November 2011
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AZILENIRE: Occupy this holiday season: supporting... →
azilenire:
The Occupy Movement, although agreeably sometimes vague in its literal demands, has successfully demanded, and succeeded in receiving, one important and potentially pivotal thing: attention. People are paying attention, no matter their knowledge or care for finance; no matter their respective…
August 2011
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March 2011
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We are throwing a pretty big, you know, if we may say so ourselves, and pretty awesome, and we’re gonna go ahead and say that ourselves, SXSW party dubbed SXS1st. Check out the Facebook event page, RSVP, and tell your friends. The Anti Tourist will be giving away gift-filled eco-friendly cotton drawstring backpacks to the first Facebook fans of The Anti Tourist who claim them. Come to our...
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December 2010
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I have to post the rest of my 2010 songs from...
November 2010
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Wandering in Komissar Wallander's footsteps
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There is a little town called Ystad in the very south of Sweden right on the Baltic sea. It is best known for its most prominent (and fictitious) police officer, Kurt Wallander. He is the agent in Henning Mankells crime stories that are all placed in Ystad or somewhere around here.
A lot of hotel rooms and vacation homes are equipped with maps and...
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San Jose from ON HIGH
(Not while high, unfortunately.)
Ah, Latin American cities: what’s not to love? Wide boulevards, awe-inspiring palaces, gorgeous old-world-new-world architecture…packs of stray dogs, beggars, choking smog, bewildering transportation options… San José is better than most, but it can be difficult to maintain perspective while tired and footsore, your head all a-whirl from the noise and ...
October 2010
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September 2010
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Ever wanted to go to a Fish Fry on a Caribbean island? We hunted down the place where the locals go in Grenada on a recent trip and found a few things out—namely, that the Fish Fry in Grenada has some of the best fish we’ve ever had. Read more about it from the mouth of Ben Britz here.
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9.22.10 West Virginia, Driving as far as we can
The two hard-workin’ folks who bring you The Anti Tourist, Ben Britz and myself, are driving RIGHT NOW. We’re driving and hoping to get to Austin this weekend. We’re moving there. We’re experimenting with LIVE blogging. And I just wrote a blog on Facebook! I did it while… LIVE! LIVE from the 1996 Honda Accord with 268,000 miles on it! Keep up with our Facebook page for continued entries from this...
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Click this link to win some awesome stuff →
elizabethseward:
The travel site I run, www.theantitourist.com, has launched a new ‘care package’ contest. The first of every month, we will launch a short contest and the prize will be a box/bag of stuff I have personally collected through my travels. Little treasures and things. This month’s contest is up and running until noon tomorrow. To enter, all you have to do is comment on the link...
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August 2010
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The Wilderness Downtown →
joelaz:
Enter a street address to create a personalized music video for Arcade Fire’s We Used To Wait featuring satellite and street view imagery from Google Maps. This is insanely creative.
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Enter our travel photo contest! →
It’s easy. Go to our facebook page (linked above). Upload your favorite travel photo(s). Get your friends to ‘like’ them. The photo with the most likes on Friday wins. What you’ll get: the photo published on theantitourist.com and a lil somethin’ in the mail from TAT. Go!
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In case you didn’t click on the ‘good news for people who like free things’ link, here’s what it’s all about. LIKE this post if you’re into the idea. That’s our little way of taking a poll.
We’re going to start collecting gifts from our travels each month, packing them up in a big ol’ care package, and shipping them off to one lucky ducky...
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Good news for people who like free things from... →
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Goats vs. notes
We took a trip to Columbus, OH to experience the city’s culinary scene. A weekend of gastronomic delights awaits us. We already ate some incredible hor’s d’ouevres at Latitude 41, a creative farm-to-table restaurant in Marriott’s Renaissance Hotel in Columbus. Chef Dave MacLennan described the local origins of the bacon, the tomatoes grown down the road apiece and the eggs...
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