This Week in Offbeat Travel - May 12, 2007

Posted by Mike Richard on May 12, 2007
Filed under: Odds + Ends

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Budget Travel is recommending that people hop on over to Nalgene to pledge to stop drinking bottled water. Buy a Brita/Pur pitcher for god’s sake and stop wasting all of that plastic! The earth will thank you.

I’ve grown incredibly fascinated with Cambodian history lately, although I’m ashamed to admit I know next to nothing about it. If you’re in the same boat, check out BigTripBlog’s brief primer.

Jason van Marle spent last summer in Japan. This dizzyingly fast and clever video captures his 2400 greatest moments. It felt like virtual motion sickness at first, but a couple hundred frames in, I was really starting to dig it.

Thinking of ditching your travel guides in favor of relying solely on online help? Slate’s Tim Wu suggests otherwise in Can Wiki Travel?.

Looking to live completely off the grid? Forbes magazine’s Dropping Out can help you disappear to far-off places where satellite phones probably don’t even work.

I bring a lot of great info to the table here on Vagabondish (this come to mind). But, seriously, if you’re going to bookmark only one thing that I’ve linked to, it should be Gadling’s How To Carry A Chicken (Around the World).

Kelsey suggests gaining a little insight by looking at a city’s police blotter.

Bear Grylls, of Man vs. Wild fame apparently has a blog. I thought I had my ear to the ground on this stuff, but thanks to Dave for stumbling on this one!

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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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