Eight Great Travel Twitter Tweets for October

Lists: What makes a good travel tweet? Here are eight favorites from the past month.

10.29.10 | 3:07 PM ET

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After all the talk about whether to Twitter from the road and how best to go about it, we started keeping an eye out for particularly good travel tweets.

Here, in no particular order, are eight more memorable tweets from the past month that evoke a sense of place, or that offer some humor or insight about the travel experience.

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@WheresAndrew
Morning in Santa Monica. Raked sands, violet skies, sleek surfers. LAX launching airplanes by the second like black BBs across the Pacific.

@DougSaunders
‘nother hotel beef: LEARN WHERE TO PUT THE DEFINITE ARTICLE. I’ve just gone from Arc The Hotel to Fairmont The Queen Elizabeth.

@jdickerson
On the Accela they’re always showing previews for The Wire out the window.

@davidmfrey
That Buffy the Vampire Slayer crossbow in my Vegas hotel room: Is a crossbow take-it-home like a pen, or leave-it-there like art?

@lunaticcarl
Wandering back streets of Abu Dhabi as half moon rises in the gloam. Mosques empty. Bollywood tunes, smells of curry, glow of neon.

@SteveMartinToGo
Pilot just announced we’re landing in twelve years. Searching movie list. OH NO! ALL MY OWN FILMS!

@jbarro
Shovel-ready stimulus idea: hire electricians to install a million electrical outlets in airports across America

@legalnomads
Belting the Counting Crows ‘Mr. Jones’ w/ my cabbie in Lima. He plays a mean air guitar, but I wish he’d keep both hands on the wheel!