Morning Links: Stilwell Road, the Delta Queen and More
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 01.05.09 | 8:14 AM ET
- The amazing story of Stilwell Road— written by an anonymous Los Angeles Times writer.
- Robert Reid offers some suggestions for helping struggling travelers’ destinations. Among them: An alphabet throwing contest in Rila, Bulgaria.
- Passengers “run amok” on flight from England to Cuba.
- Christopher Elliott finds seven videos the airlines don’t want you to see.
- Gawker compiles video from a month of cruise ship disasters.
- P. J. O’Rourke on Disney’s “Innoventions Dream Home,” aka the House of the Future II.
- The Delta Queen: A new endangered historic site?
- Student abroad and accused murderer Amanda Knox was voted woman of the year in an Italian poll. Her trial begins later this month.
- The Cranky Flier remembers the airlines we lost in 2008.
- The New York Times discovers buzkashi in Afghanistan. We covered it in Tajikistan in 2002 and spelled it buskaschee. What is buzkashi/buskaschee? Goat-carcass polo.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Ling 01.05.09 | 10:01 AM ET
That goat carcass polo thing is a discovery? You want to see Rambo 3, then. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUlVXdoqITk
dianadario 01.13.09 | 11:12 PM ET
I don’t think that anyone could reasonably expect a not guilty verdict for Amanda Knox.
There are simply far to many “coincidences”.
Amanda Knox was found to have committed an offense BEFORE she left for Italy.
Ms. Knox was charged in connection with an off-campus rock throwing riot/ party run amok at the U of Washington in February of 2007. (See Case #202557635, Seattle Municipal Court’s website)
Thus, contrary to assertions made by Knox’s parents, Amanda is no angel.