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Post number 12578

rodii — Fri, 23 Nov 2001 15:33:07 -0800

Mark and Michelle like to take trips, like this one by SUV across the entire width of Asia, from Vladivostok to istanbul, through Siberia, Mongolia, Tuva, Kazakhstan, western China, the Central Asian ex-Soviet republics, Azerbaijan, Georgia and Turkey. An immense site, with hundreds of photographs and lots of great stories. Travel narratives like this are a classic use for the web, and there must be lots of them out there. Any favorites?

By: kathryn

kathryn — Fri, 23 Nov 2001 17:09:05 -0800

I recently came across the Washington Post's Siberia Diary but haven't read the whole thing yet. I've also been fond of Emergency Exit for a while. Have anyone read the The Long Ride Home, travel diary of Cass Gilbert? He biked from Australia to London for Children With AIDS. (All of those entries are in the gray sidebar, before you click.) He also did TandemToTurkestan.com.

By: salt

salt — Fri, 23 Nov 2001 17:18:54 -0800

Sailors have a long history of writing home, and the internet has been an obvious improvement over the message in a bottle. For over a year now, retired Cruising World editor Bernadette Brendon has been posting weekly about her and her husband's retirement cruise aboard a sailboat that has so far made it to Central America from Rhode Island. While it's not in any way as unusual an experience as Mark and Michelle's, Brendon is unusual in having the magazine-sponsored forum in which to keep writing.

I've always wished that the Seven Seas Cruising Association would put the vast collected wealth of experiences represented by their Commodores' Bulletin online, but they've never had the financial resources to do so. There are, however, the inevitable collection pages, and you can waste spend quite a bit of time voyaging vicariously from one end of the earth to the other amongst them.

By: subpixel

subpixel — Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:23:16 -0800

who are mark and michelle and where are they now? (looks like they last updated their site over a year ago...)

By: sudama

sudama — Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:26:25 -0800

Obviously Phil Greenspun's Travels With Samantha is required reading in this genre.

By: kindall

kindall — Fri, 23 Nov 2001 18:56:54 -0800

Traveling across unspoiled wilderness in an SUV? In Asia? Doesn't that, like, make them inherently evil?

By: rodii

rodii — Fri, 23 Nov 2001 19:24:15 -0800

Heh. If you read it you'll see how un-unspoiled it is.

By: evixir

evixir — Fri, 23 Nov 2001 22:35:00 -0800

I enjoyed Mario and Diana's Cross Country Jaunt '96 because Mario's commentary is so damned funny. They drove from San Jose, CA to Maine and back, hitting tourist traps and Dairy Queens all along the way. Hilarious stuff, and highly recommended.

By: ckemp

ckemp — Sat, 24 Nov 2001 01:56:50 -0800

In my various travelog reading, I particularly liked Mikey's Arctic Circle on a Harley Sportster, Through the Americas in a Mail Van (Volkswagen Vanagon) and Koransky.com, among others. Of course, there are also a few ongoing travel logs (Travels With Rover, and a few others I have only bookmarked at work) that I follow, but I wish there was a dedicated site to provide links to these types of sites whenever they are updated. Of course, most of the open directory project's Recreation: Travel: Travelogues: Personal category is required reading. :) But then again, I guess I'm reading too many of these reports, since I've been wanting to do such a long-term trip for quite some time now, even though right now, I neither can afford it, nor want to resign my job to be able to have the time.

By: acridrabbit

acridrabbit — Sat, 24 Nov 2001 11:23:50 -0800

My all-time favorite internet travel writing can be found at Sarah Bunting's Tomato Nation: Part One and Part Two of Sarah drive down Route One, from Maine to Florida. Hilarious.