller.wordpress.com) He travels a lot and lives in Belgium but his blog is unusual in that he catalogs all the odd people and odd stories that happen to him.
Antoine
Antoine Borg
25 Oct 09 at 1:33 am
Need2Walk is an excellant blog, thanks for the find. I love following those types of stories.
Holidays from Cardiff Airport
3 Nov 09 at 6:55 am
the need 2 walk expedition is really incredible and inspiring check it out
nicolas
27 Dec 09 at 6:30 pm
This is all fair enough but nothing really beats the experience of a proper big trip – the tastes, the smells, the noise, the people, the sunlight breaking through the cloud in the morning or the satisfaction at arriving somewhere after a long long journey. I think great travel writers can tell you what happened and what they enjoyed but they can’t tell you how it really felt. I think the best description I’ve read of travelling is in The Sheltering Sky, but it’s a crazy book towards the end.
Cheap Coffee
18 Jan 10 at 2:10 pm