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•Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start pausethemoment.com? My name is Ryan Gargiulo. I’m a full-time travel blogger and self proclaimed wanderer of the world. I specialize in budget travel but enjoy living the life of luxury from time to time. Read more: My ABC's of Travel I originally started PauseTheMoment.com back in 2008 while planning for my first backpacking trip through Europe. At the time, it served as a personal journal to keep my f...

•Vicky, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start tgaw.wordpress.com?I started blogging by accident! My sister started her blog before mine. Her blog was set up to require commenters to have a valid WordPress login. Well one day I wanted to comment on something, so I had to create an account. Lo and Behold it refreshed the screen and took me to my very own and very empty blog. Well, I couldn’t just leave it blank. That was almost six years ago. I...

What inspired you to start jugalbandi.info?Our friend Hari Muthuswamy died young and suddenly of leukemia. That prompted us to sharpen our focus on health and nutrition and start a blog. That was exactly five years ago. One of us was vegetarian,. the other was vegan. Now we are decidedly carnivorous in keeping with our fitness and nutriitonal goals. What's your favorite meal to prepare? Eggs - scrambled, easy over, any way really. And salad. What camping recipes for kids would you recommend? B...

•What made you want to start tourist2townie.com?I was working my ass off for something I didn’t love, something I didn’t believe in. My life revolved around work and I knew there had to be more. I had to do more. So, I scrapped my old life and bought a 1-way ticket to Buenos Aires, Argentina to start chasing my dreams. I decided to create Tourist2Townie.com to connect with like-minded dream chasers, share unique travel adventures and provide inspiration and advice for regular p...

•What inspired you to start allotments4you.com?This one's easy...My Husband...Why?? Simply beacause he isn't an avid gardener and yet had to continually listen to me go on about my triumphs and failures when I first got my allotment. Even though he wasn't overly interested he thought others might be so he helped me set up a blog ( I needed the help as I'm not overly great with things likt that on the computer!) It took a while to come up with a name I was totally happy with but when I did.....

•Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start camelsandchocolate.com?I’m Kristin Luna: Southern belle, chocoholic, photography enthusiast, social media addict. I’ve worked in journalism for the past decade, a job that allows for a lot of writing but often stifled creativity. While working at Conde Nast in 2007, I was a bit bored by the slow pace of working at a monthly magazine and reading dozens of blogs daily to pass the time, so one day I de...

•Please tell my readers about yourself. What made you want to start my-bellavita.com?I relocated to Catanzaro, Italy - the capital of Calabria, ie, the "toe of the boot," in 2006 to end what had been a four or five year long-distance relationship with my (now) Italian husband. A year later he and I opened a bed and breakfast in his childhood home and two years ago I created My Bella Vita Travel, LLC - a company that provides travel planning, tours and assistance to southern Italy-bound trav...

•Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start johnnyvagabond.com?Back when the 'net was first becoming a big deal, I found myself backpacking in Bryce Canyon NP and thinking that it'd be a lot of fun to create a "traveling website", updated from the road. Blogs didn't exist then, nor wifi. When I found that a satellite phone and modem would cost me $1,000 plus $4-5 a minute, I shelved the idea. Eventually, I decided I'd never be happy if I didn't at least...

•What made you want to start MsTravelingPants.travel? Coincidentally, it was work. By profession, I'm in marketing and public relations. In 2008, I happened to be working for a travel-technology company, .travel, that wanted to start various blogs in the arena. I had always been a traveler with nicknames ranging from Ms. Suitcase to Ms. Traveling Pants. First, I went about creating a Blogspot account. After only a few months, I registered my domains. Within a few m...

•Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start teachtravelplay.com?I graduated university in 2009 with a degree in Art History and a minor in modern dance and thought “Well that was fun, I should probably start working.” My partner is a certified teacher and it was his dream to teach around the world before signing a contract in the states, so I followed him really. teachtravelplay was really a journal at first, and then I started enjoying the i...

•What inspired you to start helengraves.co.uk?Obviously I am a very keen cook and also a creative person; I enjoy photography and writing so I wanted to combine the three. I wanted to get my recipes out there and it's lovely to receive feedback fromnpeople who have enjoyed them. •What's your favorite meal to prepare? Well I'm most known for my jerk chicken recipe. This is probably the recipe that friends request the most, along with my piri piri and hot nwings recipes. It's all about ...

•Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start womenhunttoo.net? I have camped through out my lifetime. I even started my boys camping as newborn/infants in tents. Fishing quit a bit as a child and into the teen years, but not as much, as an adult.I was taught that Hunting was for the men and boys. I was girl. Girls were not to do those sort of things. But I watched what they were doing and absorbed a lot. Hunting is something I picked up on as an adult, an...

•Please tell my readers about yourself. What made you want to start theantitourist.com?I'm a musician and I spent four years touring. I was fortunate enough to see the U.S.A. while traveling from show to show and I fell in love with travel. During the days, I had a lot of downtime to explore parks, beaches, thrift stores, coffee shops, restaurants, bars, and anything off-the-beaten-path that I could find. Once touring settled down a bit, I started theantitourist.com initially as a way for m...

•What inspired you to start drverena.com? I developed my website and blog at www.drverena.com to share my knowledge and experiences of living, nutrient dense, whole foods and their health benefits with the global community. I belief strongly that good, wholesome food is the foundation of our wellbeing and health. The website of mine is also used to promote my nutritional therapy consultation services. •What's your favorite meal to prepare? I am very passionate about cooking and l...

•Jane, please tell my readers about your cooking background.I am a self-taught cook who didn't know what she was doing in the kitchen when she got married at the tender age of 20! I quickly started figuring out how to improve my cooking skills through good old fashioned trial-and-error! It's been fun to see how my cooking style has changed over the years and I love constantly learning new things in the kitchen! •What inspired you to start thisweekfordinner.com? I started thisweekfordi...

•Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start travellingassassin.com?Initially, I wanted to start the site to share short stories with friends and family who are usually thousands of miles away. It morphed into something else unexpectedly, so I am in the process of upgrading it from just my personal short stories and observations to practical advice on destinations as well. I work as an international travel agent to support my university studies and travel...

•What's Laughter Works Seminars? What made you want to start this company?Laughter works started in 1985 while I was researching humor and it's role in communication and persuasion as an undergraduate student at California State University Sacramento. •What impact has Laughter Works had on your life? For 26 years I have traveled the world ( 1.4 million air miles and 200,000+ RV miles talking about the role of humor in the workplace. •Please tell my readers about your past work w...

•What inspired you to start rovinggastronome.com? One very big meal: some friends and I roasted a whole lamb and a whole pig for a New Year’s party, and I wanted to write down the details where someone could see them. We’d had a hard time finding the information we needed online, so I hoped I could help other people learn from our own mistakes. (Although actually the whole party went really well, even though we had no idea what we were doing!) That was in January 2004 -- that m...

•Please give my readers a background about yourselves. What made you want to start technosyncratic.com?We're Christy and Kali, two digital nomads who work online and travel full-time. In the summer of 2010 we sold most of our possessions and bought a motorhome to live in while exploring the U.S. with our highly neurotic (but super adorable) border collie. After a year we sold Mayhem (believe me, our motorhome earned its name!) and the rest of our posessions, left our pup with family, and he...

•Sean and Dawn, please tell my readers about yourselves. What made you want to start wanderingwhy.com? We are a thirty-something married couple who tend to be dreamers. We can also be a bit obsessive with our crazy ideas which is how a dream of traveling Europe for a summer turned into quitting our jobs, selling most of our things, and taking off to see the world with no return ticket home. We started the website really just as a postcard home for family and friends in 2007 and found many o...

•Please tell my readers about Guaranty RV Super Centers. Give them a history of your business. The Guaranty story began in 1966 when Herb Nill purchased a small-town Chevrolet-Oldsmobile dealership in Junction City, Ore. While recreational vehicles had been around in one form or another for decades, local start-up manufacturers began producing high-quality RVs in the 1970s. One of those companies, Caribou Coach Corporation, helped Herb Nill get started with two ...

•Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start thetravellingtravelagent.com?I have taught English, public speaking, soccer, and tennis for the past 17 years. In 2009, due to the economy and 3 principals in less than a 6 month period, I was a teacher who became laid off even though my students performed better than any other class. I graduated from Warner Southern College in Lake Wales, Florida. I started The Traveling Travel Agent hoping to become a success...

•Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start sharingtravelexperiences.com?Well, my name is Andy Hayes, and at the moment I live in Seattle. I've lived lots of places in the world - from Edinburgh to Amsterdam - and I've had a lot of travel experiences. I setup Sharing Travel Experiences as a place where I could tell my stories, my recommendations and invite others to share theirs. I guess in the beginning I had no idea it would be come as big as it has! ...

•Brooke, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start brookevstheworld.com?Back in 2006, I decided that extended world travel would be a part of my life. I became obsessed with planning and with the idea of taking off for a year or two. I started my website, and I started saving and dreaming like crazy. It wasn't until the end of 2007 that I actually set off. My first trip was a month long adventure on the Spanish island of Menorca (not Mallorca) where I ...

•Vince and Ann, please give my readers a background about yourselves. What made you want to start rvingthemidwestconnection.com? We started RVing – The Midwest Connection so we could give something back to the RV community for all the wonderful times they gave us. When we started the web site in 1996 there were almost no sites devoted to helping the RVer. We wanted to create a spot where the RVer could get straight and unbiased answers to their questions so we elected to have no spons...

•Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start the working-traveller.com? The Working Traveller pretty much started out as a way to combine my interests of writing, starting my own business and going travelling. Originally, a long time ago, The Working Traveller was a black and white photocopied magazine that I put together at college. I sent some press releases off and after a few mentions in the British broadsheets it briefly bec...

•What inspired you to start honest-food.net?I was working as a full-time political reporter in Sacramento, but I'd started doing more food writing on the side. I soon realized that I had more ideas than I could ever sell to magazines, so I started Hunter Angler Gardener Cook in November of 2007. Since then the blog has become the main place where I write, although I still do write for magazines on occasion. •What's your favorite meal to prepare? Hard to say, but I love grilled doves, ...

•What inspired you to start lacaffettierarosa.wordpress.com?I am obsesses with food! I think about it most of the time, I'm always playing in my mind with new ingredients and techniques. I do however have a very poor memory, so I wanted to keep a diary of the recipes I liked the most. I must say it is working: I am the first user of my blog when it comes to finding that special recipe. •What's your favorite meal to prepare? I am a baker at heart. Nothing makes me so happy as baking ca...

•Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start nomadicsamuel.com?I've been travelling and/or teaching overseas in some capacity for the past six consecutive years and I decided I wanted to have a platform to share my photos, videos and experiences with a larger audience. Starting my travel blog has been the best decision I've ever made in my life. •In all of your travels, in your opinion what country has the best food? and the worst food? I can honest...

•Tell my readers about Campground Solutions. Campground Solutions is a company dedicated to finding unique business solutions for campgrounds. Tired of watching companies come in and take advantage of campgrounds lack of knowledge when it comes to technology, I decided to create a company that could help campgrounds safely find companies that would take good care of them - not advantage of them. My ultimate goal is to bring technology and the campground industry cl...

•What inspired you to start sarahbhood.com?That's really my professional website as a writer. I started my blog Toronto Tasting Notes (totastings.blogspot.com) as a way to explore my own interests in food and cooking, and also to show off my food writing, because although I have been doing quite a lot of writing about food for many years, I was not particularly known for that. •What's your favorite meal to prepare? I have a few favourites. I like making quiches, and I also enjoy basic...

•What inspired you to start passionateaboutbaking.com?Amazing food blogs I read in 2007 inspired me to set a foot into this fascinating, yet intimidating space. I had time on hand, so I timidly stepped into this world to try document my recipes. A new digital camera made life simpler and more exciting! •What's your favorite meal to prepare? Chicken, Mushroom and Roasted Pepper Juliennes. These charming little chicken pot pies are filled with all things good; pies where Russian food de...

•Please give my readers a background about yourselves. What made you want to start fliptravels.com? Ron worked as a paramedic nurse and now a medical investigator in Singapore. I, Monette, am a Senior Training Manager for a Medical Management company in Makati, Philippines. Fliptravels is the brainchild of our boredom and the 2008 Taiwan Best Trip Contest. A website was necessary to enter the competition so we made one. We lost and decided to keep the blog, continue traveling, and never vis...

•Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start jthetravelauthority.com? I actually never wanted to have a blog. I felt it would take up way too much of my time, and I didn't see the benefits. But whenever I told someone that I was a travel writer, they would inevitably ask, "Why don't you have a blog?" I had so much work writing for magazines, newspapers and websites, I just backburnered the idea of a blog. That is, until the 2008 ...

•Please tell my readers about yourself. What made you want to start vagobond.com? Back in 2000 when I wrote "Rough Living: Tips and Tales of a Vagabond", I was looking for a way to promote the book. I started a series of blogs and eventually everything moved to Vagobond.com. As I blogged, I really lost track of promoting the book and started just enjoying the souvenir aspect of saving my travels that way, much to my surprise, people actually were reading the blog, commenting, and getting in...

•Please give my readers a background about yourselves. What made you want to start ourjotterbook.com?We were both school mates when we knew each other. Funny thing was, throughout our 3 years of being in the same course, it was only during the last year of our studies that cupid shot both of us an arrow that we ended up being together! Subsequently, after several years of working in the advertising industry, we decided to quit our jobs and see the world together while we are still young. We...

•Nicky and Rhys, please give my readers a background about yourselves. What made you want to start 2nomads1narrative.com?2nomads1narrative all started from emails sent home. When Rhys & I first took off for Asia we wrote home about all of the ridiculous situations we kept finding ourselves in and our friends and families begged us to start a blog. We kept putting it off and putting it off, until we finally caved and the rest is history. We both have very different writing styles I like ...

•Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start blogging? I started my blog in 2009 initially to record my trips from the previous years. Essentially, I wanted an outlet where I could write about my travel experiences, in case I forget them later •In all of your travels, in your opinion what country has the best food? and the worst food? Best food has to be in Thailand - the food is generally very good even if you eat in st...

•What inspired you to start teaandcookiesblog.com? I was initially inspired by the other great food blogs I had been reading—and was home sick so had time on my hands. What the site has become was the surprise. It’s a place to put all the things I love—cooking and recipes, travel stories, adventures and gardening and good books. I had been a published and professional writer before I started my site, but it is the most fun writing I do. I love ...

•Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start alexinwanderland.com? I started blogging in 2009 during my first trip to Asia. At that point I simply wanted to update friends and family about my adventures. As I watched the travel blogging community grow, I knew I wanted to be a part of it. I stepped up my blogging and launched Alex in Wanderland this June! •In all of your travels, in your opinion what country has the best food? and the worst food? Wel...

•What inspired you to start lindaziedrich.com? I started the website so that readers of my books (The Joy of Pickling and The Joy of Jams, Jellies, and Other Sweet Preserves) and journalists could find me easily. I started my blog, which now has its own domain (www.agardenerstable.com), mainly as a place to collect new material for new editions of my books. •What's your favorite meal to prepare? I like to prepare curry with lamb stew meat, whatever vegetables are on hand, canned cocon...

•Paul, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start www.paulkilfoil.co.za/Leisure.aspx? That goes back a while! I am a software developer, and in my free time way back in the early 1990's I designed and wrote a program for the recording of sports statistics (I am also a sports fan). Initially I just used it for own interest but over time I improved it and eventually I made it available on the internet as a free download on various...

•What inspired you to start visionsofsugarplum.com?I was baking frequently for friends and family, for holidays and events, and cooking contests. I had all of these recipe ideas in my head, and I needed to write them down somewhere. Not only did I have recipes churning in my head, but thoughts on life. I had been reading several food blogs at that time, and the writers inspired me to start my own. I hope I've inspired others to do the same. •What's your favorite meal to prepare? My fa...

•Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start shereentravelscheap.com? I am an avid travel planner. I research everything and am constantly finding new travel sites, deals or gadgets. People would always be interested in my vacations and why I chose the destination and would say it must have cost a fortune and then be shocked when I would tell them how much I saved. So many of my friends were asking advice on how to stretch their travel budget, that I figu...

•What made you want to start ytravelblog.com?We had been living and traveling around the world since 1997 and had run out of working visa options. We didn’t want to give up our nomadic lifestyle so began looking for other options. As a traveller, we were always sharing with other travellers so travel blogging was a natural progression for us. We know that travel can benefit your life in so many ways and we had so much information and inspiration to share, we thought a travel blog wo...

•What inspired you to start indosungod.blogspot.com? I Initially started the blog as a result of curiosity about the new web log thing. When I started the blog I had no idea about the vibrant food blogging community that was out there. Once I got to know more I sort of got sucked into it and it has become a full fledged hobby. My family gets to taste a variety of foods that they have slowly started appreciating the hobby as well. •What's your favorite me...

•Raymond, please tell my readers about yourself. What made you want to start manonthelam.com? I just do what the voices tell me. :) Seriously, I had wanted to start blogging for a while. I had been following a number of travel blogs, and thought since travel has always been a passion, and I like to talk about myself (kidding!), that it would be a good fit. And it helps that I love doing it. •In all of your travels, in your opinion what country has the best food? and the ...

•What impact has ottsworld.com had on your life? It has provided me a whole new career, skillsets, and helped me understand what my strengths are! Plus - occasionally it provides me a few discounted travel perks! •If you had to choose one favorite destination, which one would each of you chose? About impossible to choose just one after 5 years of traveling full time - but my recent obsession is Mongolia. It is my zen. Driving around the steppe, observing the simpli...

•What inspired you to start noteatingoutinny.com? Initially, I thought of it as a fun way to explore cooking more, and testing myself out about whether or not I could really survive without restaurant food for an extended time. Now, I know that it's not only "possible" to do this, but appreciate all the unexpected benefits of thoughtful home cooking, like eating more healthfully and aware. •What's your favorite meal to prepare?Ideally, my favorite thing to cook is something that I've ...

•Shannon, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start alittleadrift.com? I am a former actress and back in 2008 I was living in Los Angeles, California and wasn't quite happy with what I was doing in my life. I had this vague notion of traveling, then that became a reality when I found some blogs and sites of other travelers on round the world trips. I thought, "Hey, that is just precisely and exactly what I have always wanted to...

•What inspired you to start mattikaarts.com/blog? Well, I thought about writing a cookbook, and that didn't turn out - so I started a blog. Turns out it is way more fun and interesting. •What's your favorite meal to prepare? I love simple, clean rustic food. It would be a simple roast chicken, squash and a bitter green salad. This really does vary depending on season though. •What camping recipes for kids would you recommend? Anything where the kid can get in...

•What's your favorite meal to prepare? I love "bowl foods" anything that can all be mixed in one big bowl with different flavors, textures and nutrition. Like salads with some quinoa, nuts, crunchy vegetables and tender lettuces. Or warm roasted vegetables with a sauce with grains and greens. •What camping recipes for kids would you recommend? I like cooking en papilotte at home with fish (wrapping a filet in foil or parchment with vegetables and a s...

•Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start commonsenseandwhiskey.com?I'm a southerner living on a farm in Georgia. My wife and I have traveled to 105 countries and territories and several years ago we started a web site with photos from our travels called EarthPhotos.com. Common Sense and Whiskey is a way to support the photo site and to elaborate on our travels. Sometime back, it dawned on me that you can pretty much handle anything that comes at you o...

•What inspired you to start www.kalofagas.ca? I began the blog in May of 2007. I was searching for recipes on line and saw how many food blogs existed but I didn't see much of a Greek presence on the internet nor was Greek food be presented as ud Greeks know it. There's a gap between what Greeks eat at home, what's served in tavernas, restaurants in Greece and very few regional recipes. Basically, I wanted to show that there's more to Greek food than souvvlaki, spanakopita and b...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start aliadventures.com? I am originally from the United States, but I now live in Germany with my husband Andy, who is also from the US. I am completely addicted to travel, and I'm always planning the next trip. I spent 9 years working in aviation insurance, and it didn't take long for me to realize it wasn't the right place for me. Unfortunately it took a few years for me to find a way out through my love of travel. I st...

•Maria, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start veganworldtrekker.com? I am Software QA Engineer by profession and a world traveler by passion! A dozen years ago, I started traveling across the globe. At this point, I have visited 6 continents and many states across the USA. I found that even in remote places, it has not been too difficult to find vegan meals. Hence, I wanted to share that information and other sightseeing travel tips through blogging...

•What inspired you to start simplerecipes.net? My husband and I decided to develop simplerecipes.net while we were still dating. We loved to cook together and especially enjoyed trying new recipes. We wanted to log our recipes from our date nights and share with the online community. It's been so much fun! •What's your favorite meal to prepare? One of my favorite meals to prepare is a lobster boil with corn on the cob and a nice rice pilaf! Sounds complicated to someone who hasn't pre...

•What inspired you to start kopiaste.org? Hi, I am Ivy Liacopoulou, the author of Mint, Cinnamon & Blossom Water, flavours of Cyprus, Kopiaste! My passion for cooking started by watching my mother cook and helping her in the kitchen, back in Cyprus, where I grew up. A few years ago when I stopped working, I wanted to rewrite my old recipes, as the notebooks I had were torn and all greasy after so many years of use. I decided to copy them on the computer so that...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start rockytravel.net? I am Michela, the author of Australia Rocky Travel ©. After a long career in sales and project management I felt the need of a change in my life, an made what I call a “quantum leap”, I entered the (to me) unknown world of travel Blogging. In 2009 I started out a website about independent and solo travel in Australia. The idea behind was basically combine ...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start dauntlessjaunter.com? Well, my name is Christian Eilers, and I am a born-and-raised New Yorker. I was born in Astoria, Queens, and I live now in Brooklyn, though I’ve also lived in Virginia, Philly, and the San Francisco Bay Area. I started Dauntless Jaunter as a way to chronicle the adventures that I wanted to go on for the rest of my life. In late 2010, I decided to start making my passion a reality, so I tho...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start solofriendly.com?I desperately needed a creative writing outlet, because my job is very analytical, and blogging appealed to me. I like the idea of writing directly for readers, rather than trying to go through a middleman via the traditional publishing route. But I knew if I was going to blog, I'd need to blog about something I felt passionately about, and that was travel. I'd been traveling solo for awhile and frie...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start bhawanipatna.blogspot.com?I come from a small village in the North of England but I've been a traveler since I first went to Egypt when I was 13 - and have been to nearly 40 countries since. I already had a website to profile my photos and experiences, however, when I decided to live in live and work in a remote part of India working as a volunteer for a small charity, I thought a blog would be a good way to communic...

•What inspired you to start herbivoracious.com? My journey as a cook really began when I was 18 years old. My mother, was dying from breast cancer, and was trying a macrobiotic diet to see if it would help. A friend of mine was vegetarian, and a good cook who showed me the ropes so that I could cook for my family. It didn't take me long to realize that I loved everything about cooking - the smells in the kitchen, the search for great ingredients, reading cookbooks ...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start vagabondlara.com? I wanted a place to document my travels, where I was and more importantly what I was feeling at the time. Traveling to me if not just about the destination, but rather your state of mind while there. In all of your travels, in your opinion what part of country has the best food? and the worst food? I loved the food in Indonesia, I hated the food in Vietnam. Vietnam cuisine consists of soup for bre...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start bigberto.blogspot.com?My name is Shubert Ciencia and I work for a non-government organization. My blog was inspired by a friend's blog who has been travelling around most of his life. In all of your travels, in your opinion what country has the best food? and the worst food? The best would be Thailand, Japan, and China in that order. There are no worst food for me. Only poor cooks. When you first started traveling,...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start aussieontheroad.com? I've been traveling ever since I took the leap of moving to South Korea to work as a teacher in 2007. Two years and five countries later, I was preparing to embark on a six week tour of New Zealand and Fiji and wanted a way to document my travels and also work on my writing while I struggled with a bit of novel related writer's block. Aussie on the Road started as a pet ...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start crazysexyfuntraveler.comI am an insomniac so was wondering what to do at nights when I cannot sleep... wanted to do something worth the time and as I love traveling, one night I just checked in google travel blogs and the same night started mine. In all of your travels, in your opinion what country has the best food? and the worst food? I love eating and almost everywhere you find some good dishes. I can't get enoug...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start sanddollaradventures.wordpress.com?It's Outside Magazine's fault. While I can thank my parents for getting me outdoors as a youth, and then later, gave me an interest in travel given their European roots, it was probably the travel adventure stories in Outside that planted the seed to want to become a travel writer. Along the way, I learned that just about anyone can venture out on a road trip or hop on a plane to s...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start vagabumming.com?When I first started going to Antarctica for work, friends and family thought that was pretty cool and they demanded stories and photos. I was just doing it by email, but different email accounts had different ways of handling photo attachments so I found myself being a tech support rep to dozens of people, so I started a blogspot blog and vagabumming.com grew from that. In all of your travels, in yo...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start stophavingaboringlife.com?I run a blog resource and always wanted to blog but would start some then quit as it was rehashed garbagio since I really had nothing to say. The day I left there was a popular meme going involving “Stop Having a Boring Life” so I decided to see if it was open, registered it and yeah just started writing. In all of your travels, in your opinion what country has the best food? an...

Chris, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start workingholidaymelbourne.com?Im just a guy whose used working holiday visas to travel around the world and as a hobby have put together some websites to let others out there know how to get these visas and offer advice about popular working holiday destination cities, such as Melbourne. I wasn't born wealthy, so these visas helped give me the chance to live, work, and play in countries and cultures different fr...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start melhotornot.com?I started writing a travel blog LDN: HOT OR NOT when I was living in London. After 2 years overseas I returned to Melbourne and was going to give up blogging - but then I realised that I was still in the habit of thinking about whether things or places were HOT or NOT and taking photos. So I decided to start MEL: HOT OR NOT to discover and re-discover all the places of my home town. In all of your tr...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start theprofessionalhobo.com?In 2006, I was busy running a financial planning practice in Canada, helping other people to engineer their finances toward their life's dreams and ambitions. I realized my own dreams and ambitions were being ignored in the process; dreams of long-term travel, and living around the world. So I sold everything I owned and started to travel the world! TheProfessionalHobo.com came to pass when I...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start One-Giant-Step.com? I started One-Giant-Step.com in 2008 to chronicle the preparations of our RTW trip that was to begin in the summer of 2009. I had never done any writing before and found that I really enjoyed putting my thoughts, hopes and fears into words. Once we left in June 2009 I wrote about all of our travels until we returned the following year. Since then I wrote a lot about the coming home – how lon...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start themodernnomad.com?Every New Year's Day, I take time to re-evaluate my life. This year, I realized that I was done with the life as a corporate bank-IT manager in London. It was time to make a change or stagnate. Decision made, I went ahead and in a few months, I deconstructed my life (I quit my job, sold my flat and gave away my stuff.) to make room for a new life as a nomad. My goal is to live a life where work, l...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start the9to5alternative.com? I had been writing online for a few years when I bought this particular domain name. I knew that I wanted to live a quasi-unconventional work life and thought the name made sense. I ended up getting a job where I was traveling quite a bit--50 countries in 3 years--so I used this blog to document my travels and connect with like-minded people along the way. In all of your travels, i...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start roniweiss.com?I've had a website since 1999. I started doing more 'blogging'-style stuff on Myspace. In 2009, I was going through a breakup and had time on my hands. I decided to get more into real blogging. And so it goes... In all of your travels, in your opinion what country has the best food? and the worst food? Italy has my favorite food. Tasmania had pretty bad, fried crap (but that's not a country). Anywhere ...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start gopowerkick.com? Hi, My name is Mike Welch. I'm an English teacher abroad in Thailand and I recently started the travel blog gopowerkick.com to chronicle my travels and experiences. I site was created as an extension of the first website I launched before I left my job in the U.S. and set out on my adventure, PowerKicKinc.com. This is a photo sharing and rating site. It's a great site, ho...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start pommietravels.com?I’m 24 and I’m from Manchester in the UK. I graduated from university in 2008 with a Broadcast Journalism degree and just didn’t really know what I wanted out of life. I was applying for jobs that I wasn’t even sure I wanted. So by packing my bags and traveling, I thought maybe I would figure that out along the way. I decided there must be a way I could make money myself, so ...

Jim, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start holesinmysoles.blogspot.com? Hi Shane. I think I could write a book on how to spend a fortune travelling! My wife and I have taken every opportunity to travel since taking off for UK and Europe in 1974, soon after we married. That early backpacking adventure attitude has stayed with us. When kids were in nappies and the mortgage soaked up almost every cent, we bought an old caravan and towed it up and down New Z...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start travelexperta.com? I've been living and traveling with my family for years around Central America. And originally wanted to do a mommy blog about being an expat but it simply didn't fit right since I mainly wrote about our travel experiences around these areas rather than parenting tricks. Then I came up with Travel Experta and it all clicked. It originally was just about our adventures and with my p...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start indiantraveljourney.com? I'm originally from Finland but have lived in four different countries so far. My background is in journalism and I've been writing all my life for newspapers and magazines, but I had never tried blogging before. I had returned from India and I had spent more than three years living and traveling there, so I had a lot of travel stories and tips to share. It was the perfect time to start blogg...

Please give my readers a background about yourselves. What made you want to start familyadventureproject.org? We’re Stuart and Kirstie, a husband and wife team who live in Cumbria, England and amongst many other things run The Family Adventure Project. In our ‘professional’ lives Kirstie is a journalist, feature writer and promotions specialist, Stuart is a learning and development consultant. What made us want to start the Family Adventure Project? Well, when we f...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start jovialwanderer.com? I started blogging in 2006 and wrote just about any topic in my head. Now I'm concentrating on adventure and travel. If you're lucky or bored enough, you can probably spot some off-topic posts from way back. I used to blabber a lot about boys. Hahaha! I began backpacking independently in 2007 and found delight in organizing climbs and backpacking trips. I documente...

Please give my readers a background about yourselves. What made you want to start travelingloveaffair.blogspot.com? Dimitri encouraged me to start a blog to write about our Global Meandering in 2006 when blogs were becoming popular. I had written Restaurant Reviews and posted them on various websites before I started writing travelingloveaffair.blogspot.com. Now http://travelingloveaffair.blogspot.com contains all of our Restaurant Reviews as well as a travelogue of wher...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start balintataw.org?Hi my name is Jerome, the person behind the blog Balintataw.org. I’m currently employed as Financial Analyst in an Oil and Power Co. in the Philippines. I practice photography and finds travelling a outlet to distress. I started travelling extensively back in 2008 but only started blogging/sharing my travels just June 2010. The growing number of jpeg files on my computer due to my travels forced...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start bohemiantrails.com? I first started Bohemian Trails because I needed a creative outlet. I had spent the last year and a half working at an international record label here in New York. Before that I briefly worked for a film magazine and before that I did fashion marketing in London. As much as I enjoyed working in these art-related industries, my real passions are writing and travel. Bohemian...

Cameron and Nicole, please tell my readers about yourselves. What made you want to start travelingcanucks.com? We are Nicole and Cameron, a married couple living in beautiful Vancouver, British Columbia on the west coast of Canada. In January of 2009 we made a bold move. We traded our great jobs for a backpack and a long checklist, which has proven to be one of the greatest decisions we’ve ever made. That life changing adventure was the inspiration for creating our...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start collazoprojects.com?As I was developing in my work as a freelance writer and photographer, I wanted to have a website I could use partly as a portfolio and partly as a home for the work that didn't fit quite well anywhere else. I also wanted a place where I could collaborate with my husband, Francisco, and where we could reach an audience of both English and Spanish speaking readers with an interest in travel, politi...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start galapinoyredux.com?I actually started blogging in 2006, but brought down the original site in 2008. Late 2009 the travel bug has bit me again and I was also finally able to immerse myself in photography. So I decided to put up a blog again, this time focusing on travel and photography. I'm a freelance copywriter and photographer, so the idea of coming up with a travel and photography blog came naturally to me. In a...

Please tell my readers about yourself. What made you want to start blogging? I'm Ivan, a biology student with no vices but traveling. I started blogging (2010) when I was only 18. I got inspired by a number of Filipino travel blogs online. Their stories made me want to step out of the box and experience life on the road. In all of your travels, in your opinion what country has the best food? and the worst food? Too bad I haven't traveled outside my country yet. I still can't say say what's be...

Please tell my readers about yourself. What made you want to start pennath88.blogspot.com? I'm Nathalie a full time corporate slave and a part time wanderer. My blog was born out of the relentless queries from friends and families after each trip especially on the financial aspect, it also serves as storage of my travel adventures and misadventures. In all of your travels, in your opinion what country has the best food? and the worst food? Nothing beats Filipino food but I always try to be adve...

Kelsey, please tell my readers about your cooking background. I am a home cook who loves to cook and bake for my family and loved ones. What made you start www.thenaptimechef.com? I was enjoying my time cooking and baking while my daughter napped and I realized that a lot of parents were struggling with cooking in the evening. I wanted to show how I still loved my time in the kitchen while having a young child. Please tell my readers about your book. It is named after my blog and contains t...

Please tell my readers about yourselves. What made you want to start globalgrasshopper.com? We're are a married ex-backpacking couple from the UK who have notched up quite a few countries between us. We spent our honeymoon on a USA roadtrip and when we arrived back to a rainy England we felt inspired to set up a global travel magazine. Partly because we were at a loss to know what to do with ourselves after spending a year planning our wedding (and a honeymoon trip of a lifetime) and partly b...

Please tell my readers about yourself. What made you want to start lakad-pilipinas.blogspot.com? I have been traveling for more than a year already when I started my travel blog, I thought then that why not document the places I've been through to help others that might want to go there too. That's basically why I started my online travel journal. In all of your travels, in your opinion what country has the best food? and the worst food? I actually have never been out of the country until las...

Please tell my readers about yourself. What made you want to start lagalog.com?I'm Oggie Ramos, a freelance multimedia conceptualist, writer and travel photographer based in Makati, Metro Manila in the Philippines. I started my site in 2004 out of curiosity at the technology available. When I started it, it was a hodge podge of my personal accounts, not at all travel-related. It started navigating itself towards that direction after almost two years when I literally came out of my shell and star...

Linda, please tell my readers about your cooking background. I started cooking when I was 8 years old, with a date bar mix. I ruined it by adding too much water, since I thought the filling wasn't going to come together. So I got an early lesson in following the recipe! I've loved to cook and especially read cookbooks all my life. I went to college as pre-med, but changed my mind my senior year. So I went back to college to get a Food Science degree a fe...

Aga and Iza, please give my readers a background about yourselves. What made you want to start hottoddiesunlimited.com?Allow us to introduce our self’s as the two Hot Toddies originally from Poland but we met in the States. Barely knowing each other, we dropped everything, took our life savings, and started backpacking around the globe, on a mission to step foot on all 7 continents. It's our endless possibilities, limitless dreams, fleeting love, backpacker’s experiences, and sexy on...

Joel, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start jtrek.blogspot.com?I started JTrek just as a way to keep in touch with friends and family back home. Some of them told their friends, who told their friends, and that's what got it to where it is today! In all of your travels, in your opinion what country has the best food? and the worst food? Anywhere they tell you they have great food, they do. If you can go to a restaurant in America where they serve that s...

Matt and Deborah, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start travelwithamate.com? We're a 30 something couple who are addicted to travel and exploring new cultures. We even got married overseas! We've been blogging for 6 years now but wanted to do something more than just write posts. We wanted to help other bloggers too so we started the community website travelwithamate.com. It's grown so quickly and now helps us travel even more! ...

Nateniale, please tell my readers about yourself. What made you want to start nateniale.blogspot.com? I am working executive in a corporate world, who try to fit in as much travels as I can in between work. I started nateniale's travels as a personal journal for me to document my thoughts on the places that I have been to. However, as I continued writing, I wanted to share my journey with everyone out there. It is still a very personal journal, and I write on the thi...

Suzie, please tell my readers about your cooking background.Cooking has been a big part of my life for as long as I can remember. As a young child I was always experimenting in the kitchen. In my mid twenties, I started a catering business producing a range of cakes, pastries and party foods. After running the business for nearly 10 years I realised that many of main ingredients that I was cooking with were making me ill, so eventually I decided that I had to end the business. Now I work as a co...

Nicole, please tell my readers about yourself. What made you want to start womanseeksworld.com?Well first off – I’m 29, I’m Australian and I have lived in London for the past 6 years. I’ve always loved exploring new places even as a little kid, and as soon as I had enough money I was off travelling around Europe and then saving enough to move back 2 years later. Woman Seeks World is still relatively new in the world of blogging – I started it at the beginning of 20...

Steve, please tell my readers about yourself. What made you want to start yourenotfromaroundhere.com/blog/?Like many travelogue style bloggers, I started purely as a way to keep friends and family informed, and as somewhere to store photos. Over time the audience grew, in my case usually from within the country I’m visiting, which is encouraging, but made me feel bad about the quality of some of the earlier writing. In all of your travels, in your opinion what country has the best food? A...

RENEE, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start aviewtoathrill.net? I consider myself a travel enthusiast, but not an expert. The purpose for starting my website, A View To A Thrill was to share my passion and love for traveling with those who are just like I used to be. I truly believed that only ‘certain’ people could do this; that it was impossible for the regular guy or girl to jet around the world like the rich and famous. At some point, I ...

Alex, please tell my readers about yourself. What made you want to start virtualwayfarer.com?It all began with a trip. After graduating from Arizona State University I had the chance to take off for a three month open ended trip through Europe. I bought a one way ticket, had a general itinerary and the open road laid out before me. It terrified me. In preparation I started my blog as an easy way to keep everyone at home up-to-date easily from the road. It meant slightly less filtered updates vs....

Cornelius, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start monkeybrewster.com? I am quirky traveling monkey who wrote a few journal like posts while living in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. That is where I was bitten by the travel bug, and started my "Bucket List" which became the foundation of my blog. I have been plotting my escape from the mundane since. After reading a few travel blogs I felt like creating my own would help me commit to trave...

Justin, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start lifeofjustin.com?I originally started my blog to document my life and the places I went. However, it eventually turned into a place where I ranted about my office job and why I hated it so much. Once I hit my tipping point, I quit my job and now use my blog as a way to share my stories about life after the cubicle. If you had to choose one favorite destination, which one would you chose? That's a tough one b...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start www.501places.com? I started life as a freelance writer and a blog about travel allowed me to keep to a discipline of writing something every day, even on the days when work was thin on the ground. As for the name 501 Places, I thought it up in 5 minutes and by the time I thought of changing it for something else it was too late - I was stuck with it. In all of your travels, in your opinion what country has the best...

Pat, please tell my readers about your cooking background.My dad owned a restaurant when I was growing up and I started working there in the fourth grade as a dish-washer by fifth grade I was working the grill and by the time I was junior high I was cooking full time. I was also a waiter and bartender before I was age twelve, yes I know mixing drinks was illegal in a bar at that age but back in the early 80’s in small town Boise Idaho it was overlooked. I watched the other chefs closely gr...

Stephanie, please tell my readers about yourself. What made you want to start twenty-somethingtravel.com?Hi, my name is Stephanie Yoder, and since I graduated from college in 2007 I've either been traveling or planning to travel. In 2009 I decided to start my website as a way to encourage other twenty-somethings to get out and see the world. Please tell my readers about your first long term RV travel experience when you were 10. Where did you go, what did you do, What did you see .... When I wa...

Keith, please tell my readers about yourself. What made you want to start traveling-savage.com?My name is Keith Savage and I live just outside Madison, Wisconsin. I'm a typical dude: I went to college, majored in something interesting but impractical, got married, bought a house, and worked for almost eight years at a good job I didn't love. Then I quit. I couldn't stomach the thought of living the rest of my life in financially comfortable yet vapid heartlessness. With the resources at my disp...

Jen, please tell my readers about your cooking background.I did a lot of baking with my mom when I was a kid. She is an expert at baking homemade bread, and we also baked our share of cookies together. I didn't really start cooking until I got to college and had no choice. I learned to make a few things to keep my roommates and I from starving. Prior to that, I all but failed home economics, making soupy omelets and burning fettuccine noodles. After college, I got married and started cooking as...

100 Things to do at an RV Park or Campground With Your Friends and Family: 1. Boating 2. Build a campfire 3. Camp fires 4. Dance class 5. Discover edible plants 6. Discover the history of the campground or RV Park 7. Discuss dog eats 8. Discuss hunting with a bow 9. Discuss hunting with a rifle 10. Dress in garb of the area you are visiting 11. Explore the campground or RV Park 12. Fundraise for charities 13. Give a class on emergency first aid 14. ...

Pamela, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start spunkygirlmonologues.com? I started spunkygirlmonologues.com during a time when my world was extremely stressful and draining. My grandmother was deathly ill and I had been spending my days by her hospital bed with my Mother. It was during this time that I felt I needed an escape and writing a journal was not something I wanted to do. In the beginning my blog was a mish-mash of topics, but by January 2010 the...

Ryan, please tell my readers about your cooking background.My parents always cooked wonderful meals; having grown up on a farm my dad raised tomatoes and okra in the garden most years and would cook those up often. Mom always made wonderful meals and I always told her we should open a restaurant. One summer when my mom was away most days working on her master’s degree in Jackson, MS, I started learning how to cook simple meals. At first, it was frozen pizzas with my own extra toppings and ...

Siobhan, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start themissadventurejournals.com? Hello! As a small child I was driven all around Europe with a carrier bag on my knee visiting castles, eating snails, sleeping in tents, gallivanting over the Alps in my dad's rucksack. Travelling and writing are my two greatest passions in life. The Miss Adventure Journals started life as Lucky Panda, then Shiv Loves Mickey. It is my way of keeping in touch with friends and fam...

Lash, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start lashworldtour.com? I moved to Japan in 1991, soon after university, specifically to work and save money to travel the world. I lived in Kyoto for 6 years, immersed in the traditional Japanese cultural arts. In 1997 I reached my goals, quit my job, invested my money and set out on my world travels in early 1998. I've been traveling solo ever since, often by bicycle, and mostly in Asia. W...

Crissy, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start thetravelinggiraffe.com? I started traveling in my 20's once I had a job and made enough money to afford vacations. I'm currently single and I live on Long Island and work in New York City, after 12 years at my job I'm grateful for the 5 weeks of vacation time I get. Aside from traveling and writing my blog I also enjoy photography, reading, spending time with my family and learning French. I started out writ...

Marcello, please tell my readers about yourself. What made you want to start wanderingtrader.com?Initially, the blog was a concept to bring traffic to a day trading company that I was partnered with. We figured that people who wanted to travel the world wanted a way to make money and day trading has very low start up costs in comparing to most other business. Most importantly, it allowed people to have their freedom by doing anywhere in the world. As I started to blog what it morphed into was my...

Laurence, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start findingtheuniverse.com? Hi folks. I started my site as a creative outlet for my photography and writing. By the time I got round to starting my blog, I had already been travelling for a year, taking photos, and writing a diary. I figured putting it online would help me put order to the chaos, and serve as a more permanent, organised and searchable record of my travels! Did you develop your love of photog...

Cherie and Chris, please tell my readers about yourselves.We are Cherie Ve Ard and Chris Dunphy (and our cat Kiki), we're in our late 30s and have been traveling full time since 2006. Chris originated in the San Francisco area after leaving his Silicon Valley tech career, and Cherie was in Florida running her software development company. We met online, and took our high tech careers on the road. We got rid of our homes and most everything we owned and created a completely mobile technomadic lif...

Please give my readers a history of Demco. Demco started in 1964 as an agricultural implement company building grain carts to serve the agriculture market in the Mid-West. We are based in Boyden, IA which is located in the northwest corner of the state. Over time Demco has evolved into a very diverse company. We continue to manufacture products in the agricultural market as well as products for the rental market such as appliance carts and rental dollies, trailer components like brake actuators...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start matttheroamingcanuck.com? I'm an IT professional that has a huge passion for travelling. In 2008 I quite my job and started travelling the world. To stay connected with family and friends, I blogged about my travels. After some time I wanted to have a website of my own so I can share my experiences with not just my friends but with everybody around the world. Last year, I created the website matttheroamingcanuck.com....

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start travel-notes.org? [Manoj] I am (and still) an Indian by birth, upbringing and passport. When I was 17, I got an opportunity to move to US for education and work and I grabbed that with both hands (who wouldn't?). Travel was probably always in my genes, but the travel infrastructure in the US did play a significant part in making me realize that it was in my genes. Travel-notes were a natural extension of that. A "blo...

What inspired you to start tinyurbankitchen.com? I started a food blog back in 2007 for two main reasons: First, I really wanted a place to store all the recipes I was learning from my mom. Second, I wanted to keep track of all the restaurants I visited. The blog was really quite personal in the beginning. It wasn't until a couple years later (fall of 2009) that I decided I wanted to take the blog to a higher level. At that point, I renamed the blog, found some advertising, and started to reach ...

Nancy, please tell my readers about yourself. What made you want to start nancydbrown.com? NB: As a travel writer for newspapers and magazines, I was limited with my editorial content and word count. With my “What a Trip” newspaper column, I was able to continue the travel conversation with my readers through the blog. What insider tips can you offer my readers about San Francisco or any other cities throughout America. NB: As a third generation Califo...

Deniss, please tell my readers about yourself. What made you want to start whereisdeniss.com?I am 28 years old Estonian guy (how many Estonians do you know?), who was dreaming for ages to see the world outside of his tiny country. My original occupation is IT consultant and I guess that was the biggest motivation to run away form my boring office life and start traveling. My travel blog I started just because I wanted to keep of my travel memories in one place. So I have developed the whole webs...

Kelly, please tell my readers about your cooking background. I’ve always been interested in cooking and baking, but really became passionate about the culinary arts when I became vegan in 2005. I started collecting vegan cookbooks and was introduced to the vegan blogging world through The Post Punk Kitchen What inspired you to start thevegancookieconnoisseur.com? I was involved in the cookbook writing process by testing for other vegan cookbook authors and being a part of this community, ...

Nancy, please tell my readers about your cooking background. I have been cooking my entire life and come from a long line of cooks! After working in the corporate world, I decided to go back to school and study culinary arts and dietetics. For the last 10 years I have worked as a personal chef for both private and corporate clients and also work as a food stylist and photographer. What inspired you to start acommunaltable.com? My husband! I was constantly having people ask me for recipes and I...

Holly, please tell my readers about your cooking background.I am just ordinary housewife who happens to have a passion of food in general, especially Koran food. I am not a chef nor took any advanced level of cooking classes, either. The only cooking class I ever attended was 2 hours of bread making class run by local YMCA. I became quite a baker after that class though. What inspired you to start beyondkimchee.blogspot.com? My children. I would like them to remember their heritage and the food...

Angie, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start angieaway.com? I moved to NYC in 2006 and took a travel PR job at a large agency. When I moved, I started a blog - bigappleangie.com- to chronicle my adventures and to keep my family and friends back home posted. As my horizons expanded and I decided to quit my job as a publicist and travel the world, Angie Away was the natural progression and extension of what I'd already been doing. I considered going blogle...

What made you want to start blogging?I've always liked writing and travelling seemed like a good time to start writing on a regular basis. Also, we left behind lots of friends and family who were interested in hearing about our travels. In all of your travels, in your opinion what country has the best food? and the worst food? The best food we ate was in France but day to day the food in Italy was more enjoyable. Europeans view food less as an interruption and more a pleasure to be savoured. In...

Lingbo, please tell my readers about your cooking background.I'm a home cook who has a lot of experience eating out as well. I've been cooking, on and off, for about 2 years. What inspired you to start lingboli.com? It was a happy accident. I had a portfolio up on my domain, and figuring I might as well start a blog on there as well. I wrote about things that interested me, and found that I really enjoyed writing about food, and even more surprisingly, other people enjoyed reading about it as w...

TD, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start travel-drunk.com?Around 2006 my girlfriend (now fiancee) and I decided that we needed to get out and travel. We were both professionals, both scientists with good jobs that we didn't like, and we both wanted to move to a new city. Realizing that we wanted to quit our jobs and move, we decided to save a little (actually a lot) cash and travel. By late 2009 we had saved the money, quit our jobs, sold almost everyth...

Matt, please tell my readers about your cooking background.I have no formal cooking background. Ramen was always easy for me to make after school or when I needed a snack, and that's when I started eating it. I also really enjoy grilling, and cooking over a campfire when I'm camping. What inspired you to start mattfischer.com/ramen? During my freshman year of college I was amazed by the amount of creative ways people in my dorms prepared ramen. I almost always made ramen as a soup, with no extr...

Robert, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start leaveyourdailyhell.com? I began traveling in the summer of 2005, when I visited five countries in Europe to follow the tour of singer Tori Amos. Over the subsequent years I traveled more extensively, returning to Europe twice in 2007 and 2008 and visiting India in 2009. After losing my job in the U.S., I decided to move to Asia and teach English. Before I moved to China in November 2009, I launched ...

Rebecca, please tell my readers about your cooking background.I am a baker and cook by way of interest and self learning. Both my Mom and Grandmother were from scratch cooks and home preservationists, and I carry on their traditions using tools they've given me. I also love to expand my personal knowledge through books, classes, and experimentation. What inspired you to start rcakewalk.blogspot.com? I started my blog shortly after a death of my uncle. I grew up rurally and very close with my mo...

Alouise, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start travelerahoy.com?I’m 27, and I live in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. I love to travel, and being a travel writer had always been a dream job, but it seemed pretty impossible. A couple years ago I saw an advertisement for MatadorU a few years ago. I’d always loved writing and traveling, but being a travel writer seemed like a pipe dream. I took the MatadorU writing course and realized travel writing ...

Priyank, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start priyank.com? I spent the first 25 years of my life in Mumbai, India. I purchased priyank.com as a teenager simply because I found it cool to own a domain name that was the same as my first name. I started blogging in 2005, mostly rambling about things to entertain myself. It was only in 2007, after moving to Canada, that I started travel blogging with a purpose and for an audience. In all of your travels...

Lisa, please tell my readers about your cooking background.I would often join my mom in the kitchen to help with baking and cooking. Her cooking style was much different then mine, and I was not a vegetarian until I turned 17, but I did learn many basics from her and always enjoyed my time in the kitchen helping out mom. Thankfully I discovered the art of Indian cooking as I received a comprehensive Indian cookbook shortly after I stopped eating meat. Indian cuisine is a perfect choice for veget...

Emily, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start maiden-voyage-travel.com?I grew up in Houston, Texas, and I have been living in Austin since 2003. I'm 26, recently married, and am a full-time writer; in addition to having a day job as a writer, I also do freelance writing for a variety of publications and run a travel blog geared toward 20something travelers. I started the blog because I adore travel, and while I was getting to do some writing about travel...

Dan, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start roundtheworldtrip.org?RoundTheWorldTrip.org began as a way for me to archive all of my travel journals, and to store all my photos and videos from my travels. It was a way for friends and family to keep in contact with me whilst travelling, and so that I could access the site from anywhere in the world to relive old memories. I love writing about my travels, and I want to share tips and information with people t...

Talon, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start 1dad1kid.com? Originally it started as a means of keeping friends and family connected with our journey; however, it soon became obvious others were interested and getting inspired by our story and adventures. My hope is that the site will inspire others to live their dreams, regardless of whether or not that includes travel. Before we left the US for our new lifestyle, I was working as a hospice chaplain. I&...

Tanya and Nara, please give my readers a background about yourselves. What made you want to start offtrackbackpacking.com?We met at a hostel in 2005 while backpacking in Lisbon. After spending only a few days together abroad, we kept in touch once we got back home (Toronto & Montreal) and the rest was history. We started Off-Track Backpacking because we wanted to share our experiences/stories with others and encourage others to travel. We wanted to bring our tips/advice, and travel stories t...

Patti, please tell my readers about your cooking background. My entire career has been in food, starting with my first job at age 16 at Kentucky Fried Chicken. Worked my way through college to earn a home economics degree, my food jobs included waitress, hospital dietary aid and microwave oven demonstrator in department stores. My first job after college was with the Vons Grocery Company supermarket chain, then sales for Campbell Soup, and doing public relations for food clients. What inspired...

In your opinion, what would be the best and most affordable campground in the Southwest with full access to hook-ups for a family to visit on a tight budget?It is very hard for me to give suggestions for families, because I only travel with my husband. And it depends on where in the Southwest you want to go. But, if you are planning a trip to visit the Grand Canyon, I would suggest staying at a campground in Kanab, Utah. By staying in Kanab, you can visit the North Rim of the Grand Canyon Nation...

Kimberly, please give my readers a background about yourself. I am Kimberly Travaglino, a wife, mother of four crazy kiddos, author, editor, and serial entrepreneur. What made you want to blog about your full time RVing adventure with your family? In 2007, my husband Chris brought home a pop-up camper after he attended an RV show. We had NEVER camped before - nor even discussed the idea of camping... but when I stood inside it, I was struck by the simplicity of it. Every...

Paul, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start pautravels.blogspot.com? I'm from Manila in the Philippines but right now I have just moved here in Singapore. My day job is as a software test engineer for an online gaming company. I have a daughter, 3 years of age. My wife and I both share the interest of travelling though I had travelled more extensively than she had. My travels abroad were mixed with personal trips and side trips from business trips. We al...

Ryan and Laura , please give my readers a background about yourselves. What made you want to start roundwego.com?We had it in our minds since before we got married that we'd like to do an around the world trip before we really settled down (house, dog, kids, etc.). Originally, we had hoped to save up enough to pull the trip off as a honeymoon but we weren't quite there yet. We launched RoundWeGo.com as a way of sharing stories with family and friends, but also as an open journal of our journey a...

Mark, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start migrationology.com? I had been traveling for a while when I decided to start blogging. Originally it was merely to remember my own travels and share information with my family and friends - I was terrible at taking time to write e-mails to everyone, so I thought that if I had a blog, it would be easier for me to update people. Before I started blogging I actually really didn't care to use the inter...

Kyle, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start kylethevagabond.com?I started Kyle the Vagabond while traveling across New Zealand soon after graduating from University. The project began as a way to simply let people know what I was doing as well as a way to catalog for myself what I had been up to, which explains the stream of consciousness nonsense that comprises my earliest posts. As my travels broadened, so did the scope of the blog, and I now have repo...

What made you want to start thelongestwayhome.com?The Longest Way Home is more than just a travel blog. If you take the sentimental route, it began when I was a child and simply wanted to go out and find a better place to live. In 2005 I did just that. Pre-dating that I had already traveled and learned that it was the best method of search the world for place to live. Since then The Longest Way Home has become my travel journal, a place to hang my photographs, a place to tell the world about pl...

Johnny, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start onestep4ward.com? I had been traveling for a couple of years and kept telling people all these crazy stories, my friends suggested I write a book. But i had only been to 20 countries or something so i didn't feel i had the travel experience. I was traveling so cheap, like $500 a month or something, and noone believe traveling could be that inexpensive so i thought I'd show them through my blog. In all of you...

Pol, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start mundo-nomada.com? My name is Pol, I'm from Barcelona and currently living in Bangkok. I went to India 4 years ago when I was 22 and I loved it. After that I came back, I worked for 2 years and I flew to New Zealand. After being 3 months over there I went into a year trip around Asia that ended up in Bangkok :) Then I decided to start Mundo-nomada.com In all of your travels, in your opin...

Jasmine, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start jasminewanders.com? I started JasmineWanders.com to inspire others to follow their dreams. Choosing to become a nomad is a pretty non-traditional lifestyle, so I wanted to use my website as a platform to encourage others to follow their dreams too, no matter how outlandish they may seem to others. In all of your travels, in your opinion what country has the best food? and the worst food? I like certain dish...

Jeremy and Angie, please give my readers a background about yourselves. What made you want to start livingthedreamrtw.com?I started Living the Dream as a means to chronicle my time abroad for a long-term trip I was planning. When Angie came along shortly thereafter my trip plans changed, but she still let me go have fun abroad for a long, but slightly shorter period of time of about 5 months (by myself). The journey ended up being Japan to Singapore and everything in between and was quite an exp...

Leif, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start killingbatteries.com? My back-story boils down to your classic early-30s identity crisis that, before anyone could stop me, ended in me quitting my job of nine years, selling my home and all possessions and leaving the country for an indefinite period of travel and living abroad. While indulging in that craziness, I managed to engineer a career in freelance writing, mostly travel writin...

Jack, please give my readers a background about yourself and your wife.Danielle and I escaped the corporate lifestyle to live fulltime in our RV. Before that we lived in southeast PA, in the Amish country. Danielle worked for a major trucking company and I worked in the computer industry. Because we “escaped” early we have been dependent on our savings to fund our adventures. We have also found that “workamping” helps cut our expenses. What made you want to blog about yo...

Steve, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start Escape from Cube Land? I've always loved traveling. I'm a first generation American. My father is from Poland, and my mother is from England. I was fortunate to travel to those places a couple of times when I was a child and it kindled an interest in the world that continues to this day. A few years ago on one of my trips I started writing about my experiences and sending them by email back home t...

Lee, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start leeabbamonte.com? Actually, I was approached to do it by a friend who works at another travel site. He thought it would be a cool idea to document my travels and trying to be the youngest to go to every country. In all of your travels, in your opinion what country has the best food? and the worst food? I love food so this is a hard question and it's impossible to pick just one but A...

Matt, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start nomadicmatt.com? Well, I knew I wanted to get out of the cubicle, and I knew I loved travel. I wanted a job that got me out of the cubicle and exploring the world. Maybe I should become a travel writer I thought. I bet writing guidebooks would be pretty cool and that would get me out of the house! It sounded perfect. I created the website as a way to build up an online resume. However...

Jason, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start digidrift.com? I started DigiDrift.com as I believe I had a story to tell, and I also love to inspire others to travel as well. The site combines three passions of mine. Travel, Technology and Photography. If you had to choose one favorite destination, which one would you chose? I couldn't just choose a single country, but with all the travel that I've done over the years I would have to say Africa. It's a...

Please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start flipnomad.com? You may call me Flip, I’m the blogger behind flipnomad.com. I used to be a corporate manager before I left my job in the Philippines to travel around Southeast Asia. I started flipnomad to learn how to earn online. If you had to choose one favourite destination, which one would you chose? My favourite place in the world is Varanasi. This may sound weird but the place deeply to...

Kim, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start backpackingchica.com? I originally started my blog in order to keep in touch with my family and friends during a long, nine-month trip to Africa in 2010...and it just took off from there! If you had to choose one favorite destination, which one would each of you chose? Hands down, my favorite destination is Diego Suarez, Madagascar. This is where I spent four months working (and will be returnin...

· Rishi, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start rishiray.com? Growing up in Trinidad, you’re surrounded by all the sun and sand, but it can be incredibly limiting in terms of cultural diversity and awareness. I always knew that I wanted to see the world, but when you grow up in the Caribbean without the benefits of strong currency or relatively high income, this is almost always a “pipe dream”. When I left Tr...

Since relocating to Russia with you wife and baby, what do you think of the country? I will be totally honest with you. I dont like Moscow at all but Moscow is not Russia. Russia is vast but not so well developed outside of Moscow despite its vast wealth in gas and oil. I think you need to be a certain kind of person to live in Moscow. Are the Russian people friendly to Westerners? Would you say Russian/Moscow people are warm and welcoming? I would not us the word "welcoming". They are caut...

Dave, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start davestravelcorner.com? I was born and raised in California - I've always enjoyed immersing myself in a variety of activities rather than focusing on just one thing. I ran a team in college that built a solar car from scratch. I enjoy wine - I am in the middle of a project in which I'm visiting, tasting with and writing reviews about all commercial wineries and producers in Napa Valley Calif...

Mike, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start 1000fights.com? We are Mike and Luci: The Fighting Couple. After our honeymoon to Lake Tahoe, Mike turned to Luci and said, “Where are we going next year?” So began our yearly pilgrimage to somewhere new; somewhere we could spend time together (or not) somewhere to fight, somewhere to discover. We started 1000fights.com at the prompting of our friends and family who love heari...

Ayngelina, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start baconismagic.ca?For many people I had what was defined as a successful life - a great career in advertising, boyfriend, apartment in Toronto. I was pretty happy. But I was 32 and wasn't sure if I would have kids or not but if I did I knew a big travel adventure was out of the question so I decided to take a year off to travel. I bought a one-way ticket to Mexico and spoke no Spanish. Over the subsequent 1...

Rhonda, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start bamboobutterfly.com? Bamboo Butterfly started out of a need to share stories from my life abroad with my family and friends back home. I chose the title because it represents my personal transformation in Asia. When you were growing up in Chicago is this when you developed your love of travel or did have always have a passion for traveling? As a child, I'd look out my bedroom window into the night and thi...

Anil, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start foxnomad.com? It was originally a blog that a few friends and I would post on to keep in touch. One month after that it was just me writing. A year or two later I got my first comment from someone I didn't know, and then I realized I should probably write things that weren't terrible. What impact has foxnomad.com had on your life? I've been traveling around the world for the past 3 years trying to visit ev...

My husband and I lived in close proximity to the mountains, and now to the Carolina coast, so we're unfamiliar with the campgrounds and RV parks in both states. I know there are many good ones. Friends return to them on a regular basis. I'm also not sure if campgrounds along the Blue Ridge Parkway are set up to accommodate RVs, so research is highly recommended before choosing a location. Visitors can check the state park sites( www.southcarolinaparks.com and www.ncpark...

When camping what should a camper do when it comes to their hygiene? Are there any methods or procedures you recommend they do? 1. Every day while camping, don’t turn the lights or lanterns off before you’ve thoroughly checked every square inch of your body for TICKS. It cannot be over-emphasized. The price in terms of Lyme Disease, Babesiosis, Anaplasmosis, Ehrlichiosis, Rocky Mountain Spotted Disease, Tularemia, and other lesser known tick-borne pathogens is simpl...

Barbara, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start holeinthedonut.com? Like many travel bloggers I originally started my blog as a means for my family and friends to keep up with me as I traveled around the world. To my surprise, by the time I returned from my initial six-month around-the-world trip, I had about 1,200 readers. Since my future plans included a good deal of travel, I decided to keep publishing the blog as well, hoping it wo...

According to your blog, you both moved from Toronto to Vancouver to become famous musicians, so how did you both end up traveling the world? Well, clearly we failed at becoming famous musicians so we had to find something else to do with our lives:) It was landing our jobs in the film business that opened up our lives to travel. During the winter months Canada's film industry slows down so we would travel during that time. Soon travel defined us more than our careers and we began to look for way...

Chris, please give my readers a background about yourself. What made you want to start amateurtraveler.com? Amateur Traveler started with the podcast. I fell in love with mobile audio content when podcasting came out around 2005 and decided I wanted to do my own show. I thought about content in a number of ares but then I had some friends over for a BBQ on Memorial Day and all the best stories were travel stories. The idea for Amateur Traveler was born with that realization. Did you have a na...

We have been in the r.v. park business for 21 years, and have enjoyed ever year. We are family owned; most always can give the travelers a choice of where to park for the night. We can get any size motor homes in or trailers and those that don't want to unhook we have room for them also. We are a unout of the way park, you cannot see it from the main highway. And word of mouth is good advertising. When we started the park there no other ones close so it was just an idea that has worked for us. I...

What would be the best approach to take for a family that wants to go RVing but is on a tight budget. What do you suggest they do? There are many things a Family who wants to RV on a tight budget, can do to cut expenses. Take shorter Trips. Dry Camp or Boondock saving the expense of staying in a full hookup RV Park. Visit State and National Parks. Many BLM lands have free parking with no Hookups. Many towns and cities have parking at fair grounds and parks for free or less than $10...

When camping, it's important to plan for the unforeseen. You should always have a basic camping first aid kit when you're braving the elements. In this article, we'll tell you what your camping first aid kit should consist of, and give you tips on how to create your own customized power kit. First, you should have the right size kit. You can buy a pouch type of kit that can easily be placed in a backpack, or purchase on of the hardcover kits. The basic kit that you purchase would have a selecti...

Please give us a background about yourselves.... what drew you both into the RV/camping lifestyle.... Marnie had just read Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki and had asked me to read it. The book changed our way of thinking and changed our lives. One day she suggested that we rent our house and move into an RV full time. We both love camping and we thought we would travel around the country in our “mobile office” to look at and invest in Real Estate. Stephen, when you first met M...

In your opinion, what would be the best and most affordable campground or RV park for a family to visit on a tight budget? Since I've been writing my website about RV Boondocking for five years or so, I guess you can expect me to answer, Boondocking on National Forest/BLM lands. Since the price is *FREE* that should fit a tight budget about the best. You need to think ahead a bit, and be prepared, but, having done so, it is the Best! Second, which we use quite a bit in ...

1. In your opinion, what would be the best and most affordable campground or RV park for a family to visit on a tight budget? U.S Forest Service (USFS), Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and Corps of Engineers (COE) are the most affordable I've found. They range from $0 to around $25 a night. They don't usually, however, have hookups (i.e. electricity and water) at the camping space, except for sometimes COE. These are the ones I usually stay in, because I don't need hookup...

Please give us a background about yourselves.... what drew you both into the RV/camping lifestyle.... Dave is a retired civil engineer, born in 1939, Elaine has operated a mobilehome park, ran a ceramics and dollmaking shop. While Dave was born in NH he has lived in MA, CT, WA, CO, WY, and AZ. He graduated from The University of Connecticut and first started working in Hartford. But he got the wanderlust and relocated to Everett WA and stayed in that area for about nine years...

In your opinion, what would be the best and most affordable campground or RV park for a family to visit on a tight budget? There are lots of great options for people travelling on a budget: 1/ Public Camping – Camping at public campgrounds (National Forest, Corps of Engineers, State Parks, BLM etc.) is our personal favorite and how we run most of the time. Not only can you find green, natural spots with lots of space for both family and pooch, but they can be very affor...

What's the difference between boondocking and regular RVing? Boondocking is getting out with your RV, and enjoying the great outdoors and all that nature has to offer without any of the amenities normally found in a serviced campground or RV resort. While some may feel that any camping done without hookups to be boondocking, I think most would consider that simply dry camping, such as at many provincial and state parks. Boondocking is generally camping where there is no camp...

What would be the best approach to take for a family that wants to go RVing but is on a tight budget. What do you suggest they do? Do the math - figure in insurance, storage and maintenance costs. An RV is not an investment and the value is only there if you use it. If all you want is a two-week annual vacation, then purchasing, even an inexpensive used RV, is not likely going to be cost-effective. Renting an RV is expensive but may be worthwhile if only for a few days to ...

In this article, we give campers some solid advice and tips on cooking while camping. If you want to find out what the best cooking methods are, which cooking supplies you should when camping, and how to preserve your food longer, read on. Cooking while camping takes a bit more time and patience (and sometimes creativity) than cooking at home. However, if done right, meals cooked at camp often taste tremendous – there’s something about camp cooking that seems to bring out the flavor...

In your opinion, what would be the best and most affordable campground or RV park for a family to visit on a tight budget? We are on a tight budget, being full-time travelers and working our way around. We join many of the 50% off clubs, as well as other type of clubs to save money. The annual cost of these clubs, usually pay for themselves using them once or twice. Occasionally, we will stay at a State Park, but they are getting expensive as well. Many parks have discounts for we...

Whats' the difference between boondocking and regular regular camping? Most people expect utility hookups when they RV or trailer camp, and this is fine if that's your preferred style. With hookups you've got the ultimate in convenience, and it's great when you're hosting a bunch of people for dinner because you don't have to worry about running out of water, power, or sewer capacity. But camping without hookups and away from an established campground (known as "boon...

What's the difference between boondocking and regular camping? By "regular camping" I'm assuming you mean with an RV in an RV park with full hookups, or water-and-electric. To me, though, "regular camping" involves a tent. I live in my RV full time, so I don't think of it as camping, I think of it as living. "Boondocking" is generally understood to be camping without hookups (water/sewer/electric) and preferably out in the boondocks. "Dry Camping" is the same but in a campground (some have dry...

In your opinion, what would be the best and most affordable campground or RV Park for a family to visit on a tight budget? This question needs a qualifier. There are several options depending on the type of camping you are going to do. If you are looking forward to getting away for a week or two to do some traditional camping we have found city, township and county parks to be a great value. If you want to venture into the wilderness a bit further you could set up camp on state or federal land...

Please give us a background about yourselves .... as a young couple in 2010 what made you both decide to sell everything and go on a global travel adventure? Brian and Shannon of Wanderings2010.wordpress.com We’re travel junkies. It became apparent early on in our working careers that a couple weeks of yearly vacation would never be enough to satisfy our habit. So we needed an escape plan. Our decision to sell everything and travel the world wasn’t a rash one and wasn’t h...

Please give us a background about yourselves .... as a couple in 2005 what made you both decide to go on a global travel adventure? Brenda and I spent 38 years as an Air Force family, and lived in 14 states and overseas during our career. Early on, in the mid 70's, we bought our first RV, an 18 foot trailer. Over the years, we owned 8 RVs and lived in them on and off as we moved from location to location. So for us, it was only natural to continue our travels, and of course, over the years we ...

Please give us a background about yourselves .... as a couple what made you both decide to go on a global travel adventure? We are two middle aged women that have a curious side that love to explore. We are not real adventurous people. We don’t climb mountains, rides miles on bikes or enjoy really roughing it. We do however, enjoy meeting new people, exploring different communities and eating different types of food. We enjoy festivals, fairs and events that we find interesting. For us, t...

Since 2004 you've both been full-time RVers. What made you decide to go full-time RVing? Randy was a couple of years away from retiring from the Federal Government and he was surfing the web for "ways to retire." He happened upon a website that talked about full-time RVing. We had been campers for most of our married life, so this was intriguing. I was a bit skeptical at first - after all, everyone has a house, don't they? But, after doing some reading on my own, I was on board. We lived in th...

Kevin and I tent-camped with our families as children. We wanted to let our kids enjoy the fun of camping. We bought a pop-up camper, then a travel trailer, and eventually a 5th wheel when the kids moved out on their own. We camped often with our kids, and took them to quite a few National Parks. Our family thoroughly enjoyed those times. I would highly recommend camping for families. Our kids have wonderful memories of the camping vacations we went on. And, they learned ...

In your opinion, what would be the best and most affordable campground in the Southwest with full access to hook-ups for a family to visit on a tight budget? Monthly rates at Oasis RV Park in Las Vegas are great. They're about $550/month plus utilities. For a weekend trip with full hookups, I would look to state parks - though I'm not sure how many you'll find with sewer. Name of few advantages of RVing full-time .... also, name some disadvantages as well .... For us th...

Many new to full time RVers feel they’re at a disadvantage due to a perceived lack of resources out there that can help them ease into this specific lifestyle. Nothing can be further from the truth. There are literally scores and scores of resources out there that can help full time RVers, from newbies to those that have been longhauling it for a while. In this article, we’ll list some of the better resources out there, and in this installment will focus on trade magazines. Traile...

I began my current series of motorhome travelling after I met my wife and we rented a small motorhome in 2005 to see if she liked the motorhome life. In 2006 we purchased a Hymer motorhome which we used for three years covering an excess of 70,000 km at which point we decided we'd like a little bit more comfort so we settled on a Carthago chic T47 which was heavier and slightly longer than we desired, but it had all the creature comforts for living in for a period of 5 to 6 months each year. We ...

By John Canfield janeandjohn.org In your opinion, what would be the best and most affordable campground or RV park for a family to visit on a tight budget? Without a doubt, non-commercial campgrounds (national, state, county or city) offer the very best dollar and scenic value. We particularly like Army Corp of Engineers parks due to their usual close proximity to a body of water and some of them have almost RV resort-like amenities. If on a very tight budget, look local first. Chances are go...

In your opinion, what would be the best and most affordable campground or RV park for a family to visit on a tight budget? The only inexpensive choice are public parks -- National, State or local. There are exceptions to everything, but the National and State campgrounds are clean and in good shape. If a family is considering buying there first motorhome, what are some questions the family should ask the dealer? Dealer is in the business to sell RVs. Anyone considering a...

It’s time everyone thinks green, and Rvers are no exception. Innately, taking an RV vacation can be more efficient and leave a smaller environmental footprint than an average and traditional family vacation can be. And there’s a growing trend of RVs that are built from the ground up to be green. In this article, we’ll take a look at some of the green innovations and technologies taking place in the RV industry that ultimately impact Earth dwellers everywhere. ...

Living in portable homes is a growing trend, made all the more prominent as Americans struggle through these tough times. Many money strapped homeowners are seeking simplicity by downsizing…literally. The small house industry is now thriving. Tiny homes, some no larger than 65 square feet in total, are popping up everywhere, fully outfitted and plucked down wherever best suits their owners. Often, this means backyards, wooded areas or on the road. And that's where full...

Please tell me about your online show. What's it about .... A1: Our goal with the "Mark's RV Garage" online series was to help educate and entertain RV enthusiasts on how to properly use and maintain their RVs. We also wanted them to be aware of interesting and helpful products that are available to enhance their RV experiences. It also gave me the opportunity to work on the vintage trailer restoration side-by-side with my wife and youngest son. We consider season...

There’s no better time than now to save on everything possible, including fuel. If you’re an RV owner, you know how important this is especially with rising fuel prices coupled with a dwindling economy. In this article, we’ll discuss the many way that you can save on fuel (and fuel-related costs) while traveling in your RV. First, let’s get some of the basics out of the way. As you probably already know, reducing speed, reducing idling time, accelerating at a rea...

In your opinion, what would be the best and most affordable campground or RV park for a family to visit on a tight budget? As you may know, during the almost nine years that I've been RVing, only recently have I begun to stay in RV campgrounds because I could not afford the rent. For families on a tight budget I recommend that they stay away from RV parks. Try staying in US National Forests. Or perhaps the desert of Arizona near Quartzsite. Or maybe Slab City. ...

Everyone's trying to fight back against the stagnant economy, and RV owners are no exception. Some opt to sell their RVs for extra cash, others decided to hold onto them instead of trading up to something bigger, better and undoubtedly more expensive. However, there's another noticeable trend that quickly catching up steam: modifications. Some RV owners are deciding to keep their RVs, while modifying them will "added-value" gizmos that personalize their vehicles. We'll ...

Please give us a background about yourselves .... as a young couple what made you decide to want to explore Americas parks? We were tired of working full time owning and running our own bar. We both loved the outdoors and decided we’d rather sell everything we owned, buy a small Travel Trailer and go out exploring North America while we still had our health and our youth. When we left, I was in my early 30’s and Cindy had just turned 40. We were both v...

Buying an RV is an art form. In this article, we'll discuss some of the best tactics for getting maximum results when haggling with your RV dealer of choice. First off, RVs - relative to automobiles - are expensive. Almost like a home, RVs are important investments. If you're going to spend $100K for an RV, spend it well; this is your hard-earned money, and you deserve to spend it in a way that'll get you the most bang for your buck. Here's a little buying psycholog...

Things deteriorate over time, and RVs are no exception. From the moment that you drive your new RV off the lot, it's depreciating in value, and yes, over time, things will start breaking. It's an inevitable and immutable fact of life. Prevention against RV-related wear and tear is the name of the game, which is why getting a good RV extended plan makes perfect sense. RV repairs can sometimes be costly. If you were resourceful enough to buy a quality RV from a like-quality ...

Battery Conservation Tips: Some common causes for battery failure include overcharging, undercharging, excessive vibration, calcium or magnesium sulfation from the usage of tap water, and deep discharges. When you're charging your RV's battery, especially during really hot temperatures, take special care not to overcharge it. Overcharging can result in excessive amperage that can cause the water to actually boil out of the battery, and this loss of water can wreak havoc ...

One of the things that you'll be struck by immediately when RVing at an RV campground is that most RVers are amazingly considerate of their fellow RVers and campers. Most RVers treat others as they would themselves like to be treated, which is good practice indeed. If you're new to RVing, follow these simple RV campground etiquette tips to make sure that everyone at the campground has a safe and enjoyable time. First off, don't be afraid to introduce yourself. RVing is a social...

We know how proud you are of your new RV. You absolutely love the way it looks and shines, and want nothing more than to keep its new luster for as long as possible. As well, you'd give your eye teeth to ensure that you keep it purring' like a kitten. We can dig it. Regular cleaning and maintenance of your RV will help keep it in tiptop shape, and will do wonders to its dependability as well, a reliability that can add thousands of miles of trouble-free driving. In this...

Are you new to RVing and the exciting world of RV rentals? Worry not; instead, plunge on. In this article, we'll guide RV newbies with some key questions to ask before you rent that fully-equipped RV you've been salivating over. Let's face it: there's no beating RVs for sheer comfort and recreational ops. So, one of the first questions on RV newbies' minds is why not just simply stay at a motel instead of renting an RV? For one, ultimate comfort; if you want homey, not...

RVers do a lot more than just drive around in their RVs. RV families tend to be active, with activities such as walking, biking, paddling, rollerblading, jogging, rafting and hiking just part of their daily regimen. Taking full advantage of the natural and wondrous environment around them, RVers know how to have a great time with nature. That means that most RVers tend to be in better shape than their non-Rving counterparts. The benefits dig much deeper than cardio-vasc...

In a previous article, we took a close look at some of the many advantages of Good Sam's standard Emergency Roadside Services (ERS) plan. Here in this article, we'll take a detailed look at this RV club's premium emergency roadside service plan which offers even more platinum-level benefits. For $110 per year, Good Sam's platinum ERS service offers members so much more than their standard plan, many will find that it's clearly well worth plunking down an additional $30 d...

Emergency Road Service otherwise referred to as ERS is an emergency roadside assistance program that gives RVers peace of mind when on the road. If you're serious about RVing, roadside assistance is absolutely essential to get the most mileage - literally - from your many journeys on the road. RV clubs offer various emergency road service programs at different pricing tiers, and in this article, we'll take a close look at Good Sam's ERS standard offering. For only $80 a...

RVing is a lifestyle and social activity that can be as much fun for families as it can be for adults with no kids. There are many great campground across the nation that are perfect vacation spots for families, and here in this article, we'll look into some of those top RV vacation destinations. Regardless of your family's preference, you can find mountainous beauty and austere urban skylines across the country. First, we'll shine a light in Branson. Missouri, that is. In Branso...

There are many RV clubs out there and elsewhere across this site, we've detailed some of the many benefits and advantages of joining a club. The yearly membership fees are minimal compared to the heavy discounts that RVers can tally up throughout the year on campground sites, RV rentals, fuel and more not to mention the fun activities clubs add to the equation. In this article, we'll discuss some of the best RV clubs to join if you're serious about maximizing your disco...

If you're new to RVing, you no doubt soon find a whole new world opening up to you. RVing is a lifestyle choice, and like many other lifestyles, clubs are a big part of the new world that you've begun trailblazing in. RV clubs not only save you money, they represent value-added fun to your RVing, along with an opportunity to meet people with similar interests as you. You'll find many different types of RV clubs, all providing a variety of different benefits. You're sure ...

Your big camping trip is right around the corner, and you suddenly begin to worry. How do you prepare for the big event in the most practical possible way? What, exactly, should you bring with you to get the most out of camping or RVing? We have the answers if you have the time. First things first, let's talk about food. You should think about bring food items that are easy to prepare and quick to clean up: easy meals in a can are good choices, such as soups, canned pasta...

Various RV associations report that more than 55% of RV sales each year are private party sales. With that in mind, if you're thinking of selling your RV, this article's tips are invaluable towards making sure that you get the most out of the experience. One of the first things that you want to focus on is setting your RV price properly. This aspect of the selling process is actually the most important aspect of the selling process; if you shoot to high, you won't land buye...

In the best case scenario, an RV is your home away from home. There are many different types of RV available to rent, which we'll detail here. This article serves as helpful guide on which RV to choose based on your personal requirements and comfort level. This first type of RV will explore is the Class A motor home. These RVs look like buses, and are the largest of the three that we'll discuss. Sometimes, Class A motor homes are referred to as coaches or motor coaches....

So, you’ve pitched your tent, unpacked and you and your family are now wondering what to do on or near the campground that you’ve chosen as your camping site. Sure, your son might want to fish, while your daughter would rather swim, but after you do the usual stuff like biking, hiking and nature watching, now what? Here in this article, we’ll explore some of the more fun and unique things to do when you’re camping or RVing. Some are adult things, others are things...

Alright, you're stoked. This will be your first time camping, and you couldn't be more excited. The more you think about it, the more excited you become, until a tinge of anxiety begins to creep in. Before you know it, you find yourself wondering how you should go about it. Is there a first-time camping guide out there anywhere? What exactly will you need in terms of food, gear and other camping-related items to get the most out of your camping experience? Let this artic...