Destination: United States
Video You Must See: From Denver to Singapore in Five Minutes
by Eva Holland | 11.06.09 | 1:44 PM ET
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Yahoo! BuzzPhotos: 10 All-American Must Sees for All Americans
by Sophia Dembling | 11.06.09 | 11:07 AM ET
Photo by Sophia Dembling Flyover America's Sophia Dembling shares the sights that will make you swoon
Travel Song of the Day: ‘Lodi’ by Creedence Clearwater Revival
by Michael Yessis | 11.05.09 | 4:32 PM ET
Photo You Must See: Yankee in Times Square
by World Hum | 11.05.09 | 9:51 AM ET
REUTERS/Lucas Jackson A New York Yankees fan in Times Square reacts to video of a play during game six of the World Series.
Mapped: The U.S. Interstates, in the Style of the London Underground Map
by Michael Yessis | 11.03.09 | 10:21 AM ET
See it in Senex Prime’s Flickr stream. (Via Coudal)
Fall Foliage Around the World
by Alicia Imbody | 11.03.09 | 10:16 AM ET
From Osaka to Chicago, seven photos of turning leaves around the shrinking planet
World Hum Goes to the Travel Blog Exchange ‘10
by Michael Yessis | 11.02.09 | 12:12 PM ET
We’ll be communing with our fellow travel writers and bloggers in New York City June 26-27, 2010, at the second annual Travel Blog Exchange. Founder Kim Mance and her crew launched TBEX last July in Chicago with a memorable day of travel talk.
Next year, the event spans two days and World Hum, one of the event’s media partners, is on the organizing committee. We’re working with Kim and several others in the travel blog universe to help develop the event, and we’ll also be preaching the Travel Writing in the Digital Age gospel with a small taste of our new workshops. If you’ve got any thoughts, suggestions, etc. about what you’d like to see covered, please .(JavaScript must be enabled to view this email address).
Travel Song of the Day: ‘By the Time I Get to Phoenix’ by Glen Campbell
by Eva Holland | 10.29.09 | 5:27 PM ET
Interview with Pat Croce: Pirate Soul
by M.B. Roberts | 10.29.09 | 3:56 PM ET
M.B. Roberts asks the founder of Pirate Soul Museum in Key West, Florida, about the enduring appeal of pirates
Travel Movie Watch: ‘The Canyon’
by Eva Holland | 10.29.09 | 11:51 AM ET
This one’s for all the low-grade horror fans. When a newlywed couple heads for the Grand Canyon on their honeymoon, things, predictably, go awry—cue the rattle snakes and the inexplicable pack of man-eating desert wolves. The IMDb page for “The Canyon” doesn’t offer much detail, but apparently the film was released last weekend. Straight to DVD, perhaps? Here’s the trailer:
Don’t Bring Your Minivan to Yosemite
by Eva Holland | 10.28.09 | 1:01 PM ET
Why not? Because the park’s resident bear population prefers breaking into the vehicles over other models. Seriously.
Drawing the New York City Skyline, From Memory
by Eva Holland | 10.27.09 | 4:07 PM ET
That’s what autistic artist Stephen Wiltshire is doing in this live webcam feed. The Huffington Post has some background on Wiltshire and his “uncanny ability to draw and paint detailed landscapes and cityscapes entirely from memory.”
Photo You Must See: Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles
by World Hum | 10.27.09 | 11:43 AM ET
REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson A view of the Frank Gehry-designed Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles.
Two Cheers for Gloom
by Tom Swick | 10.26.09 | 11:17 AM ET
Contemplating and celebrating the world of travel
New Travel Book: ‘Save the Deli’
by Eva Holland | 10.21.09 | 3:40 PM ET
Here’s one for traveling pastrami-lovers everywhere.
“Save the Deli” follows author David Sax around Europe and North America in search of a shrinking number of Jewish delicatessens—and, though the project was driven by fears for a declining institution, the result seems to be a hopeful one.
In a letter to potential readers posted on Amazon, Sax addresses the “heresy” of his search for the deli in such unlikely spots as Salt Lake City or Brussels:
Three years ago, when I began working on this book, I too had fallen prey to the misguided notion that great deli was only confined to New York and Montreal. Anything outside those cities had to be a pale imitation. I, like many Jewish deli lovers, was narrow-minded, could see and imagine no further than the local delicatessen I frequented…a village simpleton who knows nothing beyond his little shtetl and the salamis therein.
But as I hit the road, in search of the story of delicatessen in American and around the world, I tasted revelation after revelation.
Publishers Weekly describes these revelations as “joyful moments in this otherwise elegiac travelogue,” and notes that the book’s “well-crafted portraits don’t string together perfectly, but individual chapters shine.”
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