The State of the Crowdsharing Industry, late 2017
Crowd sharing has come a long way in the past few years — what was once a niche that barely bothered hotel executives now has some of them angling to compete. Travel has seen its share of offerings — after all, what better time to try something new? Airbnb — the...
Site review: Travellerspoint.com
Quick note: One Weird Globe partners with companies to share Site Reviews like this, and they’re your chance to learn about new travel services and websites. All opinions remain my own. It’s not every day you come across a travel-focused site that’s...
First impressions: Chisinau, Moldova
First Impressions posts are starting to be a thing, and people seem to like them, so I’ll keep writing them =) After a fun couple of months exploring Romania, we crammed ourselves and our stuff into a minivan that ended up taking over eight hours to go from...
Things I Wish I Knew Before Going on a Romanian Road Trip
So we recently took a pretty cool road trip through Romania — a full week’s worth of driving and destinations — and there’s plenty of awesome destinations to cover in another post. If you’re looking at taking a Romanian road trip for yourself,...
Random pictures: the ‘Romanian road trip’ edition
In early-mid August 2017, we took a week-long road trip covering most of Romania’s weirdest destinations. I’m still working on the best ways to write about these places (one super-big post? a lot of little posts? Yes, even after nine years I’m still...
A review of Angloville: one-on-one volunteer English teaching, anyone?
Long time readers know I used to teach English back in Korea from 2008 to 2013. New readers? Now you know. Years before I became One Weird Globe, I was Chris in South Korea, teaching English to Korean kids (and some adults) while living in Seoul. I haven’t...
Destination: Zaña, Peru – centuries-old Spanish ruins and a bizarre slave museum
Set the time machine for March 2016 — yep, it’s been over a year since we meandered along the western coast of South America. This destination, however, remains one of the strangest we’ve come across in awhile. Today, it’s a ghost town with just a...
6 startups travelers and digital nomads should watch (mid-2017 edition)
The last few months have been busy… Some traveling, some game designing, some writing (What the Florida), and some thinking about the future. We’re in Bucharest, Romania as this post is published — a city where the buildings haven’t impressed, but...
The weird stuff in Norway I can’t wait to see
We’re in Europe now, and although Norway isn’t on the ‘going to visit tomorrow’ list, it’s definitely on the ‘must visit before I die’ list. Here’s what stands out as weird in my research, in alphabetical order by city....
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