Category: Reviews
The Best Backpacks For Traveling
Best Wheeled Backpacks For travelers who spend a good deal of time in urban areas, or flying a great deal, a wheeled backpack is a great...
Tieks Review: Are these worth the cost for a traveler
Are Tieks worth the price tag? Find out our insider review of the exclusive ballet flats.
ScoreBig Tickets
ScoreBig.com gives users the opportunity to bid on different even tickets around their area. Similar to Priceline.com in the early years...
An Introduction to Darius Lux
We at ATC are constantly inspired by the travelers around us. Having recently met the digital acquaintance of singer/songwriter and...
State of the Union 2011: Opinion
The State of the Union Address was January 25th, 2011, ATC reviews the plans behind President Obama’s speech. Transportation: One...
Long Way Round – REVIEW
We recently watched the series Long Way Round, where Charlie Boorman and Ewan McGregor ride their BMWs from London to New York– the...
MooMu Media – Spotlight
A lot of people are interested in how much money our website makes, how we acquired so much content for the blog, and how we created the...
UK Discount Codes
As many of you know, we’ve been busy preparing for the upcoming Mongol Rally. In so doing, we’ve been looking for a lot of equipment....
Documentary Review: ‘Running the Sahara’
Few documentary films offer more adventure, travel, excitement, danger, cultural education, athleticism and an inside look at human...
Abandon the Cube in the Media
Abandon the Cube has been extremely fortunate to be featured across the web and in print media while in the USA. Below are some of the...
Resources for Resourceful Travelers
We get a lot of questions about how we manage different aspects of full-time travel. To answer them, we’ve put together a special...
Travel Bloggers Who Make a Difference
We have been extremely fortunate in who we have come in contact with through Abandon the Cube. We’ve met so many amazing travelers,...
A Reflective Look at ATC’s Past Two Years
Abandon the Cube has been around since 2008. While we’re not into celebrating a massive birthday party for the website or the...
Review: REI Stores
REI -Recreational Equipment Incorporated- started out as a club of like-minded outdoorsman who wanted equipment that was not being provided...
Book Reviews: Travel Literature on the Road
On the road last year I read several travel books. Below are a few reviews of some of the amazing adventure tales I’ve enjoyed...
Book Reviews: History on the Road
Traveling is a great way to learn. Every new city visited is a deeper insight into the region’s past and why it developed as it did....
Book Review: Vagabonding, by Rolf Potts
If you have ever entertained the idea of long-term travel, or ‘Vagabonding’ as Rolf Potts terms it, then this book is an...
Why I Dont Own a Cell Phone
This isn’t one of those hippy diatribes about the body corporate, or a quasi-scientific spiel about the plausible connection between...
Book Review: Rising / Falling – Always Hoping: A Journey to a Part of Asia, by Craig Chamberlain
This is the only book written about the Mongol Rally. As many of you know, we are participating in this 10,000 mile adventure across Europe...
Book Review: Lost on Planet China: One man’s attempt to understand the world’s most mystifying nation, by Maarten Troost
If you have ever been to China, then Lost on Planet China will be full of inside jokes only you and other China travelers will understand....
The George Bush Presidential Library
A recent visit to the George Bush Presidential Library in College Station, Texas revealed a deeper look at the man, the President and the...
Book Review: Smile When You’re Lying: Confessions of a Rogue Travel Writer, by Chuck Thompson
Chuck Thompson is an infamous name in the travel industry. He has been a long-time critic of how Americans perceive the rest of the world,...
Book Review: The Ridiculous Race: 26,000 miles, 2 guys, 1 globe, no airplanes, by Steve Hely and Vali Chandrasekaran
Steve and Vali made a deal with each other. The first one to circumnavigate the globe by land would win a bottle of the most expensive...
Book Review: The Geography of Bliss, by Eric Weiner
If you are interested in social psychology and how the conceptual understanding of happiness varies between cultures, then The Geography of...
Abandon the Cube Featured on Lonely Planet
Good news for travel buffs, Lonely Planet now has a program that features great travel blogs. This program has exploded in the travel...
