This Week in Offbeat Travel - June 23, 2007

Posted by Mike Richard on June 23, 2007
Filed under: Odds + Ends

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This Week in Offbeat Travel is published every Saturday at noon Eastern. It’s my attempt to compile a list of various links I’ve scavenged amid the mountain of travel stories, news, and reviews that pepper the web and blogosphere in the past week. Enjoy!

If you, like I, laughed until you peed a little at Sacha Baron Cohen’s Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, then you’ll be happy to know that Mr. Cohen has recently inked a book deal. Written Road is reporting that “the book will be split into two and be titled: Borat: Touristic Guidings to Minor Nation of U.S. and A. and Borat: Touristic Guidings to Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan.” Sweet!

From the “Things that Make My Naughty Bits Tighten Up” department, Jaunted points us to World’s Scariest Roller Coasters: Kingda Ka. I got queasy just watching the video.

This one’s about two weeks late, but Jaunted is reporting on a “sport” called Zorbing: “Zorbing involves hurling oneself down a hill in a plastic bubble. The extreme sport invented by those death-mocking New Zealanders makes its way to the United States with the newly opened Zorb Smokey Mountains.” The photo says it all.

As far as vacation spots go, evidently Canada’s got a bit of a bad rap amongst young Americans for being a real snoozer. So they’re trying to jazz things up by introducing the Seven Wonders of Canada. As far as I’m concerned, the rest of the world can go on wrongly dismissing the country as a legitimate travel destination - more Canada for me!

Heinz is traveling ’round the world on a bicycle. Greg Fallis captures the quintessence of his journey on the Utata photoblog.

“If you’ve been following the Altitude Everest expedition led by Conrad Anker along with Leo Houlding you’ll know that the pair - playing the parts of Mallory and Irvine for a doc-drama, summited the mountain last week,” reports OutdoorMagic.com. The two climbers proved the long-standing debate as to whether or not Sir Edmund Hillary could possibly have been the first to summit the Himalayan Peak, given Hillary’s barebones clothing and equipment. The site also points to a variety of videos from the expedition.

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Vagabondish editor Mike Richard lives in Rhode Island - a small patch 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 and speaking in the third person.



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