As I wrote in this week’s Where’s Johnny Jet, while speaking this past weekend at the L.A. Times Travel and Adventure Show, I got to hang out with one of my mentors, Rick Steves. BTW: In case you missed it, I was up in Seattle several months ago taping an hour-long radio interview for his nationally syndicated show (130 NPR stations). The show is now available for free as a podcast on his website. Besides my interview and all the other interesting travel experts he has interviewed, he also offers free audio tour guides for a number of cities in Europe. They are a little bit difficult to find on his site so it takes some fishing around (here are the French tours). However, once you find them, all you need to do is download them to your iPod, iPhone, MP3 player or whatever you use and just press play. Rick said he tested them out himself and that they’re very informative but it was just a little weird to hear his own voice talking to him. What’s also cool is that his 21-year-old son Andrew just created his own handy website with travel tips and ideas for students abroad. Check it out!
BONUS WEBSITE OF THE WEEK
One of the reasons I am in this position and doing this job is because of Chris McGinnis.
It’s a long story but when I first started out learning travel secrets, I was obsessed with this man,
who had written a couple of travel tip books and was a daily contributor to CNN. As fate would have it,
the girl I was dating at the time turned out to be friends with him and the next thing you know, he took
me under his wing and posted a link to JohnnyJet.com on his website. Because of that link, Laura Bly from
USA Today found my website and declared it Website of the Week in the newspaper’s weekend travel section.
I’m eternally grateful to both of these people and I only bring it up now because Chris just began a new blog.
Anyone visiting the San Francisco Bay Area should log on for great tips and advice. It’s appropriately called
THE B.A.T.
(Bay Area Travelers). In case you’re curious, he’s also working as Best Western’s travel
expert to help road warriors – here’s the link to that
website.
I hope you find them both helpful!
I have to give some props to my friends over at Unilever.
They’re the ones who are behind AXE body spray and I was recently hired to be their spokesperson for a two-week gig.
Well, they’re at it again with their controversial and seductive ads.
This PG-16 commercial is set on a fantasy airline I wouldn’t mind flying. It looks like it was created for Australia’s
version of AXE, which is called Lynx. So if you’re feeling frisky, you better buckle up for the ride on Lynx Jet.
