Vagabond Nears 10 Years of World Travel
ISTANBUL, Turkey - February 25 - In the spring of 1999, USA native, Wade
Shepard, step foot off of his family's farm for a journey across the USA
without a clue that he would still be traveling a decade later. Now,
after ten years of perpetually wandering around the globe - through more
than 40 countries in Asia, Latin America, North Africa, Europe, and 45
US states - Shepard is reflecting on what he has learned, observed, and
experienced, as well as harnessing his resources for his toughest
obstacle yet: the Middle East.
As he travels, Shepard regularly works odd jobs, barters hotel webpages
in exchange for a free place to sleep, writes occasional magazine
articles, and rounds out his travel funds by working as a field
archaeologist. He is a vagabond and travels from place to place in
search of employment that will provide him with the means to continue
his journey. Wade has funded his world
travels by working as an archaeologist in Ecuador,
Honduras, and 15 states of the USA; as an English teacher in Japan,
China, and Turkey; a gardener in Ireland; a hostel receptionist in
Hungary; and, for the past two years, as a traveling webmaster, working
diligently on his website www.VagabondJourney.com and blog at
www.vagabondjourney.com/travelogue.
Wade generally spends less than $10 a day as he travels by bicycle,
foot, hitchhiking, and cheap public transportation in his global
journey. "Do not buy anything that you will not croak without," is his
motto for budget travel, which is the philosophy that has enabled him to
keep traveling for so long.
Shepard's website, www.vagabondjourney.com, is a first hand collection
of travel tips, off the beaten path destination information, traveler
tales, and instructions on how to find work abroad when you run out of
money. The travelogue portion of Vagabondjourney.com also serves as a
forum for current events travel journalism, in which he publishes daily
updates on the state of the world wide human condition. The Travel
Articles, http://www.vagabondjourney.com/travel-articles.shtml, portion
of the website is where he showcases the various articles that he has
published in magazines. Shepard has published articles on numerous
topics, including: Mayan archaeology at Copan, Guatemalan civil war
refugees in Costa Rica, cockfighting in Honduras, Tibetan refugees in
India, traditional tattooing in Japan, and underground graffiti artists
in Portugal.
Shepard is currently in Istanbul, Turkey and is poised to celebrate his
tenth year of traveling with a vagabond journey through Kurdistan,
Syria, Lebanon, Jordan, and to enter into the African continent from the
east. Throughout all of these world travels, Wade still calls Western
New York his home.
Contact: Wade is available for all interviews and inquiries by either emailing
VagabondSong@gmail.com or calling 90 531 610 7129 (Turkey).
Wad has
been written about by:
Travel Blogs.com
Rolf Potts' Vagabonding.net
Andy Graham's HoboTraveler.com