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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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….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 [...]

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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 [...]

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