Archive for 'Extreme Travel'
Creepy Travel: Dracula’s Castle
The leaves are turning. The nights are getting longer. There’s creepiness in the air. Yes, we’re fast approaching Halloween!
In keeping with this creepiest of seasons, let’s talk about creepy travel. More specifically, a really nasty 15th century Romanian prince, Vlad Tepes, Prince of Wallachia and the real-life inspiration for the baddest of Halloween ghouls, Dracula.
Indeed, [...]
Posted: October 24th, 2011 under Extreme Travel.
Tags: Arges River Valley, Bran Castle, creepy travel, Dracula, Dracula's Castle, Poeinari Castle, Transylvania, Vlad Tepes, Vlad the Impaler
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The Amazing Race Season 19 Starts Tonight!!!
I’m not normally one for sitting at home watching TV when there’s a whole world of things to do (like travelling!!) but tonight is an exception. The nine time Emmy award-winning The Amazing Race returns tonight for what promises to be another season of thrill, chills, dips, highs and lows across this planet we call [...]
Posted: September 25th, 2011 under Extreme Travel, Inspiring, Race.
Tags: amazing television, Emmy Award, Phil Keoghan, terrorism, The Amazing Race, The Amazing Race Season 19
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Ten Things You’ve Just Gotta Do…
What’s on your bucket list? If you’re open to suggestions, the folks at MSN Travel have a few ideas. Some of them might seem familiar…shark diving anyone? Tour of Chernobyl? Note to MSN, you saw it here first. Hee Hee.
Kidding aside, check out MSN Travel’s list of the World’s Most Dangerous Tourist Attractions for some [...]
Posted: September 22nd, 2011 under Extreme Travel, Shark Diving.
Tags: Big Mac, bucket list, Chernobyl Tour, dangerous travel, lists, MSN Travel, Shark Diving, what's on your bucket list, world's most dangerous tourist attractions
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Creepy Travel: Abandoned Amusement Parks Around the World
Disneyland might be the happiest place on Earth, but for these sad and abandoned amusement parks, the echoes of laughter and happy times are long gone. There are more than you might think – in the United States alone there are at least a hundred theme parks since abandoned and left to sit as a [...]
Posted: September 17th, 2011 under Extreme Travel.
Tags: abandoned amusement parks, abandoned theme parks in the United States, Chernobyl, creepy travel, Disneyland, Japan, Koga, Pripyat, Six Flags New Orleans
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Six Surfing Destinations You Don’t Know About
Think of surfing and the obvious names pop up: Hawaii, Jeffery’s Bay and California. And there are plenty of other popular surfing destinations, but sometimes there’s ridiculous surf in other places that don’t register in the collective surfing conscious. As with any form of adventure travel, in the surfing world it pays to get off [...]
Posted: August 24th, 2011 under Extreme Travel, Surfing.
Tags: adventure travel, california, gadling.com, get off the beaten track, Hawaii, Jeffery's Bay, secret surfing spots, surfing destinations
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Chase Tornadoes On You Next Vacation!
Now this looks freakin’ cool. Some people do the beach gig for their vacation. Others do the cabin by the lake routine. Kudos to both. But personally, I like doing things that normally make people look twice and ask if I’ve lost my marbles. Of course I have…and that’s why I want to chase tornadoes [...]
Posted: July 18th, 2011 under Extreme Travel.
Tags: cool vacation ideas, I don't think we're in Kansas anymore, Kansas, Malaspina Strait, Oklahoma, storm chasing, Strait of Georgia, Tempest Tours, tornado, tornado at Nanaimo, tornado central, tornado in BC, tornado near Nanaimo, Toto, twister, waterspout, waterspout on Malaspina Strait
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Eat Radioactivity for Breakfast, Tour Chernobyl (Really)
Hey guys, how’d you like your isotope sandwich? Um, I’d like mine easy on the cesium please. Golly I’m such a kidder.
Seriously though, this is definitely a twist on adventure travel, and a far cry from sitting on the beach drinking pina coladas. Twenty-five years ago this month, the worst nuclear disaster occurred, at Chernobyl, [...]
Posted: April 5th, 2011 under Extreme Travel.
Tags: Chernobyl, creepy travel, Nuclear Meltdown, Pripyat, Tour Chernobyl
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Top Ten Backpacking Destinations For 2011
The promise of another year and the opportunities to do awesome things. Like backpacking, the best way to see the world and meet the people that call it home. Forget hotels with concierge service and heated pools. Grab your backpack, your money belt and an open mind. Then check out Off Track Planet’s Top 10 [...]
Posted: February 13th, 2011 under Backpacking, Extreme Travel.
Tags: adventure travel, lists, Off Track Planet
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Five Cool Things to Do in Dangerous Places, Part Two
As promised, five cool things to do in dangerous places, part two, courtesy of those crazy, highly disturbed, certifiable, and the best part, like-minded, people at Off Track Planet. Old man 2010 is on his death bed, and with this comes the promise of a new, exciting year to attain scars, infections, probably [...]
Posted: December 18th, 2010 under Backpacking, Extreme Travel.
Tags: advenure travel, dangerous travel, kite, lists, Off Track Planet, Pakistan
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Five Cool Things to Do in Dangerous Places
Old man 2010 is nearing the end of his lifespan, and with that comes the promise of a new year. Granted we still have a month called December to get through first. I don’t know about you, but I need a vacation already. Here are some ideas: Five Fun Things to Do in Dangerous Places [...]
Posted: November 27th, 2010 under Backpacking, Extreme Travel, Skydiving.
Tags: adventure travel, dangerous travel, fun, Iraq, lists, Off Track Planet
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