Pinterest Challenge: AZ Love / Nail and String Tribute to the Grand Canyon State So I found Curiously Wrought's work through her Etsy on Pinterest the other day--how cute are these?! Click through the link below to check out my step-by-step tutorial: So although mine isn't PERFECT like hers are, I seriously love how it came out! I chose to go with an orange backdrop keeping the Grand Canyon in mind and how much I love those vibrant, orange sunsets! And then it made it to my wall next to my desk! The finished product: 10 Very Cheap Holidays: Paradise for Pennies Cheap doesn’t have to mean nasty, and in these challenging times budget options are more sought-after than ever. Holidays are no exception, and we are here to show you that you can have an amazing holiday on a shoestring budget! Some options are more obvious, while others will take you beyond the usual holiday ideas and perhaps beyond your comfort zone! Taking a very cheap holiday can require some stretching of the mind as well as the budget, but the reward is a unique and exciting break that you will never forget. Workaway Workaway is an organisation which allows travellers to find property owners abroad who are willing to provide food and lodging in exchange for a few hours help. WWOOFing WWOOF is a network of organisations which aim to provide ‘World Wide Opportunities on Organic Farms’ for travellers wishing to find cheap board and lodging while experiencing various types of organic farming. Housesitting Couch Surfing Island Caretaker House Swap Overbooked Flights Wild Camping Images:
How to plan a round-the-world trip - travel tips and articles Itʼs the ultimate trip: circumnavigating the planet, and stopping off wherever takes your fancy. Great for travellers who want to see it all, or who are just plain indecisive. But booking a round-the-world (RTW) trip can be a complex business. Hereʼs our guide to getting started. How to do it The most economical way to circumnavigate is to buy a round-the-world air ticket that uses one airline alliance. There are rules: you must follow one global direction (east or west – no backtracking); you must start and finish in the same country; and you must book all your flights before departure, though you can change them later (which may incur extra charges). How long you need You could whip round the world in a weekend if you flew non-stop. When to go The weather will never be ideal in all your stops. Pin this image Image by Christian Steen Where to go The classic (and cheapest) RTW tickets flit between a few big cities, for example London – Bangkok – Singapore – Sydney – LA. Tips, tricks & pitfalls
The Top 50 Resources for Getting a Cheap Flight The Top 50 Resources for Getting a Cheap Flight Tuesday, April 1, 2008 at 5:47pm by admin These days, travel is expensive, and costs are rising fast enough to make your head spin. Tools Put these tools to work to stay on top of fare deals, predictions and more. Websites These booking sites, aggregators, and other resources offer a great way to spot deals for the flight you need. Articles Follow the strategies outlined in these articles to get the best deal possible. If you enjoyed this article, please bookmark it at del.icio.us »
Very Definitely Not Dinner & A Movie: 50 Alternative First Date Ideas Dating, oh dating. You are such a strange phenomenon, so amazing & simultaneously horrifying. Who knows where the night will begin or where it could all lead? But here’s the kicker — dinner & a movie is totally played out. You’re interesting, they’re interesting — surely that’s not the best you can come up with! So here, for your romantic pleasure, are a list of 50 unusual, interesting, fun ideas to try! Wake up at 4am & watch the sunrise together Maybe not first date material, but perhaps third or fourth. Have an extravagant brunch at 8am Get dressed up & do breakfast properly. Go to an art gallery on a Saturday afternoon You’ll learn a lot about the person you’re standing next to if you go & check out art together. Bring half an evening One person organises the food, & the other organises a movie, or one person organises tickets to an amusement park, & the other plans a walking tour. Make a fort Enough said! Mix CD trade Are mix CDs antiquated? Playground date Slides are exciting.
35 Most Exotic Destinations For Your Next Vacation We live on a beautiful planet that offers many stunning landscapes, tropical paradises, mist shrouded volcanoes and unbelievable beaches. Raising a toast to the explorer within you, here are a few exotic getaways for you to consider for your next vacation. 1. Bay of Kotor, Montenegro Simply known as Boka, this winding bay will engulf you with its emerald waters and picturesque mountains. 2. Rising out of a cliff between the Red and Dead Sea, the lost city of Petra still has secrets to reveal. 3. These stunningly beautiful terraced rice fields received the name of Dragon’s Backbone because the rice terraces resemble a dragon’s scales while the summit of the mountain range looks like the backbone of the dragon. 4. The enchanting island of Gozo is an integral part of the Maltese archipelago. 5. This submarine sinkhole off the coast of Belize is in every scuba diver’s bucket list. 6. 7. 8. There are no roads to Namje. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27.
8 Most Colorful Cities on Earth — enpundit When an entire city wraps itself in the colors of the rainbow, we are reminded that our personal environments do not need to merely consist of red brick, gray steel and beige stone. Around the globe, there are eight vibrant cities in particular that burst with color and resemble a newly opened box of crayons. Take a look and let us know if there should be any other colorful cities added to the list. Manarola, Italy Guanajuato, Mexico Bryggen, Bergen, Norway Wroclaw, Poland Willemstad, Curacao St. Photo credit (above): Brian Carey Nyhavn, Copenhagen, Denmark La Boca, Buenos Aires
How to Travel Around the World for $418. “I have to tell you sir, this is easily the most ridiculous itinerary I’ve ever put together,” said the American Airlines operator the other night as I finalized plans for a worldwide adventure that would make Marco Polo blush. “Welp, that makes two of us!” I replied. And just like that, I had committed myself to almost nine months of international travel. Yes, that picture above is my actual itinerary. Beginning this January, I’ll start an epic journey that will take me across four continents, through at least nine countries, and into more than fifteen cities. Oh, and all of these flights are costing me a grand total of $418.36. Warning: I’m totally going to geek out on travel-hacking with this post, so if you have no interest in learning how to travel the world and visit awesome places for dirt cheap, check back in on Monday. This post is also quite lengthy at over 2500 words: grab some coffee, get comfortable, and let me show you how deep the rabbit hole of travel hacking goes. -Steve
You Know You Want Sexy Abs! | healthkicker The next month or two of work on Xanga 2.0 is going to be busy, so I wanted to share with everyone a roadmap of how we’re thinking about things! We’re dividing the work on this project into four basic phases. Phase 1. Data migration As described here, we’ve imported over every account that we have on Xanga over to the new system so that anyone who could sign into Xanga can still sign into Xanga 2.0. Finally and most important of all, we’ve imported over 2 million blogs from the old system. * We’ve archived the blogs of the hundreds of thousands of blogs where the user has logged in in the past 5 years and has at least two subscribers. * We did an additional set of archives for 200k users who had logged in the past year and had at least 10 blogs. * We’ve also archived the blogs of every single user that’s ever been premium at any point in the past… And of course, a lot of you guys archived your own blogs using the old Xanga archive generator. Phase 2. Phase 3. Phase 4.