Solar Impulse: Win a trip to Abu Dhabi
In hopes to bring more attention to their cause, Solar Impulse is giving away a trip to Abu Dhabi for 2 to one lucky winner to witness its landing in their host city. According to their website: All you need to do to have a chance of being the lucky winner is to enter your email address here. If you already have an account on solarimpulse.com or futureisclean.org, no need, you will automatically be eligible. The winner will be...
Weekly Recap
Here’s a weekly recap of our posts in case you missed them. Remember to follow us on twitter or facebook to get the latest updates, as well as entering for our Giveaway here. Sunday 3rd Touring Cairo with a Local Monday 4th Calgary Stampede Tuesday 5th Swag Giveaway ...
Guess who’s going to the Olympics?!
Well, WE are! In a very interesting plot twist, a friend of mine managed to get us Opening Ceremony tickets (obrigado, gato!) and we have decided to attend, which means we had to cancel our plans (and tickets!) for our trip to Helsinki, Tallinn and Saint Petersburg. As this is a last minute change of plans, we had to do our best to secure flights down to Rio, which as you can imagine is not easy given that this is an extremely popular...
Insane 787 Acrobatics
We all know how awesome the Boeing 787 Dreamliner is. But did you know it could do these crazy tricks? In a video released by Boeing on their social media accounts we can see what their pilots are practicing for the 2016 Farnborough Airshow. Some of the moves, in particular the touch and go are apparently not allowed on the show anymore, as it was banned by British aviation authority. So this video is our only opportunity to see them:...
Zen, interrupted
We don’t get a lot of opportunities to wind down and relax as often as we should, what with both of us having a full time job on the side and having the arduous job of traveling the world. So when we do, and I finally go to my happy place and find my inner peace/Zen or whatever you want to call it, you do NOT want to abruptly yank me out of there. Jon can probably attest to the fact I am not a very nice person when that happens and I...
The Wonderful World of Bidets
One of the many things I have come to miss dearly since moving to the US is what seems to be one of the most hated and unappreciated things in this country. Having grown up overseas, literally all of the houses I lived in had one in every bathroom. I’ve grown absolutely accustomed and very fond of them throughout the years and I have not been able to cope with the lack of them wherever we live on this side of the world. One of the...
Review: Hilton Luxor Hotel
Luxor is just a quick one-hour flight down the Nile from Cairo, but it couldn’t be more different. It’s not nearly as populated, not nearly as crowded, and the ruins are completely different from those in Cairo and Giza. African Adventure: Overview and Booking Alaska’s New Look, New First Class Menu Options Emirates A380 First Class Dulles to Dubai Sheraton Grand Hotel Dubai and Holiday Inn Al Barsha Afternoon Tea, Burj Khalifa...
Route 66 goes Green
Since its creation in 1926, this popular route has definitely seen better days, but after 90 years it will see some great improvements courtesy of Science and Technology. Route 66 is one of the earliest official federal highways, and although it cannot be driven uninterrupted from end to end (Chicago to Los Angeles) it is about to go down in history as the first highway to go green. And we don’t mean the color, that would...
Calgary Stampede – Yee Haw!
Alberta. Canada’s Texas. Literally. Cowboys, big hair, rodeos, farming, and oil. And every July (usually the first two weeks of the year) they hold the Calgary Stampede, a collection of all of these things rolled into one. I first learned about the Stampede when I moved to the west coast and was talking to a coworker about things to do over the fourth of July weekend that didn’t involve staying in Seattle. He suggested that I do...
Airbus Fly Your Ideas
Aircraft manufacturer Airbus announces the latest edition of their initiative, which opened its registration deadline for 2017. In partnership with Airbus, UNESCO has announced they will once again sponsor their 5th Fly Your Ideas program to “inspire young people about innovation for sustainability and about engineering” in a worldwide competition which challenges students to further innovation in the field of aviation....
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