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Sujata Day
August 30, 2011 | Local Experts | Read More
Everything about Los Angeles makes Sujata Day’s heart flutter. And living in the land of perpetual sun, beautiful beaches, and gorgeous people has fueled her creativity in myriad ways. Sujata’s writing career began when her short story “Forbidden Fate” won a competition sponsored by MTV and PEOPLE...
Albanian Shipwreck Filled With 2,000-Year-Old Wine Jars
August 30, 2011 | Travel News | Read More
Fancy stumbling across two-thousand-year-old wine jars, only to discover that the sweet libation within is no more. That’s what happened to a US-Albanian archaeological team working off the coast of Albania this week when they came across an ancient shipwreck (via SFGate).
The team believes that the...
Marshall Hill
August 29, 2011 | Local Experts | Read More
Growing up as the son of a flight attendant, Marshall has traveled the globe extensively. However, there is one place he will always call home and that is Austin, Texas. With 14 years of “Keeping Austin Weird” under his belt, he has gradually become an expert in all things Austin. Currently...
Forget Flying: Take the Train From New York to London
August 29, 2011 | Travel News | Read More
New York to London in three weeks? Hey, it beats around the world in 80 days, and the proposed rail line would offer up an equal dose of steampunk allure, without suspending yourself hundreds of feet in the air with a fireball directly above your head.
Russian officials have recently started ferrophiles...
Kate Winslet Escapes Fire at Richard Branson’s Private Island
August 29, 2011 | Travel News | Read More
Cool, sexy, and rich, he may have classy air travel down and might even bring space travel to the masses, but Sir Richard Branson is still susceptible to the elements. On Monday, August 22, Branson’s Great House on his private Necker Island, which he rents out as an ultra-luxury hotel, burned to the...
Roundup: Things to Smuggle on a Plane if You Want to Be Hated by Your Fellow Passengers
August 26, 2011 | Travel News | Read More
A few months ago in Russia, bees were brought on board a plane by, wait for it, an airport official. Supposedly the bees were packaged for transport but they got free right after takeoff and swarmed the first class cabin. In honor or this terrifying ordeal, we’re rounding up our favorite items...
If Lufthansa Wasn’t Great Before, Now it Has Oktoberfest Themed Flights. Horray!
August 25, 2011 | Travel News | Read More
We’ll go ahead and say Lufthansa flights usually rock.
But now, they are going to rock even harder. Well, at least for a little while.
Maybe you can’t make it all the way to Germany for (one of) the thing(s) the country is most known for – Oktoberfest – but starting in September...
Postcard Perfect: Iceland
August 23, 2011 | Postcard Perfect | Read More
Interested in heading to Iceland to experience the 24-hour-long daylight (or darkness)? Get a glimpse of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano? Swim in the geothermal waters of the Blue Lagoon? Maybe check out its penis museum? Whatever the reason is to book your trip, there’s one thing you won’t...
Emerging Bike Capital: Bogotá
August 23, 2011 | Travel News | Read More
Think of bike-friendly cities and the list might include many European, and possibly some North American metropolises. But a developing South American capital?
According to Treehugger, over the past ten years the city of Bogotá, Colombia has quietly invested in its bicycle transportation infrastructure....
China Subway Takes Commute From Boring to Kick-Ass
August 22, 2011 | Travel News | Read More
If you or somebody you know has ever been waiting for the evening train home for more than, say, ten minutes, you’ve probably been stricken by a condition that affects millions of commuters every day: boredom. Symptoms of boredom include an urge to pace back and forth, a blank, glassy stare, and...
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