So by now some of you might have noticed I stepped down from my post as the Social Media Manager at Travelong/Cheapoair. That’s because I have accepted an offer to go work with easily one of the best travel companies on the planet – G Adventures! Excited? Yes. Nervous? Sure. Ready to roll? Hell yeah!…
When life is all getting too much and you just want to relax and take the weight of the World off your shoulders, surfing can often prove to be the perfect prescription. Even if you’re just a beginner it can transcend your state of mind and well-being in an instant. As such it’s important to…
Normally when it is your anniversary, you wind up receiving a gift. However I prefer giving over getting and that is good news for you. Because starting today you can enter for a chance to win a pretty amazing trip to San Antonio, Texas courtesy of Visit San Antonio. Did you know that San Antonio…
On a chilly Sunday afternoon, March 1, 2009 to be exact, I decided to set up a blog on WordPress. I played around with a few names and ultimately came up with The Brooklyn Nomad. I lived in Brooklyn, I loved to travel often, so it just made sense…I know very creative. Little did I…
Last weekend pretty much the entire travel blogging community met up about 30 minutes from my apartment (or as you would call it New York City) for the second annual Travel Blog Exchange. From my last count there are currently 859 blog posts about TBEX online. Actually I just refreshed my TweetDeck – make that…
This week of course is the Travel Blog Exchange (which has been compared to Woodstock, the Academy Awards, the Super Bowl and Christmas by various bloggers). Now while all of us are very excited to hang out all weekend long with some amazing travel people, a few of us are a little impatient (and in…
This week’s Guest Nomads are Aly and John from Hop & Jaunt. They are a couple of twenty-something designers who have decided to step away from the routine of 9 to 5 life and venture out to new horizons. Having just completed a 9 month journey by sea across the Caribbean and into Colombia, they…
While tweeting on a “Travel Tuesday” I asked people what were some of their hotel annoyances. You know those things that made you angry about a recent stay at a particular property or simply made you skip booking a room altogether. I was shocked at how quickly and passionately people responded. I had told my…