August 29, 2009 at 2:14 pm (History, Images, Science, Travel)
Active or deep interpretation of maps is a subject that isn’t taught nearly enough in schools, which is a bit of a pity as recognizing maps as clues to a country’s character can give students an interest in geography they’ve never had before. Simply taking a good look at a map of a country compared to the other areas nearby is often enough to give one a good idea of what sort of geopolitical situation it happens to be in, and in many cases a good enough understanding of this can aid in even predicting the future between two or more countries.
link: Page F30: Understanding countries through maps
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August 26, 2009 at 7:21 am (Travel, Writing)
A few weeks ago I received the first issue of a brand new and absolutely gorgeous travel magazine named Afar. You owe it to yourself to check it out if you’re at all interested in travel. It’s the kind of magazine Lonely Planet might put out if they put out magazines. The articles focus primarily on international travel and I was pleased to see that a number of the advertisers were also international. A couple of my favorite aspects of the magazine are that it isn’t about luxury travel (something that is hard to sustain and often rather silly), but about getting to know and getting involved with the locals, and also that it stresses low impact travel. If you want to visit theme parks instead of neighborhoods, look somewhere else. This magazine isn’t for tourists, it’s for travelers. I love it so far.
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July 5, 2009 at 4:01 pm (News, Travel)
Just ran across an interesting article from the San Francisco Sentinel about the Happy Planet Index, which ranks 143 countries for happiness and health. The U.S. did not fare well and neither did most other countries thought of as first world. Costa Rica is apparently the place to be if happiness and health are important to you.
Yet more proof that greed and technology are not the recipe for happiness. Envy and bitterness certainly, but not happiness.
This link will take you to the article.
This link will download the index itself (PDF file).
Listening to the “SuperHuman Touch” the upcoming single from Athlete
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June 11, 2009 at 11:31 am (Images, Travel)
Nasty looking weather seems to be moving in. The end of the drought in Georgia apparently means that our exciting afternoon weather has returned.
– Mobile post
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June 10, 2009 at 6:04 pm (Images, Travel)
It isn’t just the cars clogging up Atlanta these days. These buildings seem to be taking over West Peachtree Street.
– Mobile post
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June 8, 2009 at 2:22 pm (Images, Travel)
The light poles in this photo must be at least 100′ tall and are awesome to see in person. These are part of the new 14th Street bridge project. I saw them on the ground before they went up and didn’t really think much of them. It’s a different story when they’re in the air.
– Mobile post via some handheld contraption
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June 8, 2009 at 5:35 am (Food, Travel)
We were in Athens, GA over the weekend, moving Elizabeth out of her apartment. I just realized that this may have been my last trip there, at least for the forseeable future, and I’m going to miss certain things about the place.
There are a lot of good restaurants there. We had dinner at Inoko Sushi Express, an inexpensive Japanese place, and it was great as usual. The Grit remains one of my favorite restaurants on earth, and there is always time to grab a coffee from Jittery Joes.
However, I will not miss the drivers in Athens. Atlanta drivers can be bad, mostly because Georgia does not think drivers education is important (even if the new driver is from another country), but the drivers in Athens seem to have come to a group decision to make up for their lack of skill with speed and lunacy. Good times.
– Mobile post via a handheld contraption of some sort
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June 3, 2009 at 5:07 pm (Images, Travel)
Here’s a shot of downtown Atlanta interstate traffic at about 1:00 PM this afternoon. Pretty light today.
iTunes is playing This Time Around from the album “Stop All The World Now” by Howie Day
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June 2, 2009 at 3:05 pm (Images, Travel)
Here is a shot from last week. Traffic tends to be lighter during the summer and this shot is proof. Unfortunately it doesn’t capture the chaos that is moments away from any tranquil moment in Atlanta traffic. Someone is certain to cross several lanes of traffic and make some daring manuever any minute now.
– Mobile post via iPhone
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June 2, 2009 at 3:00 pm (Images, Travel)
Marta has art installations in most of the train stations so transit riders have something to look at other than gray walls or each other (there are also mice, but I’m sure they would prefer I not tell you about them). This photo is from the Midtown Station and is one I see almost every day.
– Mobile post via iPhone
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