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“Oh, it’s quiet. It’s finally slowing down,” he answered.
“Oh, is the ski season over?”
“No, the season can go all the way until October,” he told me. “But all the Aussie kids have gone back to university.”
Having had , I was ready to leave as well. I spent my last day in
— my last day in New Zealand for that matter — very leisurely, watching the paragliders land into town (picture above), and shopping for souvenirs and gifts. For some reason, I did all of it at this one touristy gift emporium that had everything (even ), run by Japanese people. One chatty Japanese woman at the cashier noticed the embroidered “swirlball” on my baseball cap, wondering which souvenir shop I’d purchased it.
“No, this is mine,” I told her. I spared her the backstory of The Global Trip logo. (It’s on the upper right of this web page.)
“[Oh, I thought you bought it somewhere here,]” she said to me. “It’s Maori. Very popular symbol in Maori culture.” She showed me some Maori-inspired souvenirs that did in fact have swirly spiral motifs on them. “See here? In Maori, it means the beginning of life.”
Huh, how about that, I thought to myself. The Global Trip, the Beginning of Life. In an era when most people are concerned with just surviving the rat race, perhaps Life begins when you leave it behind, head out, and explore the world.
However, contrary to popular belief, traveling the world isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be when you blog and write about it at some professional level for years, even if it’s part-time. Travel writers — which many non-travel writers associate with words like “lucky” and phrases like “must be nice” — actually do something that becomes work in the conventional sense, and it too becomes a rat race.
BACK IN 2002, when it was originally my website for clips of published travel pieces, as I was trying to build up a collection of bylines as a young, budding travel writer in the travel journalism community. Back then, my travel writing teacher (now book author) Paula Szuchman taught me that in reality, most travel articles could actually just be written by way of research on the Internet — but personal insight are what make pieces stand out against others of the same subject matter.
In October 2003, after saving and scraping funds for months, I set off on my dream voyage: a grand sixteen month Global Trip, not only to experience everything I’d heard about in countries that, at the time, were “exotic” to me, but to “cover” as many places I could, in order to gain personal insight and experience for future articles — and without rushing around like some “country counters” I know, who rush through countries with minimal experiences just to add a number to their tally. I
for that big expedition (then hosted by ), mostly as a way to keep my friends and family informed on my whereabouts and worldly activities. (It also served as the perfect notepad for future pieces.) But then, without my intention, it eventually went viral, blew up, and was read by a much bigger audience — bigger than I had imagined with tens of thousands of readers from around the globe. I even won a couple of awards for it and got national press attention . USA Today put it best with, “Warning: If this site doesn’t give someone the travel bug, nothing will.”
But that was 2005.
Ah, 2005. A lot as changed since then. , , and
are now the new ways of informing people what you’ve been up to on the road (whether they like it or not) — at least for this current phase of our behavior-changing Internet-dependent society. Blogs are no longer defined as they were in the late 90s through 2005; back then, a “blog,” which has always been short for “web log,” was actually a log, personal or otherwise, of events — like Captain Kirk’s “space log” in Star Trek. Nowadays, a blog’s definition is more like an on-line magazine — which has less to do about a chronology of events — that is managed and curated in a way to balance the relationship of the reader and the sponsor or advertiser backing it financially. A recent
goes into this complicated subculture of travel blogging,“...a medium that began as intimate and creative. The paradigm has shifted across the board, in areas like food, parenting and so-called lifestyle blogs. But nowhere has the shift been as jarring as it is for travelers. ‘I want to travel the world’ is no longer an idealistic statement, it is a transactional one…
Travel bloggers tend to be independent-minded and passionate about their areas of interest. The best of them also tend to be on the cutting edge of the travel world, making them a valuable resource for readers frustrated with out-of-date guidebooks and what is often a morass of user reviews on sites like TripAdvisor. But they also fa for one, they have to be not just their own editors in chief, but also their own directors of marketing and Web developers. And, ideally, they need to stay objective despite all the sponsorships.”
Over the past ten years, I’ve managed to live another income-generating life as a freelance designer/animator and writer that could support my travels and blog — without the need of an income-generating business model. This flexible lifestyle and financial freedom, earned through regiments of sleep deprivation, have allowed me to stay the course with my long-form narrative style since it started coming into focus in early 2004 — without a dependency on sponsors. I’ve strived to make The Global Trip blog informative and funny — with inspiration by veteran humor columnist Dave Barry — while keeping it detailed with historical tidbits, plenty of photos, and above all, the conversations I’ve had with people I’ve met on the road. Blogreaders, like Kirsten and Sarit , have appreciated this style, and have told me that my blog stands out because “It’s written like a story, or a novel. You feel like you’re there.”
But Instagram killed the travel blog star. Attention spans are a lot shorter, and today’s travel blog audience consumes media differently. In recent years, the editors I’ve written for cap a word count off at 500 words — less than half of one of my average travel dispatches. Also, I’m sure there are some millenials out there that are like, “Uh, who’s ?”
“THESE KIDS IN THE NEW GENERATION don’t know that what they’re doing is actually not going to be sustainable in ten years,” I spoke with experience to , when I was back in Brisbane for a one-night layover between
and the States. We’d gone out for dinner and
after I landed back in his hometown. “A lot of these young vanity travel bloggers think they can just get by on the strength of their own blog,” I ranted. “I mean, I grew up in travel writing when it was still a part of journalism, where you climbed the ladder with bylines.” I told him about the Times article and explained how travel blogging has become less personal and more business — completely separate from the world of traditional journalism. “Actually, I know this one girl who knows you can’t just have your blog, you have to climb the ladder with bylines in known publications,” I continued, referring to travel writer Megan McDonough of , who I’d met on a press trip to Israel. “But most of them don’t get it.”
In a conversation I had with long-time travel blogger Jodi Ettenberg of , we discussed the state of these new travel bloggers. “A lot of them are just in it for the free trips,” she told me. But, we agreed, it’s more rewarding to do it for the respect.
from the Land Down Under to the States — a Land Up Over, if you will — I wondered about the state of The Global Trip blog. Sure, it’s still a way to let my friends and family know what I’ve been up to on the road, but they’ve sort of tuned out like most people, just waiting for the next Instagram picture to show up in their feed. My parents are ja no longer is it something amazing that I’m doing — it’s just sort of a regular thing that I do now. And I know that some of my closest friends, a supportive as they’ve been, don’ I sometimes write hidden inside jokes to them that only they would understand in a blog entry — only to get no response to it.
I recognize I’m of an older, fading generation of travel bloggers, when you compare me to
(Jodi’s mentioned). Con I was one of them eight years ago, and I know how great it feels to be recognized on a national level for travel blogging. Obviously, I know I should change with the times if I want to continue doing a travel blog for today’s audience, by realizing that a “blog” is no longer a “web log” and making it more like a magazine for readers with short attention spans. But then, the existence of The Global Trip blog’s style would change, and alienate the truly loyal readers out there. Marie Javins, fellow travel / of my generation, tells me I should stay the course and not sell out. She also told me:
“I firmly believe [old school travel blogs] are over, finito, and social networking is far more relevant. Personal, individual blogs are a way to keep notes and show your friends what you’re doing, and it just takes a while for sponsors and the Times to catch up. What’s the next big thing? I don’t know, but I believe if someone is on a press trip, it kind of doesn’t count for budget travelers. They don’t have the money for the stuff a writer gets on press trip. Am I being incendiary? I don’t care. I will miss guidebooks for budget travelers when they’re all about the loudest social networker.”
Perhaps I could end this blog here and start something new, under a different title and branding, so that what exists remains consistent. Or perhaps, I could just call it quits altogether (on personal blogging specifically). Up and over. I mean, I’ll continue to write travel pieces edited for today’s audience via more well-known media outlets. I’ve heard numerous times that the success of a , or even , shouldn’t be measured in sales or numbers, it should be measured by what it leads you to — bigger and better things. My work with The Global Trip has already led me to writing pieces for the Chicago Tribune, , and most notably, National Geographic. In fact, if this truly is the stopping point, the overall story arc of the The Global Trip blog would be “the ten year chronicle of a traveler who once started as a novice blogger that posted pictures of his diarrhea to be funny, to a writer at National Geographic.” (Notice I said “the chronicles of” and not “the transformation of” — because I would totally still take pictures of my watery poo, if you want.)
You’ve read it all here, folks. From
in 2003, to personal anecdotes of experiences in 62 countries, to
in 2013 — a whole decade later.
The Global Trip will still exist, as it still doubles as a collection of clips with notable bylines for prospective editors to look at, whether they are based on a press trip or not. As far as my next independent trip, I’m not sure whether or not I’ll blog about it the way I’ve done for years. I’m sure my brother Mark, a.k.a. markyt , who’s been
all this time, would appreciate the break. I know I’d still continue my policy of not writing about a press trip on this blog (with the exception of , which I fully disclosed) to maintain that it’s about independent travel — without opinion-swaying sponsors paying the tab like so many other travel blogs of today. Since the beginning, the message of this independent travel blog has always been that you don’t need to be rich — or schmooze a sponsor — you can do this too, if you really put your mind to it.
As for me personally, I’ll continue to live life on and off the road, whether I blog about it or not. However, perhaps I won’ I’ve heard from veteran travel writers who just want to go on a vacation, that being a trav even when you’re meant to go away and relax, your brain is always in work mode, with a constant urge to take notes, looking for angles. I’ve already developed that habit, so perhaps there is some longevity to this blog.
Thoughts, anyone? (Feedback appreciated.)
Either way, I won’t forget what I’d learned from that Japanese cashier I met in Queenstown. For me, The Global Trip truly has been, for better or worse, the beginning of Life indeed.
During my time in New Zealand, I tried to train my ear to notice the difference between the Australian accent and the New Zealand one. I’ve realized that in New Zealand, whenever there’s an opportunity to use a long E sound, you use it. For example, Australians say the word question like, “quehhstion,” while Kiwis say, “queeestion.” Try it at home and you’ll see, just like in New Zealand, that no one really cares which way you say it.
This blog post is one of fifteen travel dispatches from the trip blog, "," which chronicled a five-week trip through the Canadian Rockies, followed by Calgary's Stampede rodeo festival, an assignment through different regions of Papua New Guinea, and a wintery jaunt to New Zealand's South island.
THE GLOBAL TRIP GLOSSARY
Confused at some of the jargon that's developed with this blog and its readers over the years? Here's what they mean:
BFFN: acronym for "Best Friend For Now"; a friend made on the road, who will share travel experiences for the time being, only to part ways and lose touch with
The Big Trip: the original sixteen month around-the-world trip that started it all, spanning 37 countries in 5 continents over 503 days (October 2003–March 2005)
NIZ: acronym for "No Internet Zone"; a place where there is little to no Internet access, thus preventing dispatches from being posted.
SBR: acronym for "Silent Blog Reader"; a person who has regularly followed The Global Trip blog for years without ever commenting or making his/her presence known to the rest of the reading community. (Breaking this silence by commenting is encouraged.)
Stupid o'clock: any time of the early morning that you have to wake up to catch a train, bus, plane, or tour. Usually any time before 6 a.m. is automatically &stupid o’clock.&
The Trinidad Show: a nickname of The Global Trip blog, used particularly by travelers that have been written about, who are self-aware that they have become "characters" in a long-running story & like characters in the Jim Carrey movie, The Truman Show.
WHMMR: acronym for "Western Hemisphere Monday Morning Rush"; an unofficial deadline to get new content up by a Monday morning, in time for readers in the western hemisphere (i.e. the majority North American audience) heading back to their computers.
1981ers: people born after 1981. Originally, this was to designate groups of young backpackers fresh out of school, many of which were loud, boorish and/or annoying. However, time has passed and 1981ers have matured and have been quite pleasant to travel with. The term still refers to young annoying backpackers, regardless of year — I guess you could call them "1991ers" in 2013 — young, entitled millennials on the road these days, essentially.
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