Forum: Travel

This Friday I'll be heading out of town to visit my sister in Winnipeg, Manitoba. It's a long drive - Google Maps estimates 1 Day, 4 Hours, 45mins to drive from Toronto to Winnipeg (staying within Canada) - but I'm planning on driving straight through (roadside naps are a definite possibility). My girlfriend and dog are coming with me, so I'll have some company for the drive, but I'm hoping that you fine folk can help me out with a few suggestions. I've got a tonne of music already, and a couple audiobooks, but I'm looking for some good comedy albums or some road trip games or something. Anything that'll help keep us awake and entertained! So let's hear it!!

National Geographic and Jacques Cousteau didn't start broadcasting travelogue-'specials' until the mid-60's, twice per year, each... till the late 70's. Public Broadcasting (PBS) didn't exist until the late 60's. From the late 40's till the late 70's, the realm of the traveler-lecturer-cinematographer filled the entertainment-void of those whose intellectual-tastes rose above the pedestrian fodder of 'primetime' television. Here in Northern Ohio, Southern Michigan, and Southern Ontario, Canada, we were fortunate to be able to watch George Pierrot Presents, and Pierrot's The World-Adventure Series, 6 times a week, at 4PM (16PM). Here's an audio-only clip of his intro with Stan Midgley, then a segment of Midgley lecturing... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biqcNty4Fhk Midgley was a trick-photographer/independent-filmmaker, who traveled via bicycle and jeep alone, with two 16mm Kodak-cameras. (one for the trick-shots)... (classic shots were stuff like lightning-striking him, leaving his empty...

Upon traveling inside HOME, you should find happiness, peacefulness, comfortability, and easiness. You should find yourselves a HOME inside and a HOME outside. An inside HOME and an outside HOME should lively spin you two in and out journies. It takes two alone to behold having any HOME. Home travel... Is not the planet your home?

Anybody here know San Francisco? I'm planning a visit there soon.

1) Self-publishing is good, for an unknown author, when s/he already knows who the readers will be (family members, students, etc.) But I would not recommend it to anyone who wants to reach a wider audience. Last December I self-published "Tyranny to Freedom: Diary of a former Stalinist." It has been available on http://www.amazon.com (and positively reviewed by several readers) but the number of copies sold was very small. Bookstores do not order self-published books written by unknown authors. Finding a reputable publisher (a very difficult task indeed) is the only way to proceed. 2) Disappointed by the situation, I decided to "compete with myself." I improved the book a little (based on comments made by readers), changed the title, and made it freely available over the Internet. Fortunately, I can afford to do this; my goal was to leave a testimony, not to support myself. The new title is “Diary of a Former Communist: Thoughts, Feelings, Reality.” The link is:...

Countries that can be cool to dwell in when with a good enough translator (a translator device and/or a paid translator person) : (Pick between the following: ) MONGOLIA ICELAND GREENLAND People talk a good game about certain countries but um, fuck Zealand, North Holland, and Costa Rica. All the countries making the news or pop speakings ARE A NO-NO! in my book. You don't HEAR any thing even remotely by far about Mong, ICE, and GREEN. Why is that? Because wherever NEWS is not making famous fuss or infamous fuss, is the best places. Now if you talk economy in a bad light, then that is only if your dwelling depends on employers. Mines does not. So I don't let econ talk tell me where to dwell. Besides, why want a gov that is too advancely tech equiped? I'll be delocating.

Sheesh... I zoomed-thru Salem twice 'n never stopped. Next time, I'll specifically scope this place... http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/travel/escapes/11stonehenge.html

I skipped Burningman this year. Decided to go with a few friends who also thought that water sounded better than desert. So here we are, makin a video for a competition that used this track "on a boat". Of course we never got around to finishing it on time to submit it, but we sure had fun. Check it out. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfc_5XyVv6I

I haven't gone anywhere this year to speak of so here are some local pictures. /DSC_0041-1.jpg

Some people go to a place they have never been to before and fall in love with someone immediately. When I went to Negril, Jamaica, that didn't happen to me. I fell in love alright, but not with any one person, but rather found so many things to love about the region itself, and can think of no other place I would rather be when I am there. I've only been twice before, last August with my daughters, and then this past July by myself, but each time even though there were things I would worry about because while I can't ever have the worrying fully end as much as I would like that, I do find myself worrying the least when I'm in Jamaica than anywhere else..if that makes sense to you, which I hope it does. Anyway, I have an online friend who spends a few months out of every year in Jamaica, and she has been doing that for over a decade now, and she put some of her pictures and film together in a really nice montage that too me captures a lot of the spirit of what is Jamaica, even if it doesn't show a lot...

Back in Provence for vacation, drove the last two days from Sweden almost nonstop. ( 2600km) whata burn out... ( but have my scotch! its 6:30 am and the sun is just coming up...beautiful sight. I understand why the Romans wanted this piece of real estate.... I'll post some pics later today.

Went to 4th of Juplaya. Out in Blackrock desert where they hold the land speed record and labor day burningman festival. Although I am not pictured, the peeps in the video were part of my camp. Hope you like hot springs, deserts, music and guns, things that blow up, and costumed revelry. Welcome to my life. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoDq1Db77EM

The phenomenal growth in tourism during the last thirty five years in India and especially in a state like Kerala has been due to several economic, cultural and technical factors. The industrial revolution resulting in the emergence of great factory towns emitting toxic fumes is responsible for the change in the economic and social systems in certain parts of the country. The working class in the beginning was overburdened by long working hours and poor working and living conditions. The sudden concentration of population in towns and cities and the ever-increasing urbanization have created unhealthy living conditions. Thus, large-scale industrial development coupled with pollution and over-crowding in the cities has led to the people’s search for sun, sand, unpolluted atmosphere, sea and the pure mountain air during the annual holidays. This type of movement is generally from the north to the south. The Mediterranean region benefited most from the above mentioned form of tourism in earlier...

Even my dynamical detailings are ballin' on this earth, in wises. At least says be-types verses: there vs some vs standing here, especially in high point materials and actualities. In my traveled path upon here, I have not witness, in person of own experience and witness, any female smoking on any cigar. Wonder why is that of the smoking kinds? You would think a cigarette smoker would find interest in smoking on cigars, of the female kind come into my surround zones of in person basis. Why would females not be equal to puff on cigars to the males? Is it a sudden DONT SHOOT FOR BEING EQUAL? Or is it a built in SIGN concerning SOMETHING BIG come NOT LOOKED INTO, concerning how one male (me) could have not seen in person a single female puffin' on any cigar? If cigarettes are gateway drugs, then how will not a single female seek to see what better or what not better a cigar is cracked up to be? It just prooves cigarettes are not gateway drugs nor addictive since anything additive makes one seek a BETTER...

Traveling on best route of escape, during hiding and running from anybody or anything? Not? Want to know how in case? Memorize: Don't go to family or go with family. Don't go to airport to get on any plane. Don't go to bus station to board a bus in the city in nor in any surrounding cities.

Ive been everywhere, One ofe my favorite places though is loch ness. It is full of beautiful scenery, exciting scottish rennaisence fairs and is very historical. Anytime you get a chance to go you must. It is so wonderous. The sun over the treez with blue hazy clouds of the lake. Very insane.