Jon Rawlinson of TheRadBlog continues in impress me with his photos and especially his short videos.  He's a TV producer by trade, so I guess it's no surprise, but the video he puts together are beautiful, both visually and musically.

Check out his latest video on from Capadocia, Turkey.

We will do good to follow in his footsteps.

 

Andy at HoboTraveler.com offer sound advice for what is one of the most dangerous things about traveling abroad: Crossing the Street.

Apparently, the key is crossing in a group and using blockers.

Also, Andy has started a wiki in hopes of collecting information about Niger, where he is headed.  For those of you curious about what in the hell a wiki is, it is a type of web site that enables visitors to easily add and edit information. This might help if you're interested.

I've been follow Andy at HoboTraveller.com  What impresses me about Andy (aside from him traveling for 8 years) is that he goes where the action is and is trying hard to go and document history using his blog, as it happens.  He was recently in Isreal for the gaza pull-out and is now trying really hard to get to Niger to document the famine there.

I have a lot of respect for that kind of travel.  Being green ourselves, I don't think we'll be looking for human suffering and newsworthy events this time around.  But, I could see myself, at some point in the future, being drawn to places on the globe where history is happening and hoping to document it in my own way. 

For now though, I'd be scared to roll into Niger during a famine.

While I don't really thik that this should be a theme for our trip, I amused to find out that Restaurant Magazine has assembled a list of the 50 best restaurants in the world.  I was hoping there would be more in cheaper places like Thailand or India, but no such luck.  You know, Paris, London, New York type of thing.  We'll be lucky to eat 2-star in those places.

I just was this awesome photo site of art in subways across the world.  I imagine we'll be hitting some of these.  

Andy at HoboTraveler.com is one of the folks like Rolf Potts that I look to for real-world travel advice.

Andy recently posted an entry about knowing how much to pay for plane tickets. A couple nuggets that I liked:

He says that he can fly anywhere in the world for $750 US, as a smart buyer.

Also, he offers this calculation:

You figure the miles you'll travel in the air, and multiply the miles times 7 cents. Then try to get that price and never more than double that price.

When we were at the UW Travel clinic, I saw a little plaque that means a lot to me:

Travel is fatal to bigotry, prejudice and narrow-mindedness.  Broad wholesomeness and charitable views cannot be acquired by vegetating  in one tiny corner of the globe.

                                                    ~Mark Twain

I'd say that point of view is one of the major reasons we're embarking on the trip.

Wow, this Australian couple (Paula and Gary) have their work cut out for them. They are WALKING from London to the Southern tip of Africa- thats walking- with feet.

Their blogging it all and building a nice audience of people cheering them on. I enjoy their descriptions of their trials and tribulation. I thought this was funny from an entry in Morrocco:
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WHY ARE YOU WALKING?

The first hundred times those questions are asked, it's not so bad. By the time they have been asked five hundred times in the course of one day, it gets a little tiring, particularly when it is over thirty degrees and there is forty kilometres to go to get out of the city.
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