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  • Vagabond Journey Weekly Roundup – January 28 to February 3, 2013

    What happened this week on Vagabond Journey: The week started out in the same place last week ended: in Taizhou, Jiangsu province, PRC. Last week I was grounded by smog, this week I was halted by the Chunyun, the world’s largest human migration. I would rather hide away in my apartment and wait a couple [...]

  • Get Travel Gear From Vagabond Journey This Holiday Season

    Just a little reminder as you go about your holiday shopping this year: Vagabond Journey has our own store on Amazon.com of the travel gear we use, recommend, and think is good. We receive a small commission on each sale at no additional cost to you, so get some gear and support Vagabond Journey at [...]

  • The Big Book of Travel Tips – Coming Soon

    This coming spring I will launch my first book, called bluntly, The Big Book of Travel Tips. After years of traveling, writing tips, making mistakes, ever figuring out better ways of doing everything with an air of obsessiveness, I’ve figured it to be time to compile the fruit of such fiascoes into one complete package. It was my [...]

  • Win Something Weird from China

    There are many internet contest out there designed to encourage readers to sign up for this or that newsletter, to “like us” on Facebook, or to sell your soul away to the corporate devils of cyberspace. Their prizes are often really big and desirable — stuff like free vacations to a sunny beach paradise, $500 gift certificates, free [...]

  • Vagabond Journey is Now Slimmer, Faster, and Easier – Status report, August 2012

    Perhaps the biggest developments that has happened to the VagabondJourney.com project since publishing my first blog post back in 2004 have occurred this past month. The site is now just a blog. All of the various sections, the arms and legs of the site have been combined into one, single system. Almost the entire site has [...]

  • A Moroccan Journey Series Introduction

    The above video is a trailer for Pierre Laurent’s A Moroccan Journey series that will be published on Vagabond Journey starting this month. The series will include the stories, images, and videos that Pierre collected on his journey into the hinterlands of Morocco this past May. After watching the above trailer I can say that [...]

  • Vagabond Journey Now on Kindle

    The Vagabond Journey Travelogue is now available on Kindle. Subscribe for only $.99 per month!

  • Learning Life, Learning Travel, Learning Expectations, Understanding Possibilities | 31st Birthday Blog Post

    I turn 31.

  • Publication Schedule for Travel Blog

    I’m going to try a weekly publication schedule for the Vagabond Journey Travel Blog. After 8 years of publishing this blog this is the first attempt that I’ve made at ordering the pace of publication in any way. We now have many people producing content for the site, many different topics, and a collection of [...]

  • The Move to Taizhou, New Mission Statement, What Happened to Vagabond Explorer? May 2012 VJT Status Report

    TAIZHOU, China- Much has happened since my last Vagabond Journey status report at the beginning of January. My family and I jumped continents, got started on new projects, and returned to old passions with renewed focus. Break from Vagabond Journey I took a month long break from publishing on VagabondJourney.com to get a clearer view [...]