Click This! Week in Travel Links

Like what you see? Subscribe to the full RSS feed.As anyone who knows me can attest, I read a ridiculous amount of travel blogs and articles every day. Unfortunately, having a schedule filled with texting my Americal Idol votes for Sanjaya and checking my RSS reader hourly for updates to The Sneeze means […]

Slow Down and Tune In, Dammit!

Tim Leffel recently blogged about how multitasking is a myth. And it is. “Multitasking is going to slow you down, increasing the chances of mistakes,” said David E. Meyer, a cognitive scientist and director of the Brain, Cognition and Action Laboratory at the University of Michigan. “Disruptions and interruptions are a bad deal from the […]

Not Every Country Speaks English?

From the I never even thought about that department, Vagablogging points us to a free virtual keyboard that takes the guesswork out of having to type on foreign language keyboards. It’s a simple and painless concept: You visit the Gate2Home.com website Type your new e-mail, blog post, etc. with your mouse using the onscreen […]

5 Reasons Why I Blog

Daniel over at TheLostGlobe.com was kind enough to tag me with the latest 5 Reasons Why I Blog meme that’s recently been passed around here, here, and here to name a few. I’m hard pressed to pick just five, but here goes: 1. I’m passionate about anything “web”. I’ve been in the web industry all my life - […]

Webify Yourself: Yahoo Mail To Offer Unlimited Storage

I’ve started to move much of my digital “life” online, rather than keeping copies of anything and everything on my own personal computer. Global access to one’s most important documents from any computer around the world is a godsend for travelers. That said, Yahoo has announced that it will begin offering unlimited mail […]

Like to Collect Barf Bags? You’re Not Alone!

This is just plain weird. A site that caters to barf bag collectors. Need I say more?

Cell Phones Abroad

Using your cell phone while traveling outside your home country is not always as easy as you might think.

How Irish Is St. Patrick’s Day Really?

This past week, Not Your Average Travel Guide explored the five day heathen festival that is St. Patrick’s Day in Dublin, Ireland. Watching folks decked out in hokey leprechaun outfits, Irish flag colored wigs, and fuzzy brown Guinness hats, I couldn’t help but think, “Has America conquered St. Patrick’s Day in Ireland too?”. Having visited […]

Reason #9,349 To Travel RTW: Moonlight in Rome

Over on the GoBackpacking.com blog, Dave is reminiscing about the moonlight in Rome: I’m reminded of my first night in Rome every time I take notice of the moon. Full moons, half moons, crescent moons - they all take me back to that moment in time when I felt as though I was the luckiest guy […]

27 Tips Every World Traveler Should Know

It is ok to love dogs and still hope that lightning will strike that goddamn Doberman next door.

Don’t Be A Tourist #2

My lady and I are booked for a trip to Portland, Maine this weekend. So Orbitz, being the excellent travel e-business that it is, e-mails me a “reminder” today which is basically just a way for them to scam another e-mail into my inbox in an effort to upsell me on all kinds of […]

How to Convince Your Boss to Let You Work from Home

Over on the Productivity501 blog, Mark discusses how to convince your boss to let you work from home. It’s a worthwhile topic for anyone considering not just telecommuting and working in their underwear, but traveling the world as well. For the ADHD readers in the audience, I’ll condense it down: convince your boss why it’s […]

Don’t Be A Tourist

Over on the Cheapest Destinations blog, Tim Leffel opines on the soulless, homogeneous ports of call of massive, middle America-filled ocean liners. His photos call to mind any one of several hundred ports of call in the Caribbean, littered with Subway sandwich shops, Hard Rock Cafes (shudder), Dunkin’ Donuts, etc. etc. If you […]

I’m Addicted to The Discovery Channel Network

I love The Discovery Channel. And all it’s little sister channels - The Travel Channel, TLC, Discovery Health and on and on. I often wish cable was offered a la carte, because I’d only pay for about ten channels. I TiVo almost anything travel-related and The Travel Channel rarely disappoints. It’s […]

Preparing For My RTW Trip by Forgetting About It

It’s proving to be a long, hard road toward preparing myself for my upcoming RTW journey. I’m trying to balance the daily mental weight of constantly dreaming of far-away places; saving like a … well … like someone who saves a lot; and living an average, work-a-day existence with all the trappings and responsibilities […]