Ghost Skyscrapers in Bangkok
Saturday, August 11th, 2007 Posted in Destination reports, General | 4 Comments »A few weeks ago the Wall Street Journal ran a story about all the abandoned skyscraper projects all over Bangkok. It's hard for us to imagine this happening in a high-rent district like New York, London, or Hong Kong, ...
Old Bikes Reborn in Guatemala
Thursday, August 9th, 2007 Posted in Making a difference | 1 Comment »After a weekend of going through papers to clear some room on my desk, I found this cool article in Plenty magazine: From the Junkyard to the Kitchen. It's about an organization in Chicago called Working Bikes. They take bikes ...
Useful Slovakia Travel Websites
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007 Posted in Beers of the World, Cheap Europe Travel, Destination reports | 2 Comments »This entry is number two in a series of useful travel websites for specific countries. It's not always easy to separate the great from the useless at first glance, so I'm trying to filter out the former for you. This ...
Why Your Phone Calls Cost More in Mexico
Monday, August 6th, 2007 Posted in Cheap Latin America Travel, Destination reports, Travel bargains | 1 Comment »This past Saturday the Wall Street Journal wrote a cover story called The Secrets of the World's Richest Man. And no, it wasn't about Bill Gates. It's now estimated that the one-company Microsoft man is no longer a match for ...
Pyongyang Slide Show
Saturday, August 4th, 2007 Posted in Perceptive Travel, Travel books | No Comments »In the late 90s I spent over a year living in a suburb of Seoul, South Korea. From the top of a large hill near our apartment we could see North Korea. Being that close, naturally our parents thought we ...
