travel — #
Sightsmap displays a heatmap of world tourist destinations.
4 January 2012
travel & asia — #
Mike Matas’ One Week In Japan is a beautifully choreographed photographic exploration of his latest trip to Japan.
23 December 2011
politics & travel — #
Does Airport Security Really Make Us Safer?
Since 9/11, the U.S. has spent more than $1.1 trillion on homeland security.
To a large number of security analysts, this expenditure makes no sense. The vast cost is not worth the infinitesimal benefit. Not only has the actual threat from terror been exaggerated, they say, but the great bulk of the post-9/11 measures to contain it are little more than what Schneier mocks as “security theater”: actions that accomplish nothing but are designed to make the government look like it is on the job. In fact, the continuing expenditure on security may actually have made the United States less safe.
20 November 2011
travel & technology — #
Wikitravel is a project to create a free, complete, up-to-date, and reliable worldwide travel guide. And I don’t know how I have not discovered it until now.
11 November 2011
travel & technology — #
OnTheWay is “going to change the way you plan your road trips.”
30 September 2011
health & travel — #
If you’re ever looking for a great charity to give time or money to, Operation Rainbow is a great option
25 September 2011
travel & technology — #
FATHOM is an independent online travel hub that “reflects the way that wired, global-minded travelers plan for and share their travel experiences.”
18 September 2011
travel & architecture — #
Care to spend the night in a glass igloo in Northern Findland?
20 August 2011
travel & south-america — #
With the conflict and curfews of the 1990s now behind it, Colombia’s capital is bursting with creativity, clubs and great cuisine
3 August 2011
travel & video — #
These three videos by Rick Mereki, Tim White and Andrew Lees offer a beautiful testimonial to the soul-enriching nature of travel.
2 August 2011
travel & technology — #
rome2rio is a fun way to find out how to get from here to there.
9 July 2011
culture & travel — #
peoplemovin allows you to visualize migration flows across the planet.
3 July 2011
travel & television — #
Anthony Bourdain has a new show on the Travel Channel filmed during layovers for No Reservations
3 April 2011
travel & culture — #
Paul Theroux: An Argument for Travel During Turbulent Times
In the bungling and bellicosity that constitute the back and forth of history, worsened by natural disasters and unprovoked cruelty, humble citizens pay the highest price. To be a traveler in such circumstances can be inconvenient at best, fatal at worst. But if the traveler manages to breeze past such unpleasantness on tiny feet, he or she is able to return home to report: “I was there. I saw it all.” The traveler’s boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience — shocking though it may seem at the time — is an enrichment, even a blessing, one of the life-altering trophies of the road.