This Week in Offbeat Travel - May 26, 2007

Posted by Mike Richard on May 26, 2007
Filed under: Odds + Ends

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While in Monreal, The Man (read: the Delta Hotel) kept me from publishing my highly anticipated digest of weekly travel goodies by denying me my god given right to free WiFi. Alas, three days late, This Week in Offbeat Travel …

The BogoLight is a solar powered flashlight. Nothing especially revolutionary there. BUT: for every one of their nifty flashlights you buy, they donate one to a needy family. A nice little charity indeed. (Hat tip: NuNomad)

Rick Steves had a fantastic interview with Rolf Potts. If you’re even remotely interested in long-term travel, this is a must read hear.

Japan is of course notorious for, among other things, being the bane of the budget traveler. The latest solution? Slap on the feety pajamas and roll out the sleeping bag in an internet cafe.

Grand Canyon Skywalk opens, world yawns. I’ll admit: I thought this sounded pretty dang cool when plans were first announced a while back. But “each visitor taking the brief walk over the abyss must pay at least $74.95 for a tour package.” Huh? That’s a helluva chunk of change for twenty minutes of vertigo.

Elliot at Elliot.org (god, how I wish I’d secured Mike.com back when Amazon shares were $4.00) points us to a J.D. Power & Associates survey of airport customer satisfaction. The consensus isn’t good. “The takeaway, at least from my perspective, is that there are no good airports — only degrees of bad.”

Last and certainly least: are you as well-traveled as Mr. T? According to Gadling’s story of one Mr. T doll who’s taking on the garden gnome as the sole leader in inanimate action figure/lawn decoration travel, probably not.

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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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