~ Early Web Links ~

Vinologue is a wine and travel guide publisher specializing in regional wine books covering areas like Priorat, Georgia, Dalmatia, Montsant, and the Costa Brava. The site by Hudin.com offers enotourism resources, tastings, tours, and an online shop for wine enthusiasts exploring off-the-beaten-path wine regions.

Two For The Road appears to be a travel-themed personal site, with its evocative name suggesting road trips or journey documentation. The page is currently too sparse to confirm full content, but the title strongly implies travel experiences or road trip adventures.

Connie Sue chronicles her decade-long nomadic lifestyle, blending van life, extended-stay hotel adventures, family moments, and reflections on living with long-term health challenges. Equal parts travel diary and personal journal, the site offers an honest and quirky window into life off the beaten path.

Captains Gwen Hamlin and Don Wilson have chronicled their full-time sailing adventures since 1999, covering a decade-long world cruise aboard their CSY 44 sloop Tackless II and now continuing aboard their St. Francis 44 catamaran Tackless Too. The site is packed with logbook entries organized by region, a reference shelf, chartering info, and practical cruising knowledge drawn from years of offshore sailing and Virgin Islands charter operations.

Juha Liikala is a Finnish software engineer and nomadic traveler who documents his wanderings across Italy, Bali, the Caribbean, and beyond through blog posts and microblog updates. The site blends personal reflections on travel, technology, and social media culture with a warm, conversational tone and a growing archive of longform and short-form writing.

Brr is a personal blog documenting life and work at US Antarctic research stations, including McMurdo Station and the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station. The author spent 446 days on the ice as USAP support staff, writing detailed posts about South Pole infrastructure, water systems, electrical power, and the realities of extreme cold-weather living.

Mark Y. Goh's tilde.town page chronicles over a decade of world travel, with photo journals from destinations like Vietnam, Turkey, Bali, and backcountry trails in Hawaii, California, and Idaho. Alongside the travel logs, he shares annual favorite music lists spanning 2011 to 2022 and links to his old music projects.

Vagabonding is an award-winning round-the-world travelogue by Mike, a Chicago-based traveler who spent a year journeying solo through Asia and Africa before YouTube and social media made such adventures commonplace. The site features video highlights, a written travelogue, photo archives, and a route map covering destinations from Cambodia and India to Uganda, South Africa, and beyond.

Built by a traveler who spent a decade living across Southeast and Central Asia, this site catalogs the most common scams tourists encounter, from fake monks and jet ski schemes to counterfeit currency and gem store cons. Each scam gets its own detailed entry with photos, making it a practical and eye-opening guide for anyone planning a trip through the region.

Notworkrelated is a UK-based travel and photography blog chronicling a 14-month round-the-world adventure plus subsequent family trips to places like Lanzarote, Nice, the Inner Hebrides, and North Wales. The site blends travel narratives with photography, covering destinations across Asia, Europe, Oceania, and the Americas.