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Sightseeing can’t compete with miracle of everyday lives, it really can’t. That’s some of what I tried to get across in my previous post on the topic of tourism v. travel.  The Lost Globe cautions against the anti-tourist He misses the worlds best attractions because there are to many tourists there and the location has lost [...]

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Generations of visitors, including writers such as Dickens and Tennyson, have traveled to Tintagel to see the place reputed to be a cornerstone of the Arthurian legend. For today’s visitors, its natural splendor may be just as rewarding.: King Arthur’s legend lives on at Tintagel Was doing my routine browse of CNN.com this morning to [...]

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Last Sunday I was halfway through the book but as happens most weeks, especially this one when I had to go down to NYU x4, there was no time for reading. As a result, I finished the book this afternoon at the gym. It was definitely a journal as I went type of book because [...]

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Last year, Glenn Dunlap started Big League Tours, a baseball-specific tour operator offering not only tickets, but also behind-the-scenes tours of stadiums and a chance to meet former major leaguers. – All the World’s a Road Game For as much as I love baseball, and I do, I haven’t seen nearly enough stadiums. THTRB is [...]

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As is becoming more and more common lately, Timen at in my All Stars and I seem to be sharing a brain cell. This time, it seems to be about the distinction between a tourist and a traveler. I looked at this distinction as a part of my research paper, and while it applies in [...]

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The Pros and Cons of Working Abroad (via Backpackers’ Travel Blog). Now this isn’t a topic I know anything about When I was in high school and college I said that my dream was to live and work abroad. I’ll never forget when a student told me, during my first time in Japan, “You need [...]

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Well I didn’t finish it, but I finally got around to writing my review of it. I’m deliberately leaving it unfinished for reasons far too complicated to explain. That has to be one of the most disjointed reviews I’ve ever written, but the book itself wasn’t very cohesive. It’s what I deserve I suppose for [...]

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Travel has evolved over time, so it’s only natural to assume that backpacking would evolve as well. While there will always be questions raised by the purists as to whether a true backpacker would carry a laptop, it is possible that flashpacking and the newer glamping are here to stay. Me? I’m definitely a jetrosexual! [...]

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I’d been aware of the campaign to elect seven new wonders, but in the last week or so I’ve heard a lot more about it. It first came up on Thursday night’s reception when the Minister and Ambassador were talking about Olduvai George and the NgoroNgoro Crater. This is not one of the sites officially [...]

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