By Cari, on January 26th, 2008%
I’ve been excited about the idea of a Travel Blog Carnival ever since the idea was mentioned in November. When I was first asked to host, I had to turn it down due to time commitments, but I was happy to be able to step in today. As has been the case in the past, there are so many good choices. Here are this week’s top three:
My Experience in One of the World’s Most Dangerous Places from Hole in the Donut really struck a chord with me. As was the case in Tony Wheeler’s Bad Lands (and he’s contemplating . . . → Keep Going: Travel Blog Carnival: Week 4
By Cari, on January 10th, 2008%
This MeFi thread re: ashtrays in planes reminded me of the best part of the Virgin America flight that I forgot to mention.
The safety demonstration!
This isn’t exactly the one I saw, but it’s pretty close. I love that their planes have done away with the obsolete no smoking sign and replaced it with something useful and I adore the seatbelt comment. Good way to make people pay attention.
ETA: The Travel Blog Carnival has launched and it’s already garnering some attention. I look forward to my turn to host it.
Tweet . . . → Keep Going: Smoking Planes
By Cari, on December 14th, 2007%
Darren over at Travel Rants has started up a Travel Blog Carnival, and I think this is wonderful. Trusted Travel Blogs had wonderful potential, however that really lost its potential oomph when Timen lost his regular web access while travelling.
I’m one of the 23 “founding bloggers” of the Carnival and I look forward to supporting it. There’s such a wide range of travel blogs – both generalized and targeted to niche markets, that it’s hard to know where to start at times. Sometimes you get a point in the right direction, such as when Christopher Elliott lists what he considers . . . → Keep Going: Travel Blog Carnival
