What is the best laptop for travel? Hint: it’s under $500 and it comes with a tablet.

By Paul | Jan 10, 2013
Posted in: Best Of, Money, Travel Tech |

**This post is out-of-date! Click to The Best Travel Laptop, Tablet, and Convertible, Holiday 2013 Edition.** One of the most-read posts on our site is about laptops. Travel laptops, specifically, and which one to buy. It’s about a year old, so here’s an update. Keep reading to see the top five travel laptops, 2013 edition. Criteria: Cost and Size The two big criteria for me are simple: cost and size. I […]

Like Taughannock Falls, our travel plans feel like they're on ice.

Our Top 5 Posts of 2012

By Paul | Jan 8, 2013
Posted in: Travel |

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It’s not 2012 anymore. Dammit. That was a good year, wasn’t it? Here are our 5 most popular posts from last year: Travel Laptop Recommendations. Thank you, Google. Some readers even bought one. I’ll have to revisit this again now that CES is happening. Decaying Detroit Photos. I have no idea why I love this town so much. It’s another world. The Third World. About Us. Not everybody that reads […]

How to travel … forever.

By Paul | Jan 3, 2013
Posted in: Travel Itch |

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We want to keep traveling, that’s no secret. We’re not itching to return to commutes and commitments. We want to see more of the world, man. There’s so much more to see! So, how to do it? We don’t really know … yet. But we think we should have a home base, an axis to pivot around, something more than a storage closet. And that makes things complicated. When you […]

The 6 things that are keeping me inspired right now

By Lisa | Jan 1, 2013
Posted in: Adventure How To |

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It’s hard to stay inspired. I’m working on a book about our trip (it’s going to be more of a how-to guide and less of a memoir) but I promised myself I wouldn’t give in to the old cliche and complain about how hard it is to write. So that’s why I’m saying that it’s hard to stay inspired. When working out of your own head, it’s such a challenge […]

Q1 2013 Travel Plans

By Paul | Dec 27, 2012
Posted in: Adventure Prep, Schedule |

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Enough moaning, time to start planning. Here are the places in the running for a Q1 Driving Inertia visit: New York (Manhattan and Brooklyn). We’ve never been to Brooklyn minus passing through it on the way to Manhattan. 2013 is our year. This one has to happen in January before our Chicago buddies head back to Chicago. Florida. We want to get back to the St. Joseph peninsula, get some self-serve […]

Merry Christmas!

By Paul and Lisa | Dec 25, 2012
Posted in: Travel |

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Wow, what a year. Thanks for joining us! We hope your holiday travel plans go as smooth as the white sands of New Mexico.

End of Year Wanderlust

By Paul | Dec 21, 2012
Posted in: Travel Itch |

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Last week we were circling the Midwest. A couple weeks before that, we traveled for Thanksgiving. Before that, we were adapting to stationary life in our new home base, Trumansburg. Which is a long way of saying I’ve got the itch, the travel itch. I could really go for some Barcelona art. Hell, I’d even be up for some Canadian red wine. I want my undies to stink like ass […]

Paul’s favorite place(s)

By Paul | Dec 18, 2012
Posted in: Travel, Travel Itch |

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Lisa posted her favorite places list weeks ago. Here are mine: Quiet places It was on our first day in Death Valley that Lisa noticed it. We’d left Tecopa and were driving in via Highway 178. We got out of our car to scramble around and Lisa stopped me. “Do you hear that?” she asked. There were no planes overhead, no cars on the road, no rustling leaves, no voices […]

2,500 Miles for Christmas

By Paul | Dec 14, 2012
Posted in: Drives |

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Well, we just got back from an early Christmas visit in Wisconsin. Took us 2,500 miles! I can’t believe it. Of course, there were some sidetracks and loop-dee-loops. First we drove to Lake Geneva, then Indianapolis, then La Crosse, then back to Trumansburg. When’s Google going to start selling those self-driving cars? We’ll be first in line. Read more about Ben Madeka’s art here and here.

Lucifer Falls tries to steal our souls!

By Lisa | Dec 6, 2012
Posted in: Hikes, Ithaca, New York |

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“Why don’t you climb up on that ledge to take a photo,” Paul said. “That way you’ll cut out all that stuff in the foreground.” I mumbled a response about how I kind of liked the stuff in the foreground, but what I was thinking was, “Nice try, Lucifer. I’m not going to make it that easy for you.” Lucifer had already made me dizzy, the way he popped out […]