Archive for August, 2009

Who Should You Travel With? Part 2 of 3: Two for the Road

Posted on 18. Aug, 2009 by .

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(This is a subject that deserves serious thought. Who you decide to travel with affects your trip experience in many large and small ways. Traveling in a group, traveling in a pair and traveling alone, I’ve done all three and will give you my personal advice over the next week. On Sunday I wrote about [...]

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Who Should You Travel With? Part 1 of 3: Why Traveling in a Big Group will Make you Crazy and Possibly Homicidal

Who Should You Travel With? Part 1 of 3: Why Traveling in a Big Group will Make you Crazy and Possibly Homicidal

Posted on 16. Aug, 2009 by .

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(This is a subject that deserves serious thought. Who you decide to travel with affects your trip experience in many large and small ways. Traveling in a group, traveling in a pair and traveling alone, I’ve done all three and will give you my personal advice over the next week.) It is so easy to [...]

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Friday Links: A Late Summer Reading List

Friday Links: A Late Summer Reading List

Posted on 14. Aug, 2009 by .

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I thought I might go on a them this week.  The Travel Bookshop off Portobello Road in London (famous from the movie Knotting Hill) is turning 30 this month and has released a list of their all time favorite travel books. The Travel Bookshop Reading List I will definitely be adding some of these to [...]

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Highlight: This is…

Posted on 13. Aug, 2009 by .

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Okay I know these books are meant for little kids but I spotted them at the library last week and I would love them for my coffee table (if I had a coffee table, which I don’t because I am a loser). Aren’t they cute? Amazon says: Following on the runaway success of This is [...]

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Wednesday Postcard: Harvard Massachusetts

Wednesday Postcard: Harvard Massachusetts

Posted on 12. Aug, 2009 by .

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Bare Hill Pond, originally uploaded by StephYo. We are deep in a classically sticky, humid, miserable summer here in DC, which got me thinking about summer past. For most of my childhood summer meant running around the small town in Central Massachusetts where my grandparents lived. We didn’t sail but we swam in this lake [...]

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Finding Inspiration: Deciding Where You Want to Go

Finding Inspiration: Deciding Where You Want to Go

Posted on 11. Aug, 2009 by .

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So you want to get out and see the world! But where to go? I will confess this is not an issue I’ve ever really struggled with. I want to visit almost everywhere I read about so for me it’s more a matter of “when” than “where” to go.  However this list must be culled [...]

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First Person Perspective: Teaching English in Korea

Posted on 09. Aug, 2009 by .

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Alex Pollack is originally from Memphis, Tennesee and is starting this fall as an MFA student at The University of Central Florida. In 2007 and 2008 he spent a year teaching English in Bundang, South Korea, and experience he chronicled on his truly excellent blog Gorilla Teacher: Diaries of a Young American in South Korea. [...]

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TGIFriday Links

Posted on 07. Aug, 2009 by .

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My goodness this week has been long! If you are anything like me you really don’t want to work on this hot sticky August Friday. Here are some interesting links to check out. I haven’t decided if I want this to be a weekly feature or not, I guess we will just see how much [...]

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Fantasy Vacations for the Fiction Fiend

Fantasy Vacations for the Fiction Fiend

Posted on 06. Aug, 2009 by .

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Several months ago the sassy ladies att Jezebel wrote a tongue in cheek post about literary travel vacations they’d like to take: The Genuine Crime and Punishment Experience: Learn to swing an axe in a 6 X 6′ room! Spend one week doing penal servitude in Siberia! Price includes one wooden cross, unlimited time for [...]

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