Gabriel’s new book is now available! Gabe’s Guide to Budget Travel: Travel Tips, Tricks, Things to Bring and Places to Go; a book compiling tons of practical information picked up by Gabriel Morris from his 20 years of travels. Available as a PDF e-book, and also as a Kindle through Amazon.com! See the links on the right for more info.
"Gabes Guide to Budget Travel", by Gabriel Morris
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Gabe’s Guide to Budget Travel provides useful information on every aspect of planning a budget travel trip; from booking hotel rooms to flights (including one-way and around-the-world flights); to getting packed (includes a complete list of virtually everything you might want to consider taking on your next trip); visas; travel insurance; reviews of favorite places all around the world (many of them little known); and much more. And to take a 2-minute trip around the world right now with Gabriel Morris, check out the video below…
Look around for lots more videos from Gabriel’s world travels (click the “Cool Videos” tab above). And feel free to subscribe to his channel on You Tube for more short travel movies: youtube.com/gabejedmo
"Following My Thumb" by Gabriel Morris
Gabriel Morris is an outdoors enthusiast, world traveler, photographer and writer. He is author of Following My Thumb: A Decade of Unabashed Wanderlust, which chronicles his exciting wanderings during the 1990s with 26 adventurous and humorous travel stories from Europe, the western U.S., Alaska, Hawaii and India.
Gabriel’s travels during the past decade or so have continued, taking him to India (for the 4th time), Nepal, Thailand, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, the Philippines, Malaysia and Singapore. All the photography featured on this site was taken by Gabriel Morris. Search around the site (by clicking the tabs above) to see more about his traveling, writing and photography.
Following My Thumb is a book of adventurous, thought-provoking and oftentimes hilarious budget travel stories like no other. True tales of wanderlust and misadventure contained within its pages include:
*Hitchhiking the length of the United Kingdom
*Sleeping on Greek beaches with a young Swedish woman
*Sleeping out on the streets of Paris
*Sneaking into a French movie theater
*Getting lost in Denali National Park, Alaska
*Getting mixed up with a New Age cult in Sedona, Arizona
*Falling in and out of love with a fellow hitchhiker
*Living in paradise in the Hawaiian rainforest for several months
*Attending a hippie “Rainbow Gathering” on the Arabian Sea of India
*Hiding from tigers in the Indian jungle with two Israeli friends
*Attending a Hindu gathering of millions on the Ganges River
…And much more.
Click the “Following My Thumb” tab at the top of the page to read some short excerpts from the book. Following My Thumb is available as both a paperback (which can be shipped worldwide) and as an e-book.
Note: I am seeking travel writing assignments in magazines and online. If you’re an editor looking for travel stories, articles, advice columns, etc., feel free to contact me at: gabrieltraveler at hotmail (See the Following My Thumb & Travel Articles sections for some previously published writing of mine.)
Here’s another short movie, a guide to the beautiful island of Kauai, Hawaii…
Click the “Cool Videos” tab above for more exciting travel movies. And see below for lots more photos from Gabriel’s travels around the world.
Camels on the beach in Gokarna, India…
Camels on the beach in Gokarna, India.
Horses at the Great Pyramids of Egypt…
Horses at the Great Pyramids of Egypt.
(This photo is also featured in the 2012 Travel Calendar.)
A cat on the island of Santorini, Greece…
A cat on the island of Santorini, Greece.
(This photo is also featured in the 2012 Travel Calendar.)
A street artist in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia…
Street artist in Kuala Lumpur
Hot air balloons rising over Cappadocia, Turkey…
Hot air balloons rising over Cappadocia, Turkey.
(This photo is also featured in the 2012 Travel Calendar.)
A spectacular sunset in Coron, the Philippines…
A sunset in Coron, Philippines
(This photo is also featured in the 2012 Travel Calendar.)
A very full “jeepney” vehicle in the Philippines…
A full "jeepney" in the Philippines.
(This photo is also featured in the 2012 Travel Calendar.)
Two Malaysian men at a market in Kota Kinabalu, on the island of Borneo…
Street market, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia
Bicycle rickshaw drivers in Delhi, India…
Bicycle rickshaw drivers, Delhi, India
Children selling Hindu “puja” bowls on the Ganges River, Rishikesh, India…
Children selling puja bowls in Rishikesh, India
(This photo is also featured in the 2012 Travel Calendar.)
Gabriel’s travel photography is available for purchase as a 2012 calendar featuring his 13 best photos from years of world travel, available through Lulu.com (ships worldwide; you can preview all 13 pages of the calendar here):
http://www.lulu.com/product/calendar/2012-travel-calendar/18760966
Also available is a full color photo book of his best photos from India, Incredible India, which includes FOUR of his books as e-books: Following My Thumb, Kundalini and the Art of Being (a cross-country hitchhiking spiritual adventure story), I Leapt Into the Night (a collection of creative fiction short stories) and Don’t Push the Road (a collection of assorted non-fiction essays and fiction pieces). This also ships worldwide, click here for more info:
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/incredible-india/15842802?productTrackingContext=author_spotlight_64410794_
(More of Gabriel’s travel photography below.)
Gabriel Morris in the Himalaya mountains of northern India…
Gabriel Morris at Joshimath, India
A market in Pauri, India…
A market in Pauri, India.
A monkey and colorful signs in Rishikesh, India….
A monkey and colorful signs in Rishikesh, India.
A full auto rickshaw in Orchha, India…
A full auto rickshaw in Orchha, India.
(This photo is also featured in the 2012 Travel Calendar.)
An Indian vulture in Orchha, India…
An Indian vulture in Orchha, India.
(This photo is also featured in the 2012 Travel Calendar.)
Local villagers in Hampi, India…
Local villagers in Hampi, India.
The Taj Mahal, Agra, India…
The Taj Mahal, India
Gabriel’s travel photography is available for purchase as a 2012 calendar featuring his 13 best photos from years of world travel, available through Lulu.com (ships worldwide; you can preview all 13 pages of the calendar here):
http://www.lulu.com/product/calendar/2012-travel-calendar/18760966
Also available is a full color photo book of his best photos from India, Incredible India, which includes FOUR of his books as e-books:Following My Thumb, Kundalini and the Art of Being (a cross-country hitchhiking spiritual adventure story), I Leapt Into the Night (a collection of creative fiction short stories) and Don’t Push the Road (a collection of assorted non-fiction essays and fiction pieces). This also ships worldwide, click here for more info:
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/incredible-india/15842802?productTrackingContext=author_spotlight_64410794_