1. 27 April 2007

    572 days ago

    Spend the years of learning squandering
    Courage for the years of wandering
    Through a world politely turning
    From the loutishness of learning.

    Gnome, Samuel Beckett

  2. 17 December 2006

    In Patagonia

    703 days ago

    A travelogue through guess where. Makes me want to travel somewhere.

  3. 13 December 2005

    1072 days ago

    Bike Commuter

    I’ve yet to own a car (I’m just 18). Yet I don’t plan on getting one anytime soon. I’ll admit to bumming rides, taking the bus every once in awhile, even driving my parents cars. but this spring I’d like to think I made the leap to bike commuting for a long time to come.

    As I ride down the old railroad corridor of the Cedar Lake bike path, dodging killdeer and jackrabbits, I often glance up at the I-394 overpass and see gridlocked cars coming in from the western suburbs. Honking, squeeling brakes, a slight hanging smog. I can feel the road rage in the air. I have to say, I sometimes laugh out a loud, a little wickedly. During rush hour, I can get to work about ten minutes faster on my bike—without ever losing my temper. Hans Eisenbeis

    And mpls has the most bicycle commuters in the country? Despite it’s winters?

    via Kjell Olsen1072 days ago

  4. 09 November 2005

    1106 days ago

    My North of the Desolate Sea: Travels in Eastern Greenland and Svalbard

    I’ve been to Iceland and the Faroes, and both were spectacular. I can’t wait to get back into one of the nordic states.

    via Kjell Olsen1106 days ago

  5. 05 July 2005

    1233 days ago

    Latitudes Magazine - Travel Attitudes Magazine for Broadband

    Spectacular travel photo magazine. Great story on Iceland (been there, amazing) and Biking the length of the Danube, which I’d love to do. Available in flash, page through the entire thing (I think) online.

    via Kjell Olsen1233 days ago

  6. 08 April 2005

    1321 days ago

    Travel jobs | Ask MetaFilter

    A few ways to look into paying your way to a nice long vacation.

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  7. 18 January 2005

    1400 days ago

    The New York Times > National > Skiers Risk Answering the Call of Their Wild Side

    Harrowing account of how dangerous it really is to ski the back-country adjunct to ski resorts. I’ve always wanted too, but I’m not stupid and yes – don’t know the fuck I would be doing!

    “If you’re an adult and you want to go and risk your life, it’s your business,” he said. “We just have to clean up the mess.”

    via Kjell Olsen1400 days ago

  8. 04 January 2005

    1415 days ago

    Maris Freighter Cruises, Question and Answer Guide

    Boy – traveling on freighters looks inciting… Here is a large german shipping company’s travelling faq.

    6) What Will My Fellow Passengers Be Like?
    They are often an affluent but unpretentious lot who relax on board in shorts and sandals, lie reading a book in a deck chair, hearing nothing but sea gulls and waves. Ashore, they visit places they have read about and dine quietly in the fresh-fish restaurants.
    Large groups and organized activities are not for them. Rather, the excitement of discovery is their motivation. Often they are people who can take lengthy periods of time off … such as teachers, entrepreneurial types who run their own businesses, retired people, etc.

    All I can possibly disagree with is this:

    And while the Internet is not available, email can be arranged through the Captain’s office free of charge.

    via Kjell Olsen1415 days ago

  9. 1415 days ago

    Internet Guide to Freighter Travel

    Ride the waves, cheap, on Ocean Freighters. Probably not glamorous, but I bet those ships are incredible!

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  10. 24 November 2004

    1455 days ago

    Metroactive Dining | Figs

    A man sets out on a velo sojourn around california with almost nothing.

    My gear was spare and simple, and with two bungee cords, I had no trouble getting it all secured to my bike. I packed a sleeping bag, a plastic tarp, some bike tools, my wallet, a book of maps, Thoreau’s Walden and, to keep myself presentable, a razor and toothbrush.

    Fruit abounded in Napa and Sonoma counties. I passed scores of fig trees, and thousands of pounds of fruit lay rotting on the roadsides. I salvaged all that I could. I strung figs out on fishing lines in camp to dry, flavored my wine with them and feasted on them every night.

    Hundreds of cars screamed by at 80 mph. There were human beings, like me, inside them all, but they seemed of a different world—a world fast, mean and powerful. Many people honked or gave me the finger as they roared past.

    I had been gone almost two months, had traveled 2,500 miles, but as it always is after a long trip, it felt like I’d never even been away.

    via Kjell Olsen1455 days ago

  11. 03 October 2004

    Vagabonding

    1508 days ago

    Author Rolf Potts lays out his methods and ideas and how he manages to travel the world whenever he wants. Vagabonding is a very interesting book with lots of good resources for the beginning “vagabonder.”

  12. 22 June 2004

    There's No Toilet Paper... on the Road Less Traveled

    Doug Lansky, et al.

    1611 days ago

    A nice collection of essays, all touching somehow on travel. Doesn’t get very far away from how foreign countries are different from what the english speaking authors are used to, but it’s not a bad read.

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