Didn’t get enough travel-related news and views on Gadling today? Check out what’s happening in the rest of the travel blogosphere right now…
- Where there is no enforcement, there is no law. [via Chris Blattman]
- Ever wondered what English sounds like to people who can’t understand it? Check this out.
- Over at World Hum, Rob Verger ruminates on the meaning of the new George Clooney vehicle Up in the Air, a film, Verger writes, about “the connections we make, and test, and lose as we move around.”
- Leif Pettersen has a nice review of Chuck Thompson’s newest book To Hellholes and Back: Bribes, Lies, and the Art of Extreme Tourism.
- Jonah Lehrer offers yet another perspective on “why we travel.” He writes:
We don’t spend ten hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the view from the top of Machu Picchu probably doesn’t make up for the hassle of lostluggage. (More often than not, I need a vacation after my vacation.) We travel because we need to, because distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has been changed, and that changes everything.
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