Gadling

Hope everyone is enjoying this lovely fall day as much as I am. Now here’s a look at what’s happening on the internets today…

• Vagabondish explains how to avoid boring, cliched travels. Most importantly, ask yourself, “What are your interests, hobbies and past-times?… Wherever your interests lay, focus on what makes you tick and what activities of yours can be applied abroad.”
• Clay Shirky tweets an interesting (really!) fact about Chinese-made Nokia-knockoffs.
• Guilty as charged, The Onion.
• Over at Bootsnall, expat wannabe Jessica Spiegel points out 15 of the best blogs from expatriates.
• The Atlantic‘s James Fallows tells how he survived China, “with lungs only somewhat worse for the wear.”

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Time for your daily dose of Gadlinks, our look at the best of the rest from the travel blogosphere….

• Bootsnall lists the Eight Paintings Every Traveler Should See, including Guernica, American Gothic, and (of course) the Mona Lisa. My humble recommendation: Madrid’s Museo del Prado, where you’ll find Francisco Goya’s dazzling painting The Third of May 1808 and Las Meninas (“The Maids of Honor”) by Diego Velazquez.
• Our friends at Digital City take a look at the best spots in the U.S. to see the leaves change color.
• Why would anyone want to photograph every Sizzler restaurant in the United States? Ask these two.
• “You preach to live humbly, and I totally agree, so now maybe it’s time for you to move out of your house that is a city,” says comedian Sarah Silverman in her proposal to end world hunger by selling the Vatican. [NSFW]
• Say what you will about the ol’ Stars and Stripes– I’ll take this flag any day.

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