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Blog Action covering October 2 – 3, 2013:
TRAVEL
Lazarat – Albania – Day Tripping in the Illegal Drug Capital of Europe. By Yomadic.
The cave so huge it has its own weather system: Explorers discover a lost world with thick cloud and fogs trapped inside This new Er Wang Dong cave in China is simply gigantic. More pictures and a (bad) video.
Rapid Travel Chai‘s slides from his FTU Presentation “The World Less Traveled“. Fantastic stuff!
Lenticular Travel loves Bora Bora. Others love the Maldives. We are all unique individuals with different tastes. Anyways, he is going to live blog from Bora Bora. Dazzle us!
This is a beach I used to go swimming every summer growing up. Right before this lays the longest beach in the Mediterranean. It is in central Greece. Three little villages: Agiokabos, Sotiritsa, Velika. Widely popular now with locals, still mostly undiscovered by foreign tourists. A Motel 8 would be considered a step up from the local hotels (think there are three, don’t ask) and tiny rooms to let. My family still has a tiny place there and my father had the best garden in the whole area. Since his passing four years ago we let someone stay there for free and maintain it. Maybe one day I will return there…Nah, I prefer Fairmonts and other nice hotels for Free with my hotel points 🙂
MILES/POINTS
ON MY MIND
I will try to have a post on Saturday!
Almost done with the end of the quarter chaos. Real business is doing well, thank you Lord! And I scored the winning goal in my Monday night soccer game with 4 mins left. Still on a high about it!
ODDZ & ENDZ
These are VERY(warning!) powerful pictures from the Vietnam War: Classic AP photographs Most of them I had never seen before!
Women and children crouch in a muddy canal as they take cover from intense Viet Cong fire on 1 January 1966. Paratroopers of the 173rd Airborne Brigade (background) escorted the civilians through a series of firefights during the US assault on a Viet Cong stronghold at Bao Trai, about twenty miles west of Saigon
Youth Unemployment in Europe. It’s a tragedy really.
BLOG BUZZ
I am taking a week off from being “negative”. And it appears some bloggers have even gone way out selling everything they can get! I should check the traffic hits to see if this is directly affecting traffic. I will check next week. So this and next Buzz post you all have the green light. Go ahead and pump them cards up, you can doeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeit!
I could have pumped my own Rocket Miles link but I have not even signed up for the service so I do not feel comfortable doing so. So I won’t and you won’t have too much trouble finding such links; it appears there has been a mega Rocket Miles link fest!
First? :-p
I believe this is a first?
Long time reader, first time firster. #spellingmatters
I have a new place to add to my “I want to go there list.”
And the Vietnam pictures…. speechless.
Lazarat, Albania?
What ABC said 🙂
Third?
Yes. As they do in Avis, try harder 🙂
George, A week without “negative” I’m really proud of you my friend for trying that.
Thanks
Rick
It’s an experiment.
Today’s MMS interview was a paid advertisement by some wannabe app developer. A new low for MMS? Taking cash for posting an advertisement and then disguising it as a normal post. And look at the fake comments praising the apps. Give him an ‘A’ for creativity.
Sadly you are right. The series is supposed to be “where travel bloggers share their insights” but the site is all app and very little blog.
How do we know it is actually paid? If it was, I hope there is a disclosure somewhere and I do not see one. Seems to me not many actual bloggers left?
My beef with it is these guys are not bloggers!!!
I’d like to know that, too.
From the FAQ on bestwestern.com:
Do my Best Western Rewards® points ever expire?
Best Western Rewards® points do not expire for members of the North American club, which includes members who reside in North, Central and South America, Asia and South Africa. Points may expire for members who reside in other countries not mentioned above. Please contact the Best Western Rewards® Customer Care center nearest you for additional information.
Thank you so much, I am keeping 10,990 BW points then. Maybe one day I can book a night when I really really need it with them!
Thanks! I corrected the error on my blog.
PFDigest got a thumbs up from Frequent Miler in the Inside Flyer October 2013 issue in its “Interview the Bloggers” article. Congrats.
Wow, thanks TBB and thanks Greg! Had no idea about the mention.
http://insideflyer.com/articles/printable/article.php?key=8795&utm_content=bufferecc9c&utm_source=buffer&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Buffer
Fascination with marijuana?
I like the dark side you cover, Choomkaro G…
Let’s see if anyone can figure out what that second line means.
Over the past week another blogger told me how I totally suck in SEO. Actually I had never given it much thought. So, apparently, the titles are very important. So I killed the dates and have tried to add “words” that can bring people here from searching in Google—->marijuana. Besides, they do make interesting topics, smoking it up in North Korea and Albania, you won’t find this stuff in Boarding Area!!!
Choomk what??
Buzz…….Wailea Maui trip report. Most people who visit Maui wonder if they can buy Maui Wowi. We’ll if your on the South side of the island, exit your Wailea resort hotel, turn right and drive 2 miles towards Makena Beach. On the right you will see an orange shave ice truck, with a stencil picture of Bob Marley (clearly the sign of quality). You are there.
Buzz feel free to delete this if you deem inappropriate, but it beats trip reports w/ pictures of toilet bowls.
Still need to find me a way out of Maui in April 2014!
Does Roe vs. Wade only apply to fetuses?
Because MMS Friday interview series needs to be aborted
He’s moved on from interview terrible bloggers to not even interviewing bloggers
Maybe next he’ll interview software developer for the United app?
Yeah, I should spend some time to work on my questions….But they are so boring…I just can’t get myself up to do it 🙂
Hey, George! If anyone catches you being negative this week, do they get a giftcard? Accountability…
If I say something I will keep my word…
But I didn’t promise anything…
Missing so many chances to entertain and educate readers…SO MANY!
Looking at the Vietnam War photos at the War Remnants Museum in Ho Chi Minh City was one of the most awful but impacting things I’ve ever done. I imagine those photographers saw things they wish they could forget.
Unreal.
Seeing stuff like that stays with you. One day I will visit Vietnam and see those for myself. Seeing these pictures is very powerful…just can not imagine being in that museum.
War is Hell.