David Rich has been just about everywhere. After seventeen years of travel around the world in an RV, he wrote a book about it…with good advice for travelers and a wealth of anecdotes gleaned from life on the road. In the second edition of RV the World first published in 2009, Rich updates his book and […]
In the Beginning…the Monkey on My Back: To See It All For my part, I travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move; to feel the needs and hitches of our life more nearly; to come down off this feather-bed of civilization, and find […]
The Real Way: Camino Santiago Pilgrimage in Spain By David Rich Was I bonkers to walk 500 miles from France through Spain, along with the dozens of characters I’d met during an amazing month lugging an obscene pack along an ancient Roman road through medieval citadels crowned with castles and cathedrals? Everyone back home said […]
GoNOMAD Photo Gallery: The Arctic. Photographs by David Rich David RichDavid Rich is GoNOMAD’s most intrepid writer, braving blizzards, monsoons, desert heat and State Department travel advisories to visit the world’s most out-of-the-way places from the Karakoram Mountains in Pakistan to the wilds of Borneo to the Harley-Davidson Rally Week in Sturgis, South Dakota. He lives […]
Burning happens around Labor Day at the Black Rock Desert in Nevada. It’s been going on for 30 plus years and it takes a great deal of perseverance to survive, since there are dust storms and you can’t even dispose of water at your campsite. Photos by David Rich David RichDavid Rich is GoNOMAD’s most intrepid […]
Rocamadour, at an angle. photos by David Rich. France with Ze French Chef By David Rich Contrary to what your mom told you, always talk to strangers. Then like me you may meet a personal tour guide for France, a grumpy Brit for traveling Sudan and Ethiopia, a Kyrgyz German lady to help explore the […]
By David Rich Walking around Kazakhstan’s former capital of Almaty was like walking into a convention of female Russian tennis stars, streets strewn with willowy lasses cavorting in short skirts swirling icy blonde hair, a welcome change to the natural expectation that most everyone would resemble unglamorous buffoons, aka Borat. [Editor’s note: Borat is a […]
By David Rich I’ve always been fascinated with Cappadocia in central Turkey. With its underground churches with colorful ancient murals, cave houses carved into ten-story high cliffs, and weird volcanic tufa sculpted by rain and wind into chaotic shapes, mostly tall, round and pointy, it’s unlike anywhere else on earth. The epitome of this visualization […]
By David Rich I was impressed, asking the slick looking chap chugging a Coors at the front door of the Silverton Saloon, What’s the heck’s the party for? Music blared out the swinging doors and short-skirted women hung around the guy like Hugh Hefner had left the country and moved abroad. A smile split his […]
A GoNOMAD Photo Gallery Photographs by David Rich David RichDavid Rich is GoNOMAD’s most intrepid writer, braving blizzards, monsoons, desert heat and State Department travel advisories to visit the world’s most out-of-the-way places from the Karakoram Mountains in Pakistan to the wilds of Borneo to the Harley-Davidson Rally Week in Sturgis, South Dakota. He lives […]
A GoNOMAD Photo Gallery about the famous motorcycle gathering in Sturgis, South Dakota Sturgis Rally Week Photographs by David Rich David RichDavid Rich is GoNOMAD’s most intrepid writer, braving blizzards, monsoons, desert heat and State Department travel advisories to visit the world’s most out-of-the-way places from the Karakoram Mountains in Pakistan to the wilds of […]
Yemen: A Bridge to Antiquity Photographs by David Rich Read David Rich’s story About Yemen David RichDavid Rich is GoNOMAD’s most intrepid writer, braving blizzards, monsoons, desert heat and State Department travel advisories to visit the world’s most out-of-the-way places from the Karakoram Mountains in Pakistan to the wilds of Borneo to the Harley-Davidson Rally […]
