30th Year Project: Bibliography

Any traveler worth her salt has reference material....for idea generation and practicalities. A few of my favorites.

Inspiration

Books
Elizabeth Eaves, Wanderlust : A Love Affair with Five Continents
Holly Morris, Adventure Divas

Great American Travel Writing anthologies

National Geographic, Journeys of a Lifetime

Eyewitness Travel, 100 Countries, 5000 ideas

Italo Calvino, Invisible Cities

Paulo Coelho, The Pilgrimage

Jack London, Call of the Wild

Bill Bryson, In a Sunburned Country and Neither Here Nor There

Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild

John Oldale, A World of Curiosities

Don Quixote, El ingenioso hidalgo don Quijote de la Mancha

Tony Horwitz, Blue Latitudes
Vanina Marsot, Foreign Tongue: A Novel of Life and Love in Paris
Cheryl Strayed, Wild
Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump's Search for the Happiest Places in the World
John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley
Jess Walter, Beautiful Ruins
Chinua Achebe, Things Fall Apart
Jules Vern, Around the World in 80 Days
Paul Theroux, The Last Train in Africa

Writers/blogs

Steve Kamb, How to Travel Around the World for $418
The Happily Ever After Project
Barry and Laura, Worldly Nomads
Eva, Beyond Voyage

Andrea, 30 things blog

Levi Weintraub, Long Ride South

Madeline Irwin, Dulce Adventures

Larry Closs, TrekWorld
Beth Whitman, Wanderlust and Lipstick

Photographers/photography sites

Tiny Atlas Quarterly

Tom Lowe, Timescapes

EarthPorn

Afar

Movies

Auberge Espagnole (The Spanish Apartment)

Motorcycle Diaries

Midnight in Paris

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

The Way

180 Degrees South

The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

A Map for Saturday

Lost in Translation

Y Tu Mama Tambien

Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Historical reference

Giles Tremlett, Ghosts of Spain: Travels through Spain and its Silent Past

Eduardo Galeano, Open Veins of Latin America

Etc

New York Times annual places to go articles (namely 2013 and 2014)

Afar Where to go (2014)

National Geographic Best Trips 2014

Logistics

Traditional resources
National Geographic site, magazines and guidebooks
Lonely Planet site and guidebooks
New York Times travel section
San Francisco Public Library

Planning tools

Important document toolkit from LifeHacker

International health insurance (expatriate style)

Schwab no fees checking accounts

Useful websites

US State Department website

Consular websites by country

FlyerTalk

Google Translate

Kayak

Lonely Planet Thorntree forum

Facebook