Travel writing

A few months ago I published a strange combination of ranting about Google’s awful search results lately and unearthing very old (and too short) posts of mine to show a history of the Cheapest Destinations Blog. This old-school post did rather well. The boss of the internet will never rank it, but enough followers cared, …

Some of you have been reading this Cheapest Destinations Blog for a long time, but a whole other set of readers land here for the first time after I show up in some search query or another. Google, also known as Big Brother of the Internet, released a major update last month that did something …

As we began 2019, Perceptive Travel entered its 14th year of publishing great travel stories from book authors. So if nothing else, I’m persistent. For another 12 months we put out the best travel writing of 2019.  Maybe I’m a little stubborn too, because if I wanted to just gets lots of traffic and pump …

Since this Cheapest Destinations Blog picked up 100 new RSS subscribers in the past month and about 400 new Twitter followers, I thought this would be a good time for a rundown on who runs this site. I’m also a speaker on the kick-off panel at the upcoming TBEX conference (Travel Bloggers Exchange), so a …

Almost all the great writers I know have at some time kept a journal going during their travels, usually back when they were traveling just to travel instead of doing it as a line of work. But you don’t have to be—or want to be—a writer to get a lot out of writing in a …