{"id":2095,"date":"2010-08-14T09:57:44","date_gmt":"2010-08-14T16:57:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/?page_id=2095"},"modified":"2012-08-11T13:28:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-11T20:28:42","slug":"the-longest-way-home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/1-2\/the-longest-way-home\/","title":{"rendered":"The Longest Way Home Travel Blog | TheLongestWayHome.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><strong>The Site: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelongestwayhome.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">TheLongestWayHome.com<\/a><\/strong><\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Journal style travelogue by a guy who has been traveling for over 5 years straight<\/li>\n<li>Up-to-date blogs about daily life, reflections on life and observations about the people he has met and places he has visited<\/li>\n<li>Very comprehensive photo galleries and videos<\/li>\n<li>Free &#8220;How-to&#8221; travel tips for destinations rarely covered in travel guides.<\/li>\n<li>Includes a handy &#8220;follow along&#8221; travel map &#8211; especially useful for places you may not have heard of<\/li>\n<li>Follow The Longest Way Home on <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/TLWH\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Longest Way Home on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/The-Longest-Way-Home\/72353588415\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Longest Way Home is one man&#8217;s quest to find &#8220;home&#8221; by traveling the world. The site includes an itinerary of his journeys, a blog, a photo gallery, stories and tips for travelers. So far, this intrepid homeless person has traveled overland from China to Portugal and then on to several locations in Africa. When we visited him, he had just taken his first trip by air to the Philippines.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>The Good<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>We were initially suspicious, thinking it was going to be another boring backpacker&#8217;s brag list of places he has been to. Instead, we found a sensitively written travelogue by a guy who really seems to be searching for a place to call &#8220;home.&#8221; \u00a0He shares our prejudices with regards to arrogant up-market tourists, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelongestwayhome.com\/blog\/philippines-journal\/yes-there-are-good-expats-in-the-philippines\/\" target=\"_blank\">sex-pats<\/a>&#8221; and party-backpackers, so we admit to a strong bias in his favor from the beginning. \u00a0However, he also finds the beauty in every place he visits and records it all eloquently in his blog, stories and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelongestwayhome.com\/travel-photography.html\" target=\"_blank\">photographs and videos<\/a>. \u00a0We came away from this website inspired to travel and explore.<\/p>\n<h5><strong>The Bad<\/strong><\/h5>\n<p>If we have one complaint about The Longest Way Home, it would be that it suffers from information overload. The author has been traveling for over 5 years and it is all there on his website. \u00a0This can keep armchair travelers occupied for nearly the length of time he&#8217;s been traveling. \u00a0Surprisingly, this is one site where we would have liked to have seen more advertising. \u00a0 After he inspired us to visit the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thelongestwayhome.com\/Countries\/philippines.html\" target=\"_blank\">Philippines<\/a>, for example, we had to leave his site in order to find the best travel deals to that country.<\/p>\n<div id=\"social-essentials\" class=\"se_left\"><div class=\"se_button se_button_small\" style=\"width:85px;margin:0px 0px 0px 0px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/share\" class=\"twitter-share-button\" data-url=\"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/1-2\/the-longest-way-home\/\" data-text=\"The Longest Way Home Travel Blog | TheLongestWayHome.com\" data-via=\"pamela_jones\" data-counturl=\"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/1-2\/the-longest-way-home\/\" data-count=\"horizontal\" data-lang=\"en\">Tweet<\/a><\/div><div class=\"se_button se_button_small\" style=\"width:72px;margin:0px 0px 0px 0px\"><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/1-2\/the-longest-way-home\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"button_count\" width=\"90\" show_faces=\"false\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"se_button se_button_small\" style=\"width:60px;margin:0px 0px 0px 0px\"><g:plusone size=\"medium\" href=\"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/1-2\/the-longest-way-home\/\" count=\"true\"><\/g:plusone><\/div><\/div><div class=\"clear\"><\/div><style type=\"text\/css\">#call_to_action h4{padding:0px 5px;}<\/style>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Site: TheLongestWayHome.com Journal style travelogue by a guy who has been traveling for over 5 years straight Up-to-date blogs about daily life, reflections on life and observations about the people he has met and places he has visited Very comprehensive photo galleries and videos Free &#8220;How-to&#8221; travel tips for destinations rarely covered in travel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":525,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2095","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2095"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2095\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2464,"href":"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2095\/revisions\/2464"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/travelsitecritic.com\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}