January 2010

Probably out of Internet Contact for a While

January 14, 2010

We could be totally wrong, but there’s a good chance that we won’t have much internet time over the next 4 weeks (Jan 14 – Feb 14). We’ll be traveling through New Zealand, where we’re planning on camping as much as possible and don’t expect many wireless campsites. From there we’ll be heading to Tasmania to […]

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20,000 Miles

January 14, 2010

Today, as we fly from South Korea to New Zealand, we pass our 20,000th mile. Back on October 11 we passed 10,000 miles and estimated that we would pass 20,000 “somewhere around Japan in January” – which is exactly where we are (at the time we thought we’d be visiting Japan – unfortunately we had […]

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Card Game: Min Hwa-tu

January 13, 2010

We weren’t in Seoul for long before Anjel’s family started teaching us how to play the traditional Korean card game of Min Hwa-Tu. I’d seen the deck of small cards before, Anjel and I even had one around the house, but we had never played – until now. I am  hooked on it and Anjel’s […]

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Fortune Cookie Game: For Once

January 13, 2010

This has nothing to do with travel, and we’re not in China, so I can’t pretend it was inspired by that. It was something that I was reminded of this evening, and it’s a meme that I try to pass along whenever I can. So I’m going to take this opportunity to do so.

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Little Help Here: Melbourne, Australia

January 12, 2010

Anyone have any friends or family in Melbourne, Australia? We will arrive in Melbourne from New Zealand around 8 in the morning on Wednesday, January 27th. We leave the next morning on a ferry for Tasmania around 9 am. We’re (probably) capable of getting ourselves to and from whatever lodgings there might be, and we can […]

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Mongol Money and Multiple Writing Systems

January 11, 2010

The Mongolian currency is the Togrog. The exchange rate is roughly 1470 Togrog to 1 US Dollar. Throughout most of Europe, thanks to the prevalence of €2 coins, it’s pretty easy to have a pocket full of change that adds up to more than $30. As an American, where a pocket full of change is […]

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Lyons Classic Pinball Arcade

January 9, 2010

While not nearly as cool as the Museum of Soviet Arcade Games, Lyons’ is a small pinball arcade, tucked off a small road near Estes Park, Colorado.

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The Museum of Soviet Arcade Games

January 5, 2010

Back in 2007 I read an article on BoingBoing about a small “museum” of Soviet-era Video Games that had been opened by a couple of students in the basement of a small technical university about 30 minutes outside the center of Moscow. The article was accompanied by awesome pictures of hulking consoles that looked like […]

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A Dangerous Statistics Project

January 5, 2010

I love information design. I spend a lot of time sorting our photos on Flickr into various categories and sub-categories, creating Google Maps of routes we’ve ridden and cities we’ve visited, and religiously tracking information like where we stay each night and how many miles we travel per day. When we made the decision to […]

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Flickr Set: Public Transportation Tickets

January 5, 2010

We’ve been collecting tickets from the various Subways, Metros, Trams and Buses we’ve been traveling on our trip. It’s been interesting that most of the larger cities (Paris especially) have some of the least interesting and most disposable looking public transportation tickets while the small places (Tallinn, Ulan Bataar) seem to put as much design […]

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