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Internet cafes can be dangerous places. Here’s how to keep your information safe.
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Whether sending email, uploading photos, booking flights and hotels, paying the bills back home, and checking the status of a bank account, travelers use the internet for a huge variety of tasks.
The ubiquity of internet cafes around the world has made this convenience possible.
Ahh the weekend. That time to roll out of bed with a mild hangover from that extra glass of wine you chugged last night for no reason, really, and sit down in front of your computer and type. Type I say!
Here’s our favourite links we found this week:
Tibetans have taken to the streets in a fight for freedom. Add your voice to the global petition.
Thinking of volunteering abroad in Thailand? How about eco-friendly volunteering? Check out a few great options.
Tags: BNT, Best, the, WeekHaving fallen into every one of these traps at least once, here are 7 mistakes to avoid for the newbies on the road.
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I’m writing from behind the reception desk here at El Diablo Tranquilo hostel in Punta del Diablo, Uruguay.
Every day a new group of travelers arrives in this chill little beach town. Some are seasoned solo travelers, like the sea captain who cleaned out a group of earnest Swedes in Texas Hold ‘Em last night, or the Alaskan mountain guide who winters in South America. Others are backpackers, traveling in groups, red-faced under their massive mochillas.
Tags: MORE, Common, Mistakes, First-Time, BackpackersFor every high-risk, adrenaline-seeking lifestyle, there are ten thousand high-risk injuries that might happen.
Photo by Mike Warren
You??re in an out-of-the-way corner of Japan, enjoying a mid-morning ride on a cheaply purchased mountain bike, viewing a landscape that only so many places can offer.
A smoking volcano to the left, and a revolving sushi restaurant on the right, not yet open for the lunch crowd.
Tags: How, Handle, Medical, Emergencies, The, RoadForget flying halfway around the world to find happiness. Christine Garvin shows you how to look locally.
Photo byClaude Renault
Much like the billion others who read Eat, Pray, Love by Elizabeth Gilbert, I fought the immediate urge to chuck my job, rent, friends and credit card bills and book the first available flight to India so that I could meditate all of my problems away.
Tags: Can, You, Develop, Your, Spirituality, Without, Visiting, IndiaMovies have the power to inspire, to take us on a trip without requiring us to get off the couch.
A scene from “O Brother Where Art Thou?”
One traveling garden gnome. A star-crossed couple on a sinking ocean liner. Eleven crooks on a European heist. And Bond??James Bond.
These are just four of the travelers who didn’t make it onto our roundup of the twenty greatest travel films of all time. Not because we didn’t like Amelie, Titanic, Ocean’s 11 or the Bond movies, mind you, but because we just didn’t have the space.
Tags: The, Most, Memorable, Travel, Films, That, Aren, Really, About, TravelAre you a slave to technology miles away from home? Here’s how to break the chains.
Are you addicted to tech? Photo by Adrian Sampson
As travelers, we like to think of ourselves as intrepid, independent, and adaptive. We forgo modern comforts in return for experiences and relationships that are difficult to find within our own societies.
Many of us are trying to find answers, find a purpose, or find ourselves, away from the ???noise??? of daily lives which have become mundane and unfulfilling.
Tags: The, Joy, Traveling, UnpluggedIt’s that spectacular time of the week where I round up my favourite links from around the travel-o-sphere!
Photo by the boy with the thorn in his side.
Would you keep your garbage for 3 months? That’s the challenge taken up by one American family in Garbage! The Revolution Starts At Home. Don’t miss their Dirty Dozen cleanup directives.
Start Backpacking is hosting a travel photo contest asking What is your craziest travel moment?
Tags: BNT, Best, the, WeekToo much economic growth under the Wall Street model is not good. It is rapacious and deadly.
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Bad times for the United States economy.
Consumer spending is down. Economic growth is turning negative. We??re headed for a recession. Our politicians are desperate to solve this problem, to squeeze a few more micro-points of economic growth out of the American people.
Tags: Will, The, Coming, Recession, Lead, Reflection