It's travel month over on the home design blog, Apartment Therapy. (In a former life, I helped launch their technology blog and wrote about all things techie in the home.) This month they've dished out packing tips, provided hotels to lust after and discussed travel logistics. Here's a sampling of some of my favorite travel-inspired posts this month.
We often preach that the guidebook is a dying genre, one targeted for mass appeal, that always points out what you expect to see, and rarely uncovers the unexpected. There are far better resources out there, one's made by locals who love the place they live enough to share it with the world. Guidebook writers are often qualified writers and qualified travelers, but they're not always qualified experts on the place that they're writing about. Travel bloggers aren't excluded from this scrutiny, myself included. Reading my take on what it was like to spend four days in Spoleto might inspire you to go there, but you're only getting one perspective, and one that I liken to staring out the window of the car on a cross country trip. Flying by, catching bits of information on your windshield and going home to process what it is you saw. What about those people who wake up every morning loving (or hating) the town they call home? That perspective is invaluable to a traveler who wants to see a place like a local.
So, we're setting out to change this. We're searching out local talent and pointing you to the best local resources. This week, we're starting close to our home and sharing our Seattle favorites. Local papers, local bloggers and photographers are all you need to get inspired and ready to travel to the Emerald City.
(Have a city you'd like to see featured or have a suggestion for this series? Drop us a note.)
