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Monday, October 31, 2011
Halloween in Transylvania
Everyone wants to scare you on Halloween, I want to make you feel safe and secure. Here's a 76-Second Travel Show episode from two years ago that tells how.
Based in New York City, Robert is Lonely Planet's US Travel Editor. He's written two dozen guidebooks (including USA & Canada, Europe & Southeast Asia) and articles for The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and ESPN.
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Follow me at Twitter at @reidontravel. Find me on Facebookhere. Watch me Tumbl like a demon. Or email me at reidontravel [at] gmail [dot] com.
My online guidebook to Vietnam, roughly equivalent to 179 pages of advice I give to my friends, is DOWN -- apparently all files erased by travel-hating hackers. Sorry! I will try to restore some version some day. Can you help?.
PODCAST
Robert contributes with Tom Hall (Lonely Planet's UK Travel Editor) and PRI's Clark Boyd in the PRI's The World travel podcast.
76-Second Travel Show
Appearing here every Tuesday, the "76-Second Travel Show" (SSSTS) is a 76-second step towards understanding the eternal core of travel. Why 76?
Travel isn't a contest. It's not about ticking off places. Beating others. Doesn't matter how deep you go, how long you stay, what cricket-on-a-stick you ate, or passed up, what goofy t-shirt you buy, how drunk you got, what curse words you learned in Flemish. What is it? The answer, my friend, is blowing in the wind.
That photo in the banner? That's climbing a Mars-like volcano near Mt Tobalchik, in Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula. We got to the base in an ex-USSR army 6WD, driving atop hardened lava passing blacked tops of dead trees.
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