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Category: (People We've Met)
... he took around the world and captured the imaginations of millions. Imagine, if you were living then, flying over the Pyramids of Egypt. New York's Marist College has paired documents, film, photos and ...Created on 01 May 2013 -
Category: (Essays)
Books are just too fat. I usually go to a bookstore before I head off on a long flight, even though, except at airports, they are bit hard to find these days. My nostalgic favorite is a century-old ...Created on 04 June 2012 -
Category: (Apps, Gear and Tech)
... film to 3D (it works, but not brilliantly) and a screen you could stand in front of and swat away flying objects. Yes, the 3D interactive virtual tour has finally arrived, complete with whackable mosquitoes? ...Created on 17 January 2012 -
Category: (Connected Traveler Technology Showcase)
... to design some of the virtual 3D worlds of Avatar). I had managed, during some 30 hours of flying, to create a ball and make it roll down a ramp.We were like a little boys exclaiming "mine is bigger than ...Created on 22 April 2011 -
Category: (Asia)
... Prabang). I tell him I was heading for Sri Lanka. "That's really far," he says. "Are you flying...up front?" "No," I reply, suspicious that he was sizing up my cash position. "We could buy a new Subaru ...Created on 30 May 2008 -
Category: (US/Canada)
... Wild Trees" by Richard Preston, a saga of the pioneers who were perhaps the first to explore the canopies of these giants, I close my eyes and dream of the experience: flying squirrel dreams. I can ...Created on 06 July 2007 -
Category: (Science & Technology)
... a saga of the pioneers who were perhaps the first to explore the canopies of these giants, I close my eyes and dream of the experience: flying squirrel dreams. I can relate as I have spent days, myself, ...Created on 06 July 2007 -
Category: (Video)
... as a back-to-Kansas tornado of flying chairs and dogs, referring to photos of the hotel's doggie residents stored on his iPod. "The place is a bit disfunctional," says Combs. "That is what makes it great". ...Created on 22 January 2007 -
Category: (Video)
... and tourist shows: Yi women don black flying-nun hats the size of kites, Tibetans sport knit headdresses of green, yellow and a not-of-this-world fluorescent pink. The color of the costume signifies motherhood, ...Created on 31 October 2006 -
Category: (Good Travel)
Prof. David Bellamy does bird impressions, trumpets like an elephant, waves his arms as if swatting gnats and screams "beam me up Scotty!" Looking like a cross between John Houston ...Created on 08 September 2006 -
Category: (Apps, Gear and Tech)
... collapse into a deceptively small, attractive cordura fabric-type zipped clamshell and deliver an impressive range and richness of tones. I've spent most of my adult professional life flying about once ...Created on 23 August 2006 -
Category: (Science & Technology)
Airlines come and go. But one airplane, put in service in 1970 by Pan Am and designed and built by Boeing , is still flying, still being manufactured and, like Swiss Cheese or a Brooks Brothers suit, ...Created on 04 August 2006 -
Category: (Asia)
... unmatched on earth: 1500 species of flowers (170 types of orchids), 262 brands of birds, monkeys, flying lizards and, should the jungle floor look at times as if it were moving, 458 appellations of ants. ...Created on 03 August 2006 -
Category: (Asia)
... from the West. I don't know if it is an official lack of self-esteem or some mistaken notion that travelers find some comfort in flying for a dozen hours to experience a place practically indistinguishable ...Created on 03 August 2006 -
Category: (US/Canada)
FlyingDreamsSonomaCounty ...Created on 03 August 2006 -
Category: (Technology Showcase)
Maybe, in the future, you will visit a place and capture it in Hollywood-style 3D animation. Autodesk, which makes software used by Hollywood has come up with a free app for iPhones, iPads, PCs and Macs ...Created on 18 May 2012 -
Category: (Essays)
... front door. I know they know I will be flying and I know they know that that will, in most cases, be an unsatisfying experience. Max crawled between me and my newspaper, the other day, as I read the University ...Created on 24 May 2007