Click This! Week in Travel Links

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 that I don’t always have the opportunity to elaborate upon each one in a full blog post.

Here’s a sampling of what I saw this past week that you, my faithful readers and traveling fiends, might enjoy:

• Henry Buckets pulls a seventy-year old quote from Ralph Bagnold’s Libyan Sands to explain why enjoying small discomforts makes travel more affordable
• Steve Jackson gives us 10 Reasons Why Volunteering Is Better Than Traveling
• WhyGo.com inspires us with Don Blanding’s The Double Life
• Tim Leffel finds a Small Travel Adapter and Surge Protector that just might prove why the SkyMall catalog isn’t all bad
• A host of my blogging brethren share their top 5 reasons for blogging: GoBackpacking, RamblingTraveler, and in my All Stars, to name a few.
• The first in a series of interviews with professional vagabonders kicked off on the NuNomad blog.
• Leif explores the incredibly (il)logical civil engineering of Venice and London in the delicate art of not getting effed-up lost – a skill that I, myself, have yet to master.
• OneDerWear – a cheap, convenient way for travelers to say goodbye to rank, unwashed nether-garments and give mother nature a hearty “Eff you” to boot!