Adventures in Travel
Mar. 29th, 2008 10:54 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fauxkloreThe Adventures in Travel Show was (well, is) at the Washington Convention Center this weekend. As usual, the vast majority of the exhibitors were not really involved in what I'd consider adventure travel. There were way too many booths from, say, counties in nearby states and resorts in the Caribbean and so on. There were, however, enough things of interest that I picked up a heavy load of brochures. Had I actually been smart, I'd have remembered this was likely and would have taken a backpack with me. There were plenty of shopping bags available for hauling bags, but my arms were aching by the time I got home.
By the way, the main reason I went today was to hear a talk by Tony Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet. I'm not really a big fan of their guidebooks (for one thing, their maps are, generally, terrible) but often use them because there's nothing else available for many destinations. He had some interesting pictures, but his talk was not really well organized and was less interesting than it should have been. I'd have preferred more anecdotes and less straight history of the company. He did, however, have a good story about Korea. There is, apparently, a room that straddles the north-south border in the DMZ. And he had to travel 6000 miles (going back to Beijing and flying back to the other Korea) in order to cross from one side of the room to the other.
By the way, the main reason I went today was to hear a talk by Tony Wheeler, co-founder of Lonely Planet. I'm not really a big fan of their guidebooks (for one thing, their maps are, generally, terrible) but often use them because there's nothing else available for many destinations. He had some interesting pictures, but his talk was not really well organized and was less interesting than it should have been. I'd have preferred more anecdotes and less straight history of the company. He did, however, have a good story about Korea. There is, apparently, a room that straddles the north-south border in the DMZ. And he had to travel 6000 miles (going back to Beijing and flying back to the other Korea) in order to cross from one side of the room to the other.
