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Liquidtravel is an online resource for anyone researching specific travel locations.  Here you will find articles, links, and news feeds associated with various travel destinations.

We also accept travel articles from those who want to share their experiences so please register. It does not matter where you have been or what you were doing there; If you want others to know about it, feel free to submit an article.  Our writer's guidelines can be found here.

Liquidtravel wishes to offer travel information for those interested in off-the-beaten-path adventures. Most articles relate in some way to Layne and Kendra Hedrick who are avid travelers and cultural hounds. We are world travelers and love to tell our stories so be sure and come back often as the site is updated.  If you wish to join our travel community, please register and join in the fun.

We also accept advertisers.  Interested in posting a banner or advertisment relating to travel?  Please see our advertisment rates for more details.   

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What's New 

We just finished a new article on a scuba dive in South Texas.  If you are a diver, you don't want to miss this piece on diving the Texas Clipper.  It was an amazing experience.  Also, as promised, the trip to the Bahamas was amazing  We will have an article up soon.  In the mean time, we have posted photos from the trip in our photo gallery so be sure and check them out.  Also, don't forget about our dive trip to Northeastern Mexico.  You can find that piece here.  Still more to come this summer so stayed tuned. We're also adding more photos all the time; and of course we continue to add more authors.  Much more is coming so please come back often!  I also hope you will register and join our forum.  We need to get the travel bug moving in there...  If you want to register click here.

Some of our newest pieces include a hike through the jungles of Costa Rica, a dive on the world's largest artifical reef, the USS Oriskany and a trip to Niagara Falls and the Magic Bus that provided the ride. 

For those in central Texas or who might be coming this way, we have also posted a review of a local favorite.  Take a jump back in time when steam engines ruled the rails. 

There are 2 new specialty articles found here and here both written about a shipwreck excavation off the coast of Texas.  Other favorites include an article about a local wetlands research park in San Marcos, Texas and a Mayan adventure through southern Mexico. 

Please be sure and check out our photo gallery as it continues to grows.  

And, as always, if you are interested in scuba diving and live in the central Texas region or are willing to travel, I teach many courses including technical diving. If interested, please follow the link to scuba certification and contact me about specialized courses or group packages to fit your needs. All classes are taught in Austin, Texas with open water classes being held at Lake Travis or surrounding area.

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Adventure travel is a type of tourism, involving exploration or travel to remote, exotic and possibly hostile areas, where the traveler should "expect the unexpected". Adventure tourism is rapidly growing in popularity, as tourists seek different kinds of vacations. According to the U.S. based Adventure Travel Trade Association, adventure travel may be any tourist activity, including two of the following three components: a physical activity, a cultural exchange or interaction and engagement with nature.

Adventure tourism gains much of its excitement by allowing its participants to step outside of their comfort zone. This may be from experiencing culture shock or through the performance of acts, that require significant effort and involve some degree of risk (real or perceived) and/or physical danger. This may include activities such as mountaineering, trekking, bungee jumping, mountain biking, rafting, zip-lining and rock climbing. Some obscure forms of adventure travel include disaster and ghetto tourism. Other rising forms of adventure travel include social and jungle tourism.

Access to inexpensive consumer technology, with respect to Global Positioning Systems, flashpacking, social networking and photography, have increased the worldwide interest in adventure travel.The Development of Social Network Analysis Vancouver: Empirical Press.

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About Liquidtravel

Layne Hedrick is a professional underwater archaeologist, travel writer & photographer and technical scuba instructor based in Austin, Texas. He graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in Nautical Archaeology and spent many years as a shipwreck archaeologist traveling the world working on various excavations.

Over the past 9 years, Layne has developed an ability to explain the world in a rare form. His use of the written word has given him the ability to explain his experiences in a way that few others have the ability to do. Layne has a writing style that leaves the reader wanting to buy a ticket and travel abroad.

Although his roots are firmly placed in the dry Texas Panhandle, he has continued to move south to get closer to water so he can continue to experience his true desire which is to be underwater. It is that versatility that has enabled him to combine his love of photography with his love of travel and scuba diving to create Liquidtravel; an online travel community and to offer adventure travel.

Travel writing is not a new passion for him however. Layne says "when I first started travelling, I loved to share my adventures with friends and family so I used blogs to keep in touch and everything grew from there." But it wasn't until reading about Maarten Troost's experiences in The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific that Layne decided to make travel writing a large part of his life's dream.

For the next several years life took him through many parts of the world, from the U.S. to Madagascar, Turkey, all over Europe and Central and South America, places where he recorded his thoughts both on paper and film. "I always knew it was a matter of time until I started to write professionally, because wherever I traveled my first action was to record my impressions for my blog. All the different sights, sounds and smells influenced the writer I am today." Moreover, travelling has made him aware of the importance of getting to know our surroundings to better understand our place in the world.

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