Hoping to have an extended visit to Japan in the near future? You may be as pleased as I was when I stumbled upon a site offering 10 Japanese Customs You Must Know Before a Trip to Japan.
A perfect compliment to Tim Ferriss’ Hacking Japan: Inside Tokyo for Less Than New York (part two).
I’ll be double-checking facts with my brother (who lives in Tokyo) and if there are any anomalies will be posting them here. Seems promising though.
Ludovic Hubler is a Frenchman who, in 2003, set off around the world with one goal - to travel all of it by hitchhiking.
This is it ! The circle has finally been closed. 5 years, passed day by day since leaving the Alps, and now here I am back at my point of departure, at the same place I left on January 1st, 2003. When I started out I was 25 years old. Now I’m 30.
This personal account of his experience is a must-read for the intrepid traveller in all of us; a fascinating account complete with philosophical musings and statistics on his journey. He has two words for the world: “never again”… but it’s not what you think!
How to Take a Mini-Retirement: Tips and Tricks from Timothy Ferriss is the first part of a two-part interview between JD Roth (of the excellent personal finance site, Get Rich Slowly) and he of 4HWW fame, Timothy Ferriss.
There’s an apt quote in the interview on something I’m currently struggling with:
The hardest part is deciding. Because until you decide, most people can’t plan. As soon as you say, “I’m going to go on Orbitz [an Internet travel site popular in the US], and I’m going to buy this ticket” — once you make that decision then all of a sudden it’s pulled out of the realm of hopeful thinking and it goes into tactical mode.
I think that first sentence can apply to many areas in your life - not just travel. For me, it relates to work.
I’ve had Tim Ferriss’ post on How to travel the World with 10 Pounds or Less (that’s lbs, not £s) bookmarked for a while now, waiting for a good reason to post it here. One has now arisen.
An NPR story called How to Pack Everything You Own in One Bag has created a slew of articles on travelling light, many of which are really quite useful. However, one shines above all the others with its list of great links…
Lifehacker on, How to Cram All Your Travel Gear in One Bag.
My travel buddies (as I’ve now decided to call them) and I have decided to do a US road trip… probably in 2010. It will be a coast-to-coast affair highly influenced, no doubt, by this great time-lapse and Dave Gorman’s latest adventure. I can’t wait, but common sense says that I/we must.
This morning I’ve been thinking about how to document such a trip - it’s an important consideration, and one not to be taken lightly. MetaFilter saves the day once again, and brings up some ingenious ideas on documenting a road trip.
I’m considering two different approaches:
Obviously I’ll be taking my camera, but should I invest in some of that romantic Polaroid film now that they’re not producing it any more, or should I eventually get ’round to buying that Holga I’ve always wanted? Or should I do nothing, letting my memory of the event gradually fade, yet untainted by the pressures of ‘not wanting to miss anything’?
via Lifehacker