I’ve been blogging with Neil for about a year now wondering how the heck is he managing to crank out such bounty with his sly wit and traveler’s know-how. Since the number of posts Gading manages to put out in a day are sometimes hard to keep up with, I thought I’d give you a sampling of my favorites of Neil’s.
Of course, like he wrote when he signed off today from Gadling on his last post–his 2,000th, I’m sure we haven’t read the last of Neil. However, I thought that someone who has 2,000 posts in two years certainly could have a post dedicated to him. It’s not exactly the same as the trophy-like statue of the Greek god Hermes pictured here, but hopefully it will suffice. Hermes is linked to travel among other things.
(Neil, to turn this into a real statue, you can print out a copy of the picture, carefully cut around the outline of the statue like a paper doll, glue it onto a piece of tag board, cut around that, affix it to a toothpick with tape, stick one end of the toothpick in a bit of playdough or something and perhaps you can get it to stand up.)
Statues aside, this is what 1% of 2,000 looks like–20 posts. But, first, here’s my all time favorite written for our April Fool’s Day bonanza in 2007. Bush Lifts Mark Cuban Travel Ban
These are culled since April of 2007. I picked these because they either made me laugh, inspired me to write my own post, I learned something I didn’t know, brought back some of my own travel memories or gave me useful information that I used. You can decide which is which.
1. Iceland’s putrid fish delicacy.
2. Infiltrating North Korea Part 15: More song and dance, and a conundrum about chocolate
3. Help Gadling buy this woman a cow
4. How to buy goods confiscated by TSA
5. The museum of broken relationships
6. Dumpster diving: The cheapest way to eat when traveling.
7. Hollywood’s Craziest Foriegn Country Stereotypes
8. Turd Coffee: An Indonesian Specialty
9. Affordable Float Plane Fishing in Alaska Part 1: A How to Guide
10. 9,000 Naked Men in Search of Wood
11. The Thankless Life of a Sherpa
12. Removing Leeches
13. The Philippine Penal System Vacation: Free Song, Dance and Meals!
14. Best (Authentic) Mexican Restaurants in Los Angeles
15. Disneyland’s Secret Restaurant
16. Griffith Park: A return from the ashes
17. Are Cookies on your Computer Increasing the Cost of Your Vaction?
18. Go Now before They’re Gone: Conde Nast Traveler’s 20 Most Threatened Places
19. The Strange, Uncomfortable Silence of Naked Germans
20. Cow Tourism