Gary Arndt
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Gary Arndt on Easter Island, 2007
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Born | Appleton, Wisconsin, United States |
Alma mater | Macalester College |
Occupation | Travel Blogger, Photographer, Speaker |
Gary Arndt (born 1969) is an US American blogger[1] and photographer.[2] He is the author of the travel blog Everything Everywhere and a former Minneapolis entrepreneur.
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Early life
Gary Arndt was born in Appleton, Wisconsin.[3]Arndt attended Macalester College in the early 1990s, where he was a competitive debater, making it to the late rounds of the Cross Examination Debate Association National Tournament in 1990 and 1991.[4]
Business ownership
Arndt was a business owner in Minneapolis, Minnesota before he became a writer, starting his first business a few years out of college.[5] He owned the web design firm Creative Internet Solutions, which he sold in 1999 to Control Data Corporation. While there, he developed the idea to open a video-game playing facility while watching his employees play computer games after work.[6] He owned the videogame salon The Stomping Grounds, with a location in Minneapolis, as well as a second location that opened in 2002. [7] The salon was one of the US’s original PC-gaming rooms,[8] and was founded from the profits Arndt received from a gaming news website he bought in the late 1990s called Stomped.com. The business received about $1 million in revenue during its first year.[9]
Travelling career
In March 2007 Arndt sold his house in Eden Prairie, Minnesota in order to travel the world. The initial plan was to travel for about a year and a half, however Arndt decided to continue his travels in perpetuity over this time. Since 2007, he has traveled to about 140 countries and all seven continents. Arndt does not keep a personal residence, and lives only in temporary locations.[2] He chronicles his journey on his travel blog Everything Everywhere with around 100,000 readers monthly.[10] The blog includes both comments on the places he has travelled, in addition to photography.[11] He also co-hosts the podcast This Week in Travel[12] and has contributed articles and photography to websites including as theAtlantic.com[13] and The Huffington Post,[14] as well as sites like The Four Hour Work Week.[15]
Recognition
Arndt has won various awards from the Society of American Travel Writers[16][17][18][19][20] and other organisations.[21][22] In 2010, he was one of 25 selections for Time Magazine's best blog list.[23] He appeared as a guest character in the April 10, 2007 edition of PvP.[24]
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- ↑ [1] Archived May 17, 2014 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ [2] Archived November 17, 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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