When we’re not traveling, travel magazines can fill that void. Last year, we were on a Budget Travel kick but in the past few... »
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We Threw Away a Plastic Bottle Today… But It Was Just One
Another winner for Best Onion Headline and Story: ‘How Bad For The Environment Can Throwing Away One Plastic Bottle Be?’ 30 Million People Wonder As we’ve said before, funny because true. Also, sad because true, though. We admit we’ve thrown away recyclable items – because (shocker) we can be lazy a-holes sometimes. And it’s true there... »
Alert: Recession Leads to Low Class Cruisers
It looks like those oh-so-elegant cruisers are dismayed to find new and low-class cruisers infiltrating their nacho fountain lines and poolside hairiest chest contests. Victor Ozols writes a funny piece on how due to economic conditions and lower cruise prices, the socio-economic status of cruisers may be changing. Ozols writes: “The economic downturn is shaking... »
Another Casualty in the Iraq War: Babylon
Today’s Washington Post adds a new and sick twist to the Iraq war: the destruction by U.S. forces of the ancient city of Babylon. Of course, this goes way beyond tourism - this is a heinous offense and one that could have easily been avoided. Are you like us and don’t know much about Babylon? Here’s the overall picture... »
Amazon Native Women Give Great Massages
We’ll be the first to say it – we are the Gawker of travel websites. We received this extremely funny-especially-since-it-isn’t-supposed-to-be-funny PR pitch from one Eric Schwartz earlier in the week. As is our wont, we were planning on publishing it here and making fun of it. Creative? No. Laugh-inducing? Oh yes. Then we happened to... »
Cultural Tourism in Argentina Heating Up
Is it finally time to head down to Buenos Aires like you know you’ve been wanting to do for years now? Sure, buy a leather jacket, eat some steak, but don’t think you’re going to find your own Maria Belen right away, alright? Let’s not go overboard on the whole cultural tourism thing, people. »
Cruising with Karl
How fitting is this? Karl Rove and a bunch of other Bush apologists are inviting you to spend up to $14,000 to come pollute the ocean and the air with them on a luxury cruise in the Mediterranean. But it figures. According to the League of Conservation Voters (and other environmental organizations): “The Bush administration has arguably... »
Girlfriend Getaway Garbage
One day, a (male) marketing whippersnapper came up with a genius idea: Create a catchy name for a group of women going away together and sell it as its own travel niche. Hmm, what do women like to do? Why, shopping of course! And spa treatments! And arts and crafts! Don’t get us wrong –... »
Alert: Ecotourists in Peru Leading Birds to Stress Out, Poop
A new study has found that noisy birders in the Peruvian Amazon have been found to have a detrimental effect on the hoatzin birds. “The sound of even a quiet conversation caused the birds to begin clucking and defecating – a common defense response – at longer approach distances than for quiet approaches. The noisiest... »
I’m a (D-list) Celebrity: Let Me Stay Here to Rot
An Open Letter to the Country of Costa Rica: Dear Costa Rica, How’s it going? Things are good here – summer’s coming, yay! Okay, enough with the niceties. I heard that the newest version of the show “I’m a Celebrity: Get Me Out of Here” will be hosted by your own pristine jungles. Is it actually true? Oh,... »
Chilean Saying: If Idiots Could Fly, We Wouldn’t See the Sun
True or Fake Question Time: “How do you feel about child sex tourism?” Gee, uh, it’s bad? This comes to us from this very strange website that attracts all manner of bizarre questions purportedly on ecotourism. Christ on a cracker, what do you think we think about child sex tourism? »
