Category Archives: Reader Questions

25 Things You Don’t Know About Me

Posted on March 5, 2012 by Ryan Murdock

 

Yeah, this post was inspired by one of those dumb internet memes. I saw it on someone’s blog and thought it might be fun.

Why?

We’ve been traveling together for a while now, but apart from the obvious stuff like books, music and traveler’s tales, we really don’t know that much about each other. That’s a bit strange, considering how long we’ve shared the road.

Road friendships develop in compressed time. In a week you can reach a depth of familiarity that would take a year under normal circumstances. Maybe it’s because time is limited: we’re more open, more willing to share, and less afraid of judgement. Relationship development is a process of mutual self-disclosure, after all.

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Cruising Through the Bu

Posted on August 19, 2010 by Ryan Murdock


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I’m just back from a couple weeks in LA, hanging with some of my magazine friends. Cruising through Malibu, walks on Santa Monica beach, shopping in Beverly Hills, and lunch on Sunset Blvd. 

Ahh, LA, you’ve got it all: a warm breeze, a coastline kissed by waves, fast cars and beautiful girls, and vast stretches of desert just over the next hill. That’s a place I could spend a lot of time in…

But hey, there’s work to do, and I know you folks are itching for more blogs. I’m on it. In the meantime, let’s look at another reader question…

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Show Your Faces If You Dare

Posted on August 4, 2010 by Ryan Murdock

Clive J. from the UK asked:


What do you know as a result of travel the rest of us don’t?


I think the most important lessons are things we forget in the day to day, not things we don’t know. 

When you’re cut off out there on the road, the everyday frivolity of life at home – office politics, the rat race, “noble” ambitions, catching every episode of some stupid TV series – it all falls away until you’re left with that pure, radiant core. You come to realize very quickly what is truly important to you. Traveling light, with all your necessities boiled down to what fits into your bag, you also realize what little you need to survive and what little you need to be happy. 

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Beneath the Sun and Stars

Posted on July 1, 2010 by Ryan Murdock

I’m just back from a short job in Glynco, GA, followed by a few days of filming in Florida. It was a steamy week of early morning / late afternoon shoots and midday business meetings on the beach. We were scorched by the sands, gouged by the shells, plagued by mosquitos and swarmed by biting ants. And that was just the first day…

But I’ve returned to my desk and I’m ready to entertain you.

We’ll get back to travel stories soon. I’ve also got some cool new books to tell you about, both classics and new stuff, and some great music to shove in your ipod for the road.

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Memory Breeds Paper Dreams

Posted on June 16, 2010 by Ryan Murdock


Jenny from Sydney, Australia asked:


How did you become interested in writing?



I wonder sometimes what came first, the stories or the intention to write them? 


I think, in a sense, I’ve always lived posthumously. Even when I really got myself into trouble as a kid, part of me knew that the incident I was caught up in would make a great story and that I had to go through with it. 


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Ask Me No Questions, I’ll Tell You No Lies

Posted on June 10, 2010 by Ryan Murdock


I’ve come up with a new interactive feature that I hope you’ll enjoy. Are you itching to find out about the exotic world of travel writing, desperate for hot hints on destinations and money saving travel tips, or just bored and looking for a monkey to prod with a stick? Well now’s your chance…


I call it “Reader’s Questions.” Okay, yeah, that’s pretty lame. But if I called it ober dictum you wouldn’t know what the hell I was talking about.


Anyway…. it’s a fun and occasionally insightful new feature that we’ll slot in from time to time between travel stories.

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