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** Route 66 - Original highway from Chicago to Los Angeles | ** Route 66 - Original highway from Chicago to Los Angeles | ||
** Oceanspray Cranberry Trail Mix - Delicious chocolate covered berries [http://www.justin.tv/drkiki/b/317860165] | ** Oceanspray Cranberry Trail Mix - Delicious chocolate covered berries [http://www.justin.tv/drkiki/b/317860165] | ||
** Mario's Pizza, Greenville, IL - Twit | |||
** Post Corner Pizza, Darien, CT - Tom Merrit | |||
* California trip: | * California trip: | ||
** Pacific Coast Highway [http://www.lonelyplanet.com/usa/travel-tips-and-articles/1157?affil=twit#] | ** Pacific Coast Highway [http://www.lonelyplanet.com/usa/travel-tips-and-articles/1157?affil=twit#] | ||
Revision as of 19:04, 14 October 2013
I've always been puzzled by the wonder of travel. This is really just notes for my own references of travels I've done or planning to do.
Tools
Travellogs
- Chris Guillebeau - Pursuing world domination - twitter @chrisguillebeau
- Legal Nomads - Former lawyer currently eating her way around the world - twitter @legalnomads
- Everything Everywhere - Travel adventurer posting daily photography - twitter @everywheretrip Reddit AMA
- Road Trip Rally - Rally across the America
- The Adventurists - Adventures to be found in the world, check Mongol rally [1]
- EatingAsia - Travel writer and photographer exploring food in Malaysia, Pengang, Thailand
- Gadling - Passionate travelers and writers, Huffington Post subsidiary
- A Little Adrift - List of RTW travel logs
- What's Dave Doing? - Traveller and backpacker for a decade
- The Aussie Nomad - Living and working the world over
- Mature Traveler - Captivating tails from China, Nepal, India, Malaysia and more
- Living the Dreal - RTW - Massive list of resources and travel blogs
- As We Travel - A couple traveling and working with local travel agencies to improve the experience
- Answering Oliver - Girl from Seattle setting out to conquer the world
- fearfuladventurer.com - exploring the world one terrufued step at a time
Adventure inspiration
- gadventures.com - Offers tours and adventures in all regions of the world, good for inspiration
- Most exciting city destinations - List of the top 50 travel destinations, annual awards [2]
Exploration
- wikitravel.org - Lots of recommendations and listings of places to check out
- maps.google.com - Explore cities using street view
- 360cities.com - Get to know the places beforehand to save time navigating
- tripadvisor.com - Reviews and discover places where to go
- Rough Guides - Alternative to the other travel guide series
- Lonely Planet - Legendary travel guides, use as indirect reference for exploration
- Twitter hashtag, e.g. #amsterdam for everything happening in that city
Flight - Wordwide
Use a well known airliner for continental flights and low price domestic airliners for shorter hops around the continent or country.
- skyscanner.net - Combines independent flights into otherwise not obvious ones
- lowcostroutes.com - Instantly figure out all the low-cost airlines covering a flight or region, perfect for city hopping, replaces airninja.com [3]
- rome2rio.com - View the differnet options available, on a clean interface with a map and price points [4]
- kayak.com - Flight search, map explore feature to discover price differentials, car rental search
- hipmunk.com - Map-based interface with color-coded bar graphs to find the ideal flight
- expedia.com - Search for single or return flights, deals
- orbitz.com - Option for multi-city flight search
- travelocity.com - Combine multi-city and airline flight, save money
Flight - Norway
Only search for flights on Tuesdays after 15:00, the airlines are then done updating the prices after the weekend rush and competing airfairs
- finn.no - Broad norwegian search portal, includes most airlines, except RyanAir
- ebookers.no - Simple search for flights
- restplass.no - Charter and flight search
- Website of airlines:
Resources
- worldnodmads.com - Advice on safety, insurance, questions and answers, other handy tips
- CDC - Medical advice for most countries including vaccines and medications to bring
- apotek1.no - Map overview and list of recommended vaccinations for different countries (Norwegian)
- reisemedisin.no - Tips on food, hygiene, malaria and recommendations of essential kit to bring (Norwegian)
- whatsdavedoing.com - Excellent advice for backpacking in South-east Asia
- seatguru.com - Makes it easy to pick the most comfortable seat on a long flight
- flightstats.com - Watch your flight for changes or stats, or discover other possible airline connections
- seat61.com - Train and rail resource for any itinerary around the world, great tips on how to find the cheapest deals
- ihatetaxis.com - Every detail you need when arriving at an airport, from basic information about the airport to the best trains, bus and car rental options
- airtreks.com - Create your entire itinerary and get a real quote from an actual person
- tripbase.com - Cool widgets for calculating travel cost per city and weather prediction
- Travel full-time List of excellent tips on saving money while traveling
- flightradar24.com - Get a live overview of all flights in a region on a map, find other potential flights
- Google's people also searched - handy tool to get a quick outline of a place or a spot, also references to other nearby points of interest
Gear/packing
- Legal Nomads Jodi's travel packing list
- Answering Oliver RTW packing list
- G and Q's RTW trip
- No luggage RTW trip packing list
- Globe Trooper - How to choose a backpack
- Dave's six things to consider when buying your first backpack
Budgets
- greatfamilyescape.com - Collection of travel budgets
- legalnomads.com - Another list of travel budgets, lower on the page
- budgetyourtrip.com - Tool to plan and view estimated and actual expenses
Hostel/Hotel
- hostelbookers.com - Great resource for comparison, special offers, refund option
- hostelworld.com - Easy to read overview of hostels in a city/country, use in conjunction with TripAdvisor
- hotline.com - Find last minute the-day-before deals
- tripadvisor.com - Great independent visitor reviews
- finn.no - Norwegian search portal
- expedia.com - Easy to spot deals
- The website of hostel or hotel of interest
Apartments/bed
- airbnb.com - Global community for sharing a space to stay
- homeaway.com - Similar to AirBnB [5]
Apps
Handy apps to get around, explore a location and keep in touch.
- TripAdvisor City Guides - Get offline version of major cities
- Tripso - Retrieve collection of travel information from Wikipedia, Wikitravel, World66 and other sources
- Hipmunk - Find the trip with the least hassel
- Google Maps - Extremely handy, in situations with wifi access (expensive over cell network)
- Photosynth - Create panoramas in a fling
- yr.no - Graphical weather details for any location
- DropBox - Access your travel notes and key information quickly
- Skype - Free calls over the Internet to other Skype users
Other
- Eric Fischer - Heatmaps created out of geotagged photos, useful to figure out the (more interesting) side streets
Travels
- 2003 Sept. London - Trip with friends
- 2007 Oct. London - FOWA conference and Diggnation show
- 2008 Jan. Newcastle - UFC event
- 2008 July. Western Norway - Hardangerfjorden, Songefjorden, Jotunheimen, Geiranger, and Trollstigen
- 2009 Jan. Dublin - UFC event
- 2009 Apr. Cologne - Family
- 2009 May London - Surprise trip with friends
- 2009 Jul. Western Norway - Bergen, Hardangerfjorden, Sognefjorden, and old road over Lærdalstunnelen
- 2009 Oct. Oslo - Wozniak conference
- 2009 Dec. Berlin - CCC congress
- 2010 Jun. Denmark cycletour - North to south, 8 days
- 2010 Aug. Western/southern Norway - Twice, Lysebotn and Preikestolen
- 2010 Dec. Berlin - CCC congress
- 2011 Feb. Amsterdam - City centre, fighting seminar
- 2011 Jul. Western Norway - Kjeragbolten and Preikestolen
- 2011 Jul. Gaustatoppen - Highest mountain in the southern part of Norway
- 2011 Des. Europe - Two week exploration of Paris (Le Web event) and round-trip of Brussels, Brugges, Zürich, Vienna (transit) and Krakow
- 2011 Dec. Berlin - CCC congress
- 2012 Jun. Portugal - Roadtrip with family around the whole of Portugal
- 2012 Jun. Riga - Weekend trip with a friend
- 2012 Sept. Amsterdam and Cologne - Visiting family, rented a car in Amsterdam
- 2012 Oct. Europe - Exploring 10-cities-for-10k around Europe
- 2013 Jan. Åseral - Exploration for FPV spots
- 2013 Jul. New York City - Part of a east-cost roadtrip
Next travels
- Things to remember for next London trip Ask Slashdot [6] [7]:
- DJ shops - Phoncia, BM Soho, Rough Trade
- Bletchley Park - Enigma codebreaking and early computing
- Science Museum
- British Museum
- Hummus Bros [8]
- Just Falafels [9]
- Adadgio Teas Regent Street
- Mildreds Vegetarian Restaurant, Soho [10]
- Spuntino, Soho - Eat around a big bar [11]
- Cycle around Camden, Hampstead Heath, West End, Oxford street
- United States trip:
- Route 66 - Original highway from Chicago to Los Angeles
- Oceanspray Cranberry Trail Mix - Delicious chocolate covered berries [12]
- Mario's Pizza, Greenville, IL - Twit
- Post Corner Pizza, Darien, CT - Tom Merrit
- California trip:
- Pacific Coast Highway [13]
- Redwood National Park - Scene location of the Return of the Jedi
- San Francisco trip:
- The Long Now museum - mechanical computing
- Apex Electronics, Sun Valley - Surplus electronics store
- TechShop - tinkerer's perfect playground
- Amoeba Music - Large independent music store
- Highway 1 - road close to the coast, lots of cliffs, best south of Carmel [14]
- Pick-a-peck - marinated carrots, asparagus, and green beans [15]
- Computer History Museum, Mountain View - not your regular type museum [16]
- Norway things:
- New York trip:
- Gray's Papaya - Hot Dog specialists
- Saint's Alp bubble tea [19]
- Las Vegas trip:
- Stay at Vdara - non-gaming, non-smoking [20]
- Wisconsin trip:
- House on the Rock [21]
- Trip to Japan (English friendly japan):
- Experience Golden Week - A FULL week of vacation for Japanese people [22]
- Matcha Kit Kat chocolate
- Trip to Tokyo:
- Find a good apartment near a metro line
- Akihabara, lots, lots of electronics shops videos of some of them
- Tokyo tower
- Shinkansen express train
- Kyoto
- Osaka
- Green tea icecream
- Eat on other than first floor, quieter, better food [23]
- Midori Sushi, apparently best sushi restaurant ever, queue [24]
- Shinjuku
- Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium
- Komeda Coffe - Lots of small dishes, nice atmosphere
- Nekobukuro - Pet cats for a fee
- Nagashima Spaland - Amazing park with lightshow at night
- South America trip:
- Rio De Janeiro
- Trip to Chile:
- Trip to France:
- Trip to Spain:
- Caminito del Rey - Old walkway used for maintenance of a hydroelectric power plant, epic heights and deterioration [29]
- Basílica De Montserrat, Barcelona - nestling in the towers and crags of the mountain
- Mercat de la Boquería - Large public market in Barcelone
- El Teide, Spain's highest mountain [30]
- Trip to China:
- Beijing:
- (Tourist traps) Forbidden palace and Tiananmen square, the temple of Heaven and the beautiful Beihai park, the Great Wall at Badaling [31]
- Old Hutongs of Beijing - back lanes of the city
- Made in China a.k.a. Grand Hyatt - Perfect Pekin' duck, reservation recommended [32]
- Shanghai’s Wet Market on Lianhua Lu in the Minhang District [33] - Guide service [34]
- Shenzhen:
- Hau Qiang Bei, electronics marked [35]
- The Bridge of Immortals, Huangshan, China [36]
- Beijing:
- Trip to Canada:
- Trip to Switzerland:
- Next trip to Amsterdam:
- Cycle around the old town and the outer sticks
- Mercan Patisserie - try lahmacun (Turkish pizza) [41]
- Trip to Croatia:
- Trip to Latvia:
- Riga - Check out LIDO, marked, old town
- Trip to Kuala Lumpur:
- Batu Caves [44]
- Utah trip:
- Corona Arch [45]
- Colorado trip:
- Uncompahgre Peak [46]
- Trip to Austin:
- Schlotzsky's - Dark whole wheat sandwiches
- Trip to Bulgaria:
- Trip to Sabah:
- Trip to Singapore:
- Trip to Australia:
- Uluru - large sandstone rock formation in the middle of the country
- Trip to Sidney:
- Trip to Azores:
- Nine volcanic islands in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean - Excellent for hiking and running
- Trip to Fiji:
- Yasawa Islands - series of small islands, excellent for island-hopping
- Paulsami - baked taro leaves marinated in lemon juice and coconut milk with some meat or fish filling, bit of onion or garlic [60]
- Kokoda - fish or other seafood marinated in lemon and coconut milk [61]
- Anything cooked in a lovo or pit oven
- Kava - famous peppery, earthy tasting drink made from the root of the pepper plant, mildly intoxicating [62]
- See a local rugby match
- Take the local bus to get around the largest Viti Levu island - cheap, safe [63]
- Stay at Bamboo hostel in Nadi - spacious, clean, free wifi [64] [65]
- Trip to Los Angeles:
- Amoeba Music - Independent record shop, vinyl! [66]
- In 'n Out Burger - Some higher grade hamburgers and milkshakes [67]
- Trader Joe's - Many organic products with no preservatives [68]
- Hollywood Wax Museum - Longest running wax museum in the US [69]
- Griffith Observatory - Extensive array of space and science-related displays, great views over Hollywood and LA [70] [71]
- Walk of Fame - Homage to thousands of famous movie, radio, theatre, and TV personalities [72]
- Mulholland Drive - Breathtaking views across Los Angeles and San Fernando Valley [73]
- Pink's Hot Dogs - Servin' the most famous hot dogs in Los Angeles since 1939, try their chili dog [74]
- Pinkberry - Frozen yogurt chain, choose from vanilla or green tea yoghurt [75]
- Trip to Italia:
- Cinque Terre - Amazing place along the Italian rivera [76]
- Trip to Bolivia:
- Salt flats in Uyuni - World's largest surface made of salt [77]
- Trip to Vietnam:
- Trip to Berlin:
- Volkspark Friedrichshain - Berlin’s oldest public park, founded in 1840 [80]
- Trip to Caribbean/Netherlands outpost:
- Saint Maarten Airport beach [81]
- Trip to Hong Kong:
- Hot Toys
