~ 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.

Balkanology, created by Alan Grant, is a comprehensive travel guide to Southeast Europe covering Albania, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, and more, archived from its active years between 2006 and 2016. Visitors will find country-specific travel tips, recommended guidebooks, a FAQ, and an introduction to the remarkable cultural and geographic diversity of the Balkan region.

Chuck and Barb Shipley have chronicled their remarkable journey from liveaboard sailors on a Kadey-Krogen 48 trawler to full-time RV travelers, documenting destinations across the Caribbean, Europe, and the American West since 2005. With hundreds of posts organized by location spanning everywhere from Bonaire and the British Virgin Islands to Norway, Spain, and Italy, this is a richly detailed travel log that captures over a decade of adventurous living.

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.

Velabas is a travel narrative site featuring hitchhiking stories, travel drawings, and blog posts from journeys around the world, including time spent in Barcelona. The creator combines writing and illustration to document their adventures, offering both a comic strip format and personal essays about life on the road.

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.

The Rambler is Phil Schmidt's blog chronicling his retired life traveling the United States full-time in an RV, with posts spanning from 2022 to 2026. Phil's wide-ranging interests, from ham radio and solar power to hiking the Appalachian Trail and model sailplanes, give the site an adventurous, tinkerer spirit.

Expedition 360 documents Jason Lewis and his international team's historic human-powered circumnavigation of the globe, covering over 45,000 miles by bicycle, kayak, rowing, skating, and a pedal-powered boat between 1994 and 2007. The site chronicles one of the last great firsts in exploration while also highlighting the team's climate advocacy and UNESCO educational partnerships focused on environmental stewardship.