Category Archives: Travel

Some people will camp anywhere.

Sometimes I don’t know what to think about Steve Wallis. He comes off as a truly affable person and his videos, while not stunning in quality, are well past the amateur level… but the guy has built his whole YouTube success around his proclivity for camping in odd places and getting away with it. I don’t even care for camping in an RV at a KOA; I sure don’t have any ambition for sleeping in an unheated abandoned building in the Canadian winter.

Don’t travel overseas without watching these people first.

As I’ve noted elsewhere, there are travel videos that are interesting because they give advice on where to go and there are travel videos that are interesting because they show you places they don’t even recommend you try to go. Wolters World is in the first category – family friendly videos showcasing vacation destinations around the world, complete with tips on where to find bargains, what to avoid, and how to interact with the locals.

Bald and Bankrupt.

Some travel videos carry the message of “you should come here someday and here are the things you should do,” and others carry the message of “we go here so you don’t have to.” I suspect most people would put Benjamin Rich’s videos through what we used to call Soviet Central Asia (think countries ending in -stan) in the latter category. And he’s up to the job… in fact at times he’s downright controversial.