The picture for this month’s wallpaper is from Oaxaca Mexico

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Rounding out a week’s worth of pictures of doors is this door from Toledo, the former capital of Spain. I found this on one of the back streets by just trying to get lost wandering around the twisty little back streets of that city. I like the contrast between the armored right side of the [...]

I just got this letter today from Rick:
in your last episode of This Week in Travel you spoke about MiFi (verizon) and WiMax (clear.com) and others.
For me, MiFi is too slow, and wimax does not have good coverage in my areas. And specially the data plans are a deal breaker for me.
So, for the above [...]

What’s wrong with this picture? This is the front door to a restaurant in Santorini. But where is the restaurant? Because the towns on Santorini are often built on cliffs this door leads to stairs down to the restaurant.This is a surprisingly common sight on the island as the picture below will attest to.

I had a chance to fly the famously cheap European discount airline EasyJet last month. I have a little better idea why so many people have a love / hate relationship with this budget airline.
6 reasons to love EasyJet

Good fares – Let’s face it, EasyJet has good fares. Even when you factor in [...]

Speaking of buildings that have seen better days, this one from my trip to Oaxaca caught my eye. This door has become a patchwork as they have endeavored at least 3 times to fix holes. It is certainly an imperfect door, but imperfection is interesting visually.

Sofie met us in the lobby of our hotel somewhat out of breath from traffic in Prague snarled by a fresh snow storm. Sofie was there to give us  guided tour of Prague. Our tour was provided by OurExplorer.com as a way to try out their services. What OurExplorer does is connect travelers like us [...]

Two things draw me to photos like this one. The first is the color. Ansel Adams I am not. I love vibrant color. The second is the odd asymmetry of this picture. Symmetry can certainly be beautiful, but as Mona Lisa taught us, asymmetry is intriguing.

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This Week’s Guest: Marylin Terrell @Marilyn_Res the Chief Researcher for National Geographic Traveler magazine and Intelligent Travel Blog.

Topics Discussed:

Haiti dominated the news so much, it’s hard to think of anything else.
Here’s an interesting angle, the story about the cruise line that continued its plan to dock in Haiti with vacationers. Pros [...]

Continuing my series of photos of doors that I have collected is this odd pyramid shaped door from Oaxaca. I am particularly drawn to buildings like this that have seen better days. They seem to tell a story. My suspicion is that this building has this pyramid theme because it was built by the Freemasons [...]