Pillowig: The Last Travel Pillow You’ll Ever Buy

Like what you see? Subscribe to the full RSS feed. Witness “Pillowig“: “Pillowig” is hand made wearable pillow comforting trieness of people in daily lives, enabling users to sleep comfortably whenever and whenever they’d like. When user test is done in public spaces - subway, airplane, library, class room and laundromat, viewers commented: “I would like […]

Why You Have No Right To Fly

I enjoy politics and all matters civic, however I typically like to shy away from such things here on this blog where the main focus is travel. Travel Junkie’s How To Fly Without ID by Joby Weeks is part politics, but also part travel. So I suppose it’s fair game. Since it struck a […]

Two Shoes For You, Two For A Child In Need

This is quite nice … Seth Godin points us to TOMS Shoes: Inspired by a traditional Argentine shoe and challenged by the continent’s poverty and health issues, I created TOMS with a singular mission: to make life more comfortable. TOMS accomplishes this through its unique shoe and my commitment to match every pair purchased with a […]

A Song For Road Trippers: Satellite

I’m happily ignorant with regard to pop music or just about anything found on broadcast radio. But I haven’t been able to get Guster’s Satellite out of my head for the past week. It’s a great road tripping song and the video’s sweet to boot, albeit a bit vertigo-inducing.

Nordic Map Porn: Charting Where Dragons And Other Nasties Abound

The Tranquilo Traveler points us to a delicious bit of “map porn“. … the Carta Marina. The famous first map of the Nordic countries with details and placenames was first copied in 1539 in Venice, printed from nine woodcut blocks to produce a document 1.70 m tall by 1.25 m wide. To really appreciate this map, […]

Photo of the Moment: The World’s Tightest Pair of Jeans

This is just lovely - a photo from “The Vault” of great things I’ve come across in ten years of daily meanderings around the web. It’s moments like this, captured on film, that make travel truly wonderful. Enlarged photo: World’s Tightest Jeans Is it just me or does that fellah look visibly uncomfortable?

How To Take Great Pictures Through A Window

Photographing subjects through glass/windows is a bitch. When it comes right down to it, cameras are pretty dumb, meaning they’re likely to try to focus on whatever is closest to them. So, if you’re snapping shots through a window, it’s essential to know how to fool your camera to focus on the subject […]

Getting the Most Out of Your U.S. Dollar

On the heels of a gripping and altogether exciting post I wrote last week about currency diversity, Tim Leffel’s put together a handy list of destinations where the U.S. dollar is not in trouble … well not in as much trouble as elsewhere anyway. Good to know. Especially since Canadian currency is almost equal to […]

A Zagat’s for Airlines

Ben from The Daily Transit asks: Wondering whether you should pack a sandwich (or three) for your next flight? Check out AirlineMeals.net, where thousands of travelers submit photos and reviews of their airline dining experience. Categorized by airline. You gotta love just how well the web uncovers and details every conceivable niche.

Cluster Ballooning: Latest Budget Travel Trend?

Here’s a way to get around cheap: Have you ever dreamed of being carried into the sky by a giant bouquet of colorful toy balloons? That’s the idea behind cluster ballooning. The pilot wears a harness, to which a cluster of large, helium-filled balloons are attached. Control is achieved by releasing ballast to ascend, or by bursting […]

Friday Fun Video: Drugged Spiders

OK, this isn’t travel-related at all, except that I think the video was produced in Canada - a place I’ve traveled to. Have a great weekend, everyone!

Lonely Planet Guides Go Digitial

Tim Leffel remarks: Lonely Planet is taking a big step forward though with guidebook chapters you can download. Some of the planning chapters are even free right now, which is great if you are just in the early stages of planning a trip or are just browsing destinations to get a feel for where you want […]

Photo of the Moment: Llévame (Chilean Volcanos)

If this doesn’t put you in a relaxed, Zen mood for the weekend, what will? Photo © copyright Flickr’s annais

Au Pied de Cochon, Montreal: Best. Meal. Ever. Period.

Artwork © Marc Séguin, Pied de cochon, 2003, Photo: Éliane Excoffier. This post is coming a bit late, as it pertains to a trip to Montreal that K and I took back in May. What follows was truly the denouement, the coup de gras, the creme de la creme, and some other great French adjectives […]

In the Market for a Slightly Used Vampire Castle?

I’m sure there’s a witty quip in here somewhere about the owner being more of a blood-sucker than his real estate agent. But it’s late in the afternoon and my blood sugar’s low so you’ll just have to pretend that I came up with one. Via Washington Post: BUCHAREST, Romania, July 2 — An heir of […]

Threats in Canadian Airports: OK, As Long As They’re Funny

Via Reuters: The Canadian Air Transport Safety Authority, trying to clamp down on screeners who alert police every time they hear alarming words, has issued a bulletin urging staff to show more discretion. A person who announces “You better look through my suitcase carefully, because there’s a bomb in there”, “I am going to set fire to […]

12 Reasons to Ditch Internet Explorer Forever and Make the Switch to Firefox

Still using Internet Explorer to browse the web? You’re missing out! If you have your own blog, you read other blogs, you’re a traveler, or any combination of the three, you should be using Firefox. Here are twelve great reasons why: The Resizable Textarea plugin makes blogger’s and blog reader’s lives a hell […]

Sick of Spam? Get a Free, Disposable E-mail Address

Disposable e-mail addresses have been around for awhile, but surprisingly most folks I talk to have never heard of them. If you’re tired of having to sign up for a forum/blog/newspaper website just to read one stinking article/post, only to find out later that your e-mail address has since been passed to every spam […]

Supersize Your Travel Photos … Up to 60 Feet! For Free!

Have a few travel photos lying around that just aren’t big enough? Ever think to yourself, “You know this photo of my bare bottom exposed on top of the Eiffel Tower just isn’t big enough?” You’re in luck. Enter The Rasterbator: The Rasterbator creates huge, rasterized images from any picture. Upload an image, […]

Dubailand: Environmental Destruction of Walt Disney World Proportions

“Go Big or Go Home.” That’s the unofficial Texas motto. And, with the immense tourism projects cropping up in the Middle East lately, it’s evident Dubai is taking a page out of the Lonestar State’s play book. Via Middle East Times: DUBAI, United Arab Emirates — Widely touted as the Middle East’s very own […]

Photo of the Moment: Reflected Cloud Boat in Venice

Another beauty from Jon Rawlinson over at Flickr: Photo © copyright Flickr’s jonrawlinson

Seeking Advice From Travelers: Currency Diversity

SEOBlackHat.com had an interesting, off-topic post today on Online Banking and Currency Diversity. My interest is more in the latter. As an American who’s sat idly by, watching the U.S. dollar fall into the worst tailspin in recent memory, the article started me thinking on whether or not it’d be a good idea […]

A Little Google Maps Trick for Road Trippers

Gadling points us to this new and nifty Google Maps trick that’s great for road trippers: Don’t like the route offered by Google Maps? Simply click on the blue line and adjust it accordingly. This is especially nice if you’re pulling up directions for someone else, and the route suggested isn’t the best available. I wish […]

How A Polarizer Filter Works

If, like me, you’re a budding photographer and a tech nerd (and frankly, ladies, is there a hotter combination of man on god’s green earth?), you’ll appreciate Photocritic.org’s great piece on How a polarizer filter works. It’s a neat follow-up to a post I did a short while ago on Why Polarizing Filters are Great for […]

News You Might Have Missed: Google’s 411 Free On Your Cellphone

Evidently, Google’s had a free 411 service for quite some time. Via the Official Google Blog: [A] few months back we launched 1-800-GOOG-411 (1-800-466-4411) in the U.S. It’s a free telephone service that lets you search for businesses by voice and get connected to those businesses for free. Aside from the free part, it’s not much […]

It’s Political (Bovine) Correctness Run Amok!

You really just can’t make this stuff up … MADRID (Reuters) - Women in the northern Spanish city of Pamplona, world-famous for its ferocious bull-running festival, are demanding their own version complete with cows instead of bulls. A student website, www.estudiln.net, set the ball rolling with its campaign “Cows want to run” which asks for a separate […]

A Bittersweet Song Punctuates A Perfect Weekend

K had the last six full days off; me - the last five. I’ve been working full steam ahead since I can remember and K’s been juggling two jobs and night school since October of last year. This weekend was the best time we’ve spent together in recent memory. I proudly shirked […]

Photo of the Moment: The Heart of Satan

If you’re not already subscribed to Trey Ratcliff of StuckinCustoms’ Flickr stream, what’s wrong with you? I could blog about his photos every day of the week. It’s a running joke between K and I that I think the idea of photographing fireworks is silly. Photos rarely convey the raw emotion and feeling of being […]

Life As A Travel Blogger (A Web Comic)

The Tranquilo Traveler points us to this spot-on web comic about life as a travel blogger/photographer/etc. I think it’s a funny, but true reminder of how not to travel. Don’t experience your travels from behind your camera’s viewfinder. And don’t think of every experience in terms of how you’ll write about it later. […]

The Ultimate Traveler’s Cellphone

Well, “ultimate” if you don’t mind carrying a wind turbine around with you. TravelGearBlog is reporting: Orange is working on developing a portable turbine that is powered by the wind, providing juice for your mobile phone. While this project is still in the works, and prototypes are being worked out, the turbine is supposed to be able […]

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