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Is Maui the Next Haven for Foodie Tourists?
by Joanna Kakissis | 11.10.08 | 10:00 AM ET
Wouldn’t you love to eat a feast of hand-harvested vegetables and fruit, served with fish and tofu, amid the kaleidoscopic colors of Hawaii? Maui farmers and restaurateurs have partnered to power a locally sourced cuisine that intrigued E magazine’s Lori Shinn.
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Yahoo! BuzzWorld Hum’s Most Read: Nov. 1-7
by World Hum | 11.07.08 | 4:37 PM ET
Our five most popular lists for the week:
1) 13 Great Travel Horror Movies
2) 10 Sizzling Hot Travel Tips From Sir Francis Bacon (pictured)
3) 10 Greatest Fictional Travelers
4) 10 Great Travel Race Movies
5) Seven Reasons to Have a Foreign Fling
What We Loved This Week: Day of the Dead, Pisco Sours and Election Night
by World Hum | 11.07.08 | 4:33 PM ET
Photo by Eva Holland World Hum contributors share a favorite travel-related experience from the past seven days.
Eva Holland
Election night in New York City. I traveled down to the big city and headed to an election party at a bar near Union Square. After Barack Obama’s acceptance speech, I also went for a long wander around town to soak up all the excitement on the streets. I can’t think of another time or place in my life where I’ve seen so many strangers celebrating together.
Obamania: Washington, D.C., Hotels Booked for Inauguration
by Joanna Kakissis | 11.07.08 | 4:31 PM ET
Accommodations are filling up at such a rate that Fairfax, VA, and Baltimore, MD, might currently be the best options for travelers who want to watch Barack Obama become the nation’s 44th president. Or, you can rent a bus with your friends and sleep inside. One Detroit woman is planning to do it.
8,000 Lbs. of Candy Stuck Inside World’s Largest Piņata
by Valerie Conners | 11.07.08 | 11:21 AM ET
L.A. Times on ‘Stranded’: ‘An Exceptional Film’
by Jim Benning | 11.07.08 | 10:57 AM ET
Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan doesn’t write many rave reviews, so his high praise today for the documentary about the 1972 plane crash in the Andes—the crash that famously led to cannibalism and was depicted in the Ethan Hawke movie “Alive”—is enough to motivate me to see it. As we noted recently, other critics have enjoyed the film, too.
Jack Black to Star in Movie Adaptation of ‘Gulliver’s Travels’
by Michael Yessis | 11.07.08 | 9:58 AM ET
Variety describes the updated tale: “Story centers on Lemuel Gulliver, a free-spirited travel writer who, on an assignment to the Bermuda Triangle, suddenly finds himself a giant among men.” With Black in the title role and a screenplay co-written by the director of “Forgetting Sarah Marshall,” this will be a lot funnier than the Ted Danson version.
Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs on 1940s New York
by Eva Holland | 11.06.08 | 12:05 PM ET
After years of legal wrangling, a collaborative novel by Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs—written years before either of them found fame—has finally been published. And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks, a crime story, had remained in limbo for decades because it was based on the real-life murder of one of Kerouac’s and Burroughs’s acquaintances.
High-Speed Train in California Will be Slow in Coming
by Jim Benning | 11.06.08 | 11:45 AM ET
Yesterday, we cheered the passage of the California measure to build the nation’s first high-speed train system from Los Angeles to San Francisco. We knew we shouldn’t get too excited. Indeed, today’s Los Angeles Times suggests that the country’s economic problems could delay necessary government matching funds. Reports the Times: “Even if all goes well for the proposed 220 mph bullet train down the spine of the state, it won’t be completed for at least 10 years.”
Fox News: Sarah Palin Didn’t Know Africa Was a Continent
by Jim Benning | 11.06.08 | 10:27 AM ET
Holy cow. It seems that Palin’s geography teachers were the ones really going rogue.
Chicago Is the New ... Crawford?
by Eva Holland | 11.06.08 | 10:19 AM ET
In a way. Not surprisingly, Barack Obama’s adopted hometown is suddenly becoming a hot topic on the travel pages.
R.I.P. Michael Crichton
by Michael Yessis | 11.05.08 | 1:37 PM ET
The author of many blockbuster airplane novels, as well as the simply titled Travels, died yesterday in Los Angeles. He was 66. His travels informed his life. “Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am,” he wrote.
‘Great’ Wall Street Crashes: The Three Hour Tour
by Valerie Conners | 11.05.08 | 11:46 AM ET
President-Elect Obama and the Future of Canadian Flag Pin Sales
by Jim Benning | 11.05.08 | 10:41 AM ET
The historic election of Barack Obama raises so many travel-related questions. How soon will he lift restrictions on travel to Cuba for Cuban families? And what does it mean for the number of “Canadian” travelers oversees? As the Times of London pointed out yesterday: “Many Obama supporters see his appeal as someone who can repair America’s tainted global reputation so they can, in the words of the American comic Sarah Silverman ‘travel abroad without having to pretend to be Canadian any more.’” Yes, we could witness a steep drop in sales of Canadian flag pins destined for American backpacks. Here’s hoping that’s the case.
Californians Vote for S.F. to L.A. High-Speed Rail System
by Valerie Conners | 11.05.08 | 10:40 AM ET
The plan has been talked about for years, but yesterday California voters passed approval to start construction of the nation’s first high-speed rail system, which would stretch from San Francisco to Los Angeles.
