Bill Wiatrak is a travel author, entertainer and video producer of travel content. He is visiting every country in the world.
Copper Canyon was on my bucket list for years and for some reason I just could never seem to get there. However, the craziness of 2020 was the perfect time to get away from the US and find some wide open COVID-free spaces in Mexico. My research didn’t turn up much information about traveling there without booking an expensive tour, so I just drove my car from...
Travel has changed in the last decade as guidebooks and maps have disappeared and apps have proliferated. Apps can help you to book hotels, find the best places to visit, share your trip with others, and broadcast your adventures to the world. Besides a passport (on international trips), your phone is the single most important item you need to bring on your trip...
It all started with a last minute party invitation. My friend Deb was hosting a Tiger King themed get-together for her birthday party. The reality show was at the height of its popularity and party goers were asked to dress like a character from the show. Hmmmm…..what to wear? Years of being a performer has filled my closet with animal print shirts and jackets...
There’s a whole lotta nothing in west Texas, which is why many of us stop driving as soon as we’ve made it to San Antonio. I’ve traveled around the world, but until recently visiting a place like Guadalupe Mountain National Park seemed as far away as the moon. Guadalupe what? You may have never even heard of Texas’ second national park because...
You’ve probably heard that 2020 is the year of the “road trip”. With social distancing rules and countless businesses closed,vacationing has become seemingly impossible.Travel has certainly become more difficult and there’s certainly less choices, but as we figure out how to live in the new reality, alternative travel is starting to boom. I...
When the Covid-19 lock-down started, I realized I was in trouble. Both my jobs, travel writer and entertainer, suddenly tanked. No one wants to read articles about places they can’t go and every event my company had booked from Easter through the summer started canceling like toppling dominoes. I had trips scheduled to Quebec, India, Burning Man, and Italy that...
Cemetery tourism is actually a “thing” and if you’ve never searched a graveyard for a famous headstone, you’ve been missing out. It’s a little history mixed with a scavenger hunt with some mystery and horror thrown in for good luck. This post is a work in progress, but will contain pictures of some of my more famous finds with locations...
No matter how many times I plugged in my destinations into Google Maps, the route led straight through New York City. At the moment of writing, New York City has the the worst outbreak of Coronavirus in the country. Traveling into the city is a bad option. However, my travel partner, Julie had never been to NY and looked dreamily in the air when I...
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TURNING YOUR HOME INTO YOUR BEST FRIEND “Alexa, play The Matrix movie, turn on my fireplace and put bedroom fan at 30%.” I’m spoiled. Alexa is my virtual assistant (read digital sweat shop worker) and between her and my other “robots”, almost everything in my house is turned on, off or moderated by my voice. If you’re new to smart homes, smart water or smart...