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“We’ve got a 6-gauge shotgun, a bottle of vodka, a six pack of beer, 60GB of music and a new 4×4 with fat treads. At this point, we’re practically a force of nature.”
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New Caledonia is a cigar-shaped island in the South Pacific, a colony of France, with a population of about 250,000.
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Illustration: Columbus landing in the New World, before proceeding to pillage. He is NOT one of our explorers.
History is filled with tyrants and bloodshed, all in the name of discovering new lands. Here are the few that kept it honourable.
When you think of incredible beaches, New York may not be the first place that comes to mind. However, Long Island, particularly the area know as The Hamptons, has long been the preferred beach destination for those who can afford to vacation anywhere on Earth.
The east end of Long Island, which is home to East Hampton and Montauk, sticks nearly one hundred miles out into the Atlantic Ocean. The nearby Gulf Stream blesses the peninsula with relatively moderate temperatures and it’s bounded by water on 3 sides so the fishing in incredible. A former whaling port, Montauk is now home to both the largest commercial and sport fishing fleets in the State of New York. Anglers from new York CIty take the train here to catch striped bass, blues, sharks and other ocean species.
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Passge Back to India / Photo Anne Cushman
The best sort of travel writing works on at least two levels: one narrow and personal and one broadly illustrative.
Tags: Tales, From, The, Road, Angola, New, Orleans, Rio, India, Mexico
Perhaps the most useful skill I travel can carry is knowledge of the local language.
It can open up a startling range of opportunities, ease the strain of logistics and planning, and allow you to develop a deeper connection with the place and, more importantly, the people you are visiting.
With a little advanced planning, and an introduction to the basics, it can be surprisingly easy to pick up a language on the road.
Tags: Free, Online, Resources, For, Learning, New, Language
Every autumn the Words and Music Festival takes place in the colourful city of New Orleans. And every year between 75 and 100 new and established authors, students, editors and artists are present at this big literary event.
Among the festival’s many activities, workshops and sessions are led by experts in the literary field, in which they share their knowledge and experience in the art of writing. Topics covered include fiction, non-fiction, and the latest styles within communication and literature.
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Now almost one year old, your favourite travel web-zine is expanding!
I’ve had the privilege of hiring two new members to our team:
Tim Patterson (Co-Editor) - You may know Tim from his weekly Tales from the Road roundups and his articles in various magazines like Get Lost and now SF Chronicle.
Tim will help edit and prepare new BNT articles for publishing, which saves me from being buried under the avalanche of great content that you’re all sending in.
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Say you’ve decided to visit India, China, England, or a thousand other places unknown to you. These days, a quick internet search will reveal a mountain of written data on where to go, what to see, and what to eat.
Over the last few years, this data has grown to include video clips (a topic I previously covered here).
Tags: GeoBeats, Launches, New, Destination, Blog, Travel, Beats
As your first backpacking trip approaches, you can??t help but feel the excitement.
You??ll be tempted to pack and re-pack, study maps of your first destination, go over your budget for the millionth time, confirm your hostel bookings, check your flight times and obsessively keep an eye on the drawer with your passport.
But no matter how much planning you do, one question will always remain ?? will I meet people?
Tags: How, Make, New, Friends, The, Road
Travel can be a journey into the realms of fear and loathing, or a happy-go-lucky search for wildflowers.
It can be an exploration of animosity, or a ride to the chapel on your wedding day.
This week Tales of the Road explores a brutal jungle of hidden, festering horrors; a moral wasteland where blood-sucking fiends skulk in the shadows, a place so nightmarish that the author who explored its darkest corners is unwilling to identify himself.
Tags: Tales, From, the, Road, Macau, California, Pakistan, Papau, New, Guinea, Italy