Monthly Archives: October 2007

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Day Three Ireland Roadtrip: MalinBeg Hostel

For day three I’m going to be staying at the

MalinBeg Hostel which is on this windy deserted road over by the Slieve League cliffs [supposedly the highest cliffs in western Europe] in Donegal. MalinBeg I think is going to be this trip’s random stop, mostly because it’s far away from pretty much any [...]

Day Two Ireland Roadtrip: Errigal Hostel, County Donegal

For the second night, my dad and I are going to be staying at the Errigal Hostel, which is one of the hostels I’m most looking forward to. It sits right under probably one of the most famous mountains in Ireland, Mount Errigal. It’s in a nice rural area far away from basically [...]

Great Gifts! Transit Maps of the World!

I have a personal love for travel books and maps, especially National Park maps and outdated travel guides- so this great gift is a combo of both!

Here’s the description:
Transit Maps of the World is the first and only comprehensive collection of historic and current maps of every rapid-transit system on earth. Using glorious, colorful [...]

Day One Ireland Roadtrip: Slane Farm Hostel; Slane, Ireland

The first day of our great Ireland Road Trip is basically going to consist of recovering from our massive flights [I'm coming direct from Los Angeles to Dublin] so instead of my original plan of driving from Dublin > Donegal, it’s going to be a bit lighter. I found [on one of my new [...]

Don’t Get Detained!;

Interested in what the government knows about you when you travel? Most people have a nice long set of papers just waiting to mess up their great travel plans! UnSecureFlight.com provides the paperwork so that you can now request a copy of your dossier to read up on last weeks whereabouts, meals, dog [...]

The Diana Camera is Back!;

Folks, for you film shooters still out there you should be really happy- the Diana Camera is back [I still have my original one]. It’s being produced by some company called Unica and I can virtually guarantee they are going to make a killing on it. I mean, it is a crappy plastic [...]