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World's Largest Pool!!! 2008-05-08 09:25:02 If you like doing laps in the swimming pool, you might want to stock up on the energy drinks before diving in to this one. It is more than 1,000 yards long, covers 20 acres, had a 115ft deep end and holds 66 million gallons of water. Yesterday the Guinness Book of Records named the vast pool beside the sea in Chile as the biggest in the world. But if you fancy splashing out on one of your own - a Read more:World
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A tourist in my own backyard - New Orleans, LA 2008-03-17 17:58:01 On the weekend of March 7th-10th, I, the Travel Beggar and my beautiful girlfriend decided to have a anniversary vacation in my own backyard
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, LA. So often, people think vacations have to be this elaborate organization or adventure that they often overlook the wonderful things in their own city. Of course, living in New Orleans
, LA makes it easier to recognize the blessings that I have Read more:tourist
Travel Beggar's Travel Plans & Wish List for 2008 2008-02-23 18:15:01 Well, it's almost my 32nd birthday, February 25th to be exact, and I haven't made my travel plans or wish list for this year yet. Therefore, I am setting up my Travel
Plans & Wish List now. Now when it comes to my yearly travels, they are divided into several catagories: Work Related Trips (W), Family Trips(F), American Adventures(A), & International Adventures(I).Hawaii (w)Cabo San Lucas,
Travel Beggar's Guidelines to Great Travel 2008-02-10 13:30:06 As I am getting older, I am trying to find new ways to see & experience the world. I am in constant pursuit of new adventures, new experiences, and plenty of friends to who will experience it all with me. Each of my travels or adventures usually contains the following 5 points:1) Adventure Activity/Sport2) Local Food/Spirits3) Nightlife4) Cultural/Educational Experience5) Friends - New & O Read more:Travel
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Welcome to The Travel Beggar's Blog 2008-02-01 09:40:58 Welcome to my one stop spot for Travel
Info On the Internet!This site was created because I love to read about travel, research travel, and actually travel anywhere possible. It's not uncommon to see me, the Travel Beggar, sitting around a bookstore in their travel magazine section, reading and researching my next adventure. Many of my friends and family will often come to me searching for travel Read more:Welcome
Bomb Scare at Armstrong International Airport 2008-05-14 08:00:03 Airport determined safe after Northwest flight searchedby The Times-PicayuneMonday May 12, 2008, 7:55 AMActivity at the ArmstrongInternational
Airport has returned back to normal after an early morning bomb scare that caused passengers to be pulled off a Northwest flight.Airport spokeswoman Michelle Wilcut said the airport received the bomb threat by telephone at 6 a.m.After searching the plane a Read more:Scare
Would You Swim with Thousands of JellyFish? 2008-05-19 14:12:03 Everyday, people embark on a steep hike up and over a rocky limestone path to JellyFish Lake in the Beaufitul Republic of Palau. Apparently this was brought to the limelight when it was featured in the Survivor Palau season. The Palau Visitor's Authority claims that its an attraction most can only dream of doing. This daring and unusual phenomena, Jellyfish Lake, departs radically from convention
What Kind of Traveller are You? 2008-05-20 10:16:02 There is this really cool blog site where they offer quizes and random mutterings called Blogthings. Anyways, I came accross one of their quizes that asked me what my Travel Personality is. Well after taking the quiz my results are:Your Travel Personality Is: The AdventurerFor you, travel is how you learn about the world. And you like to learn the stuff that's not in guidebooks.You truly have wand Read more:Traveller
Travel Pic of the Week 2008-05-22 08:52:27 Although this maybe a bit more crass than I may want to see on the side of the interstate....the Sentiment is often soooooo true! Do you Think that government should ban cell phones while driving? Read more:Travel
Travel for a Great Cause - Friends of Orphans: Nicaragua 2008-05-26 15:31:53 Often people take trips to see new worlds, seek adventure, search for relief from stress, or just to get away. To do this, they often visit countries that are poor, devasted, or suffering. Yet where they "vacation", they avoid that situation either on purpose or most likely without any knowledge at all that those situations even exist.Well to remedy that, I the travel beggar, will do my best to pr Read more:Travel
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Travel Pic of the Week 2008-06-02 16:30:33 Make sure if you ever go visit the Great Wall of China, you go to the bathroom before you go. Otherwise, you better be a very fast runner!! Read more:Travel
A Fat Traveller! 2008-06-05 14:05:51 There is nothing worse than being overweight and out of shape. However, you get used to it and find comfort zones in your own world. This all ends and can humble you when you travel. Sweating in hot locations, sitting uncomfortable in a "small" airplane seat, or struggling to participate in some great outdoor adventure cause you are too fat, is all the challenges of being a FAT TRAVELLER! Unfortu Read more:Traveller
Travel Pic of the Week 2008-06-16 13:29:04 Earlier this year, Michelangelo's famous David Statue took a United States of America Tour for 12 weeks. Perhaps he should have stayed in Europe or even better went down Under to Austrailia. According to the World Health Organization, the following countries are considered the top 10 healthiest: Japan, Australia, France, Sweden, Italy, Spain, Greece, Switzerland, Monaco, & Andorra. The UK bar Read more:Travel
Tiger Petting Zoo?!?!?! 2008-07-05 19:38:17 The Tiger Temple or Wat Pha Luang At Bua is a Theravada Buddhist temple in Thailand and has been a sanctuary for many endangered animals including several tigers that walk around freely once a day and can be petted by tourists. The temple received several tiger cubs where the mothers had been killed by poachers. As of 2007, over 21 cubs have been born at the temple and the total number of tigers Read more:Petting
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