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Earn air miles just by searching the web…or so says the new upcoming search engine ZooMiles. Currently, you can sign up for their private beta testing.
Thinking of doing some volun-tourism during your gap year? Check out Gap Year Review for objective reviews so you know before you go.
The only thing better than travel, is travel with a monkey. Welcome to Monkey Travel.
We will often take DVD’s on a trip to watch both en-route and late at night after a long day of exploration.? In no particular order our Top 10 Travel movies are:
Bourne Identity
Red Dragon/ Hannibal
French Kiss
The Devil Wears Prada
Touristas
The Da Vinci Code
Tin Cup
The Saint
I-Spy
Ocean’s Twelve
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One thing I’ve learned since quitting my day job and becoming a full-time travel writer: the future of travel writing, travel guides and travel communities is online.
It’s nice to get published in traditional print media, if only because it gives me something to show my technologically oblivious Grandmother, but there’s no doubt that we’re at the tail-end of dead-tree press.
Tags: Matador, Travel, Emerging, Online, Travel, Community
My idea of camping is staying in a hotel room without room service and a wall-mounted blow dryer. Give me a clean hotel room with 400 thread count sheets and a lanai I can walk out on so I may greet the early morning sunrise.
I long for a place with a cool swimming pool and hot tub to soak in after a long day of sightseeing.
Needless to say, we didn??t camp this summer. Instead, without any particular itinerary, our family embarked on a road trip to experience the spectacular United States.
Tags: Beauty, The, Ride, The, Beholder
Finding great travel tales often entails getting a little dirty. The best stories are the ones that smell, the kind you can’t hope to spot from inside an air conditioned tour bus.
Get down on your hands and knees and poke around, dig into the muck-heap, grab on to something and pull it out into the light.
After you wipe off the grime, you might just see a buried treasure, a story full of hope and resonance and truth that most people would never think was there.
Tags: Tales, From, The, Road, Hong, Kong, Bangkok, Cairo, and, JamaicaGrand Junction? is situated at the confluence of two mighty Western rivers - the Colorado and the Gunnison - in the high desert just east of the Colorado/Utah border.? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?
Grand Junction is part farming town, part college town, part retiree haven and part headquarters for the gas industry. Every segment of it’s population thinks it suits their needs well.? It’s the? largest city within thousands of square miles and serves as the air travel, shopping and medical capital of the entire area.
For most west-bound tourists, this is where they get their? car repaired, stock up on ice and supplies and get one last shopping mall fix or? fine restaurant meal before heading out into the harsh desert. Among outdoor enthusiasts, it’s considered a jumping? off point for adventures in southern Utah and southwestern Colorado, but you don’t really have to travel far from Grand Junction before you can enjoy some of the best outdoor recreation activities of their kind.
Tags: Grand, Junction-Colorado, Desert, Capital
I can??t say that I have ever been a ???pack rat.??? But I am a sentimentalist and I am a realist. This means I was often saving things for a rainy day. You never know what curves life will throw you, so you should always be prepared.
It all started with books ?? I enjoy reading books, researching and studying. So I had kept all my books from high school, because I never knew when I would need them again.
Tags: The, Case, For, De-Cluttering, Your, Life, Right, Now
Nearly 40 million tourists from around the world visit New York City every year. What they find is a bustling metropolis, dense with museums, parks, theaters, shops, famous buildings and inhabitants as diverse as themselves.
Far from its sometimes mythical image, New York is one of the safest large cities for tourists anywhere on the globe. It has the lowest crime rate of any major American city. For a city with over 8 million inhabitants and a population density over 26,000 per square mile (Manhattan is nearly 67,000 per square mile), that’s remarkable.
Tags: New, York, City, OverviewRockport, Massachusetts is another of those places you have probably never heard of, which is exactly the kind of place that makes for an ideal New England getaway weekend. It’s a short,? scenic hour’s drive from Boston.
Rockport’s character is that of a cultural haven within a classic New England seaside village. Interesting, eh? Imagine a picturesque town on a harbor called Sandy Bay at the very tip of a peninsula (Cape Ann) and surrounded on 3 sides by the mighty Atlantic Ocean.
Tags: Rockport, Massachusetts, Weekend
Park Avenue through the 1930s was known as ‘the street where the rich people lived’. To have an apartment there was ‘to have arrived’. When you arrive you’ll see fewer apartments and a new kind of ‘rich people’ - multi-national corporate headquarters.
Some of the world’s most deservedly well-known architecture is sited along this wide boulevard that, for tourism purposes begins at Grand Central Station.
Tags: New, York, Park, Avenue