A Wish List Fit For a Traveler
We can't promise there will be no ugly animal slippers and odd-colored
sweaters in your stockings this year, but we will try to help clueless
family members and friends with this list of traveler-friendly gifts.
Print, cut, and leave in a conspicuous place where relatives and
friends can find.
Solio, a Solar-Powered Charger ($99 USD)
Forget about lugging individual chargers for all your travel gadgets,
simply pack a Solio. Made of recycled materials and three waterproof
solar panels, Solio stores energy in its lithium-ion battery and
charges digital cameras, Ipods, or cell phones as quickly as a
regular charger. Solio is about the size of a regular cell phone
when closed and comes with an electrical wall charger for cloudy
days.
Southwest Gift Card ($10 USD and up)
Southwest Airlines will have a gift card on its website starting
Nov. 1, 2005. Cards can be purchased in any amount starting at
$10, they don't have an expiration date and can be redeemed at
any Southwest Airlines location, such as southwest.com, a Southwest
airport ticket counter, or by calling its toll-free Reservations
line.To learn more about the southwestgiftcard, click here.
Lomo Cameras
Lomography’s been around for a long time but their pocket-size
cameras just keep getting cooler. Here are two we’ve noticed
recently:
Lomo Fisheye ($55 USD)
This 35mm camera has a built-in
fisheye lens that gives you a 170-degree
view making every picture cool all-around.
Frogeye ($75 USD)
Although you won't be able to take this one on diving trips, the
Lomo Frogeye is a fun camera to take to the beach. Lomo Frogeye
lets you stop worrying about ruining your digital camera with salt
water. The camera is in a waterproof casing that can go down to
12 feet or four meters underwater, it as a built-in flash and light
meter.
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Travel Reads
Travel Writing
Humor anthologies have been popular these past couple of years
and if you need some more, here are two new titles to consider:
“By
The Seat of My Pants” is published by Lonely Planet
and edited by Don George, their global travel editor. The book starts
off with a great story about a man who shows up in Prague for a magazine
assignment hoping to venture in the city before the concert he needs
to cover that evening. When his driver meets him at the airport and
shows him an Uzi hidden under his car seat, Danny Wallace realizes
that this won’t be a regular “tourist day” in Prague.
“The
Thong Also Rises,” published by Travelers Tales
and edited by Jennifer Leo of www.writtenroad.com.
Published and previously unpublished women authors share embarrassing
and very-funny-once-home
travel stories any woman could relate to in this third installment
of the “Panties” series.
Guidebooks
“ATLANTAboy: An Insider’s Guide to Gay Atlanta” is written
by Jordan McAuley and Matt Burkhalter, both born and raised in the
city. This unpretentious guidebook is the first gay book dedicated
to the city of Atlanta. While it includes the usual information on
where to eat and where to sleep, McAuley and Burkhalter give readers
insider’s tips and cool trivia throughout the book. For more
information and to check out parts of the book, check it out here.
“San
Francisco: The Unknown City” written by yours truly
(Helene Goupil and Josh Krist) is out this month. We won’t be
writing our own review, don’t worry, we just wanted to invite
you to our launch party on November 17, 2005 at Bambuddha Lounge.
Check out details here.
Send
us the vaguest outline of any newsworthy tidbit you've heard or the link
to a story (we'll include your name if we use it), to: editor@insideoutmag.com
You
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InsideOut
Travel
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