Voltage blog entries tagged with: Travel

So more than 5 years ago, before I was at my current job, I spent about 4-5 months doing research for an author for his next book. The book has finally been published! It's called In Motion: The Experience of Travel, and the author is Tony Hiss.

When I was doing research, the working title was 'Why We Travel', but that's not exactly what it's about. Tony's notion of 'Deep Travel', what you might say is the state of mind that one achieves through travel, is really the focus of the book. It's not the only reason why we travel - but it is the biggest and most interesting reason. I was instantly familiar with what Tony talks about, yet the concept is so varied and works at so many levels, it is easy to delve deep into bits and corners of it - and that's exactly what Tony does.

I'm about halfway through the book and love it so far. But then, Tony is a great writer. And a great guy. Congrats Tony!

 

If you're in the Scranton area (fan of The Office, perhaps?), I would highly recommend taking a swing by the Olde Good Things Warehouse.

Ten tips on getting good airfare deals from airfarewatchdog.com.

invisible5.org is an interesting sounding (I haven't done it, but would definitely if I do the SF-LA stretch again) audio tour - like a narrated museum tour, except this is outside, made to be listened to in your car. It highlights the environmental problems of the I-5 corridor. The website is interesting with some good pictures.

We just spent a week and the half in Peru and had an amazing time. So much to see, so much good food to eat, such nice people. A friend is going there quite soon and asked me for some suggestions, so I figured I would put them out here.