106 - Travel around the world with Gary Arndt

Gary Arndt runs one of the most popular travelogue-style blogs in the world. He's one of Twitter's top 50 people and generally pretty well known around most of the internet's coolest social networks. This week we talk to him about something more important than geekery: he's on the last leg of a mammoth two year round the world trip.

During this interview we discuss his travels in the Pacific, Australasia, Asia, the Middle East, North Africa and Europe. Oh, and his home country -- the United States. He talks about diving with jellyfish in Palau and visiting war zones in Cambodia; how to find accommodation and travel successfully without a guidebook.

Gary supplies the monthly travel wallpaper, weekly photos and has also shared the best places to dive in the Pacific. Visit his site, Everything Everywhere and learn how to travel around the world.

And now for something completely different...

Honor Dargan, who we told us about travel in Tokyo, Japan, is a regular guest on the Japan Podshow (iTunes) which is a fun show about travel and expat life in Japan. She's also starting a live twitter chat along with Shane Sakata. They will be available to answer all your Japan questions at Japan Discovered.

Hostelbookers are celebrating their fifth birthday with five cent hostel beds and a great giveaway.

WorldNomads is launching a massive Australia-wide "vantastic" road trip which we'll be talking about next week.