Happy New Year! By now you have read a dozen or so year end articles from not only travel bloggers, but pretty much anyone with a TypePad, WordPress or BlogSpot account. To stick with the theme this week, I have decided to write a few words to wrap up what has been one hell of…
Lauren Cannon is the editor in chief of the up-and-coming social media guide Ploked. She has written articles for The Huffington Post and Technorati, and is the creator of the edupunk initiative, Side Venturesome Project. You can follow her on Twitter @laurenthedark. “My voice is my passport. Verify me.” The above was a recurring line…
Although I prefer a Jack & coke or an icy cold Guinness, there is no denying the fact that martini madness is alive and well in watering holes around the United States. The resurgence can be partially attributed to the popularity of AMC’s hit series Mad Men. But this classy cocktail is definitely a drink…
A Christmas present that no traveler had asked for this year was delivered by the Transportation Security Administration just hours after a Nigerian nut-job named Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab attempted to ignite a device and blow up a Northwest Airlines flight from Amsterdam to Detroit on Christmas Day. The T.S.A. is now making it mandatory that…
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New York is full of many great museums, but often times as visitors to the city that never sleeps, one does not know where to start or where to focus their time when checking out one of these many interesting institutions. Here are three spots that will both enlighten and educate you at the same…
This week’s guest nomad is David Zweig, a writer who lives in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. His acclaimed debut novel, Swimming Inside the Sun, about a young, NYC musician struggling for his art, and for love, came out this fall. Pick it up now on Amazon. When I seek to experience the distinctiveness of a place…