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How to end “table-butting” for good

  By Robert Reid | May 13, 2013 - 6:01 am | Articles, RO-Underdogs, Travel Tips, Uncategorized
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A VIRTUAL PANEL to discuss people who take cafe tables before ordering Adults can be such children. If you don’t believe me, watch them. Go to a cafe in a busy city like New York — the Starbucks at the northwest corner of … Read on →

Tagged anarchists, Table-butting

Why you should kick the “bucketlist”

  By Robert Reid | April 15, 2013 - 6:31 am | Articles, RO-Travel, Travel Tips, Uncategorized
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It’s never been a great idea to plan any aspect of your life around a buzzword popularized by a terrible movie. And Bucket List, starring Jack Nicholson and Morgan Freeman as selfish dying strangers who run off in their final days to tackle a … Read on →

Tagged bucket list, Montreal, Planning, San Francisco, Vietnam

Is it “Spring Break” or “break in spring”?

  By Robert Reid | March 12, 2013 - 10:18 am | Articles, Texas, Travel Tips, Uncategorized, USA, Video
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Spring Break turns 53 this year, well sort of. A few years ago, while wondering if Spring Break is “travel” or not for an episode of the “76-Second Travel Show,” I tracked down Barbara Keith, one of the many college-age girls who went … Read on →

Tagged spring break

Chekhov Was Here

  By Robert Reid | November 12, 2009 - 9:06 am | Articles, Places, RO-Writing, Russia, Uncategorized
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Ah, the “following the footsteps of” article. I’m guilty. Last year, while updating Lonely Planet’s Trans-Siberian Railway, I retraced parts of the most punk-rock trips of all time (and wrote about it for World Hum): Anton Chekhov’s trip across Russia in 1890 to … Read on →

Tagged Blogsherpa, Chekhov, Russia, World Hum

Novy Urgal: Boredom in a BAM Town

  By Robert Reid | July 11, 2008 - 3:16 am | Articles, Europe, Places, RO-Travel, Russia, Uncategorized
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Novy Urgal, the lead town from the eastern stretches of the BAM railway, is clearly not a place most, or any, travellers will come to. The train station has no guesthouse, and a tragic toilet for those needing it. The hotel is under … Read on →

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