This Week in Offbeat Travel Links – April 21, 2007
by Mike Richard
- Like snowboarding? Like volcanic ash too? Try ashboarding in Nicaragua. It’s the Olympic Winter Games meets Pompei. Without all the media coverage and face-melting lava. I’d kindly ask ourman (currently our embed in Nic) to try this and report back to us.
- Learn to live like an Ewok in these odd sleeping pods from Free Spirit Spheres. They’re currently available for rent on Canada’s Vancouver Island.
- Ecuador is considering drastic measures to ensure that tourism doesn’t irreparably harm the Galapagos Islands. This makes me reconsider traveling there at all.
- Gadling.com’s Adrienne Wilson walks us through the recent controversy that Jaunted first revealed surrounding some questionable advertising practices in the travel industry
- Ah, the smell of an ad-free breeze blowing through the skeletons of defunct highway billboards! BoingBoing reports that Sao Palao, Brazil has gone completely billboard free.
- Gadling reports that the U.S. will be releasing new passport designs. They hate the new design; while I actually don’t mind it.
- There’s no shame in mooching! The Philadelphia Inquirer explores several options for budget-conscious backpackers looking to explore the wonders of “couch surfing” and hole up with strangers around the world.
- Would you believe the astronauts returning from the moon had to go through US customs? Odd.
- Jaunted points us to the Global Incident Map. It’s one-part rainbow terrorism scale and two-parts Google Maps. Very cool indeed.
- OMIG is loving the Huge In Asia vlog (that’s “video blog”) and you will too. Guaranteed or your money back!
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Vagabondish editor, Mike Richard, lives in Rhode Island - a spit of land in the northeastern U.S. He is a professional web designer and travel junkie with an unhealthy addiction to backpacking, camping, hiking and seeing the world. He enjoys knit hats, small, declarative sentences and speaking in the third person.
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