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Gary Arndt | |
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 Gary Arndt on Easter Island, 2007 | |
| Born | Appleton, Wisconsin, United States |
| Alma mater | Macalester College |
| Occupation(s) | Travel Blogger, Photographer, Speaker |
Gary Arndt (born 1969) is an American blogger [1] and photographer. [2] He is the author of the travel blog Everything Everywhere and a former Minneapolis entrepreneur.
Arndt was born in Appleton, Wisconsin. [3] He 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]
Arndt was a business owner in Minneapolis, Minnesota before he became a writer. [5] He owned the web design firm, Creative Internet Solutions, which he sold in 1999 to Control Data Corporation. 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 and a second location that opened in 2002. [7] The salon, one of the original PC-gaming rooms in the United States, [8] 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]
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 indefinitely. Since 2007, he has traveled to about 140 countries and all seven continents. Arndt does not maintain a personal residence, living only in temporary locations. [2]
He chronicles his journey on his travel blog, Everything Everywhere, which has approximately 100,000 readers monthly. [10] The blog includes both comments on the places he has traveled and photography. [11] He also co-hosts the podcast This Week in Travel [12] and has contributed articles and photography to websites including The Atlantic [13] and HuffPost , [14] and The Four Hour Work Week. [15]
Arndt has won awards from the Society of American Travel Writers [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] and other organizations. [21] [22] In 2010, he was one of 25 selections for Time magazine's best blog list. [23]
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