Vagabond Journey.com will be moving to a new host today. If there are any delays or problems with accessing the site, it will probably be due to this.
The changeover is suppose to be seamless, there should not be any downtime.
I will be working on this today.
We will be moving to a virtual private server today. [...]
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If I am to be successful off of Vagabondjourney.com, I can no longer do it alone. All of the big travel sites have large staffs, professional techies, or teams of volunteers working on a similar project
I need to expand.
So I began a project a couple months ago. I invited some friends to blog on [...]
The first batch of Vagabond Journey.com T-shirts were mailed out yesterday to the readers who had placed orders.
Selling these shirts are a fund raiser to purchase a larger server for the website and also to obtain a mobile device to access the internet
They were sent by two day mail, so they should arrive soon.
Production/ shipping [...]
I thought we were in for it. I thought that this website had been ran through with a mean virus. Luckily, I thought wrong.
On New Year’s Day I did a virus scan of my Wordpress theme template files. A few things came up. Some of them looked to be viruses. Though they had not shown [...]
Christmas worst time of year for traveling webmaster –
“Holidays really kill web traffic,” I complained to my wife Chaya, “ever since this Christmas season came around traffic on our site has plummeted.”
“Good,” Chaya snapped, “people should be with their families and having fun rather than reading your website!”
As usual, the words of a wise woman [...]
There is a new travel forum on Vagabond Journey.com at Travel Help Forum
There was an attack at Vagabond Journey.com. An attack that we eventually buckled under the weight of.
One of Chaya’s first major suggestions for Vagabond Journey.com — besides promptly letting me know everything on the site that looked stupid — was that it should [...]
Support Vagabond Journey.com, buy a t-shirt –
My family is a bunch of jokesters. “So you now have 99 Vagabond Journey shirts!” they laugh at me as we sit around the dinner table on a snowy New York night. They think that it is funny that I am the proud possessor of no less than 99 [...]
Chaya has been working diligently on her baby travel blog, Travels with Petra.
Here are some links and descriptions of her entries about traveling and travailing through Eastern Europe and the Balkans while pregnant:
Mothers in Tirane, Albania- About women, pregnancy, and motherhood around the world. A conversation with an Albanian mother while making a couple of [...]
[ Continue Reading → ]The Vagabond Journey.com T-Shirts are now printed and are ready to ship! There are only 100 of them, get yours soon or they may be gone (or I may be stuck with 10o choices of shirt to wear haha).
The t-shirts contain a woodblock print image designed and carved by Justin Catania. They were printed by [...]
Apparently, CBS News Phoenix wanted to run a segment on how to eat roadkill.
Apparently, they wanted me to do the deed.
Wade – I am a reporter for CBS 5 News in Phoenix.
I recently found your blog / website – and was fascinated by your explanation of utilizing road kill for free food. Where are you [...]
Travels with Petra Mommy Travel Blog Begins –
Chaya’s blog about traveling with an infant and a husband, Travels with Petra, is now being published on Vagabond Journey.com. There are three trial post on there now (I say trial because Chaya is still not too clear on her desires to be an internet writer.) So please [...]
The Working Ugly –
It has been well documented that the writer V.S. Naipaul is quite proud of the fact that he has never work a day in his life outside of writing. This fact is written in the author bios of his books, successful writers tout him for it, those with day jobs snarl. He [...]
Upon getting a good kick in the arse from Baron, a long term reader of this travelogue, I have finally encouraged Chaya to start writing for Vagabond Journey.com — to begin writing about traveling with a baby.
Chaya will soon begin writing what has come to be known as a mommy blog. A mommy travel blog.
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Flagstaff, [...]
An explanation of the ups and downs of travel blogging and a thank you to readers for continuous and constant support.
I am nearly embarrassed to admit that I had my ass handed to me during these past two weeks of work. I pride myself on being extremely athletic and physically fit, but the demands of [...]
I decided to quit blogging last weekend. I just did not feel like doing it any more.
“I would rather be the worst author than the best travel blogger,” I declare to nobody other than myself.
I decided to quit. I decided to write books instead. I wrote up a quick outline in like 15 minutes, looked [...]
A new Vagabond Journey email travel newsletter went out recently.
It has updates on the VJ projects, travel summaries, and a travel tip on how to use a compass when traveling.
Future newsletters will have trivia questions with prizes as well as surveys along with a a travel tip that is not published anywhere else on the [...]
Next week I should begin a different archaeology project with the same firm that I have been working for in Arizona. But for this project we will be way out in a state forest camping.
I probably will not have much access to the internet next week, so I just wanted to let readers know that [...]
A big day for Vagabond Journey.com —
Yesterday, Vagabond Journey.com saw its first 2,000 visitor day and its 500,000th unique visitor. Two thousand people out there — somewhere — visited this website yesterday, and a half a million visited within the past two years. My wheels are beginning to take me to the place they [...]
Wear what you read — Vagabond Journey T Shirts –
The Brooklyn based woodblock printer and Vagabond Journey resident artist, Justin Catania, has just carved out a print to make Vagabond Journey t-shirts.
I have been wanting to make some traveling t-shirts for Vagabondjourney.com for a long time, now, and when Justin suggested that he could help, [...]
Contribute articles, stories, or photos to Backpack Journalism –
Backpack Journalism, the featured stories section of Vagabond Journey.com is now open to accept outside submissions.
Russ Slater from On the Road to Find Out became the site’s first outside contributor with an article about WWOOFing in Argentina.
Read WWOOFing in Argentina
It is a story about the agricultural roots [...]
