Arm-chair travel for the work-bound

December 16, 2005 2:07 PM

Ball of Dirt.Me, I'm stuck going home to Ohio for my vacation. If you can't get away either, you can scratch your travel itch by reading about other people's adventures... Torture yourself by searching for dreamed-of destinations. I especially enjoy the Indiana Jones-type maps.
posted by tentacle (7 comments total)

This is awesome. Starting next Friday, I'm going to be driving WTF-knows-where around Eastern Europe for two weeks. Maybe I'll attempt a journal.

Then again, it's very likely going to be 14 days constantly alternating between wildly intoxicated and driving with a hangover. Finding an Internet cafe will probably be pretty low on the ol' list.
posted by quite unimportant at 2:17 PM on December 16, 2005

Great site!
around Eastern Europe
Hey, me too. I'll be in Moldova for a month starting this Tuesday.
posted by vkxmai at 3:31 PM on December 16, 2005

Bless you. I thought I killed this thread. MeFi anxiety, and all that.
posted by quite unimportant at 3:44 PM on December 16, 2005

Lovely! This is added to my "I wish I was anywhere but here" surfing list! See also: Travelblog.
posted by idigress at 3:50 PM on December 16, 2005

Speaking of Indiana Jones-type maps, there used to be a cool Flash/XML app called IndyJunior (example/description), but the link doesn't work any more.

Joshua Davis has a nifty one, too (click "Travel Map" at the bottom of the navigation).
posted by kirkaracha at 7:08 PM on December 16, 2005

my first trip was excellent. my second one SUCKED
posted by spunk at 9:47 PM on December 16, 2005

I'm not usually very impressed with these travel journal sites, and this one's navigational interface seems totally unintuitive at first. Still, I'm a sucker for travel journals & I really like the crisscrossing-the-world map you end up with if you actually make journal entries..
posted by soviet sleepover at 3:41 PM on December 17, 2005