travel

Sunday 11 May

Gas at $1 a Gallon? (21:58) - | 0 Comments

Monday 12 November

Lost Places in Japan (21:28) - Urban and not-so-urban exploration in Japan. Japanese language site so you may want to try this babelfish translated version. Or you can just look at the photos and enjoy.... | 2 Comments

Monday 2 July

Condition 1 at McMurdo Station, Antarctica (20:39) - | 0 Comments

Saturday 26 May

Sushi Bar (18:51) - Very cool video shot by placing a camera on a conveyor belt in a packed Tokyo sushi bar at midnight one night. ... | 2 Comments

Saturday 12 May

jet blast is powerful (17:09) - | 0 Comments

Friday 11 March

Airline Meals (10:56) - A site dedicated to photographs and reviews of airline food. They even have a vintage section where you can scope sweet photos of PanAm Airlines food from the 60s. ...

Thursday 24 February

Maybe this is part of the reason foreign students arent interested in coming to the US... (16:20) - This is a "supplementary" form that all males age 16-45 are requred to fill out when applying for a visa. My favorite part is the "Paperwork Reduction Act" which estimates that it will take 1 hr to gather the info...

Tuesday 15 February

Currency Gallery (10:09) - Paper currency gallery. From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. It's like being in Polamex's kitchen. (Polamex, take a photo of the money wall and send it to moblog.) ...

Thursday 10 February

Sleeping with the fishes (21:06) - Bruce Jones has $40 million invested to build a luxury hotel where the rooms will be submerged 50 feet under the sea off Eleuthera Island in the Bahamas. Unlike the Jules Undersea Lodge -- an undersea hotel located off...

Monday 7 February

Hokkaido installs musical roads (12:04) - Japan has already dabbled here and there with road surfaces that keep drivers awake by using appropriately-placed troughs to play rhythms through your tires. Now the Hokkaido Industrial Research Institute has gone a step further, with grooved sections of...

Wednesday 2 February

Sleeping in Airports (12:40) - At sleepinginairports.net you can read nearly 3000 accounts/reviews/advice on sleeping in various airports around the globe. Find out where the most comfortable chairs are or the quietest corners of the airport you are stuck in....

Thursday 27 January

Thew new hot address: The World, Dubai, UAE (18:22) - Apparently not content on building artificial palm tree-shaped islands, they are now building an artificial map of the planet Earth off the shores of Dubai. You can now own the island of Ohio or Michigan or even Japan, on which...

Monday 17 January

Indoor Tropics (22:15) - The Tropical Islands dome is a huge "tropical resort" inside of a dome just outside of Berlin. The dome is open 24/7 so that visitors can come to lay out on the beach, go swimming or take a walk through...

Friday 14 January

Harbin Ice Festival (02:21) - We went to a going away party tonight for a friend of ours who is moving to China. Turns out that the town he is moving to is known for their ice festival. This year they constructed a hotel made...

Thursday 13 January

Suspended spherical home (14:53) - The HangOut is a 2.9 meters diameter housing module designed --by Vancouver-based Tom Chud-- to be suspended from a tree. It comes with a double bed, counter, table, bench seats and storage lockers. Four attachment points on the top...

Friday 24 September

Connecticut to Argentina by car (12:36) - I've thought about how amazing a trip like this would be for some time now. I wasn't even sure if it was possible. Turns out it is. Last year, during a seven month period the author drove nearly 25,000 miles...