I Kango. You Kango, Too!

Well, well, well. It looks as though your very own Miss Expatria has made some sort of list!
The Happy Hotelier has included me in a list of travel blogs based on my Technorati ranking. I’m way far down on that list, but I’m on it. Yay!
This prompted another site to contact me [...]

Fun With Blog Stats

I love looking at my blog stats. Not for the number of hits I get; whatever, they come and go, I’ll keep writing anyway - but for the hilarious peek into the minds of people who use search engines.
I’ve posted about this before, I know - but today’s are plain wacky and just too [...]

The Slow Movement: You Move Too Fast

I’ve been on a kick recently where I make notes on topics I’d like to write about during the week, and then on Sunday I write them all, so I simply have to go online every day and post one.
However, yesterday Cal and I got off to a very lazy start and kind of eased [...]

Craving Bagels: A Love Story

Bleeding Espresso is a blog I have come across, and I love love love reading it. Sognatrice is her name, Italy is her game, and she writes with a passion for that country that gives me goosebumps - like this recent one about Calabrianfolk music.
It was this post that took my breath away, as [...]

Around the World in 80… Airports

The Old Grey Lady had an article recently about traveling on a single, round the world ticket. Michelle Higgins fills the article with enough facts and numbers to choke a horse, but it’s compelling reading worth a perusal.
I’d like to discuss two things that caught my eye about this article. The first one [...]

Hello Kitty Travel

An online friend recently alerted me to a blog called Hello Kitty Hell, which hilariously tells the story of one man’s ordeal living with a Hello Kitty fanatic in Japan.
Within this site it a travel section filled with the details of such unlikely but real items as Hello Kitty barf bags and an entire Hello [...]

World Maps, Pregnant Women in the Antarctic, the Azores, and Flags

As my gentle readers will know, Miss Expatria has a deep and abiding love for maps.
I particularly like having a map of the world very near my bed. I fall asleep looking at it, and laze around in bed after waking up, looking at it. And when you do that as much as [...]

Land of Evita? Land of Meat: Buenos Aires

Travels With a Gourmet is one of my favorite travel blogs - because it’s actually all about the food she eats while traveling, or even while staying at home. I love the way she writes about food - never precious, never snobby, with a true love of the bite she’s taking right at that [...]

Terrifying Airplane Landings

Gentlest reader Cyntata has alerted me to quite possibly the most terrifying plane landing I have seen since 9/11.  I’m not saying that as a joke - all kinds of crazy panicky feelings came up when I watched it.  But, watch it I did - over, and over, and over again.
Apparently, a vacation on St. [...]

Of Flight Patterns and Satellites and Maps

This post from a guy named Hoon is absolutely mesmerizing. He has done amazing things with some sort of technology that I can’t begin to understand, but he’s made a dreamy landscape of America through 24 hours of flight patterns. It’s perfect to watch first thing on a lazy Saturday morning.
Also, he is [...]