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This post is my contribution to Blog Action Day, which this year is focusing on climate change. We’ve heard it all before. Air travel is evil. If your vacation involves a plane then you are burning the planet. While this may be somewhat of an exaggeration, it’s quite true that aviation is one of the [...]
Today brings another bumper collection of links to great travel content on the web. I hope you enjoy it – let me know in the comments. If I link to you below, please pay it forward and give link love to someone else. Debates, trends & reflections Island caretaker. I was less than complimentary in [...]
Travel article for Australian Women’s Health on a kayaking trip to Spitsbergen in the High Arctic in 2006. By Caitlin Fitzsimmons The seal reclined on the ice floe, its stumpy flippers looking slightly ridiculous against its tubby body. We stopped paddling and let the kayaks glide in silence for a closer look. The seal lifted [...]
Bicheno, Tasmania; February 2007 In Bicheno on the east coast of Tasmania, you might run into fairy penguins – also known as little penguins. When I was there on a family holiday in 2007, we watched them huddling on a little rocky island about 15 metres off shore. Longyearbyen, Svalbard; August 2006 Up in the [...]
This is the final day of guest blogger Roger Norum’s four-part series on driving Alaska’s Haul Road with his father. To my surprise, GPS is a real advantage on a trip that follows a single, solitary road. For one, knowing the distance to the nearest petrol station is essential – especially if it’s hundreds of [...]
This is the third part of guest blogger Roger Norum’s four-part series on driving Alaska’s Dalton Highway, or Haul Road, with his father. The Dalton is the gateway to the most remote regions of the interior and northern parts of Alaska and offers a rare glimpse of America’s Arctic – an opportunity to imagine what [...]
This is part 2 of Roger Norum’s four-part guest post on his road trip through Alaska with his father. Driving in Alaska is an experience amplified by the extended summer hours of near-Arctic daylight, an unsettling phenomenon that deceives the senses: driving without headlamps at 10pm; a glowing red sunset at midnight; waking up to [...]
Vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has brought Alaska to the headlines – suddenly everyone is talking about ice fishing and helicopter hunting. But what is the 49th state really like? Travel writer Roger Norum, a native New Yorker based in Oxford, England, has written a four-part account of his road trip along Alaska’s Dalton Highway, or [...]
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