Wednesday Links
Here’s some of the latest stock of interesting sites and articles from the big www. Enjoy!
Pimp your plane? Now I’ve seen a pokemon Plane before, but some of these plane designs are really out there.
Darren Rowse recently put up a really great video about using social media to promote your blog. Now if I could only get the hang of twitter…
Here’s a great interview of Christoph Rehage by TravMonkey. Christoph took a year and walked across China. Theres even a rockin’ time lapse video.
We’ve all heard about ways to save money for a trip, but in Two Go RTW’s article they add in one step that I and many others sometimes take for granted
“Execution. Execution of a savings plan often requires discipline and perseverance—what we like to refer to as stick-to-itiveness. We’ve found that sticking to a savings plan is easier if you can make it habitual. Sure, we struggled at the outset but with a little creativity and courage, it’s likely that we’ll reach and surpass our goals.”
Seems simple, but sometimes action is the hardest part.
This may be a bit late, but there is still time to enter for a chance to win a pair of birkenstocks from wanderlust and lipstick. Just write a clever limerick, but be fast! The contest is over today.
Here’s some funny screen shots from Google queries. Very revealing of stereotypes I think.
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About wanderoverhere
“Often I feel I go to some distant region of the world to be reminded of who I really am. There is no mystery about why this should be so. Stripped of your ordinary surroundings, your friends, your daily routines… you are forced into direct experience. Such direct experience inevitably makes you aware of who it is that is having the experience. That is not always comfortable, but it is always invigorating.”
Michael Crichton, 1988
Welcome to wanderoverhere.
Who?
Hey! I’m Harley. Nice to meet you. I’m a girl constantly on the lookout to gratify my curiosity about the world through travel. My first taste was a hop across the pond to France when I was 14. I returned 4 years later to explore a little more of Europe, and 3 years after that (this past summer) went straight to the Land of the Rising Sun to live and study for 2 1/2 months. And I can’t ever get enough.
What?
wanderoverhere is a travel blog aimed at inspiring travel and learning in others.
Travel teaches and brings us back to ourselves; no matter who you are or where you’ve been there’s always something to be learned.
Where?
Here, there, anywhere, everywhere, and nowhere.
Travel is as familiar as our bodies, the earth, the wind, and is at all times and places a point of reference for metaphors, and a resource of meaning.
When?
Always.
Learning takes place constantly; while traveling, after, as reflection. It just takes a minute to recognize the value and closeness travel and learning have.
Why?
Because it’s not just about learning where the cool vacation spots are.
A vacation is an escape from life; travel is the capture of it.
Travel
Weaves the fabric of our lives
Allows for self discovery
Necessitates an awareness of self
Develops character
Enhances intelligence
Reminds us who we really are
Offers a chance for reflection
Validates our curiosity
Enables a sense of overall well being
Revitalizes our way of seeing the world
Helps us connect with others
Erects lifelong memories
Requests a test that brings a certainty of self
Enables the greatest learning of all
The goal is to share what I and others have and continue to learn through travel and to encourage others to do the same.
So, wherever you are from and whoever you are you can wander. Be it by your feet or your brain, or both; explore, discover, inspire, travel, learn.
…wanderoverhere.
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Thanks for the link, Harley. It’s very much appreciated! Happy to have found your blog (and have ‘followed’ you on twitter, too). Looking forward to keeping abreast of your posts! We just linked up with your site from our links page. Thanks again!