Skip to content
  • ABOUT
    • 36 things
    • Project: Maine Woods
    • Praise
    • TV Appearances
  • WRITING
  • VIDEOS
    • 76-Second Travel Show
    • Right Pants
  • DESTINATIONS
    • Best Place in the World
  • CONTACT
Twitter Facebook Pinterest Tumblr YouTube

Category Archives: Places

« Older posts

Oklahoma has a new brand. I have a different idea.

  By Robert Reid | February 20, 2020 - 11:54 am | Articles, Oklahoma
1 Comment

I’ve long held a sort of private dream to return from covering the world to Oklahoma, and help my old home state get on a bigger map. In fact, during the past quarter century, many of my favorite projects were already about Oklahoma. … Read on →

Tagged articles, brand, logo, Oklahoma, Skift, slogan

My Story on Oklahoma’s Little River Gets a Bronze

  By Robert Reid | February 9, 2020 - 1:44 pm | Articles, Oklahoma, Places
2 Comments

I recently learned that my story on Oklahoma’s Little River – actually the southernmost of the two Little Rivers in the state – won “Bronze” from IRMA (International Regional Magazine Association). Yay. The story for Oklahoma Today is one of my all-time favorites, … Read on →

Tagged awards, Little River, Oklahoma, writing

What Jimi Hendrix did on my birthday

  By Robert Reid | April 11, 2018 - 2:57 pm | Music, Places, USA
11 Comments

Jimi Hendrix was not very happy on the day I was born (March 22, 1968). Because I’m in Seattle, I went to MoPOP (the Museum of Pop Culture). And lingered longest at the small exhibits on Nirvana and Jimi Hendrix’s travels. The latter … Read on →

Tagged Seattle

Let’s talk about the worthiness of Soviet rock music!

  By Robert Reid | October 10, 2017 - 7:30 pm | Music, Robert's Record Corner, Russia, Video
Leave a comment

Growing up a Cold War kid in Oklahoma, I naturally became fascinated with the (forbidden) Soviet Union. In high school, I thumbed through copies of Soviet Life in the school library for a report on life in the USSR. Later I read Tolstoy and Dostoevsky … Read on →

Tagged new wave, Soviet Union

Jazz is from New Orleans

  By Robert Reid | November 1, 2016 - 1:59 pm | Music, RO-Rock Music, RO-Travel, USA, Video
Leave a comment

I’ve just finished three barnstorming trips around the US to shoot videos for a National Geographic/Cengage textbook series on US history. This was fun. I dressed up as pilgrims, Civil War and Revolutionary War reenactors, Mark Twain, Paul Revere, George Washington, Rosie the … Read on →

Tagged New Orleans

I just won an award!

  By Robert Reid | May 4, 2016 - 6:44 pm | Articles, Oklahoma, RO-Robert, RO-Writing
2 Comments

A few days I wrote about how I MIGHT have just won my first award since my first high school article (a foolishly glowing article on an awful Roger Daltrey album). That was for my participation on Gary Arndt’s first episode of his … Read on →

Tagged award
123›»
  • That video above pretty much tells you in 78 seconds all about ROBERT REID. Read more...
  • Categories

  • Robert’s Greatest Hits

    44 Little Travel Rules No One Tells You

    Plate of Food Travel Museum
  • Recent Comments

    • Dubai Visa on What Jimi Hendrix did on my birthday
    • adam on Behold the Wichita Bierock
    • rohan on Behold the Wichita Bierock
© Robert Reid 2006-2023. All rights reserved.
reidontravel | Powered by Novus Forum.
Twitter Facebook Pinterest Tumblr YouTube