Morning Links: Watering Old Faithful, the Salish Sea and More
Travel Blog • Eva Holland • 05.20.09 | 7:35 AM ET
- Two employees at Yellowstone National Park have been fired after being caught urinating into Old Faithful—the story notes that the geyser “was not erupting at the time.”
- Nobel Prize winner (and occasional travel writer) Orhan Pamuk is headed back to court over complaints that he insulted Turkishness. (Via the Book Bench)
- For the second year in a row, New York City has free bike rentals available through the summer.
- Strait of Georgia? Puget Sound? Juan de Fuca? A retired professor has a proposal to give those confusing bodies of water around southern British Columbia and Washington a single name: the Salish Sea.
- In the wake of February’s Buffalo plane crash, several senators are calling for an investigation of the safety standards being enforced for regional airlines.
- London’s rail commuters are Twittering haikus about “the great British summer,” in “the world’s first interactive Twitter poetry competition.” Yoko Ono will select the winners.
- Breaking news: Airport currency exchanges offer the worst rates going. I know. I was shocked, too.
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Ling 05.20.09 | 10:00 AM ET
I guess they must be thankful Old Faithful didn’t do ‘it’ back at them. Also shows we need more webcams at all historical spots, to protect them from juvenile nutcases like these five guys.