Bohemian Traveler

For a balanced view of China I’ve published this post simultaneously along with the more negative: Why it’s time to leave China It’s not about the Great Wall. Not that I’ve got anything against the Great Wall or a Yangtze River Cruise or the Hong Kong Skyline. Those are some of the best places to [...]

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smoking on the train For a balanced view of China I’ve published this post simultaneously along with the more positive: What I love about China (it’s not what You Think Not that I have to. But want to. More than once I’ve had this feeling: I just want to move on; want to go to [...]

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Bohemian Traveler visits Macau in the first days of 2012. Two years ago today I started blogging at BohemianTraveler.com. This would start a new phase of traveling for me.  Previous to this point, I traveled and wandered this world, stopping to visit friends in remote countries, volunteering from time to time when presented with exciting [...]

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Little Kiwi Brother Reading the Guidebook I first met Little Kiwi Brother back in ’11 in sultry Bangkok. He was only a little bird, but right from the get go I knew he had what it took to be a great traveler and an even finer traveling companion. Then I learned he had a bigger [...]

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2011 in many ways has been an extremely successful year. I have a lot to be grateful for. As the year is about to turn to 2012 I feel very fortunate. I have not only continued to travel extensively, but have begun to turn my passion (travel) into my job. I have started transitioning to [...]

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It’s safe to say I’ve always had a fascination with China. From the time I spent poring over maps as a kid to thumbing the pages of a National Geographic article of ethnic minorities of China, it’s always held my attention. So why have I traveled through Europe, the Middle East, to South America, lived [...]

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In November of 2006, I joined my family on a trip to Italy to visit my cousin, who was studying abroad in Milan. We visited Venice, Padua, Florence, Sienna, and the Cinque Terre. If it weren’t for Rick Steves’ we might not have visited Cinque Terre. He’s put these five little towns of the Ligurian [...]

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After 56 days on the road, I’m back home again. I set off with fellow travel blogger Juno Kim of RunawayJuno.com at the end of July. She’s from Korea and had never been to the North American continent, so my goal was to show her around as best I could. I thought a road trip [...]

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Mummies of the World, the largest exhibition of mummies and related artifacts ever assembled, is currently on exhibit at The Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. What makes this exhibit so interesting is the geographic diversity of the mummies. They aren’t just from Egypt, one the places we first think of when we hear the word mummy. [...]

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Lately I’ve been idealizing country living, but life in the city does have it pluses. Take for example the University of Pennsylvania’s PM @ Penn Museum on Wednesday nights during the summer. It’s basically  music and happy-hour together. I saw Leana Song, a drum and music ensemble specializing in Afro-Cuban and West African drumming. Because of [...]

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I feel like my three months in Southeast Asia symbolically came to a close the moment I stopped a lone Cambodian school boy riding home on his bicycle and placed my camouflage trekking hat on his head. I crossed paths with him while cycling back from my second full day touring the ruins and temple [...]

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By Stephen Bugno Paul Gauguin was born in Paris and moved to Peru at age three where he lived for four years. In his teens he was a sailor. In his twenties, a stockbroker in Paris and Copenhagen. At one point Gauguin took a job on the Panama Canal which lasted only two weeks. This [...]

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By Stephen Bugno Celebrating One Year Year One has been kind to Bohemian Traveler. I spent a remarkable half year blogging from the road—from jaunts down to Mexico and Colombia to a U.S. road trip of epic proportions. The response from readers has been awesome. People are following from around the globe and I am [...]

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By Stephen Bugno Last Sunday I caught the Beat Memories: The Photographs of Allen Ginsberg exhibit at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. While the photos themselves are not necessarily extraordinary as the Washington Post will attest, the exhibit as a whole offers us an extraordinary look into the Beat generation through the [...]

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