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(Photo © Roger Archibald)
BEST TIPS FOR TRAVELERS? LONELY PLANET, OF COURSE. They've been doing it for ages and they know whereof they speak. Check
out this blog for UK Travel
Editor Tom Hull's suggestions, as well as some great tips from traveler-readers:
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New
vistas await. (Photo © NASA)
(Technology, Entertainment, and Design thinkers here).
Try also www.lifehack.org.
NEED TO LEARN ANOTHER LANGUAGE? IF YOU'RE GOING TO FRANCE, OR IF YOU ARE NOT, AND ARE NOSTALGIC
FOR FRANCE, It's a great site loaded with pictures, links to products, the flavor
of living in France experienced by an American who married a French vintner,
and, of course, a word a day. These "words" are portals to another
country and culture.
360 Travel Guide is a site devoted to interactive travel experiences. Lots of pictures and 360-virtual videos. Share your best travel stories for a chance
to win an iPhone.
Please see: www.360travelguide.com.
Taking the kids? For some great travel ideas,
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Christopher Columbus charts his course for the New World. (Photo © wynnter, from an engraving published 1879, artist
and engraver unknown.)
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There's always space to explore. (Photo
© Airbrush Collection, iStockphoto.com)
KEEP EXPLORING ... If there is life in our solar system, Europa is a good place to look because it has a magnetic field and what appears to be lots of subsurface water and a
rocky mantle. NASA'a Europa Jupiter System Mission will look closely
at Jupiter's four largest moons, of which Europa is the most intriguing. For a video of NASA's search
for life around
For cool pictures and stories of NASA's Guy Laliberté, founder of the famous Cirque du Soleil, recently spent 12 days at the International Space Station. in outer space, was to bring attention to the One Drop Foundation, an organization Laliberté has created which is focused on the crisis of water-related issues around the planet. See his website:
GO AS
HIGH AS YOU CAN
You, too, can take a suborbital spin
with 5 other passengers and 2 pilots if you have
a bundle of money and are very patient.
So far 300 people, including Stephen Hawking, have SPACE
ADVENTURES, the first company to send privateindividuals to the International Space Station (ISS), invites you to dream along with them. Their ultimate adventure into space tourism is a trip to the Moon,
currently
priced at $100 million, and unscheduled.But you can sign up for an orbital mission to the ISS, or a suborbital flight (like those mentioned above). See: www.spaceadventures.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Zero_Gravity_Flights.welcome To get started, try a Zero-Gravity
flight, for about $5,000. They will
take you up just enough to reach zero gravity
at which point you experience life with a freedom you've felt only in dreams. These are scheduled at points around
the country.
To find one near you, see: www.gozerog.com.
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STEPHANIE OCKO is a journalist in Boston.
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You don't always get warnings like these in California. (Photo © Terminator.jpg)
USEFUL WEBSITES: KNOW BEFORE YOU GO
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