Tagline: Travel and Life Experiences of a Corporate American Runaway
As the only blogger to have helped us get free biscuits we felt Sherry Ott’s Ottsworld should be our first #TravelTuesday featured website. Starting as a Boots n All blog, Ottsworld went it alone in 2008 and is broken into Travel, Life and Photography categories.
Started: July 2006
Sample posts
What Has Travel Taught Me?
Act of Kindness in Jordan
Couch Surfing Regrets
Billed as a 10,000 mile adventure in a tiny car suitable for the weekly shop, the Mongol Rally is a slow drive from the UK or the Czech Republic to the Mongolian capital, Ulaanbaatar. There is no route: participants make their way any which way they can.
Organised by The Adventurists, teams are required to raise £1000 for charity, currently the Christina Noble Children’s Foundation. Since its inception the rally has raised over £1.5 million.
The Mongol Rally starts July 23 (UK) and July 25 (Czech Republic) and can be followed on Twitter via the hashtag #mongolrally or at @mongolrallylive, the official Mongol Rally feed from the Adventurists.
Sitting at my desk a month or so after our return it seems almost like we haven’t been away and that there hadn’t been a seven month gap since I last sat in this chair.
I haven’t forgotten that in those seven months we followed Moses’s footsteps up Mount Sinai, walked in the desert, swam over coral reefs, waited out the Egyptian revolution, swore at numerous taxi drivers in Beirut, stayed in a cave, walked around the Byzantine walls of Diyabakir and crossed the Tigris under an orange sky in Iraq. Those things happened to Traveller Shane, not to Home Shane.
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Someone unfollowed us today. A fellow Twitter user took a look at our shallow ramblings and vain self promotion, thought ‘not for me thanks’ and made a quick motion with their wrist and fingers (not that one) and clicked us into oblivion.
This is not in itself unusual and my normal reaction is ‘meh’ (or ‘SCREW YOU FUCKER’, depending on whether it has been an ‘up’ day or a ‘down’ day). This time though it hurt. Not so much that we had one of those snot bubbles induced by a bout of wracking sobbing but, I won’t lie*, I did shed a single tear and sought solace in a family sized pack of Cheetos smeared in margarine.
For the next two to three months The Working Traveller is going to be concentrating on the Middle East. Why? Because that’s where we are now.
We left our home in Turkey in October and, after spending three months visiting family in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, eating cheese and shouting at our sub dial up internet connection, reached Egypt in the beginning of January.
We are in Dahab, in the Sinai peninsula, and not really doing a great deal. This town is like that. We are travel slugs at the best of times but Dahab has made us worse than usual, restricting our routine to eating, drinking a beer or two and puffing on sheeshas.
Posted in Cairo to (almost) Istanbul, Our Travels, Site News, Travelling 
Tags: dahab, egypt, travel blogging 
6 Comments »I have been trying to think of something Christmassy for our first post on the day Jesus was born. I didn’t want to put too much effort into it though. After all it is Christmas and who wants to work stuffed full of mince pies and sherry when there’s Top Gear and Doctor Who on the telly?
The initial plan of just saying ‘Merry Christmas’ is going to make for a very short post, exactly two words short, so I needed something more.
There’s a gun in the room where I’m staying but fortunately it’s locked away or I would have shot my pathetic internet connection by now. The past month has been spent swearing and throwing the stupid dongle around the kitchen (it’s resilient, I’ll give it that) in between doing a fraction of the work I could be doing. Fortunately the email is not too bad but when it comes to writing an article or putting up a new job it would be quicker to write everything on a piece of paper, lure a monkey into the house, shove the paper up its bum and release it randomly into the wild to find our own Wordpress back end.
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By the time this post goes live we will be back in the UK. There I will be able to eat lots of cheese and watch YouTube clips of my favourite comedians Bill Hicks and Eddie Izzard. Some of you won’t be familiar with Bill Hicks. He died aged 32 in 1994. I could link to him on YouTube except I am writing this in Turkey and YouTube is banned here.
A link to Wikipedia will have to suffice instead. They must not be carrying anything offensive about Ataturk or Turkishness because I can still access that website.
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I have a confession to make: I don’t get facebook. I’m sure if I said this to you at a party you would be slowly inching away from me, but then the chance that you would actually be at a party must surely be pretty remote what with all the blogging, tweeting, stumbling, facebooking and linkedining going on in your life.
Keeping up with all these social media tools is a commitment but one that doesn’t always extend to actual people as Caroline Eubanks found out. When brief but intense shared experiences faded she got dumped by her backpacking buddies on Facebook.
Posted in Blogpacker Review, The Blogpacker Tags: social media, travel blogging, twitter 6 Comments »
This is the third article in an unplanned series on guest posting to other travel websites and blogs.
After the initial 12 Travel Blogs Looking for Guest Posts we received a number of comments from editors behind some well respected blogs that they too would welcome contributions from guest writers.
Rash promises were made and I decided that a follow up article, revealing another 10 Travel Blogs Looking for Guest Posts at GoBackpacking, should add to my own small portfolio of guest writing.
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