Introducing: Where’s Andrew?

Want more info on where Andrew’s going? Click through to read the Editor’s Note and watch a video of Keith talking about the project.

Editor’s Note
November/December 2010 Issue of National Geographic Traveler

Lately, we’ve showcased contributing editor Andrew Evans a lot in these pages. Deservedly. His “Bus2Antarctica”

was an epic, 14-country, six-week bus trip from D.C. and down the

length of South America that ended with a sea voyage to Antarctica (his
blog posts reside on our Intelligent Travel blog and his article appeared in the September issue). En route, he gained thousands of Twitter followers, inspired classrooms to track him, and took pictures and video of a rare black penguin

that went viral on the Web. We’ve decided to put him back on the road

to become the magazine’s first digital nomad, a sort of 21st-century

equivalent of such National Geographic adventurers as Hiram Bingham (who discovered Peru’s Machu Picchu one hundred years ago next year). 

Evans

would be the last to compare himself to the storied explorer, but we’re

confident that he’ll still uncover plenty of surprises. He’ll tweet,

blog, and upload photos and video to our website five times a week. The

images will serve as clues–we want to test your travel IQ to see if

you can figure out where he is.

The

odyssey begins in early December, and he’ll be on the road for two

months. He’ll come home to recharge and do his laundry, then we’ll send

him back out again. The hope is to make what we’re calling “Where’s

Andrew?” a regular interactive feature of Traveler’s various media outlets. 

“This

is a new kind of adventure,” Evans says. “I want to capture a sense of

remoteness and send it back home. It’s about traveling in real time

with the online community in my backpack, connecting travelers

everywhere to my footsteps.” So look for him on Twitter

(@wheresandrew), our website, and the Intelligent Travel blog. You’ll

probably quickly figure out what part of the world he’s in; from there,

though, it will be one long mystery ride. “It’s a challenging place to

travel in,” hints Evans. “I’ll face a lot of hurdles, especially

technical.” –Keith Bellows, Editor