Click This! Week in Travel Links – April 7, 2007
by Mike Richard
The top ten links from this week in budget travel:
- Perpetual Travel presents a no-nonsense guide to RTW travel
- NuNomad blog continues its series on cell phone use for long term and RTW travel
- Kevin Allgood suggests using linked accounts to protect your travel loot from pesky thieves and con artists while on the road
- A brilliant Palestinian traveler proves that taping crocodiles to your chest is not the proper way to smuggle them into the Gaza Strip
- A 2005 post from EscapeBlog points us to How to use Japanese style toilet – an insightful Flash movie for anyone new to the exciting world of squat toilets!
- ANA has updated their reservation process to include a nifty little Flash application to, as Jaunted claims, help “you visualize your suffering in 3D” (a la SeatGuru)
- Darren Rowse tackles the essentials of travel photography
- … and Our Man in Granada could learn ya a thing or two about travel photography. Check out his favorite travel pics.
- Rail travel could get a whole lot faster with France’s TGV setting a new rail train world speed record of 357.2 miles per hour!
- To insure or not to insure? About.com provides a general overview to help answer that question.
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About the Author
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.











