A Field Guide to a Travel Show

Tips for navigating a travel show as a consumer or media.

A Field Guide to a Travel Show A Field Guide to a Travel Show

5 TV Shows That Inspire Travel

TV shows that make you want to travel to where they're filmed.

5 TV Shows That Inspire Travel 5 TV Shows That Inspire Travel

Travel Photo of the Day-January 22, 2011

Pacific Ocean Sunset in San Francisco at Ocean Beach.

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Exploring the Philosophy of Travel

Why is it that you travel?

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Los Angeles Travel and Adventure Show

Spotlight on the largest travel show in the west.

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A Field Guide to a Travel Show

by spencerspellman on January 27, 2012

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Is it really the final week of January? It seems like just yesterday that my barber was asking me if I had any New Year’s resolutions (Actually it nearly was. It was three days ago and she followed that up with telling me that I was too young to have gray hair). January is one [...]

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5 TV Shows That Inspire Travel

by spencerspellman on January 24, 2012

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You’ve probably heard about and maybe even seen many of the most popular movies that inspire travel. It probably wouldn’t take too much effort to list 100 movies that inspire travel. A few of my favorites include Eat, Pray, Love, In Bruges, Midnight in Paris, Waking Ned Devine, and The Bourne Identity. But what about [...]

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Travel Photo of the Day-January 22, 2011

by spencerspellman on January 22, 2012

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Sunset at San Francisco’s Ocean Beach

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Exploring the Philosophy of Travel

January 16, 2012
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“So you’re kind of like the philosophical traveler”. My friend’s father noted this as we drove up Highway 101 to Sonoma County over the Thanksgiving holiday. I chuckled, responding with: “Yes, I am in fact kind of like the philosophical traveler. Traveling philosopher actually.” My friend’s father had put this together without knowing about my blog, looking [...]

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Los Angeles Travel and Adventure Show

January 12, 2012
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I pulled out my calendar tonight to take a look at the coming weeks. I don’t know what was scarier: The act of pulling a calendar out or seeing it chock-full. When I was walking to the beach every day for sunset in Central America last year at this time, I didn’t exactly need a [...]

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5 Foods from Abroad I Wouldn’t Mind Adding to my Diet

January 9, 2012
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As a traveling philosopher, I sometimes wonder what drives peoples’ decisions to travel. I think food has more to do with it then we give it credit for. I just imagine a husband walking into the kitchen, opening the refrigerator, and grumbling to himself something like: “It’s about damn time we take a trip. I [...]

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Does Travel Support or Hold Back our Passions?

January 6, 2012
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What were you doing a year ago? I was doing the same thing I am now: Looking out over the Pacific Ocean at sunset. However, elements are different, like I’m not in flip flops and board shorts, but wrapped up in a hoodie  and wearing hiking boots. Also, instead of sitting on a beach in [...]

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U.S. Day Trips: Mt. Tamalpais

January 3, 2012
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There are some travel moments, whether near or far, that simply stand out above the rest. My latest was the last of 2011, a day trip to Mt. Tamalpais, just across the Golden Gate Bridge and north from San Francisco. Upon moving to San Francisco, I received a lot of “must-visit” recommendations of what to [...]

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California in Photos from 2011

December 28, 2011
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As 2011 comes to a close, I’m coming up on seven months in my new home of San Francisco, California. I recently published my favorite travel photos of 2011. It’s no surprise that I featured several photos from California, including San Francisco, Big Sur, and Los Angeles. As I looked through all of my travel [...]

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Travel Brands and Charities Getting in the Holiday ‘Travel’ Spirit

December 21, 2011
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I woke up Monday morning and looked at my calendar, doing a double take. Seeing that Christmas was now just days away and not weeks or months away, my initial reaction was fear. I have so much to do! But alas, I don’t. My shopping is finished, I’m not traveling, my apartment is empty with [...]

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