Douglas Mack
The Saint Paul Winter Carnival, which is one of my favorite things about living in the Twin Cities and a brilliantly counterintuitive celebration of one of Minnesota’s most infamous attributes. It supposedly began as a rebuttal to a New York reporter’s claim that Minnesota was “another Siberia, unfit for human habitation in the winter”—a [...]
It’s not often that a major Presidential speech makes ears perk up in the travel media—but President Obama happily got our attention this week when he talked high-speed rail during his State of the Union address Wednesday. Here’s part of what Obama said:
[F]rom the first railroads to the Interstate Highway System, our nation has always [...]
A damaged road to Machu Picchu is partially submerged in the Vilcanota River in Cuzco this week.
On the times when a little “flexibility” with dates and definitions can be a good thing
Apple CEO Steve Jobs holds up the new iPad during the announcement for the device. Photo: REUTERS/Kimberly White
Apple’s latest gadget has inspired plenty of talk—and plenty of jokes—over the last couple of days, and among the travel media the big question has been: How will the iPad change the way we travel?
National Geographic’s Mary [...]
The famously reclusive novelist, best known for “The Catcher in the Rye,” has died at age 91. I’m sure I’m not the only one who thinks of Salinger, and his “Catcher” protagonist Holden Caulfield, as being inextricably linked to New York City, and to Central Park in particular. Here’s a memorable passage from the novel:
I [...]
An ice-coated bicycle leans against a wall in central Berlin.
Jeff Pflueger on the intersection of geography and photography
Yup, there’s a re-make of the weekend-with-a-corpse beach getaway comedy in the works. Get the Big Picture predicts: “There’s no way this attracts any real talent, and only a slightly larger chance that it attracts an audience.”
A man kite surfs in the Mediterranean city of Ashkelon, Israel.