http://wanderism.com Having A Wonderful Time - Wish You Were Here! Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:10:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en If you live in Vancouver you can easily become blase to the awesome vitality of the place, and especially forgetful of its reputation as a multicultural feast for the taste buds. It's a well deserved reputation that can get taken for granted even if you do remember that you ... http://wanderism.com/2010/02/07/if-meals-won-medals/ Doug and I are travel geeks. If nothing else is clear to you having spent time on this site, that should be obvious. And so it is with wanderlust-filled travel geekness that I post the following... I've been working for the past ten months on one of the best ... http://wanderism.com/2010/01/31/a-word-about-travels/ A travel diversion... Snooping around in some boxes recently, looking for some old research material for a new project I'm pursuing, I found an old thoroughly beaten steno pad. I still use those things for notes and jots and such (old habits die hard), but this particular one contained ... http://wanderism.com/2010/01/31/tastes-good-like-a-cigarette-should/ One of the special things about travelling is that you sometimes find real gems in your own backyard. Urban landscapes or country roads, they both provide the opportunity to explore your own surroundings. Such was the case here. Although I live in a pretty fabulous pocket of British Columbia's Lower ... http://wanderism.com/2009/08/23/long-walk-short-pier/ It looks like a baby monitor, but the beeping device that tour guide Dennis Zaburin clutches in his hand monitors radiation. The digits on the dosimeter's display change rapidly, indicating rising and falling danger. Other than the beeps, our footsteps are the only sounds we hear, multiplied as they echo ... http://wanderism.com/2009/05/27/gone-fission-a-visit-to-chernobyl/ GUA - Guatemala City - Lat: 14°35' North / Long: 90°31' West The Top 5 websites. FROM 'BOOTSNALL' Boots 'n All is a terrific resource for travelers - 'independent travelers', as their masthead declares. They're based in Portland, Oregon. A PLACE TO CRASH Accommodations run the gamut of price and amenities in San Pedro, ... http://wanderism.com/2009/01/04/wdytyg-010409/ We're all travelers, and whether we take the low cost packaged tour plan, or go via the rent-a-car-and-find-the-hotels-along-the-way route, we all like a little 'posh' every once in awhile. But the word 'posh' has never been associated with airline travel. Until now, that is. The first new double-decker Airbus ... http://wanderism.com/2008/10/17/all-thats-missing-is-the-elevator/ Tunner: "We must be the first tourists since the war." Kit: "We're not tourists. We're travelers." Tunner: "Oh. What's the difference?" Port: "A tourist thinks about going home the moment they arrive, Tunner. Kit: "Whereas a traveler might not come back at all." - From the film "The Sheltering Sky", Directed by Bernardo Bertolucci (original ... http://wanderism.com/2008/10/15/booking-passage/ So, you've almost finished your two-week vacation in the south of Spain, and Andalusia was worth all the hype. You did the four hour bus trip from Seville to Malaga, and now you're sunning yourself and working on that second liter of Alhambra. You're going home in a ... http://wanderism.com/2008/10/14/the-fall-will-probably-kill-ya/ HER - Iraklion - Lat: 35° 20' North / Long: 25° 11' East (Sometimes spelled Heraklion - Pronounced IR-ACK-LEE-O) The Top 5 websites. GREEK NATIONAL TOURISM ORGANISATION This is the official link to the GNTO - the Greek National Tourism Organisation. Since any trip to Crete usually begins in Athens, you'll want to ... http://wanderism.com/2008/10/13/wdytyg-101308/