Rolf Potts is my favorite travel writer, not just because he’s a great writer, but because he managed to do what I had thought to be impossible: he legitimized backpacker-style travel writing in big-time mainstream travel magazines.
Matt
There’s Treasure Everywhere
When I first moved to Taiwan I was fascinated with everything. I walked around stupefied, a silly grin permanently plastered to my face, amazed at the incredible world that I had discovered. That lasted for about three years.
Five Awesome Travel Quotes
In no particular order:
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.”
– Mark Twain
“A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.”
– John Steinbeck
Standing in the Fireworks: A Trip to the Yenshuei Beehive Fireworks Festival, Taiwan
On Febrary 27, 2010 a Chinese New Year fireworks celebration in the Guangdong province went awry and killed 19 villagers.