Travel Blog: Shrinking Planet

Video You Must See: China’s 60th Anniversary


Travel Song of the Day: ‘Passenger Side’ by Wilco


Travel Song of the Day: ‘Changes’ by Seu Jorge


Photo You Must See: Virgin Over Heathrow

Photo You Must See: Virgin Over Heathrow REUTERS/Luke MacGregor
REUTERS/Luke MacGregor

A Virgin Atlantic plane flies low over nearby houses before landing at London’s Heathrow Airport.


Travel Song of the Day: ‘Graceland’ by Paul Simon


The World’s Connections, Mapped

The New Scientist has a fantastic slideshow of world maps, showing global shipping lanes, railways, navigable rivers and more. The idea? To demonstrate how “little of the world’s land can now be thought of as inaccessible.” (Via The Morning News)


Travel Song of the Day: ‘Jacksonville Skyline’ by Whiskeytown


Video You Must See: Burning Man in Time Lapse

(Via The Daily Dish)


Travel Song of the Day: ‘Ojalá’ by Silvio Rodriguez


Photo You Must See: Big-Wave Surfing at Cow Bombie

Photo You Must See: Big-Wave Surfing at Cow Bombie REUTERS/Ho New
REUTERS/Ho New

Surfer Mark Visser drops into a 36-foot wave at Cow Bombie, near the Western Australian town of Gracetown. The surf spot is located roughly 175 miles south of Perth.


Video You Must See: Buried in an Avalanche

1:05—Skier starts his descent
1:24—Buried in avalanche
5:22—First sounds of rescuers
6:09—Daylight

(Via The Daily Dish. More details at Vimeo.)


Travel Song of the Day: ‘Jackson’ by Johnny Cash and June Carter


Photo You Must See: Mugging for the Camera at Oktoberfest

Photo You Must See: Mugging for the Camera at Oktoberfest REUTERS/Michaela Rehle
REUTERS/Michaela Rehle

A waitress serves mugs of beer to the thirsty crowds on Saturday as Oktoberfest kicks off in Munich.


Travel Song of the Day: ‘Amsterdam’ by Jacques Brel


Photo You Must See: Dust Storm at the Opera House

Photo You Must See: Dust Storm at the Opera House REUTERS/Tim Winborne
REUTERS/Tim Winborne

A dust storm obscures the Sydney Opera House at sunrise this morning.