Destination: Panama
The Critics: ‘Fast & Furious’
by Eva Holland | 04.09.09 | 10:29 AM ET
Publicity still via IGN When I listed Fast & Furious as one of my travel movies to watch for in 2009, I have to admit that my tongue might have been straying towards my cheek. I certainly never expected that the movie—the fourth installment in a fading franchise—would smash box office records and enjoy the biggest April weekend opening ever. But with an unexpected $70 million (and counting) in the bank, I suppose the movie qualifies as a phenomenon of sorts. With that in mind, I decided to check it out and see if there were any vicarious travel thrills to be had in between all the lingering shots of hot (auto) bodies.
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by Alexander Basek | 02.13.09 | 2:46 PM ET
If you’re a travel writer, you now have a reason to be paranoid: people really are paying attention to your every move online. Condé Nast Traveler’s Wendy Perrin has a great cautionary tale up on the Perrin Post as part of her family travel series. When she arrived yesterday in Anguilla, the island’s tourism/hotel association was waiting for her. (Cue ominous music.) They tortured her by giving her tours of high-end properties! She thinks it was because they were monitoring her blog. Verdict: vacation bummer, especially when you’re traveling with small children (as Perrin was). Or in my case, you have the mentality of a small child. Just show me the infinity pool, and let me go home!
This got me to thinking. Have any World Hum readers broadcast an intended destination (via Facebook, blog, Twitter or novelty T-shirt) and subsequently been met by the welcome wagons at the dock? The closest I’ve come is some hotel recommendations in Panama City after I whined about the prices there on Twitter. It didn’t make things any cheaper, but it was entertaining to be informed in 140 character bursts. However, the thought of being whisked away in a van by some eager hoteliers sounds more terrifying than informative to me.
Seven Great Time-Lapse Travel Videos
by Jim Benning | 01.13.09 | 9:10 AM ET
Jim Benning sifts through YouTube's accelerated videos to find the seven best
Morning Links: Science Pubs, Staged Plane Crash and More
by Michael Yessis | 01.13.09 | 8:13 AM ET
- Money guy Marcus Schrenker apparently staged a plane crash to fake his death. Wow. Gawker calls him “one of the most memorable villains to emerge in the financial crisis.”
- Bill Donahue in Panama: It has “the dark allure of a Graham Greene novel.”
- Tourism officials in Australia have put out a call for the best job in the world.
- Foreign Policy hosted a virtual roundtable on Samuel Huntington’s legacy.
- Tokyo’s Tsukiji market has reopened to tourists.
- Maclean’s examines “changes that have taken place in the travel landscape as a result of 2008’s tumultuous economy.”
- Sake consumption may be falling in Japan, but it’s on the rise in the U.S.
- In these Portland, Oregon “science pubs,” drink in a little physics or volcanology lecture with your brew. Even better: “There are no tests.”
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World Hum Travel Movie Club: ‘The Art of Travel’
by Eli Ellison, Eva Holland | 10.09.08 | 5:53 PM ET
Small-town boy Conner Layne graduates from high school, dumps his fiancée at the altar and leaves for his honeymoon, alone. As he makes his way from Nicaragua to Panama, Colombia and Peru, philosophical realizations about the meaning of travel abound. World Hum Travel Movie Clubbers Eva Holland and Eli Ellison go along for the ride in this new DVD release—but will their minds, like Conner’s, be opened to the real art of travel?
Manuel Noriega Slept Here
by Leigh Ann Henion | 08.27.07 | 11:26 AM ET
Photo by Leigh Ann Henion. In Panama, Leigh Ann Henion's self-appointed tour guide insisted she visit the home of the country's former strongman -- the same man scheduled to be released from a Florida prison next week
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