Medellin Living

Yesterday I announced the launch of Travel Blog Success, a new website and community aimed at helping travelers build successful blogs. Click here to learn more, or sign up. In 2009, my travel blog success resulted in online earnings of more than $10,000, plus I was offered a blogging trip to Colombia to help promote tourism.  I [...]

The following is a sponsored post. The summer travel season is kicking off in the United States and Europe, which means despite the world’s economic troubles, people are heading for the beach or about to take those long desired vacations.  According to my January poll of readers, an impressive 77% intend to travel internationally for [...]

Paragliding and bus adventures under our belts, I invited Clint and Martin to join me, Alejandra, and her two friends for a night of dancing.  The destination was ladies choice, which worked out well as it was one of my favorites, Le Pub de Octavia. We got there around 10 pm, just as it was [...]

The contents of my daypack have morphed slowly over the last few weeks, as I have made the mental switch from nomadic backpacker interested in seeing the world to Medellin ¨resident¨ interested in learning Spanish and teaching English.  As a result, I thought it would be fun to share the contents of my daypack these [...]

I ran across Medellin-based Colombia Reports yesterday, and immediately subscribed. They just celebrated their one year anniversary, and based on their objective of independently reporting what happens in the country to a foreign, English-speaking audience, I think their future looks bright. Our team is made up of journalists, photographers, locals, travelers and ex-pats from both [...]