Friday Flashback: Networking in New York City

Sunday street market outside the Chelsea Hotel.

After the conclusion of my 'round the world trip, I landed back in northern Virginia.  I used the next 11 months to meet as many people in the online travel community as possible.  This effort entailed networking in New York City over the course of 4 separate trips, which coincidentally coincided with all four seasons (Summer, Autumn, Winter, Spring).

I easily met dozens (and hundreds after TBEX) of travel aficionados, bloggers, writers, and entrepreneurs I'd previously only known from blogs, Facebook and Twitter.  These short-term social whirlwinds acted as a needed counterbalance to the time I was spending alone, writing and blogging from my parent's house.

• Sosauce / Matador BBQ in Brooklyn
• The Best American Travel Writing 2009
• Navigating the Adventures in Travel Expo
• Travel Gets Social at 92YTribeca
• #Twitaoke: Travel Blogger's Rock NYC's Koreatown
• Recap: Social Media and the Travel Industry Roundtable
• My Thoughts on #TBEX 2010

Dave Lee

Dave is the Founder and Editor in Chief of Go Backpacking and Feastio, a food blog. He's been to 65 countries and lived in Colombia and Peru. Originally from New York, Dave now calls Austin, TX home. Read the complete story of how he became a pro travel blogger.