Tag: Backpackers
Contiki: ‘Backpacking is so 1997’
by Eva Holland | 08.03.09 | 1:23 PM ET
So said a message that the popular bus tour company posted on Facebook awhile back, with the added boast that Contiki holidays were “hundreds of dollars” cheaper than independent travel in Europe. Nomadic Matt objected—and now he’s crunched the numbers to prove Contiki wrong, on the savings claim at least. As for backpacking being “so 1997”? I guess that’s subjective.
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Yahoo! BuzzMorning Links: Lego Hotel, Strange Travel Jobs and More
by Michael Yessis | 01.21.09 | 8:30 AM ET
- Throw a can of tomato juice on a plane, get charged with terrorism?
- San Diego’s Legoland looks to build a 250-room Lego-themed hotel.
- Passengers on US Airways Flight 1549—the one that landed in the Hudson River—are getting $5,000 each.
- The 10 strangest jobs in the travel industry by one count include driver of karaoke-equipped taxi and coconut safety engineer.
- All those extra charges on Ryanair add up to a lot of pounds.
- Environmental groups won a restraining order to stop oil and gas exploration of more than 100,000 acres of land in Utah.
- Brave New Traveler attends the Chuck Palahniuk school of travel.
- Jason Wilson throws down some presidential cocktails. Baracktail, anyone?
- Here are some photos of San Francisco’s Bush Street ... or is it Obama Street? Pranksters changed some signs overnight. When I lived in S.F. in 2000, signs were changed from Bush Street to Puppet Street.
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Travel Headline of the Day: ‘Australian Backpackers Biggest Sperm Donors’
by Michael Yessis | 11.14.08 | 11:06 AM ET
Now we know how a lot of male Aussies fund their travels. They apparently donate their sperm while passing through London. A spokesperson from one clinic in the city told the Daily Telegraph, “What you get with the ‘grand tour’ is very enterprising people who look at every single way of making a buck.” (via Jaunted)
The 2008 U.S. Presidential Candidates Travel Scorecard
by Julia Ross | 01.01.08 | 8:14 AM ET
What travel guide best suits John McCain? Where's Hillary Clinton's dream destination? Julia Ross examines how the White House contenders stack up as global travelers.
Welcome to Khmer Rouge Land!
by John Collins | 03.05.04 | 8:42 PM ET
John Collins explores the theme park economy centered on Cambodia's Killing Fields
Doug Lansky: Around the World
by Jim Benning | 05.01.03 | 8:15 PM ET
Jim Benning asks the travel writer about his new book, his celebration of wacky signs and, in a roundabout way, a way that pertains almost directly to travel, Liz Taylor's forehead
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