3 Blogs to Checkout...

1. http://tasteontour.com/
"Taste, On Tour" is an awesome travel blog that is maintained and created by Joe Kwon, the cellist in the celebrated band, The Avett Brothers. The band documents food that they taste as they travel around on tour performing at various venues across the country. Kwon keeps the blog up to date on an almost a daily basis; reviewing restaurants, taking pictures and giving recipes. I personally love the blog because I am an avid fan of the Avett Brothers. If your interested in music, the band has reached new level's of success with their recent album "The Carpenter and definitely worth a check out. Anyways, the blog offers insight to the daily life of the band along with up to date pictures of shows that are enough to satiate the appetite of any music enthusiast. Kwon's past experience with food is very apparent through his continuous critique's and knowledge especially when it comes to asian cuisine. Cool pictures, unique recipes, and restaurants define this colorful page.  I would highly recommend this page to any Avett Brothers Fan, food enthusiast, or someone just looking to kill some time on a interesting blog.

2. http://nookandpantry.blogspot.com/
Nook & Pantry is a student based blog from Seattle devoted to giving us delectable home based recipes. A student named Amy established the blog in 2007 and since then it has become a cluttered archive of delicious recipes. Written in a very approachable, laid-back style almost every recipe is easy to follow. Personally, I was attracted to her baking section, one of my weaker points in cooking, where I found a French bread recipe that was not only superbly easy to follow but also didn't ask for a tons of exact measurements of only stuff I would never have available in my normal kitchen. So big thumbs up to the baking section for saving me bread money this week. Nook & Pantry serves almost any dinner recipe to your computer with quick and easy directions.. by far the most complete recipe blog I've encountered!

3. http://www.lonelyplanet.com/blog
As far as Travel goes Lonely Planet is the be all end all. No organization offers a more comprehensive guide to travel at an international level than Lonely Planet in my opinion. I backpacked through India, and Guatemala with the sole help of a LP book which is why I hold these books to a biblical standard of worship. Therefore, as far as travel blogs go my first inclination was to checkout what Lonely Planet online had to offer. Although the blog is full of interesting articles and pieces on foreign places that may spark a cool idea, I was a little let down by the blog as a whole because of it's broad spectrum. A travel blog should be something you can navigate due to your interest in a region, type of traveling you do, or even past places you've been yet LP's blog seems to lump these all in to a twitter-like forum so that it may take you a whole god-forsaken 15 minutes to find an article that really interests you. Admittedly, Lonely Planet's whole website is incredibly informative and easy to navigate therefore you can always look up what you want there. But as far as travel blogs go I would tend to steer clear of lonely planet's blog and checkout something more a specific that really incites your scope of travel.


Another side note (self-advertisement) on travel blogs. I used the blog medium TUMBLR to create one primarily for pictures of my trip to India. If you want to check it out to use the format yourself or maybe just see some interesting pictures the site is http://thesearchformywife.tumblr.com/  (The friend had a certain partiality towards Indian women hence the title)