Notes from the Road • Travel and Photography Blog

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Web Name: Notes from the Road • Travel and Photography Blog

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Avocets and Archaeologyin Lake County In Oregon's Lake County, I Investigate the value of documenting travel during a pandemic. Includes an interview with Prehistoric Archaeologist Dennis Jenkins. Explore Imagine that you're careening through the city on an old bus, and you find a notebook wedged in the corner of the seat. Open it up. Dusty sketches of swampy backwaters, photographs of foreign lands, illustrations of exotic foods. No destination reviews, no top 10 lists and no industry guest posts. It appears to be written merely for the joy of curious explorers and travelers. This was the reason I set out to create Notes from the Road in 1999. If you enjoy reading about travel, dive in: Notes from the Road rewards readers who enjoy digging deep and exploring even while surfing the web. Check out my Roam section, where I write about everything from organizing for travel, to the importance of science to travel bloggers, to traveling through the deserts of Mexico and the fight to save the marine wilderness of Guana Cay. My Rescue in the Gifford-Pinchot Wilderness Late summer backpacking in a Southwest Washington national forest ends in my terrifying rescue. Includes an interview with rescuer Lauren Dawkins. Puffin Rally to the Látrabjarg Cliffs On a road trip to Iceland's remote Westfjords, I explore the decline of the iconic Atlantic Puffin. Rum-drinking Demons of the Redwood Coast In the Prairie Creek Redwoods State Park, I compare Oregonian and Californian views on public lands. The Ark Saucer of Sauvie Island An unexpected ark sends us to discover the life of the maverick inventor who built it. Shi Shi Beach and the Dark Age of Travel While backpacking on the Olympic Peninsula's Pacific coast, I explore future scenarios for coastal areas. Tamarindo to Tapir Valley Thoughts on a life of sports and green energy in Costa Rica's Guanacaste province. Jefferson Park Wilderness Thoughts on rough roads, carefree trails and backcountry science in Oregon's Jefferson Park. Ghosts of Celestun Biosphere Reserve Into the mangroves, coastal scrub and pink lagoons of Mexico's Yucatan Coast. Sancti Spiritus and the Psychedelic Flyer Through Colonial towns, mangrove forests and Caribbean jungle, I seek the Pedorrera. Habana Vieja and the Little Farter In pursuit of the multicolored Pedorrera, I begin my quest in the historic center of Havana, Cuba. Learning Lake Chewaucan Finding dragonflies and obsidian in Oregon's ancient Lake Chewaucan Lakebed The Sea Cats of Cap de Creus In Spain's northeastern Mediterranean coast, I make the case for itinerary-free travel. A story about finding your own road, rather than chasing a destination, won travel writer Erik Gauger the title of Terra Incognita’s Travel Blogger of the Year competition. My fellow winners in this competition include Ayoku Oyebamiji, a Nigerian Wildlife and Ecotourism Management undergraduate student, ornithologist and conservationist who wrote about a UNESCO world heritage site in Nigeria and Seventeen-year-old Rhianyon Larson, who won the Travel Blogger of the Year Judges’ Choice Youth competition for a piece on Glacier National Park and climate change. You can learn more about me and the history of Notes from the Road in the about section. You can also catch up with my radio interview, where I talk about experimental travel writing, the future of travel blogging and my lessons on learning to travel. I also keep a list of great imrprovised road trip music from the Grateful Dead and Phish. Be Inspired! – Lonely Planet Unexpected frontier of the travel blogosphere – Boston Globe Sumptuous Site – Time Magazine The Best Looking Blog We've Seen – Forbes Magazine Best of the Travel Blogs – National Geographic Traveller Stands out for Hard Journalism – Lowell Thomas Awards in 2012 I illustrate my travel blog with sketches in marker, watercolor, pen and pencil. Travel sketches and travel journals have a way of capturing a place in a way that travel photographs cannot. And they can illustrate a particular thing about a place from the subjective mood and perspective of the traveler. If you're interested in creating your own travel sketchbook, here is a post on creating lightweight travel sketchbook supplies. You can also check out my travel maps, like my West Indies Map, my Portugal map, my Nicaragua map, or my Salton Sea map. Barcelona Journal Drawings, sketches and illustrations from Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. Sicily Sketches Drawings and Moleskine sketches from my travels on the island of Sicily. Paris Sketches and illustrations Notes, drawings, sketches and illustrations in different mediums from Paris My List of Life Birds An updated list of every species of bird I’ve seen in my travels, with sketches and drawings. Moleskine Travel Journals Look inside my travel moleskine journals, which I use to make notes and reference my itinerary. Ernest THE Apes of Gibraltar Notes on Gibraltar and its famous macaques, plus an interview with one of their protectors. Map of Abaco Islands My Copic and watercolor map of the Great Abaco and Little Abaco in the Northern Bahamas Cuba Map My watercolor map of Cuba, featuring the cities on my itinerary. I am collecting a gallery of photos of doors, windows and door details from my travels. Take a look. I don't like to tell people how to travel, how to pack or where to go. But, I think we can learn from each other when we share how we do things. Below are some of my most recent stories on how I organize for travel. Also, Notes from the Road features the Guana Cay Blog, which focuses on a specific example of how megadevelopments can play a negative role in travel destinations. I also keep notes on my bird life list, butterfly life list, reptile life list, dragonflies and damselflies list and amphibian life list. Picking the Right Canon RF Lenses In this travel gear article, I look at Canon's new line-up of lenses and ask, which are the best lenses for different types of photographers? Hamburg Sketch Journal Sketches, illustrations and notes on improvisation and worldbuilding in the Germany's second largest city. Ross Rant Climate Change Claims Refuted Roam In an open letter to the author of the Ross Rant, I challenge his climate change statements. Packing an Ultralight Carry-on Organize In this travel gear article, I explain how to travel with just 10 pounds of carry-on luggage. Doors and Windows of the World My collection of doors, windows and door details from my travels for Notes from the Road Mystery of the Flat Porcelain Crab What is this strange crab hanging out in spring tide barnacles? Hint, it's not a crab. Reinstate The Ban on Elephant Ivory The definitive case for reinstating the ban on elephant ivory and trophy into the United States. Traveling with Watercolors Keep your watercolor pallete organized, and your paints in order for travel sketching. How Many Birds are in North America? A poster claims to display all the birds of North America. But the math doesn't add up. The Super Weird Wax-tail Hopper What on earth is that weird, red-eyed creature with white flames coming out of its rear? Bakers Bay Case Study Questioned Notes from the Road eviscerates case study of New York golf course development. Graphic Novels for Travelers Consider traveling with graphic novels for travelers. Here are my favorites. Packing an Ultralight Backpack for One Night How do you pack for a single night in the backcountry? Here is my gear list. - Craig Federighi, Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, at the 2017 Apple Keynote Address. Apple featured Notes from the Road to introduce the Apple iPhone X, another example of how we have been innovating the look and feel of the future of the web here at our little travel blog. I encourage you to take a look at the site, coded by hand by my brother and fellow traveler, Hans Gauger, on a high-resolution screen. My photographs and illustrations are meant to viewed in a horizontal format on smartphones. Did you know that I created Notes from the Road before the phrase 'travel blog' even existed? In 1999, when I started writing this blog while traveling on a shoestring budget, they called travel blogs, 'online travelogues.' Malheur and the Golden Age of Travel Observations from Oregon's Malheur National Wildlife Refuge after the Bundy occupation. Primeval and Protected Osa Peninsula The Osa Peninsula is a wild gem of protected lowland forest, teeming with life. John Day River Tips on minimalist road trip from the desert canyon roads of Oregon's interior. Scarlet Starsong on the Tambopata River Notes on global biodiversity, from one of its prime hotspots in the Peruvian rainforest. Clatsop County Road Trip On the Oregon coast, I write about my dearest subject: perpetual road travel. The Bright Road to Zingaro Explore Sicily's Tyrhennian coast, with notes on climate and immigration on the island. Mud Road to Coyote Buttes Notes on traveling to the Coyote Buttes during surreal winter weather. Death and Salvation on the New River Notes on ecological devastation and salvation along the New River in Southern California. Letters from the Canopy In the Panama jungle, I write letters to an American pastor who rails against evolution. A beacon of light on the darker roads of travel. © 2020 Erik Gauger. All text, photographs, illustrations, sketches and design created by the author. CSS responsive web design by Hans Gauger.

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