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Video - Tahiti - Feeding Sharks, Stingrays and Snorkeling
2007-12-31 00:00:00 Since this weeks episode of the Amateur Traveler podcast was on Tahiti I have been looking more into that destination. In my search I found this video diary of a trip to Tahiti. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Ftripinator.com%2F2007%2F12% 2F31%2Fvideo-tahiti-feeding-sharks-stingr ays-and-snorkeling%2F'; addthis_title = 'Video +-+Tahiti+-+Feeding +Sharks%2C+Sting rays+and+Snorkeling'; addthis_pub = '';
Rules Change January 1 For FLying with Lithium Batteries in U.S.
2007-12-29 00:00:00 According to safetravel.dot.gov: Effective January 1, 2008, the following rules apply to the spare lithium batteries you carry with you in case the battery in a device runs low: Spare batteries are the batteries you carry separately from the devices they power. When batteries are installed in a device, they are not considered spare batteries. You may not ... More About: Batteries , Change , Flying , Rules
From Snow To Sun And Sand
2007-12-28 00:00:00 With much of the Northern Hemisphere dealing with true Winter (not like here in California) I liked this video from Lisa (a blogger at MostlyLisa.com) who fled the Canadian cold for a Sand als resort on the beach in Jamaica. Maybe this will give you and idea as well for someplace warm to go this Winter. ... More About: Snow
A Look At the USA Through Different Eyes
2007-12-27 00:00:00 I received an email from Robin Sparks, a friend, travel writer and ex-pat who lives in Istanbul. She gave me permission to share this story. Here’s a small piece from this corner of the world: Last Thursday I was at Ataturk Airport to help a friend who works for the U.N., process 30 Iraqi and Iranian refugees ... More About: Eyes , Diff
How Big Is Your Entourage?
2007-12-27 00:00:00 And you thought you packed too much when you went on a trip. Boing Boing had a blog post recently about President Bush’s Travel Entourage . Once you decide to take 250 secret service agents, 150 national security advisors, 200 other representatives from the executive branch, 50 aids, 15 dog sniffer teams, and 5 cooks, you ...
See Your Name On The Disneyland Sign
2007-12-26 00:00:00 If you have ever been disappointed to driven up to Disneyland and been disappointed that they are welcoming the Shriners but not your family then the Disneyland Sign Generator is for you. You can send your family and friends photographic evidence that your name was up in lights. Of course… f you do lie about ...
World?s Largest Guide to Public Toilets, Restrooms, Bathrooms, and Loos
2007-12-26 00:00:00 I am not sure what traumatic experiences someone might have had as a child or as a traveller to create a website like TheBathroomDiaries.com that focuses just on public restrooms but whatever it was it lead to the creation of a useful site for travelers. It focuses on the practical information like where public restrooms, ... More About: World , Public , Toilets , Guide , Largest
Video - Snorkel Trip in Curacao
2007-12-25 00:00:00 Visit Curacao (Curaçao) with the Amateur Traveler: This video is from a snorkeling excursion with a snorkeling trip with Bounty Adventures and their sailing sloop the Bounty. CHEAP CARIBBEAN VACATIONS addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Ftripinator.com%2F2007%2F12% 2F25%2Fvideo-snorkel-trip-in-curacao%2F'; addthis_title = 'Video +-+Snorkel+Trip +in+Curacao'; addthis_pub = '';
Video - Tomato ?Fight? in Spain
2007-12-25 00:00:00 In the Spanish town of Bunol (in the Valencia region) they hold what amounts to the largest food fight every year. 30,000 people gather to throw 240,000 pounds of over-ripe tomatoes at each other. ‘The Tomatina‘ started in 1945 in a brawl that started near a vegetable stall. At around 10 a.m., the first event of ... More About: Video , Spain , Fight , Tomato
Curtains For Travel Lust
2007-12-25 00:00:00 The Geekly Travel er spotted shower curtains for people with travel lust. They cost $35 from a company called Loft Party. So if you want a view of Venice, Rome, Vegas, Egypt , etc you can pick up one of these for much less than a plane ticket. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Ftripinator.com%2F2007%2F12% 2F24%2Fcurtains-for-travel-lust%2F'; ... More About: Lust
Video - Buddhist Temple near Chiang Mai Northern Thailand
2007-12-24 00:00:00 A video of the Doi Suthep temple in Northern Thailand . addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Ftripinator.com%2F2007%2F12% 2F23%2Fvideo-buddhist-temple-near-chiang- mai-northern-thailand%2F'; addthis_title = 'Video +-+Buddhist+Temple +near+Chiang+Mai+ Northern+Thailand'; addthis_pub = ''; More About: Chiang Mai
7 Outrageous Predictions for Travel in 2008
2007-12-24 00:00:00 Bigger Cruise Ships - In a surprise move by cruise companies competing to make the largest cruise ship, Royal Caribbean will buy the U.S.S. Hornet from the U.S. Navy and refit it as a cruise vessel. The flight deck will be converted into a 9 hole golf course and the catapult will be used to ... More About: Travel , Predictions , Outrageous , 2008
New Airbus Takes Flight, 470 More Passengers Than Wright Brothers
2007-12-23 00:00:00 Charlie Furnas was the first passenger on a fixed wing aircraft in 1908 when he took a flight on the Wright Brothers plane. (The Wright Brothers never flew together because they promised their father they would not). Almost 100 years later a the Airbus A380 took its first commercial flight today with somewhat more space ... More About: Flight , Passengers
Most Admired Airlines (by businesspeople)
2007-12-23 00:00:00 CNNMoney recently published a list of the most admired airlines according to a survey of businesspeople. The survey was not of travelers so your list may not be the same. Continental Airlines (score 8.20) Singapore Airlines (score 5.82) Lufthansa Group (score 5.53) British Airways (score 5.37) Air France-KLM Group (score 5.22) Japan Airlines (score 5.16) All Nippon Airways (score 5.15) AMR (score 5.10) Northwest ... More About: Sine , Admire
Test Your Travel Knowledge on Facebook
2007-12-23 00:00:00 If you are a member of the Facebook community and a fan of travel then you can test your travel knowledge using Travel Pod’s Traveler IQ Challenge. You get a very small map and are asked to click on where a particular spot on the globe is located. You score based on how many kilometers away ... More About: Knowledge , Test
Returning to Vieques
2007-12-23 00:00:00 Saturday, July 8th Time to say hello to Vieques again after a nine year absence. We drove from San Juan to the Fajardo ferry terminal and parked in the long term parking ($40 for a week). We bought our tickets ($2 each) and waited for the ferry to arrive. Prior to boarding everyone lines up ...
Woman tries to open aircraft door midair
2007-12-23 00:00:00 An article in The Age will be scary reading for the nervous flyers out there. A flight in the US had to be diverted to Houston after a passenger tried to open an emergency door. The woman was unable to open the door on the American Airlines flight from Orlando, Florida, to Dallas-Fort Worth in Texas, and ... More About: Aircraft , Open , Woman , Door , Trie
Podshow Holiday Gift Guide - Sanyo Xacti VPC-E1 review
2007-12-23 00:00:00 Here is my review of the new Sanyo Xacti VPC-E1 6MP Waterproof MPEG4 Camcorder which I recently purchased for use on my upcoming cruise. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Ftripinator.com%2F2007%2F10% 2F28%2Fpodshow-holiday-gift-guide-sanyo-x acti-vpc-e1-review%2F'; addthis_title = 'Podshow+Holiday +Gift +Guide +-+Sanyo+Xacti +VPC-E1+review'; addthis_pub = ''; More About: Review
Chris on the Home Based Travel Agent podcast
2007-12-23 00:00:00 I was minding my own business on Friday when I got an impromptu invitation to go back on the Home Based Travel agent podcast. Home Based Travel Agent podcast - Podcast Number One-hundred-twenty-six The Amateur Traveler Show producer, Chris Christensen joins the show. Lorene is traveling to Barcelona Spain in a couple of weeks and Chris ...
The Union Oyster House - A Boston Tradition
2007-12-23 00:00:00 The Union Oyster House is the oldest restaurant in continuous service in the United States. It is the earliest standing brick building in Boston . For more then 250 years it has stood sturdily on Union Street as a major local landmark. In 1742 the building housed importer Hopestill Capen ’s fancy dress ... More About: Tradition
What?s Your Best Family Vacation?
2007-12-23 00:00:00 As a kid our best family vacations were road trips and the king of the road trips was from Salinas California to the Grand Tetons and Yellowstone, up to Glacier National Park, Banff, Lake Louise, Jasper and then looping back to Vancouver, Seattle and home. Not only did the National Parks live up to our ... More About: Family , Vacation
Take Back Your Time Day - October 24th
2007-12-23 00:00:00 Proponents of the Take Back Your Time movement have named October 24th as “Take Back Your Time Day”. TAKE BACK YOUR TIME is a major U.S./Canadian initiative to challenge the epidemic of overwork, over-scheduling and time famine that now threatens our health, our families and relationships, our communities and our environment. Vacations are vanishing. Only 14% of ...
In Kuwait there is no such thing a a fender bender, every wreck is spectacu
2007-12-23 00:00:00 In Kuwait there is no such thing a a fender bender, every wreck is spectacular. I have seen all kinds of traffic in my travels but nothing compares to the drivers in Kuwait. Every highway is a NASCAR experience. The posted speed limit is 120km/h but that, like the lanes painted on ... More About: Thing , Bender , Fender , Wreck
Video - Proposing In A Hot Air Balloon
2007-12-23 00:00:00 A great video of a hot air balloon ride in Colorado that culminates with a proposal of marriage. addthis_url = 'http%3A%2F%2Ftripinator.com%2F2007%2F12% 2F22%2Fvideo-proposing-in-a-hot-air-ballo on%2F'; addthis_title = 'Video +-+Proposing+In+A+Hot+Air+Balloon '; addthis_pub = ''; More About: Allo
Bill Gates Denied a Visa
2007-12-23 00:00:00 According to an article from Gizmodo you may not be alone if you have ever had trouble getting a Visa . Even being a multi-billionaire apparently does not always help. Bill Gates was recently visiting Africa, but needed a visa to travel to Nigeria. Getting a visa cannot be that much of a big deal if you ...
Quantas Engineers Delay Strike Until January 9th
2007-12-23 00:00:00 TravelMole reports that : An AAP report says that a strike by more than 1,500 Qantas engineers will remain in the wings until the new year, with the airline today offering an olive branch to the technicians’ union. More than 1,700 aircraft engineers will walk off the job on January 9 in protest against growing casualisation ... More About: Engineers , Strike
Ryanair offers 6 million seats for ?free?
2007-12-23 00:00:00 If you have plans to travel in Europe over the next 5 months, you might want to check out this story from TravelMole.com: Ryanair is giving away six million seats in its largest seat sale. The only costs will be taxes and charges which apply to each route. Bookings must be made by midnight on September ... More About: Free , Offers , Million
Too Sexy to Fly?
2007-12-23 00:00:00 I remember a day when people who get dressed up to fly. When I was a kid you would put on your suit before you boarded a plane. Of course, I also remember sweltering in Wisconsin for 2 days in my fancy clothes when they had lost my family’s luggage. Dress codes for flying have ... More About: Sexy
BBC buys Lonely Planet
2007-12-23 00:00:00 Lonely Planet is known for its guidebooks which are carried by backpackers in some of the most remote places on the planet. The company boasts having a guidebook for every country in the world. But it seems the backpacking hippy image may be about to change as the BBC announced today that they have purchased ... More About: Lonely , Lonely Planet
Is Travel Safe?
More articles from this author:2007-12-23 00:00:00 A number of headlines from various sources caught my eye recently: ‘Kurd attack’ kills 12 in Turkey Haleakala National Park Officials Call For Safe ty Summit For Bicyclists (In the past year, three bicyclists have died in Haleakala National Park while descending from the park’s summit). Fall Into Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone Kills California Woman FBI Assists With ... More About: Travel 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 |
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