by Beth Whitman - Wanderluster (January 17th, 2012)
I’m oddly obsessed about the condition of Canadian freestyle skier, Sarah Burke. Sarah crashed during a superpipe training run in Park City, Utah, last week. She fell after landing and hit her head. She has been in a medically induced coma ever since. Prior to last Wednesday, I had never heard of Sarah Burke. Upon [...]
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by Beth Whitman - Wanderluster (January 12th, 2012)
I’ve recently found myself reading a couple of travel memoirs written in the 80′s and early 90′s. I didn’t set out to purposely read these because they are older titles, I just came upon them and was drawn in. The first was In Papua New Guinea, by Christina Dodd. This is the story of a [...]
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by Beth Whitman - Wanderluster (November 21st, 2011)
According to AAA, about 42.5 million Americans will be traveling by air or road this Thanksgiving. Attributing it to a recovering economy (seriously?), this is a 4 percent rise over last year. If you’re flying for the holiday, woe is you. But alas, sometimes the family just can’t live without you and you’ve got no [...]
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