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, a 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:
December 2011 - Pre-Christmas I wandered the Holy Land and reported from my Palestine, the problems of Hebron, the Wall, an encouraging visit to Nazareth, the three walks I sampled in Israel & Palestine and even a report on a coffee at Stars & Bucks in Ramallah.
November 2011 - Architecture as Art in Seoul and some wonderful recently discovered Aboriginal art in Australia's Arnhem Land.
October 2011 - a couple of blogs on the walk to the legendary 'forbidden kingdom' of Mustang, aka Lo Manthang. And a cruise along the coast of Croatia and Montenegro, it was a busy month.
September 2011 - Still in England I went to Folkestone & Dungeness, be careful with that nuclear power station, followed by some aerial views from the Belfast trip.
August 2011 - another visit to Belfast and a look at some murals. Then down to Devon & Cornwall.
July 2011 - My central African trip kicked off at Lubumbashi in Congo DRC, continued on to the capital Kinshasa, jumped across the mighty Congo River to Brazzaville in the Congo Republic, then headed upriver to Kisangani, the town on the ‘bend in the river’. Finally I continued east to Goma to track gorillas and climb the amazing Nyiragongo Volcano. I’ve also posted some Congo Information on the practicalities of travelling in the region and commented on how lucky I was not to have flown on Hewa Bora airlines a week or so later than I did.
June 2011 - Canal travel in northern England and then I drove a Tesla around Switzerland before continuing on to Munich to find out about BMW electric cars.
May 2011 - following Osama bin Laden to Abbottobad in Pakistan and then cycling around Canberra in Australia.
April 2011 - I returned to Zimbabwe.
March 2011 - It's back Hong Kong and a visit to Nauru.
February 2011 - I was in the Solomons this month and reported on my Solomons photo album, on Uepi Island on the Maravo Lagoon.
January 2011 - My travels in the Australian state of Victoria to Hamilton & Penshurst plus riding an old train in Tasmania and a recollection of my Bad Lands travels to Afghanistan.
December 2010 - a visit to Phuket in Thailand.
November 2010 - South Australia from 111,000 feet
October 2010 - Maureen and I are flying from London to Australia with a small group of people on a small aircraft (a Beechcraft 1900D). The trip is going to take 25 days and make 22 stops along the way. My first posting on the trip was an introduction to the history of London to Australia by air. Flying to Australia 2 covered the trip from London to Jersey, Cannes, Malta and Crete. Flying to Australia 3 continued through Egypt (with an unexpected diversion to Athens) and on to Muscat in Oman via Saudi Arabia. Flying to Australia 4 covered five stops through India and finally with Flying to Australia 5 it was South-East Asia and down towards Australia.
September 2010 - Trips to Verona for the opera festival and to Corsica.
August 2010 - From our base in London Maureen and I made a trip to Sweden. Then I jumped on my bicycle and pedalled from London to Paris in three days. We also paid a visit to Bruges in Belgium.
July 2010 - Northern Australia this time, Flying over the Kimberley, then back to Melbourne to have a look at an addition of 'my' Solar System. Finally a visit to the island of Ko Samui in Thailand.
June 2010 - I was in Macau and Hong Kong plus I had a local trip in Australia.
May 2010 - We did a circuit of Western Australia's Southwest, starting with Albany and then checking out the Big Trees.
April 2010 - Brazil - first of all at Fernando de Noronha Island and then at Salvador and Sao Paulo.
March 2010 - I started the month with some thoughts about public transport smart cards and after the Chile earthquake recalled my visit to Robinson Crusoe Island, Then we travelled around Burma and I took a trip down the Irrawaddy on the Road to Mandalay, reported from Monywa, revisited Mandalay, dropped in at Pindaya, trekked down to Inle Lake and checked the cats of the lake. There's more on Burma under Observations and Lists.
January 2010 - Maureen I took a trip along Melbourne's Yarra River, then we went to Bruny Island in Tasmania.
December 2009 - my New England travels took me to Jack Kerouac's birthplace, Lowell, Massachusetts.
November 2009 - I was in Galway and Inishmor in Ireland, Udine and Trieste in Italy, Ljubljlana in Slovenia and in New England in the USA.
October 2009 - I blogged about New York's hip Meat Packing District and also about the current international fad for big Ferris Wheels, I'd just ridden the London one.
September 2009 - Maureen and I were in Australia's Kimberley region and I wrote about Threats to the Kimberley, Flying Across the Kimberley and staying at the Kimberley Coastal Camp.
July & August 2009 - I spent three weeks kicking around Alaska for LPTV - travelling to Alaska, taking the train to Whittier, then crossing Prince William Sound to Valdez and on to McCarthy, up on to the Root Glacier, a stay in Kennecott & McCarthy, north to Nome, out to the Kenai Peninsula and finally a visit to Kodiak Island.
July 2009 - A short visit to Budapest and a tale of Budapest subway fare evasion.
June 2009 - Heading for the Faroe Islands to soak up some midnight sun I visited Gjógv and Mykines and I've posted a photo album from my trip.
May 2009 - I travelled around Costa Rica and reported on Monteverde, Arenal National Park. Montezuma and Quepos & Manuel Antonio.
April 2009 - Shooting a commercial in Rome.
March 2009 - Riding the Tour d'AFrique bicycle ride through Tanzania and Malawi - part one and then part two.
February 2009 - A film shoot in Laos: 100 Waterfalls, Sainyaburi Elephant Festival and Back to Luang Prabang
January 2009 - Kangaroo Island and Pretty Beach House in Australia
December 2008 - Getting Ready to Cycle Africa
October 2008 - Space Tourism
October 2008 - Newfoundland, Canada
September 2008 - St Pierre & Miquelon
September 2008 - The Melbourne Solar System
August 2008 - Byron Bay to Coolangatta
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...
Our October trip from London to Australia was long and low so there were plenty of aerial views. Starting with our first stop on Jersey, just over an hour out of London’s Biggin Hill Airport. Jersey is one of the Channel Islands, close to the French coast, but British and with its own tax laws. So the principal economic activity? Tax avoidance.
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:
Once while Travelling: The Lonely Planet Story