All of Erik’s previous trip blogs hosted by other sites have been consolidated here on TheGlobalTrip.com into a single, continuous master blog that you can subscribe to by clicking HERE (RSS 2.0). Each trip’s group of entries have been sectionalized below (in chronological order):
The Global Trip 2004: Sixteen Months Around The World
October 2003 - March 2005
”The Global Trip 2004: Sixteen Months Around The World (Or Until Money Runs Out, Whichever Comes First!),” was originally hosted by BootsnAll.com. It contains over 500 entries that chronicled a trip around the world from October 2003 to March 2005, encompassing travel through thirty-seven countries in North America, South America, Africa, Europe, and Asia. It was this blog that “started it all,” where Erik evolved and honed his style of travel blogging. (It starts to come into focus around the time he arrives in Africa.)
Praised and recommended by USA Today, RickSteves.com, and readers of BootsnAll and Lonely Planet’s Thorn Tree, The Global Trip blog was selected by the editors of PC Magazine for the “Top 100 Sites You Didn’t Know You Couldn’t Live Without” (in the travel category) in 2005.
Trippin’ To Timbuktu
March - April 2006
“The Global Trip: Trippin’ To Timbuktu,” was originally hosted by Blogger.com. It contains eighteen entries that chronicled a trip through the West African nation of Mali from late March to early April 2006. As the journey transpires, it evolves into a story of mind games between Erik (a.k.a. Doug) and his questionable local guide Van—and his network of other “guides”—from the old pygmy villages of Dogon Country to the desert sands outside the legendary city of Timbuktu.
Tomatoes, Grease & Beer
August - September 2006
“The Global Trip: Tomatoes, Grease & Beer” was originally hosted by Blogger.com. It contains twenty-five entries that include Erik’s accounts at two world-renowned festivals: Valencia, Spain’s wild Tomatina tomato food fight, and Munich, Germany’s traditional and international celebration of beer, Oktoberfest. The two festivals are the book ends to a two-week jaunt through the Greek Islands, where Erik “lives his own myth” (as the Greek tourism slogan goes), going from island to island, getting into random adventures on the way like Odysseus in Homer’s The Odyssey.
Twisted
May - June 2007
On the road from Oklahoma to Kansas to Nebraska to South Dakota to Colorado to New Mexico to Texas, Erik travels through the heartland of America—a.k.a “Tornado Alley”—in search of tornadoes with the storm chasing team at Tempest Tours. The hi-jinks that ensue are chronicled in a nine-entry-long tale of lightning bolts (that strike twice or more in the same place!), tornadic funnels, kitschy roadside attractions, and a whole lot of beef jerky.
Two in The Boot and Beyond
June - July 2007
Erik and his fellow globetrotting girlfriend Stephanie rendezvous in Italy for a relaxing and romantic “fake honeymoon” through the boot-shaped country—and beyond, with jaunts through Croatia, Switzerland, and London. While this twelve-part blog concentrates more on the relationship between Erik and Steph, its descriptions and historical tidbits of the destinations they visit are written in signature Global Trip style.
The Central American Eviction Tour* (*with jaunt to Colombia)
November 2007-January 2008
After getting evicted from his New York City apartment (by no fault of his own), Erik decides to skip the country before figuring out his next living situation—this time, traveling through Central America, with a jaunt to Bogota, Colombia for the Christmas holiday. It is a six-week journey of thirty-nine entries filled with new characters and new adventures—scuba diving in Belize, spelunking in Guatemala, surfing in El Salvador, rafting in Honduras, playing in Costa Rica, chilling out in Panama, and partying in Colombia and Nicaragua. It’s all fun and games until Erik gets shot in the stomach—but even that is fun too.
LATEST ENTRY ON THE GLOBAL TRIP MASTER BLOG:
End Of An Eviction Tour
DAYS 41-43: If you recall, Elaine met a guy on the plane from Houston named Steve, who was actually a friend of a friend of hers back in New York. Like Stephanie to Camillo in Bogota, Colombia, we had to use my cell phone to track him down. Even though Steve was in Nicaragua to take a Spanish class in Grenada, he was using all non-class time to see as much of the country as he could. Upon contacting him via email to his BlackBerry, I soon received a text message. We discovered that he was in fact, right there in San Juan del Sur too, at one of the restaurants on the beach, two blocks away from us.
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ABOUT THE GLOBAL TRIP BLOG
Erik was never really a fan of blogs until he did one himself. “I’ll do a blog when I actually have something to say,” he once said circa 2002 when the term “blog” wasn’t yet in the mainstream vernacular. That “something to say” turned out to be the day-to-day accounts of his long continuous journey around the world from October 2003 to March 2005. To him, it became more than just a travel blog, but a sort of travel humor column which he disciplined himself to research, write, and edit every day. (Prior to that trip, he’d already set foot on all seven continents, but only kept personal journals, wrote short stories, and edited short videos after the fact.)
Eventually his first travel blog of over 500 entries, ”The Global Trip 2004: Sixteen Months Around The World (Or Until Money Runs Out Whichever Comes First!),” caught attention around the world and was recommended and praised by several publications and on-line travel communities. Erik has since written subsequent “spin-off” blogs that continue chronicling his travels, and will continue to blog the more he travels since, as he says, “It’s sort of expected of me now.”