This Week in Offbeat Travel Links – April 28, 2007
by Mike Richard
- Colin Beavan (aka No Impact Man) tells of a little girl who shows how you can truly change the world one good deed at a time. Think volunteering.
- In the market for a new or used camel? Guardian Unlimited has the perfect camel dealers for you in the city of Al Ain. Act now and they’ll even throw in sixty months, zero percent financing!
- World class climber, Reinhold Messner, talks turkey with Guardian Unlimited
- Thai scientists are stirring up quite a controversy with the debut of stink-free durian. Long a rite of passage for the culinary adventurers.
- I love anything scuba diving related. But this is just plain weird: Underwater Post Offices and Mailboxes Around the World
- The United States federal government launched a website for all national parks info. A great resource for travelers and backpackers planning to camp their way across the States!
- In the European-style of ultra-discount airlines, SkyBus has just started offering flights through Columbus, Ohio. Upgrade: Travel Better has all of the details.
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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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