archives: Matador Community
Matador Participates in Passports with Purpose & YOU Can Win!
If you’re at all connected in the travel blogging community, it’s likely that you already know about Passports with Purpose. Just in ca [...]
Trespassers Welcome!
Matador members are always rolling out cool projects at home and abroad. Today, long-time Matador member Olivia Hambrett launches the online magazin [...]
Wise Words from Working Writers
Matador’s own Tim Patterson popped up in an interview on Written Road this week — you can read it here — and the discussion (with a [...]
C’mon & take a free ride… to Indonesia!
I’ve said it before, but it bears repeating: Matador members are incredible people. They travel not just to see the world, but to take in what [...]
Matador Endorses Barack Obama For President
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Picks of the Week: New Orleans
Photo by Eva Holland I’ve just arrived back in New Orleans for a second visit, after catching a serious case of the smittens for the city when [...]
If You Can’t Make It & Shake It…
Last week, we announced Matador’s upcoming party, which is less than a month away. We hope you’ll be able to make it, but if not, pleas [...]
What’s your favorite travel gadget?
A Matador member’s home in Baja Do you have a favorite travel gadget or must-have piece of travel gear? Maybe it’s a perfect pack or a t [...]
Calling All Party People!
The Matador Team is throwing a party and you’re invited! When: Saturday, August 16th 9 PM to 2 AM Where: 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, Ca [...]
Matador Community Spotlight: Members on the Web, Part 2
In the first part of our occasional series spotlighting the interests and projects of Matador members, we introduced you to 7 people living, travelin [...]
Ingrid Betancourt: LIBRE!!
I couldn’t have been happier to come home last night to the news from journalist and Colombia-based Matador member Richard McColl that Ingrid Be [...]
So You Think You’re Well-Traveled?
Matador member Lola Akinmade–herself a carrier of a well-inked passport leafed with multiple visas–sent in a tip about the website Most [...]
Bye-bye backpacker, hello flashpacker?
Guest Editorial by Matador member Matt Kepnes Somewhere before my bus broke down in Australia, I was called a flashpacker. Despite being on the road [...]
Freebie of the Week: The Snake Charmer
Back when they were in college, my parents’ idea of a cool Saturday night date was hunting for snakes in the Florida swampland. Perhaps that’s [...]
Community Spotlight: Matador Members Online
Another one of the perks of the Pulse editing job is surfing through the Matador network and meeting really interesting travelers who aren’t s [...]
Member Spotlight: Not Your Average Summer Vacation
Ahh… June. Time for the annual family vacation! The average experience of spending quality time with the family is generally equal parts fun and f [...]
Visual Guidebook: Triporia.com
I recently posted an entry about TripFilms, which I dubbed the traveler’s version of YouTube. Afterwards, I received an e-mail from Matador mem [...]
“Ya’ll come see us now, ya hear?”
The South: It ain’t all ’bout beer ‘n’ guns. Pulse co-editor Eva Holland recently returned from a month-long road trip aroun [...]
What We Hate About Travel… & Love to Complain About
Matador members love travel, and because they’re on the road, in the skies, and on the seas so much, they have a lot to say about how the trave [...]
Pulse Picks of the Week: Know Your Host(elier)
The Matador community is full of people with interesting businesses, and it’s not surprising that a handful of members are travel industry entr [...]
Cameras for Community Change
Many people carry cameras to capture images of the people and places they encounter while traveling, but what happens when the people who are usually [...]
Picks of the Week: Cheap Europe Round-Up!
Photo by Eva Holland Ahhh, Europe. Sometimes I think I could spend the rest of my life lounging on a bench in a Venetian campo, or wandering the co [...]
Top 10 Ways to Use Matador
The Matador Team brings you our 10 favorite ways to use Matador every day. Warning: you might get addicted. [...]
