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seven in one: antarctica
On Monday, March 16th, 2015, I officially set foot on the Earth’s southernmost continent at 064° 83.33’ S / 063° 50.00’ W. It was...
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travel tech
reef stash sandals: the answer to a traveler’s beach cash-stashing needs
Savvy travelers are well aware of the pitfalls of walking around an unfamiliar environment with cash or credit cards. Some have fallen victim to...
in transit
again i faced the wrath of the airport travel gods, and...
Eight months ago, I wrote about my first encounter with the vengeful airport travel gods in “A Mere Mortal vs. the Airport Travel Gods.”...
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By Guest Blogger Vince Catalanotto.
If your cruise liner docks in Curaçao, resist the urge to stop in Starbucks. You will find an outlet of the...
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a tour through the grand palace complex in bangkok, thailand
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the wildlife of namibia's etosha national park
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australia - a virtual tour of sydney harbour: day and night
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greetings from all seven continents
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the landscapes of antarctica
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puerto rico’s fort san felipe del morro
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the hedonism of patong in phuket, thailand
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flying north in antarctica
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the vernadsky antarctic research base
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montevideo, uruguay
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the kennedy space center, florida and the space shuttle atlantis
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flying north in antarctica: official trailer
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from batna: the logistics of travel to and in algeria
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vlog from algiers, algeria
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vlog from the pyrenees mountains in andorra
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Vlog from Belgrade, Serbia [featuring Mr. Hleb]
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from sarajevo, bosnia and herzegovina
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Reporting from the Rwanda - Congo (DRC) border
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reporting from akagera national park, rwanda
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vlog from the hiroshima peace memorial park, japan
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Haeinsa Temple and the Tripitaka Koreana
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blog from abiverd, turkmenistan
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registan square, samarkand, uzbekistan
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reporting from queen elizabeth national park, uganda
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reporting from the grand place in brussels
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reporting from machu picchu, peru
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unesco sites
a border dispute heats up: thailand, cambodia and a unesco site
Border disputes are quite common these days. Some disputes involve strategic islands or territories, others ancestral homelands, and still others water or resource rights.
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the city of fes, morocco
Fes is the medieval capital of Morocco, and represents a learned and glorious period in Islamic civilization. Fes has the best-preserved old city in...
a visit to lake titicaca – do not steal, do not lie, do not...
Lake Titicaca, a name that made all of us giggle as children, is located in South America in between Peru and Bolivia. It is...
a video blog: the grand place in brussels, belgium
As the flyingnorthblog ventures into the world of new media, you never know where I might show up. The Grand Place, the central square...
the reality of tracking mountain gorillas in the bwindi impenetrable rainforest, uganda
As I mentioned in a prior post, the reality of tracking the critically endangered mountain gorilla in the Bwindi Impenetrable Rainforest in southwestern Uganda...
polar regions
the vernadsky antarctic research base [video]
During my travels along the Antarctic peninsula, I had the privilege to visit some of the few part-time inhabitants of Antarctica with a stop...
