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Anywhere But Home For Christmas
As much as the missus and I might fantasize about traveling somewhere warm each Christmas, at the end of the day we always spend the holiday with at least some of our relatives.
A Monkey, a Photographer and a Lawyer Walk Into the Forest…
As a blogger who republishes photographs taken by other travelers, I am keenly interested in the legal implications surrounding this particular issue. And so when faced with a thread titled, “If a monkey grabs a camera, who owns the resulting photos?”, I couldn’t help but to click in to see what this was all about:
Souvenir Ideas Worth Stealing
Collecting postcards is also sort of like collecting an anachronistic artifact; an item that, before the mass consumerization of handheld and digital cameras, served the useful purpose of capturing an image of your trip, and now exists mostly as a charming recollection of how things used to be – not all that long ago.
If You Wish Upon the Southern Cross…
An Australian mom is trying to decide whether to continue the travel approach her family has been employing – namely short trips, but more of them – or splurge on one big vacation to Disneyland while the kids are still young enough to enjoy it.
Take Two of These and We’ll Cut It Off in the Morning
Emergency surgery in a country where you don’t speak the language sounds about as bad as a trip can get to me. Travelers share stories of health scares while on the road.
Study: Herd Effect Skews Online Ratings
According to an MIT study, online reviews can be skewed dramatically due to a social “herd effect” – which mostly results in over-ratings.
Anyone Been to Yemen Recently?
Reason #46 why you absolutely have to love online forums that cater to world travelers – where else will you find someone post, without a touch of wryness, “Anyone been to Yemen recently?”