On explaining travel to your parents

#2: Come clean about your finances. Seriously.



from Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/bnt/6-tips-explaining-travel-parents/

Going native: How travel marketers can navigate the new content marketing landscape

The digital media landscape is completely transforming. Consumers are bombarded with content and the marketer’s quest to be heard among the noise ...



from Tnooz http://www.tnooz.com/article/yahoo-content-marketing-navigation/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=going-native-travel-marketers-can-navigate-new-content-marketing-landscape

OnlineTours raises $7 million to expand package tours for Russians

Russian online travel agency OnlineTours, a package specialist in Russian, has completed a capital raise of $7 million. The latest tranche of ...



from Tnooz http://www.tnooz.com/article/onlinetours-7-million-russia-packages/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=onlinetours-raises-7-million-expand-package-tours-russians

How Baltimore is cleaning its harbor

Since May, it has removed over 40 tons of garbage from the harbor.



from Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/change/baltimore-man-harnesses-green-energy-remove-harbor-trash/

Airbus files patent for saddle seats on planes

For air travelers who like to gripe about being cramped in economy, here comes another warning that they've never had it so good.

from CNN.com - Travel http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/17/travel/airbus-saddle-seat-patent/index.html

Classic confectionery: Europe's oldest pastry shops

Proving they're what's really important, the world's best pastry shops have survived survived sieges, revolutions and World War II.

from CNN.com - Travel http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/17/travel/oldest-pastry-shops/index.html

Signs continue to point north for airline ancillaries

Top airlines are reaping average revenue of more than $40 per passenger for ancillary services according to figures in the annual Airline ...



from Tnooz http://www.tnooz.com/article/airline-ancillary-revenue-2013-ideaworks/#utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=signs-continue-point-north-airline-ancillaries

5 Utah towns on the edge of nature

Base yourself in one of these towns for access to the best Utah has to offer.



from Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/trips/gateways-adventure-5-utah-cities-edge-spectacular-nature/

Dad O'Rourke's Bench in Mill Valley, California

Originally a simple scenic lookout spot, the serene resting spot known as Dad O'Rourke's Bench is now a permanent testament to the man who made it his goal to share the location's singular beauty with anyone who was willing.

Sitting at the end of a casual trailhead on California's Mount Tam is a stacked stone semi-circle with a brass plaque set into it. This spot is a scenic lookout bench created in honor of local man Richard Festus "Dad" O'Rourke, who was known to refer to the site as "the edge of the world." As the plaque states, the bench was built by O'Rourke's family and friends in honor of his 76th birthday in 1927. O'Rourke, a member of the Tamalpais Conservation Club who preserved the area, was known to bring people he knew to the spot to share its sites, as he considered it possibly the most beautiful spot in the world.

from Atlas Obscura http://atlasobscura.com.feedsportal.com/c/35387/f/665719/s/3c93fce8/sc/10/l/0L0Satlasobscura0N0Cplaces0Cdad0Eo0Erourke0Es0Ebench/story01.htm

Love Letter Murals in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

“Love Letter” is a series of 50 rooftop murals that can be viewed from the elevated train platform of the Market-Frankford line in West Philadelphia.

This project was a collaboration of the Philadelphia Mural Arts Program and the talented artist, Stephen Powers (ESPO). These murals collectively express a love letter from a guy to a girl, from an artist to his hometown, and from local residents to their neighborhood of West Philadelphia. A tour is regularly conducted, mostly on board the train, alighting on the platform only a couple of times. Most of the murals were only seen as brief colorful flashes on walls of decrepit buildings.

from Atlas Obscura http://atlasobscura.com.feedsportal.com/c/35387/f/665719/s/3c93fce0/sc/10/l/0L0Satlasobscura0N0Cplaces0Clove0Eletter0Emurals/story01.htm

Help! CenturyLink sent me a modem I didn’t want

from Elliott http://elliott.org/problem-solved/help-centurylink-sent-modem-didnt-want/

Inside the Infinity

Working from home I’m curious… do you work from home instead of going into an office building? I was thinking about this when looking at today’s photo of a cool office building… I wonder if a cool office building even helps. If you like your job, then you don’t really mind what the building looks […]



from Stuck in Customs http://www.stuckincustoms.com/2014/07/17/inside-the-infinity/

“Dreams Are the Kind of Things You Can Borrow and Lend Out”

I always love Murakami’s work. The title of this post comes from a new short story published in the New Yorker. Here’s more: When I moved from Kansai to Tokyo to start college, I spent the whole bullet-train ride mentally reviewing my eighteen years and realized that almost everything that had happened to me was…



from The Art of Non-Conformity http://chrisguillebeau.com/dreams-are-the-kind-of-things-you-can-borrow-and-lend-out/

Love and occupation in the West Bank

A dispatch from the West Bank, Occupied Palestine Territories.



from Matador Network http://matadornetwork.com/change/dear-haifa-story-love-occupation/

Travel Challenge: Finger Lakes New York

Image courtesy of Wikitravel.org Upstate New York and New England are must visits during the Summer. It can certainly get oppressively hot, but the region totally transforms over the Summer. No doom and gloom of late fall and winter, but instead lush landscape and fantastic outdoor activities. Situated between Rochester and Syracuse, the finger lakes […]



from Frugal Travel Guy http://www.frugaltravelguy.com/2014/07/travel-challenge-finger-lakes-new-york.html