I recently watched a video about traveling to Thailand. Click here to see the video. In it, he talks about getting your house in order. And he doesn’t mean paying your bills and making sure the door is locked. He is talking about having your head straight. I occasionally experienced people who were not ready for travel when I was a tour manager.
Continue reading “Are you REALLY Ready to Travel?”Author: Brad
I do this all for you, the viewer, the fan, the reader, the one who comments, the haters, the ones who don’t comment.
I have been working hard on Let’s Go Road Trippin. From a complete overhaul of the website, to creating better videos. I want to give you inspiration to help you out. To maybe show you something you didn’t know existed.But, WHY do I do this?
Why do these odd sculptures exist?
Although I haven’t done any in-depth research on why these exist, I have a pretty good guess. Of course, if you disagree, I am sure you will tell me in the comments below.
My theory is simple. When the highway system was being created, and roads like Route 66 allowed people to travel longer distances, small businesses wanted to get those passerby’s attention. And to do that, they figured they could break the monotony of driving by putting up some strange statue or sculpture to get people to stop and take a picture, and perhaps spend a little time at their place of business.
I am sure it worked in some cases, and I would love to know the overall success rate of them.
Where do they come from?
I have traveled in every state in the US, except Hawaii, almost all of the provinces and territories of Canada, been to China, and Thailand. But, where is my favorite place to go? How can I possibly pick one out of all of those places!?!
I love to explore everywhere I go. I enjoy finding the weird, the strange, the odd wherever I go. The odder the better. Seeing those sites like “The largest ball of Twine”, or “tallest Paul Bunyan Sculpture” is fun to me. Places where most people don’t go see because they think it is stupid, or insignificant. Continue reading “My Favorite Place to Travel”
Writing is hard
It is always hard for me to get my words out. Blogging is not the easiest for me. A new friend told me that I should do video blogs instead. It doesn’t take any more convincing than that! I will begin with this video. I lost a lot of sleep coming up with a format that I like. I enjoy making videos, but don’t like being seen or heard on them. I watch a lot of BuzzFeed videos (click
herefor their YouTube Channel), and recently saw a travel video that was great without words or people. I am combining those with After Effects to create a fun style of travel videos. I have done similar, but nothing turned out quite as nice as this one.
I will be doing many more videos like this. Keep an eye on this blog, or you can subscribe to the YouTube Channel
here.
I hope you enjoy this quick video showcasing some of the Artwork of the Chicago Loop.
There are many ways to travel. Some people love to go on a group tour, and others can’t stand the thought of going on a trip with a bunch of strangers. Many people love the freedom that they have when they jump in their cars and head out on the open road. Others can’t stand the thought of driving in their own car, winging it, not really knowing what they are doing. There is no right or wrong way to travel, but here are the pros and cons to each.
For the sake of argument, we are going to compare road trips. Sure you can do both types of travel by flying to the destination, but for this blog I want to focus on Road Trips. Maybe I will do a separate blog article for flights.
Definitions of Group Travel and Solo Travel
First, let’s define things a little bit. When I say group travel, most people think old people on a bus with name tags hanging around their necks that scream tourist. Although that is the case a lot of the time, it is not always true. There are companies that cater to the younger generation that don’t use name tags. So, group travel is a group of people who don’t normally know each other and who individually signed up to go on a tour to some destination that follows an itinerary.Solo travel is pretty much that, you and your family jump in a car and travel together to a destination and follow a loose itinerary, if you have an itinerary at all. Usually you just know you want to do a bunch of stuff and get there and do it on your own time. Some people probably have a hard lined itinerary… I don’t want to travel with them.
