I remain baffled by how it's legal to own a gun in the United States. I think even the option of having one is like saying it's OK to kill if you have a good reason. According to a recent piece in Newsweek there are 215 million guns in America -- i.e. more than half the ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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I remain baffled by how it's legal to own a gun in the United States. I think even the option of having one is like saying it's OK to kill if you have a good reason. According to a recent piece in Newsweek there are 215 million guns in America -- i.e. more than half the ...Santa Barbara pueblo hopping with J. Peterman
When things calm down in California, let's hope you'll still be able to consider this unique walking tour in Santa Barbara. The Conference and Visitors Bureau has created a Red Tile Walking Tour of the city's original pueblo district, and are promoting it with a brand new ...Photo of the Day (10/15/07)
If this photo doesn't brighten your day, there is no hope for you my friend! Wow, this is a truly spectacular sight. Lovely colors. Taken on Friday in Korea, by ladyexpat.
***To have your photo considered for the Gadling Photo of the Day, go over to the Gadling Flickr site ...National Parks Traveler Gets Facelift
One of my favorite Web sites about the National Parks, National Parks Traveler, has received both a face and content lift, and I highly recommend you give it a spin. It is lovely and they have a much more sensible web address now. NPT is run by the ever-diligent, ...City Surf's Audio Walking Tours for the "Un-Tourist"
According to City Surf, "Guidebooks show you which neighborhoods are cool to visit, we show what's cool IN those neighborhoods." Indeed, City Surf has created audible walking tours of some hip Toronto hang-outs, including Kensington Market, St. Lawrence Market, Yorkville, ...Running the Sahara
How's this for ballsy (I filed this one under "hiking", tho that seems to be an understatement). A couple of guys decide to do their part to help the world, in this case to bring better water conditions to Africa and Africans, and look for what would seem an impossible ...Interview With "Lightning Layne:" Adventure Gear Tester
For more than a decade, Layne Oliver has tested adventure gear ranging from headlamps to tents to climbing gear. Known in the industry as "Lightning Layne," Oliver is a professional field tester whose job is to help gear designers make only the changes that significantly ...SoundAboutPhilly's Awesome Audible Tours/Google Maps Mash-up
Recently, we told you about the [murmur] project, an audio archive of the stories of Toronto. It turns out that SoundAboutPhilly is undertaking a similar project for the City of Brotherly Love. SoundAboutPhilly's free, customizable sound-seeing tours are told by "real" ...Outside Magazine Launches Podcasts
One of our favorite magazines here at Gadling, Outside, is finally getting into the podcast game.
Instead of sitting down to read the magazine, I can now download portions of it onto my iPod and listen to it on the fly. The whole magazine isn't available in podcast form, ...Podcast of Lonely Planet Founders
While some people hate Tony Wheeler for bringing travelers to undiscovered lands and ruining them as a result, others herald him as a travel god who has provided reams of knowledge about obscure locations people wouldn't have visited otherwise.
Tony Wheeler is, of course, ...Inteview With Mark Samuels, President/Co-Founder of Basin Street Records
I visited New Orleans during Mardi Gras in the mid-90s. It was awesome, if not a little overwhelming. Since then, I've promised myself I'd return. I love the architecture in the city. My head spins at all the wonderful smells wafting from the restaurants. And, of course, I ...GADLING'S TAKE FIVE: Week of January 7
Mic check 1,2, 3... Gadling readers do you here me? It's Friday recap time so check it out! 5. New Blogger Joins Gadling Team: New travel bloggers seem to be popping up every week here on Gadling and we can't tell you how happy we are to have Dia Draper share her own travel ...Gadling Podcast: Mike Marriner of Roadtrip Nation
What do you do for a living? Do you have the job you love or did you join a career for financial expedience? Perhaps you chose your job as a result of family pressure? The big questions is: do you do what you love? Did you take the time to think about it? (OK, that was two ...iPod Listening When U Travel
Like a lot of people, I have fallen so in love with my ipod that, after my wallet, it's the one thing I HAVE to carry with me when I leave the house. And before I go, I always make sure that it is loaded up with the most recent podcasts from NPR, as well as my Charlie Rose ...The Wandering Honeymooners
OK, so maybe you spent your honeymoon watching your new spouse drop the wedding gift money at the Pai Gow Poker tables in Atlantic City. Come on. I can't be the only one. Well, it doesn't matter anyway because your honeymoon probably still pales in comparison to the ...Audio News: Pretty Cool, but Slightly Robotic
When things get busy in my life, one of the first casualties are my newspapers and magazines. As they come in, they get stacked in a corner of my room waiting to be read. Sometimes this stack can be a couple of feet thick before I finally get the time to catch up.
Now, ...Gadling Podcasts on iTunes
Just a little note here to let you know that we're actually available on itunes now. It's still not perfect. The image is our old one and the list of available podcasts doesn't show up properly, but you can now go to itunes and download all of our podcasts. Or, better yet, ...Gadling Podcast: Travelistic
The online video space right now is hotter than Georgia asphalt...hotter in fact than a griddle sitting on a bonfire burning on the surface of the sun. YouTube cashed in to the tune of $1.5 billion when Google scooped them up recently, making several lucky individuals quite ...Backpacker Podcasts
For those who like their podcasts raw, but directly from the source, Backpacker Magazine is now offering a series of podcasts wherein the magazine's Rocky Mountain editor Steve Howe blabs about his experiences hiking the Sierra High Route in California. Or at least, that' s ...Podcast Reminder
One of the things with being a blog is that the need to constantly post new information is unrelenting. I think we now do between 10-15 posts a day here. That's a lot of work and a lot of useful (and sometimes not so useful) information for gadling readers. But the problem ...
