Our Favorite Trips Posts of 2010

Mexico ocean

Photo: Mathieu Young

Editor Hal Amen as well as novice Sarah Park revisit their a a single preferred calm of a year.

2010 WAS A MONSTER YEAR for Trips as well as a Matador tribe. Heres a little of a calm which did it for us, in no sold order:

Hals Faves

* Travel Guide to Hvar Island, Croatia
Chelsea Rudman put this tiny Croatian island upon my map. Theres no pretension of expertise here; she got bending up with Hvar by a Couchsurfing host, as well as right away shes hooking it up for a rest of us. And we wanna go.

I additionally unequivocally enjoyed a format we came up with for this a single first-person account interspersed with sidebar-esque travel tips applicable to what shes relating. It works, as well as Im going to pull for some-more during Trips 2011.

* 94 Days of Summer: What to Do in San Diego
The title says it all. Sarahs a San Diego native, as well as it shows. The square has a perfect brew of general-interest info, personal knowledge, as well as profanity.

Peggy's Cove lighthouse

Photo: epicxero

* Photo Essay: Portraits of Light from Mexicos Happy Coast
We tell a lot of photo essays during Trips, as well as we could easily have padded this list with them. But Mathieu Youngs captures from small-town coastal Mexico stranded in my mind some-more than all a others.

Check out a way he uses light, a way he snags moments. Aspiring travel photographers, heres a textbook.

* 3 Road Trips out of Halifax, Nova Scotia
This ones a cinch. we adore Carlo, we adore his writing, as well as we adore Nova Scotia. Ive biked dual of a three. Now we want to go back as well as do them all by car.

* Walking in to Ladonia
Dark horse pick? Maybe. we cant brand what touches me about this piece. Lad! onia see ms magical, a fairy tale. Its not so much which we want to go there right away some-more which its changed my conceptions of nation as well as place.

* How to Travel to Antarctica
How gauche to include my own content, we know. But this square was damn fun to investigate as well as has desirous a semi-serious desire to apply to NSF for a sponsored visit subsequent season. Well see.

Sarahs Faves

* Creativity Found: Hicksville Trailer Palace
JoAnna Haugens outing to Hicksville makes me want to reveal a weed chair, brew up a little Tang, as well as lay out upon a weed subsequent to my cosmetic flamingo. Exploring this bizarrely erotically appealing place by this square has desirous me to start a band we play a tambourine just to have a good excuse to rent their recording studio.

* Paris by Rollerblade
What can we say? Im a fool for Paris even some-more so when Im being taken by a city by a really unsteady Matt Scott upon wheels. This square was an journey in itself.

* Photo Essay: eighteen Natural Wonders of a USA
I cant compose a list of favorites but including during slightest a single of Hal Amens infamous photo essays. There have been multiform to select from, but this a single reminded me which we dont need to leave a country to see a little critical eye-candy.

Hubbard Glacier, Alaska /><p>Photo: <a target=Alan Vernon.

* 99 Ways to Use a Web to Travel Like a Ninja
One-stop selling here: this is probably a many useful square Ive ever seen upon Trips. we immediately bookmarked it, as well as know Ill be referring back to it often if nothing else but to admire which rad laser-eyed ninja during a tip of a page.

* Is Juneau, AK, Really Just a Little Drinking Town with a Fishing Problem?
Alaska has regularly been tall upon my list to check out. Matador co-founder Ross Bordens outing to Juneau has me meditative which! a touri st-less wintertime just competence be a best time to visit.

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What was YOUR a a single preferred calm of a year? If we dont tell us, we cant have sure we get some-more of it. Feliz 2011!


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