- Like snowboarding? Like volcanic ash too? Try ashboarding in Nicaragua. It’s the Olympic Winter Games meets Pompei. Without all the media coverage and face-melting lava. I’d kindly ask ourman (currently our embed in Nic) to try this and report back to us.
- Learn to live like an Ewok in these odd sleeping pods from Free Spirit Spheres. They’re currently available for rent on Canada’s Vancouver Island.
- Ecuador is considering drastic measures to ensure that tourism doesn’t irreparably harm the Galapagos Islands. This makes me reconsider traveling there at all.
- Gadling.com’s Adrienne Wilson walks us through the recent controversy that Jaunted first revealed surrounding some questionable advertising practices in the travel industry
- Ah, the smell of an ad-free breeze blowing through the skeletons of defunct highway billboards! BoingBoing reports that Sao Palao, Brazil has gone completely billboard free.
- Gadling reports that the U.S. will be releasing new passport designs. They hate the new design; while I actually don’t mind it.
- There’s no shame in mooching! The Philadelphia Inquirer explores several options for budget-conscious backpackers looking to explore the wonders of “couch surfing” and hole up with strangers around the world.
- Would you believe the astronauts returning from the moon had to go through US customs? Odd.
- Jaunted points us to the Global Incident Map. It’s one-part rainbow terrorism scale and two-parts Google Maps. Very cool indeed.
- OMIG is loving the Huge In Asia vlog (that’s “video blog”) and you will too. Guaranteed or your money back!
