What We Loved This Week: Michael Jackson, Soccer in South Africa and a Taco Smackdown

Travel Blog  •  World Hum  •  06.26.09 | 4:34 PM ET

Our contributors share a favorite travel-related experience from the past seven days.

Pam Mandel
I loved (re-) watching Michael Jackson’s Cecil B. DeMille meets Bollywood meets John Hughes video for Black or White. The exotic dancers, the magic morphing from one ethnic group to another, the ridiculous introduction (is that Macaulay Culkin?!) and the ’round-the-world tour with an unmistakable beat ... Oh, Michael, you were a really weird character, but I loved your music. Rest in peace, Michael, rest in peace.

Eva Holland
I loved camping under the midnight sun—and actually managing a pretty good sleep, too—in Kluane National Park, near the Yukon-BC-Alaska border, last weekend. Here’s a shot I took at 11:45 p.m.:

Photo by Eva Holland

Michael Yessis
The Big Picture does it again with amazing photos of soccer in South Africa, timed with the final week of the Confederations Cup tournament. I’ll be looking to South Africa again this weekend to watch the U.S.-Brazil final. I figure it’s a win-win. Either I’ll cheer for a great upset, or the Brazilians romp and I get the privilege of watching them play the Beautiful Game at perhaps its most beautiful.

Joanna Kakissis
I spent last weekend in the Black Hills, where I lived as a kid when my family first moved from Greece, and where I choreographed numerous little-girl dance routines to Blame It on the Boogie by the Jacksons (R.I.P., dear Michael). I spent one night at Mount Rushmore, admiring the lit-up iconic presidential sculptures with an immigrant grandfather from India who was regaling his Americanized grandson with stories about Abraham Lincoln. “A rock star,” the kid replied, impressed. I should have moonwalked my approval.

Jim Benning
As a lucha libre fan, I loved my first visit to the kitschy—and tasty—Lucha Libre taco shop in San Diego:

Photo by Jim Benning
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