~ Early Web Links ~

Terry Taylor chronicles life on the road in a motorhome from the passenger seat, sharing travel dispatches, golf outings, desert adventures, and recipes gathered along the way. With archives stretching back to 2008, this long-running blog offers a genuine slice of the full-time RV lifestyle across years of wandering.

Paul Kilfoil's sprawling personal site documents travelogues from 50+ countries since 1987, complete with photos, trip reports to destinations like Machu Picchu, the Great Wall of China, and the Trans-Siberian Railway. Beyond travel, Paul also shares blogs on science, politics, railways, and sports, plus a free downloadable software tool he built to track statistics for rugby, soccer, cricket, tennis, and Formula 1.

Randomwire is a long-running travel blog focused on Asia, chronicling journeys through China, Japan, and beyond with an emphasis on place, memory, and slow observation. Posts cover everything from pilgrimages and stone carvings in Sichuan to architecture in Tokyo, offering a thoughtful and unhurried perspective on the continent.

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.

Dave's Travel Corner hosts what it claims to be the ultimate travel blog directory on the web, with over 4,000 travel blogs listed and organized across 197 categories. Created by Dave after a life-changing 1996 trip, the site curates domain-based English-language travel blogs with editor priorities, view counts, and personal notes about connections Dave has made with fellow travelers.

Julia Tuccinardi's personal travel guide documents her high school trip through southern Spain and Italy, covering cities like Seville, Barcelona, Florence, and Rome with photos and city information. A charming firsthand account built to help future travelers or those wanting to relive memories of visiting Europe's most iconic destinations.

Jon Barnes operates the Ultimate Taxi, a one-of-a-kind 45-minute entertainment experience in Aspen, Colorado combining a live concert, magic show, 3D laser light show, and virtual reality inside a classic yellow Checker Cab. The site showcases photos of famous passengers, press coverage, and reservation details for what bills itself as the only recording studio, nightclub, and planetarium on wheels in the world.

Caleb Jay Rogers is a software engineer whose prolific blog spans over a decade of posts covering travel across Taiwan, Japan, Vietnam, Singapore, and China alongside programming, digital nomad life, and personal philosophy. With 195 posts organized across dozens of tags, the site offers an unusually rich mix of travelogues, tech opinions, and life reflections that rewards deep exploration.

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.

Perceptive Travel is an online literary travel magazine edited by Tim Leffel, featuring long-form narrative stories from published book authors venturing to destinations across the globe. Each monthly issue is themed around a place or experience, with a deep archive of hundreds of travel stories dating back to the mid-2000s plus an ongoing blog covering unusual and offbeat destinations.