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How to be an Ugly American

  By Robert Reid | February 3, 2014 - 1:10 pm | Articles, Travel Tips, Uncategorized
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Last week I began a new monthly column for Transitions Abroad* with a story of what happened to me on an Indian bus that turned me into an “Ugly American.” I’m not ashamed of it. At all. Particularly if you go back and … Read on →

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Top 10 right/wrong destinations for 2014

  By Robert Reid | December 18, 2013 - 12:50 pm | Lists, Travel Tips
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I spent yesterday sitting cozy in a favorite arm chair, a mug of hot tea by my side, and an array of Top 10 lists in my lap — in fact 10 of the travel publishing world’s biggest lists of “where to go” … Read on →

Travel Jail

  By Robert Reid | December 9, 2013 - 10:53 am | Lists, RO-Travel, Travel Tips
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Travel’s great. But not everything that happens in travel is worth an “ooh-ahh” or a pat on the back. This space is for VIOLATORS in our collective progress in striving to enjoy the world. And so, here’s a… Meet-and-greet with the TRAVEL JAIL … Read on →

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Travel content isn’t king, it’s clerk

  By Robert Reid | November 22, 2013 - 6:29 am | Right Pants, RO-Writing, Travel Tips, Uncategorized, USA, Video
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Right Pants #006: Video report from the Grassy Knoll The problem I have with that word “content” — whatever that is — can’t be blamed on a dictionary. Because “content” isn’t there, yet. Not the web-version of content anyway. (Look it up, then … Read on →

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Right Pants: “How to remember travel?”

  By Robert Reid | October 3, 2013 - 12:25 pm | Right Pants, RO-Travel, Travel Tips, Uncategorized, Video
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Welcome, after many delays and doubts, to the debut of THE RIGHT PANTS. For Episode 001, I’m discussing how to remember travel (a subject I recently kicked around for a National Geographic Traveler article). Often I feel overwhelmed by the sheer outlets for … Read on →

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Sketches from my travel journals

  By Robert Reid | September 27, 2013 - 4:46 pm | Articles, Europe, France, Mexico, Photo, Travel Tips, Uncategorized, USA
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The best way to remember a trip isn’t just slowing down to really be present in a place. Instead, as I wrote for the National Geographic Traveler today, it’s STOPPING altogether. For me, that is often to draw a little something that catches … Read on →

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