The World Hum Travel Zeitgeist: Big Planes and Big Views

Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 03.23.07 | 1:15 PM ET

Travelers are thinking big this week, gawking at superjumbo jets and wondering about controversial big views. Here’s the (very big) Zeitgeist:

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71Miles

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Los Angeles Times (current)
Welcome to Los Angeles, Airbus A380

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Telegraph (current)
Spain from the Saddle

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World Hum (this week)
Grand Canyon Skywalk Opens to First Visitors*
* We’ve asked it before and we’ll ask it again: What Would Edward Abbey Think?

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New York Times (current)
36 Hours in Prague
* That’s all fine, but what about the unmitigated joy of Czech funk?

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USA Today (current)
Ditch the smelly sleeping bag and go glamping—glamorous camping
* Yes, it’s the return of the verb we told you about weeks ago—the one that made one World Hum reader want to prarf.

Most Popular Travel Story
Netscape (this week)
First Visitors Set Foot on Grand Canyon Skywalk

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Amazon.com (current)
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert

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World Hum (this week)
Stephanie Elizondo Griest: ‘100 Places Every Woman Should Go’

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YouTube (this week)
Shanghai By Day

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PodcastAlley (this month)
808Talk: Hawaii’s Premier Podcast

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Grand Canyon the Hard Way

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