The Globalization of the Traveling Freeloader
I’m back in Bucharest this week at the World Blogging Forum (not to be confused with the other wbf2009, the World Bodypainting Festival). I am here with all the usual suspects and all the usual self-promotion. Among the many interesting and over-achieving...![[Review] Lapham's Quarterly: Travel (and the Demysitifcation Thereof)](https://i0.wp.com/el-oso.net/blog/wp-content/themes/oso/images/bottom_mark.gif?w=425)
[Review] Lapham's Quarterly: Travel (and the Demysitifcation Thereof)
The farther one goes the less one knows. Lao-Tzu, 550 BC The world is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page. St. Augustine, c. 390 Travel teaches toleration. Benjamin Disraeli, 1832 In the Middle Ages people were tourists because of their religion,...[Stereotypes] American Eyes, American Smiles
Today a Ukrainian friend of mine had her first English class with an American Peace Corps volunteer. “He has very American eyes,” she told me. I let out a little chuckle, not quite sure what very American eyes are. “They are very big,” she...
They Have Returned With Their Secrets Unviolated
All tourists cherish an illusion, of which no amount of experience can ever completely cure them: they imagine that they will find time, in the course of their travels, to do a lot of reading. They see themselves, at the end of a day’s sightseeing or motoring,...
An Outsider's Guide to Linz
The festival energy has arrived to Linz. The Bruckernerhaus is full of monitors, art installations, and computers. The Ars Electronica Center is filling up with laptop-toting digital nomads from all over Europe and beyond. And the Twitter stream for #ars09 is starting...
Visiting Yemen
“Sana’a(Yemen)” by eesti I am often asked what countries I’d like to travel to that I have yet to visit. Ethiopia and Lebanon have long been two standard answers (probably because I love the food and music from both). Victor Kaonga’s blog...
A View from Bad Gastein
It took me a while, but I finally got the hang of producing a QuickTime Virtual Reality 360 degree panorama. To have a look around hover your mouse over the image above, click, and drag it to the right or left. It’s far from perfect – I have to get better...Lost Baggage
Glimpse.org, Travel Writing, and Onbehalfism
When I travel to a foreign country I want to meet local people, taste local food, listen to local music, and read the local newspapers. When I meet people in another country from a different culture who speak a different language then – over time – I begin...Latest Photos
