Earthquakes, Gamblers, Pirates and Oysters: Around the World in 60 Days
It all started with an excuse. I "needed" to visit a conference of marginal utility (but serious potential for fun) in Puerto Rico, which would be located 11913 miles away from Singapore if there was a non-stop flight, which there of course isn't.
As soon as I'd convinced myself that a round-the-world ticket would be the best way to accomplish this, the mathematical perfection of this Great Circle curve started to acquire fractal cruft: stops in Japan, the Grand Canyon and Las Vegas on the way there, a visit over to the Bahamas since it's almost right next door anyway, a detour to Canada, and to France, Finland and Spain on my way back to Singapore. The full route, courtesy of GC2:
SIN-BKK-KMQ-NTQ-TYO-SFO-PHX-LAS-SJU-CLT-NAS-YYZ-YOW-YMQ-CDG-ARN-HEL-BCN-MUC-BKK-SIN
This time, I'm going to try a strange hybrid format: the stories of me poking around strange places doing strange things will be posted on Wikitravel Extra, while the stories of me sitting around in airports or on airplanes commenting on trivia of hardware and service will be posted on Flyertalk. Both will be indexed together. Any comments on the workability or lack thereof for this welcome!
Index
- Bangkok
- Fukuoka
- Kanazawa
- Noto Peninsula (Wakura)
- Tokyo
- Phoenix to Las Vegas, the long way
- San Juan, Arecibo, Ponce, San German, Guanica
- Charlotte (in transit)
- Nassau, Paradise Island, Exumas
- Toronto
- Ottawa to Montreal
- Saint-Malo, Mont Saint Michel, Lille
- Helsinki
- Barcelona
- Bangkok, part 2
Start reading here: Bangkok
admin
I like the format
I like the way your organizing this trip -- do you think some of what you're doing (ie "next flight / destination") could be generalized and 'built in' for everyone to use?
I'm thinking a new content-type, "trip", where you fill in the basic description and list of destinations, then related other nodes (ie blog posts, photos, etc) to the trip, either with tags or something fancier.
Thoughts?
Admin Maj
admin
RSS
I also noticed that Flyer Talk has an RSS feed (ie http://www.flyertalk.com/forum/external.php?type=RSS2&forumids=177). Maybe we should figure out and easy way to syndicate stuff between the sites?
Admin Maj
jani
Ordered group
I could definitely see value for doing an "ordered group" kinda thing, where you can scroll forwards and backwards. Easiest way would be to let the user define a unique tag, then generate automatic forward/backward links to the next/previous entry with that tag in chronologically. Chronological order can, I presume, be easily determined from the node number because blogs/tags are already listed newest-first.
admin
Doable
Yeah, it's certainly do-able... it's mostly a matter of 'do we want it' and how to make the UI clear without ending up with a huge list of alternate next/last links (next by tag, next by author, next by date, etc).
I'll play around with the concept on the dev site and let you know when I have something worth looking at.
Thanks.
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