Travelfish interviews me about travel and blogging. Find out why I cannot read maps (I blame my mum), and “more”:http://www.travelfish.org/feature/78.
Excerpt:
bq. I’m not a travel guide, though I very well could be — and there’s no point in boring the 90% of my readers (who are not quite the bus or train geek that I am), with such content. Rather, as a writer I am first and foremost interested in textures. The smell of the place, the people I met. It could very well be about bus 42 leaving at 18:24, but if there’s a way to make bus 42 leaving at 18:24 matter, and be important, to someone else other than myself — that’s me trying to capture the essence of my travel experience. Making it matter to someone else, someone else who hasn’t been there, possibly won’t ever be, but might be moved, in some way, by my narrative to contemplate making a trip like that of his/her own at some point in the future, because he was moved by it.
*Related*
“Interview with Cowboy Caleb”:http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com/?p=970 (March 2005)
possibly related
7 Day Surprise /
Haad Nopphara Thara /
On To Phnom Penh and Siem Reap /
Referrals /
iPhone App Review: Angkor in Your Pocket /
I’m a Wanderer, not a Navigator
Travelfish interviews me about travel and blogging. Find out why I cannot read maps (I blame my mum), and “more”:http://www.travelfish.org/feature/78.
Excerpt:
bq. I’m not a travel guide, though I very well could be — and there’s no point in boring the 90% of my readers (who are not quite the bus or train geek that I am), with such content. Rather, as a writer I am first and foremost interested in textures. The smell of the place, the people I met. It could very well be about bus 42 leaving at 18:24, but if there’s a way to make bus 42 leaving at 18:24 matter, and be important, to someone else other than myself — that’s me trying to capture the essence of my travel experience. Making it matter to someone else, someone else who hasn’t been there, possibly won’t ever be, but might be moved, in some way, by my narrative to contemplate making a trip like that of his/her own at some point in the future, because he was moved by it.
*Related*
“Interview with Cowboy Caleb”:http://cowboycaleb.liquidblade.com/?p=970 (March 2005)
possibly related
7 Day Surprise / Haad Nopphara Thara / On To Phnom Penh and Siem Reap / Referrals / iPhone App Review: Angkor in Your Pocket /