Morning Links: Antarctica Tourism, Road Tripping With Harry Truman and More
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 04.06.09 | 9:16 AM ET
- An earthquake struck central Italy early today, killing at least 70 people.
- The U.S. plans to push for limits on Antarctica tourism.
- Can you believe that last year airlines had their highest-quality performance in four years?
- Arizona’s airline graveyard is filling up fast.
- Anna Brones interviews un-roadtripper Boaz Frankel.
- Jayne Clark interviews Arthur Frommer. He calls Twitter and Facebook “a waste of the time for a lot of people who should be reading.”
- Two Paraguays, no Ecuadors. That’s one messed up map. (via The Book Bench)
- Photos: The most interesting bookstores of the world. (via @RebeccaSkloot)
- Harry Truman: Road tripper. Matthew Algeo’s piece about the former president’s travels ran in the New York Times yesterday. His book Harry Truman’s Excellent Adventure comes out next month.
- Amtrak hopes to locate—and celebrate—the last of the Pullman porters.
- Finally, the Onion’s Doyle Redland details Disney’s plans to open a Times Square-themed store in Walt Disney World and a Florida woman’s efforts to get pale for a vacation in Minnesota.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Ling 04.06.09 | 10:18 AM ET
Not to worry about not being able to tour the antarctic - after that ice bridge linking the Wilkins Ice Shelf to the islands collapsed, all the ice in the Antarctic is on it’s way out anyway, and I’m sure it’ll come to visit you - in your home. Literally. In the form of swollen seas flooding coastal cities after the sea level starts spiking.
Jerry Haines 04.06.09 | 10:24 AM ET
Loved the bookstore pix. I have shopped in the one in Porto; it’s gorgeous.
Gonna miss these when the Kindle takes over.
Jennifer 04.06.09 | 12:25 PM ET
The pictures of the bookstores made my pulse quicken!! :-)
Kindle will never take over! Part of the joy of reading for many people is holding a book, smelling, a book, browsing for books in a great bookstore, collecting books, sitting down with a great cup of coffee in a bookstore, etc! Using kindle is reading at it’s most basic, pared down and missing a great deal of the true experience and because of that it will never take over even if it gains in popularity. I wouldn’t use one even if one was given to me!!