Travel dispatches from a shrinking planet

Travel dispatches from a shrinking planet

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A Tourist With a Shovel and a Hoe

When she arrived in Kenya to volunteer with the Maasai, Daniela Petrova looked down her nose at tourists there to have a good time. But was her own motivation much different?

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How Should I Spend My Time in Spain?

Vagabonding traveler Rolf Potts answers your questions about travel

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Paul Theroux: Invisible Man on a Ghost Train

Jim Benning asks the author of “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star” about his new book, aging and the challenge of disappearing in the age of the BlackBerry

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Eat Ceviche in Lima

Grab a Cusqueña and get comfortable. As Nicholas Gill explains, a trip to a Peruvian cevichería can be an all-day immersion in good conversation and raw seafood.

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Unsentimental Journeys: Wrestling With Paul Theroux

Bronwen Dickey considers “Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: 28,000 Miles in Search of the Great Railway Bazaar”

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My Travels, My Feet

After taking one too many headless torso shots of herself, solo traveler Sophia Dembling started snapping photos of her feet around the world, from the Grand Canyon to Red Square


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Seven Reasons to Have a Foreign Fling

Sure, having an overseas romance is fun. But Terry Ward points out seven other benefits to cross-border love, mon petit chou.

TRAVEL BLOG
12.14.07

The World Hum Travel Zeitgeist: Air Time

imageThere’s a lot of love in the air. And anger. And curiosity about the 64-year-old German man who chugged his Vodka instead of giving it up at an airport security checkpoint. Here’s the Zeitgeist.

Most Popular Travel Story
Iloho (current)
Number of Air Rage Incidents Triples in 3 Years

Most Blogged Travel News Story
Buzz Tracker
Man Chugs Liter of Vodka in Airport Security Line
* Among the lingering questions about the incident: What does he want for Christmas?

Best Airport for Forming a Relationship With a Fellow Traveler
Sperling’s BestPlaces/AXE study
Philadelphia International Airport
* The study was “based on amenities per traveler, on-time performance and inclement weather,” USA Today reports.

Airport With Most Healthful Food Offerings
Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport

Most Read Feature Story
World Hum (posted this week)
Borat: Touristic Guidings to Kazakhstan and U.S. and A.

Most Viewed Travel Story
Telegraph UK (current)
Cunard’s New Queen is a Breath of Fresh Air

Most E-Mailed Travel Story
New York Times (current)
The 53 Places to Go in 2008

Most Popular Page Tagged Travel
Del.icio.us (recent)
The 53 Places to Go in 2008

Most Viewed Travel Story
Los Angeles Times (current)
Zambia a Walk on Africa’s Wild Side

Most Popular Travel Podcast
iTunes (current)
Beautiful Places With Tony Farley
* This week: Point Reyes National Seashore.

Most Read Blog Post
World Hum (posted this week)
Machu Picchu: ‘A Must-See for the Jet Set’?

Most Viewed Travel & Events Video
YouTube (this week)
Espagne

Top Ski Getaway
TripAdvisor (current)
Banff, Alberta, Canada

Best Selling Travel Book
Amazon.com (current)
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert
* It’s also No. 1 overall at Amazon.

Top Travel and Adventure Audiobook
iTunes (current)
Eat, Pray, Love: One Woman’s Search for Everything Across Italy, India and Indonesia by Elizabeth Gilbert

Most Read Travel Story
USA Today (current)
Refunds on the Way For Many Overseas Travelers
* From the story: “The refunds are part of a class-action lawsuit that contends the card companies and seven issuing banks...overcharged customers and didn’t adequately disclose their foreign transaction fees.”

The Google “I’m Feeling Lucky” Button Travel Zeitgeist Search
Where should I spend my class-action lawsuit refund?

Got something for next week’s World Hum Travel Zeitgeist? .

Photo by dmealiffe via Flickr, (Creative Commons).

Posted by Michael Yessis • 12.14.07
Categories: WeblogWorld Hum Travel Zeitgeist

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About the New York Times story on “53 Places to Go in 2008”—does anyone else see the irony of urging people to fly airplanes to remote locations to visit places threatened by global warming?
Intelligent Travel has some thoughts about the voyeuristic aspects of this article: http://intelligenttravel.typepad.com/it/2007/12/climate-change.html
and Arthur Frommer slams the story as “most outrageous essay in recent history of travel journalism” because the main reason given by the Times to visit these 53 places was not history, culture or natural beauty, but rather the appearance of upscale, deluxe hotels: http://www.frommers.com/blog/2007/12/new-york-times-has-just-published-most.html

By Marilyn Terrell  on  12.17.07  at  01:25 PM


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