Morning Links: Lego Hotel, Strange Travel Jobs and More
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 01.21.09 | 8:30 AM ET
Photo by - Throw a can of tomato juice on a plane, get charged with terrorism?
- San Diego’s Legoland looks to build a 250-room Lego-themed hotel.
- Passengers on US Airways Flight 1549—the one that landed in the Hudson River—are getting $5,000 each.
- The 10 strangest jobs in the travel industry by one count include driver of karaoke-equipped taxi and coconut safety engineer.
- All those extra charges on Ryanair add up to a lot of pounds.
- Environmental groups won a restraining order to stop oil and gas exploration of more than 100,000 acres of land in Utah.
- Brave New Traveler attends the Chuck Palahniuk school of travel.
- Jason Wilson throws down some presidential cocktails. Baracktail, anyone?
- Here are some photos of San Francisco’s Bush Street ... or is it Obama Street? Pranksters changed some signs overnight. When I lived in S.F. in 2000, signs were changed from Bush Street to Puppet Street.
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Ling 01.21.09 | 10:14 AM ET
There’s a new Sheraton just opened outside Legoland. They must be panicking now, at the thought of an official Legoland hotel even closer to the park than they are.
TambourineMan 01.21.09 | 4:37 PM ET
Great news on those BLM mining leases. However, and I hate to burst the Barack-hope-bubble on Day 2, Obama’s Dept of Interior secretary pick is a bummer. Colorado caballero, Ken Salazar, es un hombre muy malo.