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Vagabond Tales: Welcome To Portland, Strip Club Capital USA

As I squeeze the last bits of orange garnish into my pint of Blue Moon, a man to my left is having his nostrils plugged by a gyrating set of female genitals. Releasing him from the flesh cave, the attractive blonde stripper – to the immense enjoyment of the ...

A Dead Duck In Amsterdam

A Dead Duck In Amsterdam There are parties and then there are parties in which one of the guests is standing in the corner caressing a dead mallard duck. Then again, this is Amsterdam and it's sometimes hard to tell if one is hallucinating from taking too much ... um, jetlag, or if, in this ...

The New Reno: Yes, Virginia, There Is Gentrification

The New Reno: Yes, Virginia, There Is Gentrification I'm going to go out on a limb here, and say that Reno has historically not been one of my favorite places to visit. But I spend a fair amount of time passing through, because my brother and his family live nearby, in the ski town of Truckee. Flying into Reno is convenient ...

5 Hot New Holiday Markets In New York City

5 Hot New Holiday Markets In New York City Come December, New York City becomes a veritable mecca of holiday shops, festivals and bazaars. Most tourists are familiar with the classic gift emporiums at Grand Central, Bryant Park and Union Square. But those markets tend to turn off the newer, younger, more ...

Video Of The Day: Rickshaw Spider-Man

I was wandering around the Lower East Side last Friday night when I heard screaming and saw New York's Rickshaw Spider-Man entertaining passengers and pedestrians alike at the street corner. I stood in awe and watched him, Shaun Emerson, as he glided up and down smooth ...

The New New Orleans: A Stroll Down Freret Street

The New New Orleans: A Stroll Down Freret Street Everyone who visits New Orleans has strolled through the French Quarter at least once (whether they remember or not). Many shoppers have walked some of the three miles of Magazine Street's commercial zone, while football fans have made their way through the Central ...

Roamz iPhone App Will Help You Discover Things To Do At Home Or On The Road

Roamz iPhone App Will Help You Discover Things To Do At Home Or On The Road If you've traveled with any kind of regularity, I'm sure at some point or another you've found yourself in a new city with some spare time on your hands but unsure of what you should do. A guidebook can sometimes be of assistance, but they're often out of date even before ...

Halloween Costumes For Travel Lovers

Halloween Costumes For Travel Lovers Is your love of travel part of your identity? Have you trawled every Southeast Asian backwater, and explored the twisting streets and alleyways of little-known European cities? Whether your adventurous spirit takes you abroad for work or pleasure, chances are you've seen ...

Big City Scavenger Hunt A Fun And Informative Quest

Big City Scavenger Hunt A Fun And Informative Quest Remember scavenger hunts? The game where individuals or teams go out into the world to gather the items on predetermined list? Whoever gets them all first wins? Great. In a unique twist on the game, UrbanQuest is a scavenger hunt in a great city that ends at a ...

Video Of The Day: Times Square In The 1980s

Here's a bit of nostalgia for all you old-time New Yorkers out there. This mini-documentary on Times Square really captures my memories of it from the 1980s. Walking around there with my friends at night was a gritty, sleazy, surreal experience. Touts tried to sell you ...

South Africa Sees Nearly 20 Percent Increase In Tourism In 2012

South Africa Sees Nearly 20 Percent Increase In Tourism In 2012 Earlier this week South African Minister of Tourism Marthinus van Schalkwyk told a diverse crowd that gathered at AMARIDIAN, a prestigious New York gallery, that his country is on pace to break previous records for international arrivals. The Minister said that there has ...

Four Dublin Attractions Not To Be Missed

Four Dublin Attractions Not To Be Missed One of Europe's oldest and greatest cities, Dublin not only retains its historic and cultural identity, but hosts a variety of current, relevant attractions. With a wide variety of friendly bars, stylish shops, elegant restaurants and sidewalk cafes, deciding what to do ...

Are Classic Cocktails Making A Comeback In The United States?

Are Classic Cocktails Making A Comeback In The United States? Gin martini, mint julep, manhattan, old-fashioned, sidecar – these classic cocktail favorites are nothing new in the world of libations. In fact, they've been around since Prohibition, standing the test of time, exemplifying a certain class of drinks that focuses on ...

Video: Guitar Pee, The Electric Guitar Urinal

If you're a male who urinates in public bathrooms and likes the sound of an electric guitar, the Guitar Pee made by Billboard Brasil is a urinal you'll have to try out for yourself the next time you're in Sao Paulo. The Guitar Pee is a guitar-shaped urinal brilliantly ...

5 Of The World's Best Places For Viewing The Night Skies

5 Of The World's Best Places For Viewing The Night Skies If you grow up in Southern California, school field trips to the Griffith Observatory are practically a requirement. For whatever reason, I always found the Planetarium more frightening than enlightening, especially in the sixth grade, when David Fink threw up on me on the ...

Relaxing In Peru's Best Beach Town: Mancora

Relaxing In Peru's Best Beach Town: Mancora After hiking the Inca Trail outside Cuzco and exploring the museums in the bustling city of Lima, many travelers agree they crave nothing more than a relaxing setting and a beautiful beach. If you're making your way north, a worthwhile stop is Mancora, thought by many locals ...

Relaxing At The World's Highest Beer Spa In La Paz, Bolivia

Relaxing At The World's Highest Beer Spa In La Paz, Bolivia At 11,975 feet above sea level, the city of La Paz in Bolivia is pretty high. In fact, it is the highest "de facto" capital city in the world. Because of this, it's not uncommon to experience some kind of reaction to the altitude. To help your body relax, backpackers can ...

Gadling's Annual Team Summit: Behind The Scenes In Washington, DC

Gadling's Annual Team Summit: Behind The Scenes In Washington, DC As our daily roster of posts and rigorous travel schedules can attest, we work hard here at Gadling (really; it's not all lying on beaches, slurping pastel-hued cocktails...in fact, it rarely is). We're a small team of freelancers who mostly have day jobs to help pay the ...

Where Would You Travel Just to Eat?

Where Would You Travel Just to Eat? It's a question that comes up again and again. Even more so in the last few years, as the industrialized world seems to become food obsessed. Not just with eating in general but also where it comes from (is it local?) and how it's grown. Our preoccupation with provenance ...

10 Extraordinary Islands To Visit On Your Next Vacation

10 Extraordinary Islands To Visit On Your Next Vacation Summer is the time of island vacations. It is time to put as much distance between you and the real world as possible. It is time to stand outside of your everyday life and to see how it all looks from a paradise perspective. Here is a collection of islands for escape ...

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