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Best of…Travel

Date: April 3rd, 2006 |

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Everyone has their ‘best of’ lists…frankly, they get kinda boring…especially when the same ones are listed over and over. Forbes has a number of repeats/sites I already knew about, but there are some, especially one of the blog sites, that I’d never heard of before. Best of Travel [read more]

Travelers’ Century Club

Date: March 6th, 2006 |

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There’s always arguments on the BootsnAll message boards about what’s a ‘better’ way to travel - to see as much as you can or spend more time appreciating where you are and learning about different cultures. The Oregonian had an article this weekend that highlighted one website that rewards the ’see everything’ approach, called [read more]

Week of Travel Stories

Date: February 16th, 2006 |

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We edit a number of stories each week and do our best to post at least two new articles to the site each day. The quality varies, but we think it is important to encourage new authors on the site. I often find a few articles that I get excited about, but I [read more]

The new Ramadan: It’s beginning to look a lot like..

Date: October 13th, 2005 |

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Interesting article from the IHT about the change of Ramadan in Dubai and elsewhere…The new Ramadan: It’s beginning to look a lot l [read more]

A bilingual message for Ms. Xenophobe

Date: October 3rd, 2005 |

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On our message boards there is a lot of discussion, appropriately, about languages. I find myself in the camp that desperately wishes I could speak another language. Six years of Spanish, a quarter of Italian and a continued education class of Russian have left me with one conclusion: I suck at [read more]

Best Skylines in the World

Date: March 27th, 2006 |

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City skylines are inspirational…for me at least. I’m definitely one of those people that buys a post card with the city skyline on it and puts it up on her wall. Someone decided to group the best of the best together and put ‘em on this list…with pictures, of course. To [read more]

Go Abroad With The Geekcorps

Date: March 2nd, 2006 |

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I pulled this article off of the boards today - it’s an article called Geekcorps - A Peace Corps for Techies. It seems like a pretty cool organization. Check out their website as well. They’re especially in need of volunteers of in Ghana, Zambia, Kenya, South Africa, Morocco, and Lebanon. If [read more]

Travelers seek ‘power vacations’

Date: November 21st, 2005 |

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Travelers are looking for “power vacations,” clean hotels and places where natural disasters might not occur, a U.S. survey finds.
Eighty-three percent of travelers surveyed unwind in fewer than two days of vacation, and 94 percent in fewer than four days, finds a survey of 3,000 world travelers for Web site TripAdvisor, conducted by independent market [read more]

You should just keep on talking

Date: October 10th, 2005 |

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Social discourse with strangers can add bonuses to your trip in totally unexpected ways. Such as an invitation to partake in a home-cooked meal. Such as an invitation to spend the night at a local’s cousin’s house in the town you will be visiting in 10 days. Such as a personalized, guided tour of the [read more]