Splish-Splash, Come Take a Bath in Our New Overpriced Pool!
When I was a little girl in grade school in Paris, we had to go once a week to a pool for swimming lessons. My school, like most in the city, did not have a pool, and barely a proper gymnasium, this...
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Step Into Japan's 'Western Village,' The Oddest Abandoned Theme Park Ever
The Australian photographer Shane Thoms was shooting abandoned hotels in the mountains outside Tokyo when he spotted something unbelievable: a giant replica of Mount Rushmore. Curious, Thoms parked his...
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One Man's Exhaustive Search For The Best Fish Taco In San Diego
Acclaimed food critic Jonathan Gold has written that "Entire religions have been founded on miracles less profound than the Ensenada fish taco." If anyone ever heeds his call and founds a religion...
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24 Drone-Created GIFs That Show You The World Like You've Never Seen It Before
Unmanned drones have gotten a bad reputation in recent years. And with good reason, especially when the U.S. government is using them to kill people in distant countries with arguably little...
View ArticleAre More People Getting Drunk On Planes?
In one of the more bizarre stories to make the news this week, a flight to Edinburgh was forced to make a diversion after a drunk passenger attacked cabin crew with her prosthetic leg. While this...
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Dining Out in London, Part Two
Oscar Wilde once cautioned that one should never criticize society because only those who can't get into it do that. So it is with hotel dining rooms, whose critics have probably not eaten in one in...
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5 Things I Learned About Life on My First Backpacking Trip
When a summer weekend opened up and I proposed to my husband that he and I go backpacking in Yosemite, his response was justified. "Really?" Dan said, his eyes crossed as he wrinkled his nose and...
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Canada's Willy Wonka Wonder World: Canadian Odyssey on the Looney Front - Part 1
I'm in Canada's Willy Wonka wonder world, the chocolate factory that produced the first chocolate nut bar in North America, that introduced the first heart-shaped Valentine's Day box - a land flowing...
View ArticlePlease Don't Make Us Give Directions To Any Of These Places
You want to go where?! Well, all right. Here goes nothing.
View ArticleStockholm's LGBT Pride Parade Was Bigger -- And Sexier -- Than Ever!
The Stockholm Pride Parade rolled through Sweden's capital city on Saturday, August 2, and it was bigger than ever. According to an email sent to The Huffington Post from Visit Stockholm, 153 groups...
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Arbitrary Lessons I Learned on the Road
Overdue haircut. Overdue shower. Overdue shave. Overdue laundered clothes. Backpackers don't always leave the best impression. Yet, they almost always leave people with a little bit of envy --...
View ArticleCarnival Announces Plans For A Cruise Port In Haiti
KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — A Florida-based cruise line has signed a letter of intent to develop a new cruise port on a remote barrier island off Haiti's north coast. Carnival Corporation is the parent...
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800,000 Red Poppies Pour Like Blood From The Tower Of London
In honor of the 100th anniversary of World War I, the historic Tower of London has been transformed by a massive art installation. Titled "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red," the expansive piece brings...
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Ski Gear and Apparel Preview for 2014-15
In the dog days of summer, snow may still be a long way away (except in the Southern Hemisphere, of course), but new gear is just around the corner. Ski gear and apparel companies generally put new...
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The 7 Most Annoying Things Airlines and Airports Do in Latin America
Alphabet soup: Some airlines have strange boarding processes! Attention airport and airline administrators: Prepare for some constructive criticism. (And travelers headed to Latin America: prepare to...
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MINI Takes the States Day 1: Tony Hawk, San Francisco, and MINIs everywhere
It’s official… 2014 MINI Takes the States is underway! As Roadtrippers kicks off Day 2 from Reno, NV, let’s fill you in on all the day 1 shenanigans… Day 1 began at Golden Gate Fields as the fog slowly...
View ArticleMy Big Fat Greek Vacation
I had been to Crete as a hormonal 14-year-old with my family, and this year I decided to revisit, my own hormonal teenagers in tow. My memories were probably more than a little tinged by nostalgia:...
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MINI Takes the States Day 2: a police encounter, the shoe tree, & Con-Air
Greetings from Montego Bay Resort in West Wendover, NV, just outside of the legendary Bonneville Salt Flats Speedway. We're gearing up for day 3, but let's fill you in on yesterday's adventures. 2014...
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Visit Wendover Airfield, the real "Lerner Field," from Con-Air
When you put Nicolas Cage on a plane hijacked by prisoners, you’ve got a sure-fire recipe for cinematic gold. Cage’s fake southern accent and awesome one-liners make Con-Air Cage-tastic, but it’s the...
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