Gary Arndt

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Gary Arndt
Gary Arndt on Easter Island, 2007t.jpg
Gary Arndt on Easter Island, 2007
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.

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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  18. [1] Archived May 17, 2014 at the Wayback Machine
  19. [2] Archived November 17, 2012 at the Wayback Machine
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  22. [3] Archived February 14, 2014 at the Wayback Machine
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