Jan 20th, 2008 at 3:00PM: A quirky media dust-up this week brought a lot of attention to one mom 'n pop website: Google Sightseeing. Their motto is "why bother seeing the world for real?". What they've done is managed to collect a huge database of sights that you can actually see from Google Earth. But one sight you won't be seeing (or at least in anything more than a super blurry blob) is the world's largest palm tree, ...Click on a label to read posts from that part of the world.
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Why pay to travel when you have Google Earth?
Jan 20th, 2008 at 3:00PM: A quirky media dust-up this week brought a lot of attention to one mom 'n pop website: Google Sightseeing. Their motto is "why bother seeing the world for real?". What they've done is managed to collect a huge database of sights that you can actually see from Google Earth. But one sight you won't be seeing (or at least in anything more than a super blurry blob) is the world's largest palm tree, ...Luxury travel to an unexpected place
Dec 26th, 2007 at 1:30PM: I'm absolutely obsessed with Easter Island. I desperately tried to go earlier this year and pitched several story ideas, mostly about a particular researcher who is completing the most comprehensive mapping project of the statues and other archaeological sites to date (to be finished in summer 2008). He also has a radical new theory about how the place was destroyed: by rats, not humans, which is ...Most expensive flight in coach? You tell me
Nov 30th, 2007 at 3:00PM: Grant just had some in-depth and helpful posts about the best times to buy airline tickets. That got me thinking about a couple recent near-purchases on my part. What's confounded me when checking out ticket prices is how geographic distance often has little correlation with the cost of the flight. Yesterday I was checking on flights from Newark, USA to Port Moresby, Papa New Guinea. The cheapest ...Thirteen places in the world to creep you out
Oct 26th, 2007 at 1:30PM: Kelly's post on haunted hotels reminded me of when I was a kid. There was an abandoned house on my grandparents' street that was too hard to ignore. One Halloween my cousins and I dared each other to run across the front porch and knock on the front door after dark. Imagine my surprise when, instead of my fist meeting the glass of the door's window as I expected, my fist kept going. There wasn't ...One for the Road (04/08/07)
Apr 8th, 2007 at 10:37AM: The remote island of Rapa Nui is known as Easter Island thanks to Dutch explorer Jacob Roggeveen, who christened the name when he came upon the secluded spot in the South Pacific on Easter Sunday in 1722. Many travel guides simply include a section on the island (and its famous mysterious moai statues) in their books that cover Chile. One of the more recently updated guides containing information ...Casas Rapa Nui on Easter Island
Apr 9th, 2006 at 8:30AM: It seems to me the whole luxury hotel in exotic
places thing has taken a turn for the weird. Not that I haven't always wanted to visit Easter Island, which lies
waaaaay off the coast of Chile, but it just seems kind of lame to put some luxury accommodations there. I mean, I
thought the whole point of Easter Island is its remoteness and simplicity. But maybe I'm just a reactionary. Off ...
