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Vagabondish Citizen of the Week, Sleepy Supervillains Edition

© frank wouters The sun is preparing to set on yet another week of failed sobriety – hello, weekend – and so it’s time for our weekly Friday self-esteem boost. We obviously do this primarily for you the reader, though there’s also a bit of self-interest involved. Some time around Sunday morning we’re going to [...]

Moron in Breathalyzer Costume Gets Nailed For DUI

© AP Photo/Oxford Police Department We’ve been known to squeeze content out of more than a few drunk driving fiascoes and we’re never loathe to indulge in “douchebag faces consequences for his douchebaggery” schadenfreude. So when a guy dressed up as a breathalyzer gets pulled over for drunk driving, obviously we get interested. But it [...]

Space Resorts For The Mega-Rich Set To Debut By 2012?

© Galactic Suite Competing directly with Richard Branson’s nascent space tourism ambitions, a Barcelona-based firm says they’re within a couple years of launching a full-fledged space resort. The Galactic Suite Space Resort will take mega-rich tourists into orbit for three nights at a time, with round trips based out of a spaceport on an as-yet-undisclosed [...]

Vagabondish Citizen Of The Week, Drunk Driving Edition

© AP Photo/Proctor Police Department via Duluth News Trubune Four contestants this week, up from the three we had last week: drunk ambulance-stealing 21 year old, drunk Reno guy who got 3 DUIs in 17 days, drunk NY woman picking up drunk driving friend from police station, and drunk motorized La-Z-Boy man. We think you [...]

5 Minutes Inside the Mind of a Traveler [Video]

Voyage from Marco Aslan on Vimeo. This montage of seemingly disparate images offers a bit of calm and beauty that perfectly captures the essence of travel. The foreign beaches, anonymous cafes, and smiling strangers on a train, at a wedding … it’s like five minutes sliced from the memories of a nostalgic traveler.

Canada Man Surprised That Petting Siberian Tigers Is A Bad Idea

© Agadez Sometimes instead of starting a post with bland facts we try to build it up slowly, setting up what journalists call the “nut graf.” The idea is to get you hooked, either by playing around with the piece’s tone or by hinting at details from further down, and then hitting you with the [...]

HERmail.net: Connecting Female Travelers and Mentors Around the World

“Where – oh where – can I get a decent haircut in Mumbai”? You just may find the answer to this question via HERmail.net. I recently discovered an amazing service for female travelers to connect with women who live in the country they plan to visit. They can share their respective cultures, travelers can learn [...]

Stockholm Invaded By Bank Robbing Bond Villians

© Wiki-observer We’ve been on a bit of a thing about how the US is getting outpaced in the “creative international crimes” department, with our public pot growers getting decimated by guys cultivating grade-A chronic in the middle of Greek motorways. Nothing highlights this disturbing trend better than two different crime stories that came over [...]

Are You “Hyperforeign”? Stop It. Seriously.

© MSanghera Via Kottke, a description of one of the more annoying sub-species of the recreational vagabonder. This is the one who comes back from a trip overseas and tries way, way too hard to seem like they went native: Hyperforeignism is the mispronunciation of words borrowed from foreign languages… but it’s actually a sort [...]

Join Us, Fellow Twitter-er-ers!

Just a heads-up to our loyal RSS subscriber friends: we’re on Twitter! If you’re tweeting or twitting as well, send us a Twitter comment or a direct message and let us know!

Celebrating Eight Years of World Hum

It’s not often that we post congratulations and virtual pats on the back, but dang it … it’s World Hum‘s 8th birthday! Eight years may not seem like a long time, but in the ever changing world of the intertubes, it’s an entire era (in 2001, YouTube wasn’t even a flicker in some future dot [...]

Psst … Join Us on Twitter and Facebook!

Okay, okay, this is a repost. But we received such a great influx of travelers and fans on Twitter and Facebook that we’re putting it out there again. Addicted to Twitter © carrotcreative In case you haven’t heard, Vagabondish.com is now on Twitter and Facebook. You can now get up-to-the-nanosecond Vagabondish goodness. It’ll almost make [...]

Murphy’s 13 Immutable Laws of Air Travel

Murphy’s First Law of Travel: No matter how many rooms there are in the motel, the fellow who starts up his car at five o’clock in the morning is always parked under your window. Can I just say for the record that Mr. Murphy must have not traveled extensively if this is all he could [...]

Vagabondish Wins 2008 Editors’ Award for Online Excellence

Much to our pleasant surprise, that great bastion of all things hip, relevant and newsworthy – yes, I’m speaking of course of The Morning News – has tipped their cap this year to Vagabondish as their “Favorite Pop Travel Magazine”: You know when you want that New York Times travel section voice—all light and bouncy, [...]

Apologies to Our Daily Digest E-mail Subscribers

My apologies to our Vagabondish Daily Digest e-mail subscribers. You’ve probably noticed that, for the past week or so, text formatting of Digest e-mails has been a little squirrelly (i.e. text for each post is displaying in large, nearly illegible blocks without appropriate line breaks). I promise – I’m working to get this resolved ASAP! [...]

Bugs on a Plane: Wasps Cause Aborted Qantas Take Off

I Sting © furryscaly According to the BBC, a series of aborted take-offs at Australia’s Brisbane airport has been linked to wasp infestation of the airplanes involved. Apparently, wasps got to work building nests inside five Qantas airplanes while they were waiting on the runway. On one of the flights aborted during take-off, the pilot [...]

109 Year Old to Receive First Passport … Several Decades Too Late

Maria Kostova is receiving a welcome gift on her 109th birthday – her very first passport … several decades after she initially applied for one. Kostova, who was born on February 7, 1898 in the Macedonian town of Shtip, did not have a birth certificate issued at the time of her birth. Twenty years ago [...]

Traveler’s Charm Offers A S**tload of Luck on a Rope

Think you have the crappiest luck? A poo themed lucky charm might be just the thing to break your jinx. Following in a line of crap themed products, this Japanese charm is called the Lucky Golden Poo. The Japanese word for luck is also similar to the one for poo – go figure – which [...]

Bizarre Culture: The Infectious Spanish Disco Pop of Loco Mia [Video]

It’s like Color Me Badd hired a team of Spanish matador costume designers. Try not watching it until the end. You can’t – it’s just too delicious. It almost beats out the Benny Lava video. Almost.

Ad, a Reminder to Get Rid of All Your Crap [Video]

I remember reading a study a while back noting how storage rentals in the United States increased some astronomical percent in the past decade. Enter this award-winning commercial: There’s no denying it’s pretty damn cool on a technical and artistic level. However, the intent is clearly to influence pack rats to expand their available space [...]

Weird Things in the Hotel Lost and Found: Boy, Cat and Human Remains

According to Travelodge Hotel in Edinburgh, the strangest piece of lost property that guests left behind in 2007 was a 4 year old boy (?!?). The parents apparently had a family party to attend, and loads of luggage. In all the excitement, they forgot to take their son along. Thankfully, they returned as soon as [...]

Bizarre Culture: Master Plunger Thrower on German Television [Video]

Somehow, the back flip and John Travolta-style disco split at the end seems fitting, no? You’re jealous. Don’t lie.

TSA Tied with IRS in Popularity Contest

With all the confusion about what and how much you can take on a flight, rude officers and publicly humiliating Roto-Rooter-style cavity searches, the Transport Security Administration is officially tied with every U.S. citizen’s bogey man, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), for the title of the least popular federal agency in the country, a poll [...]

Grandma Trekker Crosses Indo-Nepal Border With … Bus Pass

A quick thinking pensioner traveling on a trekking trip in the Himalayas used her bus pass to get through a check point on the Indo-Nepal border. Seventy-two year old Helen Carter, an avid adventure sports enthusiast, was part of an organized trekking group tour to India. The group was based in the Indian hill station [...]

Entire Hungarian Beach – Complete with Sand – Stolen

Owners of a beach-themed leisure park in Hungary are hopping mad after they lost an entire beach complete with sand, lounges and shacks to thieves. Yes – you read that right: complete with sand. The beach had been set up on the riverbank at Mindszentas, in a country which has no natural oceanfront of its [...]

Road Trip Travel Inspires the World’s Most Boring Video Game

On November 23, 2007, a group of Canadians sat down to raise money for a children’s charity via a gaming marathon. Nothing novel about that you might think, except that the game they’ll play, “Desert Bus”, is so boring it’s never been officially released. The road trip travel game comprises an 8 hour drive in [...]

American Woman Cooks Pizza in Hotel Safe … Or At Least Tries To

You really can’t make this stuff up. Hotel staff are used to guests using their rooms to do strange things. But this one takes the cake … er … pizza. A guest at the New Zealand’s $300 a night Hermitage Hotel in Mount Cook called staff to her room claiming that she couldn’t get her [...]

Journey to the Center of the Earth

The Hollow Earth theory – that the earth has an empty hollow, possibly inhabitable interior – has had many notable takers over the centuries. Plato, Edmund Halley and Hitler were ardent believers. Hollow Earth © midi8 Man has never drilled deeper than 15 miles into the earth and this has helped create some fantastic theories [...]

German Pub Skirts Smoking Ban with “Butt Holes”

This is one trend that promises to be the butt of many jokes to come. (Get it? Seriously, we’re here all week) At the Maltermeister Turm in Goslar, Germany, the enterprising owner found a novel way to beat the new smoking ban, and accommodate customers who complained about having to freeze their butts off in [...]

Air Rage Incidents Triple in Last 3 Years

Those mid air scuffles that provide such entertainment to the rest of us stuck in coach on a 14-hour journey have only gotten more frequent. According to the Civil Aviation Authority, the number of incidents of “disruptive behavior” on airplanes has tripled in the last few years. This year, the CAA received around 2,219 reports [...]

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