Travel Blogs
These days everybody’s doing one, but I reckon I did one of the first travel blogs. Back in 1994 the Wheeler family travelled from San Francisco to Boston in a 1959 Cadillac – big tails fins, a cigarette lighter for every seat and no brakes to speak of. We did that eastbound trip on a southerly route, few months later we came back and did the trip westbound sticking further to the north. And we did a blog ...
Here's a list of my travel blogs on this site:
June 2008 - Lennon & McCartney childhood homes
June 2008 - Walking in Tuscany
May 2008 - The Orient Express
April 2008 - Colombia
March-April 2008 - Haiti
March 2008 - South Beach, Miami
February 2008 - Travelling Taiwan
January 2008 - Australia Day in the Wimmera Region
January 2008 - Maria Island, Tasmania, Australia
January 2008 - Namena Marine Protected Area, Fiji
December 2007 - Visits to Pakistan
October 2007 - Georgia (the ex-Soviet one)
August 2007 - Mongolia - travels with Chinggis Khaan
July 2007 - Tanzania & Kilimanjaro
May-June 2007 - Blogging the USA
May 2007 - Australia - Kakadu - Crocodiles, Birds, Rock Art
May 2007 - Australia - Ningaloo Reef - Swimming with the Whale Sharks
February 2007 - Africa - Plymouth-Banjul Challenge
December 2006-January 2007 - Tasmania - The Overland Track
September 2006 - England -Coast-to-Coast Walk
May 2006 - Afghanistan
May 2006 - Albania
April 2006 - Iraq
April 2005 - Singapore to Shanghai
March 2006 - Pakistan
March 2006 - England - Mini Production
February 2006 - Lonely Planet's 'bourse' in Paris
January 2006 - Australia - The Great Ocean Walk
January 2006 - Australia - France to Victoria, Cyprus to Melbourne
December 2005 - To the Outer Reaches of the Solar System
November 2005 - Africa - Cape Town to Casablanca
October 2005 - Japan - National Museum of Ethnology
February 2005 - Oman
1994 - USA - Coast to Coast by Cadillac
I’ve been back on the hippy trail, revisiting those places Maureen and I travelled through on the very first Lonely Planet trip. Except no way did I plan to go to Kandahar in the south of Afghanistan, I stuck strictly to the safer regions. But this time I did get to Bamiyan, even if the bloody Taliban demolished the Buddhas. 
There’s time for a quick tour of Timbuktu in the morning – the Dyingerey Ber Mosque (which we can enter), the Sankore Mosque (which we can’t), a couple of the early European visitors’ houses, the small museum – and then it’s off to the airport and off. As quickly as possible because by noon it may be too hot to get off the ground with the heavy load of fuel we need for the four hour flight to Marrakech...
Blogging Across Iraq
I left Singapore at the end of March 2005 to travel to Shanghai via Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and through China stopping in Macau for a travel conference and Hong Kong. I intended to stick to travel at surface level – buses, trains, boats, whatever came along but definitely no planes. This is the end of the trip, my short stay in one of the world’s most rapidly changing mega-cities: