I had a fantastic opportunity to visit Bhutan this summer with Bridge to Bhutan. Our tour was led by the enthusiastic and knowledgeable Tshittim Jamtsho, a Bhutanese tour guide who’s been leading small groups around his native country for more than five years. I sat down with him over a cup of butter tea to …
I recently met up with Singaporean blogger Eunice Khong, and it reminded me of how little I actually know about Singapore and its citizens. It also made me aware of how little the world knows about Singapore. We see the media reporting about what an oddity Singapore is and all the attention it gets for …
As you know, I’m intrigued by individuals who travel for a purpose. I have such a general interest in culture and places, that I usually only travel for travels sake. I’ve known John for 25 years now and I call him “the Traveling Academic” because of his research in forest ecology/geography during the past 10+ …
I first met Matt Tansey in North Carolina in 2009. Since then he’s been touring off and on with other musicians throughout Europe. I’m fascinated with the stories of individuals that travel with some kind of purpose, and what’s cooler than seeing Europe as part of a band? GoMad Nomad: How long have you been …
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Meet Jonas Studer, a primary school teacher from the small town of Brugg, Switzerland. For the last decade he has been crossing the world in search of the biggest, badest, and most exotic waves. It wasn’t until after years of traveling to surf that he began to “see things” other than waves. I caught up …
Contributing writer Sally Kay has been traveling through South America for 17 months, from Ushuaia, the southernmost tip of Argentina, all the way to Cartagena in the north of Colombia. She has covered many of those miles by hitchhiking. I was about to meet her in Colombia but she got temporarily held up in Ecuador after …
Recently I’ve been increasingly interested in those travelers whose intense interest, hobby, or profession take them around the world. Be they surfers, chefs, farmers, artists, or hunters; they go to far off places to see how their specialty is done in that particular place. I met Ben Tobin trekking in the High Sierra of California …
I met Noel Lau back in 2005 in Leon, Spain while walking the Camino de Santiago. Since then I’ve traveled through the Middle East with him and joined him in Spain to teach English. In 2008 he left for South America. He’s currently in Columbia.
