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The Most Important Article on [Travel] You Will Read in 2012
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Do you want more money to travel? (feel free to replace travel with: buy groceries, knit, drape yourself in Armani, pay off student loans, have a kid, feed your skydiving habit, donate to charity, buy more toys for your cat, etc.) Do you want to help ensure your good health so you can travel? (ooooooorrrrr,... »
Slate: Praise Jesús for No More El Bulli Articles
Ha! Now this is funny. As you surely know, I love to whine and complain about things I don’t like, including banal, regurgitative, one-upsman, and/or pretentious writing. Come on, don’t we all? Oh, be quiet, Double Rainbow guy and why do you keep hanging around here? But because I’m not as gifted a writer as some (I know,... »
Interview with Claudia Ricci, Writer and HuffPo Trailblazer
If you haven’t already heard about or become a fan of the first serialized novel to be presented on the Huffington Post, you better get on the ball, Nancy! It’s called Seeing Red by Claudia Ricci and you can find all weekly updates here. Readers, if you’ve gleaned anything at all over these past... »
Tourism Dollars and Sustainable Land Use vs. Loss of Culture at the Gocta Falls
This Slate story and the accompanying video are pretty interesting. They tell of a remote village in Peru whose people had been living in the shadow of a huge waterfall that no on else in the world knew about. Once it was “discovered” in 2005, tourism has become popular and the village has changed... »
“The beans, the ground beef, it was torture!”
What a nightmare. The New York Times is reporting (via the AP) that there’s been a miner involved in a chili disaster. What type of chili disaster we can only imagine: too spicy? not enough onions? or, could it be… vegan??? Luckily, the miner survived although I doubt he’ll be firing up the crock pot... »
The Around the World Dream Becomes a Reality (Soon)
Now this is exciting. We have a big new project that is going to keep us super busy (along with our paying jobs, volunteer activities, family obligations, soccer on the weekends, drinking red wine, and avoiding Facebook): Planning a year-long, around-the-world trip! Sadly, this trip is not for us, but it is for someone very... »
This Week’s New York Times: Homestay in Guatemala and a Low Opinion for Slum Tourism
Whenever we travel, we don’t feel like writing about travel – ironic, no? So, since we just got back from a nice road trip in Chile, we’ll leave you with the following two articles from this week’s New York Times: 1. An opinion column on the nastiness of slum tourism. We’ve written about this before but... »
When Sustainable Tourism is at Odds with Sustainable Culture
Sometimes, sustainable tourism is a good thing. And sometimes, it’s a mask designed to demonstrate how progressive a country is when that country is in fact, catering to tourists more than to its own longtime culture and the health of its citizens. The latter is exactly what seems to be happening in Bostwana now. According... »
Iceland Volcano to Travelers and Mozzarella: Kiss My Ash
Iceland volcano Eyjafjallajokull (ay-yah-FYAH’-plah-yer-kuh-duhl or “Lady Jaja” as we like to call her) just gave the finger to hundreds of thousands of travelers in Europe and around the world. Jaja erupted earlier this week sending dangerous ash into the air; winds have scattered the air across many countries, disrupting air travel across the continent... »
An Inventive Way for YOU (yes, you with the funny shaped head) to Help Provide H20 to Haitian Children
We wrote about the Haiti earthquake and the Chile earthquake and since then have been interested to see the innovative ways people are helping these still-struggling countries. Here’s yet another and in our humble opinion this one takes the big ole lemon cheesecake. Nourish is a company that sells baby and toddler bottled spring water... »
