February 3, 2011

Meet the Nomads: Ron Cruz

I came across fliptravels while trying to find other Filipino backpacking/travel blogs online. Ron and Monette (authors of fliptravels) travel around the country and Asia as well. Ron’s planning to conquer Shanghai, Beijing, Borneo, South Korea, Nepal, Europe in the future. Get to know him at http://www.fliptravels.com/. Below is Flip’s short interview with Ron. How did you [...]

Meet the Nomads: Toni White

I stumbled upon Toni’s blog while searching for other blogs of newbie backpackers like me. Toni is a 23 year old British gal who started backpacking just a couple of weeks ago. A brave young gal who pursued traveling on her own in Asia. Her blog is a mix of funny, witty and sometimes emotional [...]

Meet the Nomads: Anil Polat

Anil Polat is the author of foXnoMad which is one of my favorite travel blogs. I came across his site while browsing for related travel blogs when I was starting my own blog a few months back. I even asked him to be my mentor. Anil started documenting his travels in another blog, it’s some [...]

Meet the Nomads: Mark Wiens

Mark Wiens is a young global traveler who grew up in different parts of the world (France, Congo, Kenya, Tanzania and USA). I’m not sure if I’ever heard of Migrationology (his blog) before but I think he’s the one who concocted the word. Mark travels to experience the culture and cuisines of different nations. He [...]

Meet the Nomads: Matt Kepnes

Matt Kepnes is one of the long term travelers/bloggers that has been on the road for quite some time. After his trip in Thailand last 2005, he left the rat race and explore the world. He finished his MBA, quit his job, and, in July 2006, he traveled the world. If you want to know [...]

Boracay’s Jonah’s vs Starbucks

Jonah’s Fruitshakes and Restaurant has been in the island since time in memorial. I’m not a frequent visitor of Boracay but even before the first time I set my foot on the island I kept on hearing how delicious the shakes are at Jonah’s. I remember the first time I visited Boracay last 2005, the [...]

Meet the Nomads: Debra Corbeil

Whenever I get home from a trip, my friends would ask me if there were also women traveling the world. And to their disbelief, I’d always say yes, individual women of all ages, couples and families are also traveling and backpacking the world. Deb is one of them. Deb and her husband Dave have been [...]

An Employed Nomad

Oh Yeah it’s official, after vagabonding around Asia for six months and bumming around at home for another six months and two weeks I finally got a job. I’m having mixed emotions with this decision but nevertheless it’s still a blessing that I should be grateful with for the time being. I’m Excited I’m excited [...]

Flip’s First Pit stop: 100th Article

Time flew so fast and I barely noticed that I already have written 100 articles. You might not see them all because a few of them are scheduled to be posted on a future date. This would technically be my 101st article to date. I started blogging last October 2009 and most of my initial [...]

Meet the Nomads: Lauren of ATC

I came across Lauren and Mike’s blog (Abandon the Cube) while browsing Far West China. I got interested in their project wherein teams drive 1 litre cars across 13 countries covering 10,000 miles in order to donate their car, their time, and the money they earned in the event to the needy people of Mongolia. [...]