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In The Know Traveler
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I started In The Know Traveler in 2004 with the sincere desire to continue to see the world and inspire more people to do the same. I figured that if more of us were traveling we would discover that we had more in common than not with others. Maybe we could see each other for our similarities, rather than our differences. Over 4000 articles later, this message has not changed. If anything, it is more important than ever. I do hope you will continue to find your inspiration and commitment in exploring your world right here at In The Know Traveler.
We travel because we are supposed to know each other.
Questions You Should Ask
What is In The Know Traveler?
ITKT, as we like to call it, is an online travel magazine dedicated to international travel and cultural exchange. We do this through personal stories, video and photos covering 189 countries around the world. And we have been doing it since 2004 — so we know a thing or two about travel 😉
What the secret mission?
I started ITKT in 2004 with the sincere desire to get more Americans passports in their hands and traveling. Secretly, I hope that if we all traveled more, we would realize how much we have in common as people, as humans. Perhaps, we would not have to fight with each other so often. I know, the pipe dream of world peace is a long shot, but it is one pipe dream worth pursuing. Until then, let’s get to know each other. It is another dream worth pursuing.
Your web site sure has a lot of raspberry in it?
Honestly, I was listening to Raspberry Beret by Prince when the idea of changing my life and building this site began. So, this is my small homage to a truly talented musician. Lots of yellow (I think Prince went through a yellow phase) and green (I just like it), too.
Are you that guy getting married all over the world?
I am. My wife and I are shooting for 100 weddings in 100 countries. You can check us out at In The Know Bride. Honestly, it is one of the better relationship choices I have ever made.
Why should I read/like/return to ITKT?
I suppose what makes ITKT different is we publish writers from all over the world, while managing to not be a corporation. We are real people writing about real travel. We have very few ads because we like to do what we want.
Can I travel for Free, like you?
Yes, I have a program that teaches you how to travel for free without having to be a blogger. Blogging is fine for some but no everyone wants a career of taking selfies and posting photos on Instagram. There is a much better way to do it. Sign up for our newsletter for more.
Can I write for you?
Yes, totally. We don’t pay much but happy to see how we can work together. For more on this, visit our Submission Guidelines or our Writers’ Checklist
About Us
Chris Willett first discovered the world from behind a drum kit. In 1988, a European tour took him through Brussels, Cologne, and Amsterdam, with a standout appearance at the NorthSea Jazz Festival. Years of touring across the United States, Canada, and Mexico
followed, along with a career as a software engineer that never quite left the travel bug behind.
When the opportunity arose to take the helm at In The Know Traveler, Chris saw a chance to combine two lifelong passions: technology and seeing the world. His background in software engineering has already shaped the technical side of the site, and as the new
owner he is committed to keeping Devin’s vision alive while building something sustainable for the future. He plans to be doing a lot more traveling, and a lot more writing about it.
Steve Smith inherited the wanderlust and has always needed to see what's around the next corner. In his college years he enjoyed many memorable forays into Mexico sleeping on beaches under the stars, but today that's all changed.
Since 2006 he's contributed stories and photographs to In The Know Traveler, and in 2014 he assumed an editor role. Published both in digital and print formats, his international assignments have taken him to the Middle East, Asia, North/Latin/South America, Europe, and the Caribbean. Together with his co-pilot, today his global road travels intersect with digital storytelling and dynamically add to them with space-age mapping technology.
Devin Galaudet the Editor and Publisher of the well-established In The Know Traveler series of web sites, which celebrates ten years in August. His previous careers include professional card player, antique storeowner, and assistant picture editor for Miramax.
Devin has written for the Huffington Post, Technorati, The Citron Review and has had Dad-inspired material featured in Two Hawks Quarterly literary journal. He holds an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Antioch University at Los Angeles.
If you have a question about any of the In The Know Traveler sites contact him directly here. For information about submitting your story to In The Know Traveler visit our submission guidelines.
And now for our latest stories…
7 Megalith Sites of Melaka: The Hunt into Myth
Most visitors never know Melaka holds ancient standing stones said to grow year by year. A road trip into Malaysia’s megalith country, and the folklore of the lords who raised them.
An Unexpected Hello from Clifden, Ireland
At about 2pm on Monday, May 11, nearing the end of five months of travel, I had already had quite a long day. I had just finished hiking Diamond Hill in Connemara National Park, about two hours from Galway, and my feet were almost as tired as my will…
Toledo: The World’s Finest Swords
It was a sunny yet cold morning in the ancient town of Toledo, Spain. I could feel the tourists' happiness wandering the narrow and colorful streets, delighted to explore a place that offers such a historical and archeological uniqueness. For no other reason, it is...
Silversmithing in Breckenridge’s Arts District
When I think of Breckenridge, Colorado, I immediately think of skiing, so I wasn't sure what to do when meeting a group of friends there during the off-season. Imagine my surprise to find myself trying my hand at silversmithing/transforming clay into a silver pendant!...
Fall in Love with the Falkland Islands
The Falkland Islands is a wild and unspoilt archipelago of 776 small and mainly uninhabitable bits of land, with two large islands deep in the South Atlantic Ocean on the Patagonian Shelf. This British Overseas Territory has been the subject of ownership disputes...
My Life on the Road: Touring America One Gig at a Time
Before I was a travel writer, I was a traveling musician. And before I was a traveling musician, I was a kid from Ann Arbor who just wanted to see what was out there. The thing about touring is that you don't usually see the tourist version of anywhere. You see the...
A New Chapter for In The Know Traveler
Some of you have been reading In The Know Traveler since the very beginning, back when Devin started this thing in 2004 as a way to share real travel stories and convince more people to get out and see the world. We became friends around this time. Others found us...
Havana:
Dancing with Gods and Goddesses
Havana Like an untethered live wire, Havana sizzles at a single touch. Rumba music serenades the city from the balconies of colonial mansions as mango juice cups are hawked from their first floor window sills. Fiery competitions of street-corner domino games punctuate...
A Stranger Roadtrippen’ in a Strange Land —
How I Learned to Road Trip Abroad
Friends often call me a NASA-TV nerd. I watch transfixed by late night filler video of an earth rotating below the orbiting International Space Station, and in the same way I' m fascinated at how Google Earth maps depict the earth from space. I've found it to be my...
Siwa — A Magical Oasis in Egypt’s Western Desert
There was once a straight road from Cairo to the Siwa Oasis, but the desert had other ideas. Wind and sand wiped away any hopes of such convenient travel and that road is closed off today. The only way to Siwa now is up to the port of Marsa Matruh, and then down again...
Hwange Safari Tour: Zimbabwe
I visited Hwange as part of an organized safari tour. When they told me that I was heading to this park, I was unsure about what was to come. I had never heard about Hwange National Park before and most of what I had seen in Zimbabwe previously, had been a...