Good evening, Gadling faithful. Didn’t get enough travel-related news on our humble site today? Check out what else is going on around the web…
- Must-read: Cullen Thomas’ essay for World Hum, “A Tourist’s Afghanistan.” Incredible.
- We told you last week about a woman who recently gave birth aboard a Southwest flight. Budget Travel does some research and explains what birthplace goes on the kid’s birth certificate.
- Ed Buryn, a legendary independent traveler and author of Vagabonding in the USA, is interviewed over at Matador.
- The Daily Show rips apart the TSA.
- Over at Vagabondish, Robert Evans offers four priceless rules for better, lighter backpacking: “Living out of a backpack is an art, and as with all art the only way to get better at it is to practice.” So true.
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