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Gadlinks for Thursday, 10.22.09

by Aaron Hotfelder (RSS feed) on Oct 22nd 2009 at 6:30PM

Hope everyone's having a great week thus far. If not, take heart-- the weekend is nigh! Now here's a look at what's going on in the travel world today...

World Hum's David Frey chats with New York Times do-gooder Nicholas Kristof. On the joys of traveling in the U.S., Kristof says, "You don't encounter a lot of warlords, you rarely get malaria or intestinal worms, and airports aren't strewn with the carcasses of crashed planes. I love traveling in the United States!"
My friends at the bookmark-worthy site Brave New Traveler make an appearance (sort of) on The Colbert Report.
Tyler Cowen points to a Russian armored-car maker who's outfitting its newest model, reportedly the most expensive SUV ever made, with whale penis leather trim.
Over at the Anderson Cooper 360 blog, Art of Nonconformity blogger Chris Guillebeau lists the 28 things he wish he'd known before he started traveling.
Finally, I'll bet Antarctica is bigger than you thought.

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