Category: travel
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Two Reasons to Travel (Rational and Emotional)
These two stories have had a powerful effect on me: Why economist Alex Tabarrok (of Marginal Revolution) decided to travel to Machu Picchu spontaneously: At lunch with Bryan and Tyler last week the question arose as to what we would do differently if we were immortal. […] I answered that I would travel more. Later…
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Scouting New York
Even though I’ve never been to New York, I love the Scouting NY blog; a collection of often over–looked and unique locations discovered by a NYC film location scout. The ‘About’ section says all you need to know: I work as a film location scout in New York City. My day is basically spent combing…
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Miscellaneous Transport Maps
After seeing this map of the US Interstate system (via Link Banana), I wanted to find an equivalent for the motorway system here in the UK. The closest I came wasn’t exactly what I was looking for, but very impressive nonetheless: Harry Beck’s London Underground-inspired UK motorway map. After a bit more searching I came…
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Advice for Potential Graduate Students (and Employees)
Poignant advice for potential graduate students (originally by the Johnsen Lab, Duke University). Finally, have your fun now. Five years is a long time when you are 23 years old. By the end of graduate school, you will be older, slower, and possibly married and/or a parent. So if you always wanted to walk across…
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International Taxi Fare Calculator
Travelling abroad and afraid you’re going to get ripped-off on a taxi ride? Worry no more: World Taximeter provides you with taxi fare estimates for journeys in cities around the world. I couldn’t have found this at a better time: tomorrow afternoon I’m off to Prague and now know that my journey from the airport…
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Charlie Brooker’s American Road Trip
With a lengthy US road trip in the pipeline (’09 or ’10, hopefully), I was pleased to read Charlie Brooker’s commentary on his recent excursion to “the Kingdom of Road Trips”. My ideal holiday is a road trip. All that variety! And sitting down! It’s like watching television, but better, because every so often you…
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Maps of Great Journeys: From Magellan to Kerouac
Interactive maps of history’s greatest journeys, with details. Some fictional; others not. There’s Magellan’s circumnavigation of the globe, Kerouac’s Sal Paradise traversing the US, Livingstone’s explorations in Africa, and many more. via Kottke
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Guide to Road Trip Photography
I’ve thought before on how to document a road trip: it’s a tricky area with no perfect solution. Photojojo’s Ultimate Guide to Road Trip Photography has thrown a few more ideas into the mix. I like this suggestion: Make Your Own Postcards – Before you head out, read our tutorial on three easy ways to…
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A Guide for Learning Foreign Languages (Resources)
Latin was probably the single most useful subject I was taught in school. I despised it at the time, but now I have come to realise its importance and many applications–the greatest of which is how it has helped me learn other languages. In learning languages (although none to fluency… yet) I have found the…
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Independent Budget Travel and Round-the-World Backpacking Trips
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover. – Mark Twain Travel Independent thinks it has “everything you need to…