|
|
By Cari, on January 11th, 2008%
or more precisely, where’s it coming from?
I’m not sure where it stemmed from, but something interested me enough to sign up for a book ring of Go: An Airline Adventure last fall. I adored the book and subsequently read Nuts!, which I also loved and this morning started Blue Streak. On Mt. TBR I have From Worst to First and just mooched A Spirit of Greatness.
Confession time, I’ve never flown jetBlue or Southwest. Southwest doesn’t have a ton of options from the NYC area and on several occasions where I’ve intended to fly jetBlue, something comes out cheaper. My recent flights . . . → Keep Going: What’s my airline obsession?
By Cari, on October 22nd, 2007%
yeah, that sounds a lot better in Japanese….I no naka no kawazu taikai o shirazu.
I remember when I first learned the proverb from one of my students the first time I was in Japan, but I forgot about it until I read it this morning in The Blue-Eyed Salaryman.
Cover included because I can’t even begin to tell you how much attention it garnered this morning on the platform waiting for the train. I love the “salaryman” font myself. I haven’t gotten too far into the book yet, but in many ways it reminds me of The Accidental Office Lady, which . . . → Keep Going: A frog in a well knows not the ocean…
By Cari, on October 14th, 2007%
I just finished reading Tom Chesshyre’s How Low Can you Go?: Round Europe For 1p Each Way (Plus Tax) [Good Reads Review], with which I was pleasantly surprised. Experimental Tourism isn’t new (2003 CNN article) and even Lonely Planet has covered it, but I like this author’s take on it. I totally agree that you don’t need a reason to go somewhere: because it’s there is totally sufficient. Because it’s cheap is even better.
What I liked the most about the book was the spontaneous feel, even though it had all been synthesized by the time he published is tales in the . . . → Keep Going: Experimental Travel / Budget Airlines / “How Low Can You Go?”
By Cari, on October 9th, 2007%
I’d say I’m reading Wikinomics, but the reality is I started it this morning on the train and decided it required way too much brain power for a Tuesday masquerading as Monday. Nevertheless, I like the idea behind the book and it’s dovetailing well with some of the work I’ve been doing lately:
tracking social media/alternative exposure for CultureFest 2007. That’s been an interesting project because, unlike traditional media, there isn’t a standard list of places to check. Each time I do even a preliminary Google search I come up with venues I’ve never heard of – let alone having thought to . . . → Keep Going: Wikinomics
By Cari, on September 23rd, 2007%
Was reading Peter Moore’s blog and he mentioned Ozbus. Not cheap, but WOW!
I’ve read a lot of books about the overland trip, including Moore’s own The Wrong Way Home, Farewell Hippie Heaven and For Love and a Beetle and I’ve loved them all. The overland trip is something I’d love to do one day but it’s not very practical to do it independently given today’s political climate and I don’t know if I’d enjoy it in a group. The week in WA with Red Earth Safaris was about my limit for a tour. Maybe one day.
In the mean time, I’m trying . . . → Keep Going: Ozbus
By Cari, on September 10th, 2007%
So I’m not totally crazy in that I wouldn’t love to live within spitting distance of work and school, however commuting by bus/train has its benefits. Namely I have my reading time back, something rarely seen last year. Today I read 106 pages between the morning and the evening commutes and loved it.
Much like For Love and a Beetle, Unlikely Destinations/Once While Travelling tells the story of travel in days long gone. I’m finding it interesting to see how Tony and Maureen Wheeler got the idea to start up Lonely Planet and what their own early days of travel entailed. . . . → Keep Going: Commute Redux…
By Cari, on September 3rd, 2007%
So this backpackers.com post made me laugh. I’ve spent two nights in airports, Barajas (Madrid) and Ruzyne (Prague), which the latter being a much better experience. The results here do and don’t surprise me. Sure, Singapore is an amazingly clean and safe airport, but I can’t imagine being able to sleep in peace there. Wouldn’t it be violating some law?
Speaking of laws, I’m still reading The Devil’s Picnic, although my cover isn’t nearly as cool. It’s an interesting quest by Taras Grescoe, which covers his quest for the forbidden foods of the world. I’m not done yet, and likely . . . → Keep Going: Sleeping in airports/ The Devil’s Picnic…
By Cari, on August 15th, 2007%
I realised after seeing it on another blog that I hadn’t updated my countries since June. Have remedied that:
create your own visited countries map
or vertaling Duits Nederlands
I also came to realise just how odd that sounds. New countries since June. Adding New Zealand is a bit of a technicality but no worse than Singapore or The Netherlands.
Although this has been a very different kind of visit than previous trips, it’s been a lot of fun. A lot of wedding stuff and some general catching up. Between the 30 hours travel time from New York to Melbourne as well as . . . → Keep Going: Cari, re-mapped / A very different kind of trip…
By Cari, on July 15th, 2007%
….books, not animals. We’re not talking zoo breaks here.
Just before leaving Australia at the end of 2005 I decided to track the books I’d wild released. I was curious to know how many there were, and how many, if any, had been caught. The result was rather messy, a huge file, and one I rarely updated. At the start of this summer after releasing a few books in Europe, I was curious again about my Australian releases.
I decided to edit the page and move it here where it’s much easier to update. This is the result. Much cleaner and it was . . . → Keep Going: Wild Releases: Australia
By Cari, on July 2nd, 2007%
as in ~ two and a half hours by car
Mom and I went to the King Tut Exhibit in Philadelphia. I went to the outskirts of Philly to visit a friend a few years back but hadn’t been to the city since I was about 8. The exhibit was at the Franklin Institute and I still had fun puttering around there even though it’s more geared toward children.
The coolest thing about the drive down there and back? We saw a car with a Guam license plate! On every family vacation Jordan and I would keep track of the license . . . → Keep Going: So this was some local travelling…
|
|
|
