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This traveler has been mighty busy lately, serving as a tour guide and translator for our guests here in Austria. There have plenty of blogworthy adventures, but not much time to blog - I suppose that's much better than the reverse - no adventures and too much time to blog! I have a few days breather before we reconvene in Vienna this weekend, so there's time to point you to a handful of blogs that I've recently added to my own reading - and a pick from the BlogHer Travel Blogroll.
Wandalust isn't just great for the clever title. Wandalust is updated often with new travel ideas and news. The latest post tells about stingrays and the recent tragic loss of our favorite Aussie naturalist.
Apparently, stingrays are docile creatures. They only whip up their barbed tails whenever they have to defend themselves against predators or when they are stepped on. More often than not, though, they just swim away.
So what happened to Steve Irwin is very rare. This fact explains a lot why stingray tours are still being conducted.
Yankees think of backpacking as an outdoors sport, but internationally, the term refers to those hearty gap year types with Eurail passes and all their belongings stowed, turtle like, on their backs. Backpackers.com dishes up destinations and tips for the backpacker nomad set. Top of the bill today? Godskitchen Global Gathering.
If you’re a fan of big dance parties, and you live in the UK, you’ve probably already been to Godskitchen’s Global Gathering.
The 2006 festival, held in late July, sold out completely, and organisers are expecting around 45,000 revellers to attend in 2007.
What? You don't know about this? Thank you, Backpackers.com. Rave on, my traveling brothers and sisters! (I learned how to mix dance music this year, so don't be surprised if DJ NEV shows up to lay down the phat beats!)
For my almost daily dose of travel porn (Clean your mind, not like THAT!) I read The Informed Traveler, a guide to places I'm never going to be able to afford. A girl can dream, can't she, of going to Cayo Espanto, for example.
Cayo Espanto has developed the best kind of environmentally-friendly luxury resort. The five oceanfront villas are sprawling in size and feature personal plunge pools, private docks, al fresco showers, romantic mosquito netting over the beds, and 180 degree wrap-around views of the Caribbean.
Brand new to our travel blogroll and my kinda gals, meet Active Women. Gear - I loves me some gear - destinations, fitness, and a little travel philosophy, too. Here's a few paragraphs from a post called Justifying Your Escape.
Traveling within the US it is easy to stay connected. For many of us it is actually really difficult to disconnect. Our blackberries are vibrating, we are think about work, family, finances, news. Even when we are in the mountains we are thinking maybe we should get home…beat the traffic, get some work done, catch up before the week begins.
When we travel to a destination where the language and culture is different we spend a significant time figuring out how to live day to day. We slow down as things move slower. This is really good for us. We are consumed by simple things like what to eat and how to greet people we meet. Visiting a market or biking to the next village becomes exotic. We feel huge accomplishments when we successfully order a cup of coffee or read a local train schedule.
We return home with olive oil from a producer we met, a textile from a village we visited, a stamp on our passport. Oh, and we also have a new form of social currency when we join our friends out for Tapas or Cerviche . We scour the produce and grocery aisle looking for items that connect us to our travel experience.
Hallelujah.
Now, it's back to sorting photos, recharging batteries, emptying CF cards from the camera, all the administrative tasks of the tour guide.
Pam blogs about travel and other adventures at Nerd's Eye View. She also offers personalized tours through Austria's Salzkammergut. Or she would, if asked.
