Bill Wiatrak is a travel author, entertainer and video producer of travel content. He is visiting every country in the world.
Austin is unlike any other city in Texas, or anywhere else really. The capitol city is famous for it’s music scene and artistic laid-back attitude, but places within a few hours drive have never seemed as exciting to me as going somewhere where you have to board a plane. Consequently, I have always bypassed Austin for greener pastures. When I ended up...
I’ve been to Holland half a dozen times and there’s always something interesting going on in the country, but I had never seen the tulips in bloom until my visit there last week. As a man who rarely takes more than an occasional flower picture, I surprised myself by snapping hundreds of images of these beautiful blooms. I had no idea that flowers could...
I was in my twenties the first time I tried escargot. I thought I had truly broken all culinary barriers as I savored the garlic infused gastropod in the name of gastronomy. Thirty something years later I often find myself ordering the strangest things on menus around the world. There’s a reason that travel shows about food are...
I was sitting in a wine bar the first time I ever heard of Geocaching. Two women at the table next to me were discussing their recent trip to New York and I kept hearing “geocaching” in the conversation. At first I thought they might be geologists but they were much to excited to be talking about rocks. My curiosity got the better of me and I finally...
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I’ve never loved Priceline commercials. Maybe it’s because William Shatner seems much better suited to battling Gorn on a deserted planet than breaking through walls in a suit that seems a little too tight. Maybe it’s because their name doesn’t really sound “fun”. That whole “negotiator” theme seems designed to make you...
For years Ireland has held a magical and mystical image to a lot of Americans. What do you think of when you hear about Ireland? Let’s chauns, green beer, St. Patrick, rainbows and Game of Thrones. If you ask me, all that sounds pretty mystical. September to March is a great time to go visit the Isle of green. Why? Because the crowds disappear and the prices plunge...
Guess who has the highest car crash mortality rate in the world? That’s right. The country I’ve been driving in; Namibia. After a long day on a DIY safari, we left Etosha National Park in northern Namibia and headed towards our campsite near the Angola border. We had an hour drive, so we entertained ourselves by talking about where we were going and the...
I know cartoons aren’t real (except for Scooby Doo of course) so my expectations for Madagascar didn’t really include singing lemurs and wise-cracking penguins, but I did imagine that it was quite different than it really is. It’s very difficult to get the real scoop on this country since Google maps will NOT give you driving directions and you...
A great man once said “Chocolate doesn’t ask silly questions, chocolate understands”. Actually it might as well have been a woman for all we know since it’s one of those quotes that nobody has ever claimed. Ask most people how they feel about chocolate and you can almost watch the wave of euphoria creep across their face...