Morning Links: Walking Across the U.S., Rebranding France and More
Travel Blog • Michael Yessis • 01.08.09 | 9:29 AM ET
- Video: Slate interviews “an Algerian man who just walked alone across the United States with nothing but $217 and a backpack.”
- Some “serious soul-searching in French tourism circles” helped inspire the country’s new rebranding campaign.
- Mapped: 50 United States and their Mottos. Intelligent Travel talks to the map’s creator, Emily Wick.
- Rick Steves in Iran: The preview.
- Cheap flights abound for the New Year, but, by historical standards, they’re not as cheap as you might think.
- Peter Hessler takes a road trip to the Tibetan Plateau. (It’s only an abstract, unless you’re a New Yorker subscriber.)
- USA Today looks at Twitter and travel.
- Want more Twitter in your life? Maybe attend a Twestival.
- Cunard reveals its 2009 Queen Mary 2 voyages with “literary luminaries” on board. Among the writers on the transatlantic crossings: Kathryn Harrison and Oscar Hijuelos. It is my duty to tell you that if you’re interested in going, you should first read this (pdf).
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Michael Yessis is the cofounder and coeditor-in-chief of World Hum.
Ling 01.08.09 | 10:49 AM ET
Yeah, I remember reading about Hakim in the LA Times back in September, when he landed up at Venice Beach. Seems he was trying to prove the existence of the goodness of human nature by walking across the US without having to ask for help.
Sophie 01.08.09 | 11:30 PM ET
I seem to remember France trying to sell itself to Americans via Woody Allen a few years back. There’s a good idea… (Not. I mean, I’m a Woody Allen fan but he doesn’t play well in Peoria.)
Marilyn Terrell 01.11.09 | 9:58 PM ET
Thanks for the link-love, Michael! Artist Emily Wick has been really thrilled with the blogosphere’s response to her awesome linoleum block map with the state mottos.
And thanks for posting the USA Today story about Twitter and travel. That’s pretty impressive about JetBlue and Southwest. I’ll have to start following them.
Mike Wilson may have been the first to twitter a plane crash in December, but Pam Mandel of Nerd’s Eye View was the first to twitter an emergency landing in September. She was very calm about it and she ended up with two little bottles of scotch: http://www.nerdseyeview.com/blog/2008/09/22/unscheduled-landing/