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Outback Australia: Disappointment in the Tiwi Islands {Gadling}
Oct 9th 2009 11:07AM Are you familiar with the Polynesian Cultural Center on Oahu? That place just fried my brain. It's a facility designed to showcase the dance, art, craft, culture of the people of the Pacific and it's... run by the Mormon church. A friend of mine called it "the human zoo." I didn't have that strong of a reaction to it, the people were SO nice and really, the entertainment was, well, entertaining, but I felt horribly uneasy the entire time I was there. Imagine your own culture displayed like this, where would you be? How would you feel?
10 passengers we love to hate: Day 2 -- bringing a warm meal on the plane {Gadling}
Jun 2nd 2009 11:59AM You hate me. I was on a razor thin stopover in DFW and the only place nearby to get food? The BBQ counter. I was STARVING because due to circumstances, I'd not eaten properly that day. Furthermore, there was no food on the flight. I did a grab and go.
But also, I get it, I get it. I really do. It's icky to have to deal with the smell of someone else's weird chow in an already confined space.
As always, I blame the airlines. One more thing to hate about flying.
Hippie Masala - the travelers that never went home {Gadling}
Jan 11th 2009 8:40PM Thanks so much for posting that link - I watched the entire film and found it oddly compelling. I don't think ANY of those documented "tripped and fell on their idealism" - it's not like the people shown are expressing a lifetime of regret for their choices, is it? Travelers become expats for a variety of reasons - one of those guys in the film strikes me as your typical jerkwad foreigner marries local girl, the others, are a bit more complicated... anyhow, no spoilers, but thanks again for the link.
Travel writing is like my dream job {Gadling}
Dec 11th 2008 11:21AM I love to write about travel and do so whenever I get the chance. But I also have a "day job" so I can do things like eat and pay for a place to live. I do a lot of freelance corporate work and I actually enjoy it, it pays well, and I don't have to decide between being a suit and being a travel writer... why not do a little of both?
There's a third way, probably a fourth and a fifth, too.
How To Prevent Airline Seats From Reclining {Gadling}
Nov 18th 2008 2:41PM This bums me out. Why? Because you're giving coverage to a guy who's messing with his fellow passengers, not a guy who's trying to fix what's wrong with flying.
He blames the passenger, calls them an obscenity. The problem isn't the passenger, it's the AIRLINES. They're the ones who shoehorned the extra rows of seats in.
The reclining passenger is just trying to get from A to B with a little space, maybe catch some shut-eye. The seat is up your nose NOT because of the passenger, but because the airlines sacrificed your space.
What happens when the passenger in the hacked seat tries to see what's up? What happens when the flight attendant finds the hacked seat? What happened to just asking the person in front of you nicely for a little more space? "I know it's a hassle, but your hair is up my nose. Wouldja? Please?"
I'd like to see more "gone guerrilla" tactics to change the industry and less in being a jerk to your fellow fliers.
Happy Birthday Gadling! Win free premium tickets to Amsterdam on OpenSkies! {Gadling}
Oct 7th 2008 10:53AM Amsterdam is the gateway drug to Europe. We'd use to those tix to feed our addiction, of course!
Galley Gossip: Flight Attendant Pet Peeve #2: Back to your seat, please! {Gadling}
Jun 21st 2008 10:56AM I'm surprised at this. The socks thing, the helping yourself in the galley, the baby on the floor thing (ack!) okay, those things are NOT okay.
But the reaction to person trying to get a stretch, trying to find a place to stand and move for a few minutes during a flight? I'm sort of surprised at the hostility here. I would like to think that FAs are more sympathetic to the discomfort of being wedged in a coach seat, no matter how long the flight. Guess I'm wrong.
Celebrate Cinco de Mayo with free tickets from Southwest Airlines! {Gadling}
May 6th 2008 7:29PM Seattle to San Francisco, thank you very much!
Visit Oregon to see them capturing and killing sea lions {Gadling}
Mar 20th 2008 10:46AM "Way to cute to be killed" is too simplistic. I hate what happens to the sea lions, but I live in Seattle and have read, repeatedly of the trouble they cause by parking in the Ballard locks and feasting on the salmon that are heading upstream to spawn. A few years back they airlifted the big hungry critters out, relocated them, only to find they'd return to their favorite salmon bar. "Mmm, trapped salmon!"
It's just not that simple. I'm a tree hugging seal lovin' fish eatin' lefty, and I get there's more to this story than cute. A little more homework before posting this headline would have been useful.
A country you've never heard of (continued) {Gadling}
Jan 1st 2008 10:59AM There's a swell piece in the archives of This American Life about Naaru - totally worth a listen. I'm sorry I can't find a link to post, but I'm sure it's archived at ThisLife.org.
