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Offset your carbon footprint - via Carbonfund.org

Posted by inez on December 31, 2013 at 3:33pm

Hi everyone!

So with 2014 knocking on the door, I am going through my end of the year donations and also, offsetting the carbon footprint of my goddamn travel for 2013 and 2012, because I spaced out last year!

I use http://www.carbonfund.org/individuals

it's pretty awesome - there are nice calculators on the site where you can specify your train, plane or car travel and it calculates the CO2 emissions and the $$ amounts it takes to offset it. Well, the best thing to do is NOT TO TRAVEL at all - but since that is not realistic - this is the least I can do....

In my case, 2012 was BAD - Radiohead tour contributed a little, but overall - 4 trips to Europe, 2 trips to the West Coast, 2 to Texas, 2 to FL - that's pretty ridiculous. I was much better behaved in 2013 :-)

ANyways - I encourage you guys to use their little calculator and offset the flights. - they are the worst. You can specify the three main way of how you want the money to be spent: alternative energy, energy efficiency - poke around their site.

And HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

 

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Day spa hotels in London in addition to.

Posted by Cameron Cross on July 28, 2013 at 3:10am
Spa motels entirely present spa services for friends because of their increased comfort in your accommodation.

Manchester is really a metropolis brimming with different kinds of resorts for that myriad quantity of company that arrived at visit the metropolis, because of operate or satisfaction. These kinds of tourists fit in with almost all parts of society and therefore, there are a number regarding kinds of accommodations to offer them a comfortable and also enjoyable stay. These kinds of motels may be listed when it comes to spending budget (high or low) or perhaps in terms of the certain facilities which might be provided by hotels. These establishments can be the just like people needed for families going collectively as well as enterprise facilities or spa as well as conditioning establishments. Health spa resorts inside london in addition to their benefits


Today most of the people on the planet are usually involved with eating healthily and a new in shape mind and body. This kind of lifestyle provides guided individuals to invest great deal of profit gyms and other health and fitness centers along with actions which provides these people the correct involving entire body as well as comfort. This is why why today day spa as well as fitness hotels are located as being a separate category of hotels for the people holidaymakers that can not compromise about conditioning even if they're travelling. Regardless if they don't go to your regular fitness centers and physical fitness revolves, they make certain that these facilities are provided for them from the hotel wherever that they keep. Will no longer is the normal health club provided by the resort ample for the children, they desire nearly anything along with appropriately thus as the conditioning objectives today will vary and individuals will need something further in that area.

Day spa motels not merely present health spa companies but also many different additional solutions including yoga exercise, therapeutic massage and also other nutritious conditioning routines. Therefore you can do pilates for your health, obtain a therapeutic massage along with spa to be able to refresh not simply one's body but also your head. In this way you get a healthful health and fitness package deal so that you are usually reenergised and many types of willing to face the difficulties associated with not just your take a trip but also of standard existence if you resume that. This brings a whole new measurement in your conditioning and also becomes a person in form with regard to next week.

An avid day spa lodge possesses his own advantages. Right here you may get the particular service whenever you want as opposed to a regular resort that you will have to go outside to discover a spa to avail the positive aspects. When you remain at an inn that gives its very own health spa services then you can certainly be more typical using your work outs as well as your periods inside the spa. Residing at this kind of motel, you'll be able to are now living in the particular heart involving conditioning and never must carry out any other effort to your workouts which could cause you to be sluggish and could allow you to discontinue your current routines.

You are able to guide these kind of accommodations to your trip on the web with no troubles. Just search only for club accommodations and you will probably discover a whole selection of motels that can fulfil your requirements. Only choose one in the listing that suits into the conditions of your great resort and also have a relaxing period venturing your issues absent.
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Basic: Travel

Posted by Britney Santoro on July 12, 2013 at 7:38pm
Certainly, motels can be quite a wide range of enjoyable. Nonetheless, the memories that you just produce because you journey tend to be superior valued when you have an excellent take a trip partner on your side to share with you as well as document individuals encounters along. As a result, if you wish to run into very good journey good friends to maintain someone business inside your excursions, precisely how in case you do it? Below are some pimple free of charge away.
Suggestion # 1: Proceed through bulletin boards.


There are several advertising boards, not at all online and offline, to find commercials of individuals seeking travel partners. Usually, they will distribute profiles inside the types of vacation close friends they're seeking, as well. They're going to furthermore review some of these private qualities inside. Therefore, all you need accomplish is certainly look over these types of profiles and see the discount rates wife or husband that would fit your very own criteria to some very first 1st tee. Once you discover somebody you are looking at visiting along with, you may then send these the recommendations or possibly deliver communications their own approach.


Suggestion Number 2: Browse through different social networking sites.


In the present interval, a variety of net gaming locations is found all around the net. In fact, prehaps you happen to be previously affiliated with a lot of them. Just how could these kind of sites support you in finding the ideal take a trip companion for you personally, though? Properly, degrees of training hidden, such sites will often have parts inside the individual that express an individual's preferences. Most of the time, seeking those with specific interests within just these web sites, furthermore. Therefore, you should seek out those unfortunates who are obsessed with travelling? If you find somebody as part of your unique friend's elliptical trainer who does instead travel, chances are they'll can, undoubtedly certainly not brain staying your own personal travel friend when you move out related to area.
Suggestion # 3: Experience online discussion boards.


On-line message boards just like boards as well as community forums already have got undoubtedly created after a while. In older days, they merely been along with us to resolve particular inquiries or perhaps talk about sincere about subject matter. Currently, even so, on the web forums lets you post tailored adverts as well as needs when necessary. With regards to this type of, there is a several choices: you could possibly response a commercial along with seek advice from the individual inside private or perhaps post the proper request along with wait for anyone to contact a man or woman as an alternative. Are you going to. In any event, travel-related forums will be a fantastic method to locate a journey partner. The good thing is most of the people of these message boards will likely be well-experienced people who will almost certainly also be looking for take a trip spouses independently.


Hint Number Four: Join travel companion websites.


There are many internet websites on the market devoted to aiding people see the right take a trip buddies for them, in addition. These web sites already have good plans in place that allow people search with regards to people with just one individuality if you are their particular likely vacation partners, in order to end up getting an ideal travel companions lastly.

If you want to read more info in regards to Standard: Journey have a look at www.hotvsnot.com/Recreation/Travel/Lodging/
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No place like 127.0.0.1

Posted by Marine on October 29, 2008 at 3:26pm
Home... So many songs deal about it, don't you think ?Even for someone as blasé as me, Japan is such a place ! It's huge. So much space and so many who fit in. Crowd phobia did hit me in a way I had yet to discover as night had fallen in Tokyo, and I found peace at the very top of the city, watching life going on without me. I fell in love with the simplicity of a sunny afternoon in Nikko. I watched the landscape through the Shinkansen windows and asked my way for Saitama on the platforms with my three sentences of Japanese... I helped complete strangers and felt good about it; I saw the fate of complete strangers in the Unforgettable Fire and struggled to keep the tears inside. I saw what spirituality could be like, was tempted but didn't fall, slipped barefoot on pieces of high life and came back to myself under a red gate in the sea. I got lost in the Electric City and felt comfortable in the subway, desperately looking for a man and a fat girl in a pink suit but couldn't find them. I ate all those weird things I could not identify and found a neologism to describe the beef I ate in that posh restaurant in which I didn't belong with my dirty jeans and destroyed bag. I listened to music while passing under the Thousand Torii of Kyoto, drank wine in fine company between a waterfall and half-scared, half-curious monkeys, lasted a week before I had to know what went on in the world, almost passed out from the heat of the water of that Matsuyama Onsen, screamed at the top of my voice in a rollercoaster near the Tokyo Dome, was shown my own stupidity in Yokohama and got back to childhood watching deers in Nara. I got bitten so many times it was funny, forgot my umbrella in Ginza, got a sunburn in the middle of October, sent postcards to people I have never seen and thought of home.I tried to make up for all the rudeness of Western people, but failed, and washed my hands many times, and apologised even more.I've been told that the first trip you make on your own is unforgettable. Well....yeah.
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charlotte and bristow

Posted by maria on May 20, 2008 at 4:30pm
i know it is a week or so late but here are my thoughts on those 2 shows....i remember we drove in the night from atlanta to greenville, south carolina and stayed at an amazing red roof inn. They are redesigning all red roof inns and let me tell ya, as some one who travels a lot I was pretty impressed with the design. Only problem is that they use t mobile for their wireless. I digress...We left greenville pretty early but decided we wouldn't get to charlotte early in the morning since neither of us had a pit ticket. We got to the venue maybe around noon and there were 3 people there. We spent the day there waiting at the box office and my friend prescot met up with us to listen to soundcheck. The soundchecked started around 4 and they must have done like 11 songs, especially Jigsaw, which they had yet to debut for the tour. The box office ended up having nothing but seats in the back, so i bought one of those.I had remembered that a girl in atlanta had got herself into the pit by using someone elses already used pit ticket. The tickets in atlanta had a big 'p' written on them in marker by the venue security when they gave us wristbands. So that girl was able to take as much of the marker off for them not to tell and they wrote on it again and gave her a wristband. SO I decided to use the method to get into the pit in charlotte. Matt was lucky, he got a pit ticket just from a fan that was waiting at the gate. When the gates opened I ran in using my shitty row U ticket to be scanned and then when it came time to get into the pit, I put my finger over the date and where the washed off 'p' was and just was very talkative with the security. He did not notice at all and just gave me a wristband and let me in. So easy. I got in just in time to get rain right between thom and jonny! The pit was also fairly small and no one really showed up to be there until the lairs went on, so we had room to move around and everyone was really respectful. The show in charlotte was my favorite of the first 5, the band was full of great energy and even thom said something along the lines of 'we're gonna need a rest after this one'.After the show we started our drive to maryland and stayed just north of charlotte in concord. The next morning we drove to maryland where we were staying with my friend John's parents. We made it in about 7 hours, but got stuck in horrific traffic in DC. That night we just hung with my friend's parents and rested. Little did we know what we would encounter at bristow.It wasn't really raining when we left maryland that morning. We got to bristow pretty fast and met 3 people who got there right after us. The venue told us we could not be in the property until 4pm, but that we could go in to check the box office at noon. When noon came we all went in and just stayed by the gates. We met a kid who has been there since 7am! Then as soon as we got there, it started to rain. I broke out my poncho and put on another set of layers. It wasn't terrible, but then around 3pm they let the cars in so people just started flooding in. The pit would be massive at this show, holding something like 1800 people. The rain just kept coming and we camped out at one gate hoping that we could out run kids to the front. The front being about 1/4 of a mile from the gate, all the way around to the other side of the venue. When they opened the gates it was raining so hard that huge puddles of muddy water were what we had to run through to get to the front. Once i finally made it there, i had to ask people to let me through since I had been there all day. Most people were fine with that, except for a few young girls that gave me some attitude. They made us wait at the entrance to the pit for about 30 min as it continued to rain really hard. Soaking wet at this point, I am trying to remember how much I love this band. Once they let us in, I got right between thom and jonny, second row behind the kid that had been there since 7am. The show was good, but there was a lot of negative energy around me. Between the girls who gave me tude, and this guy who had been reportedly touching girls innapropriatly, to just people who were bitching nonstop. I tried to ignore it all and get into the show, but I think being wet and cold made it even harder. The show was good, but not a favorite of mine.After the show we were completely and totally exhausted. We tried to drive back to maryland but it was pouring rain out so bad that it was hard to see. We were so afraid that the bad weather plus being tired would get us in an accident, so we just pulled over and stayed at a hotel. It was still raining the next morning but the drive back to marlyand and then onward to connecticut was not so bad.It was a great week filled with lotts of adventures. We met so many great people along the way. Thanks to everyone who helped us out.
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BACKPACKER PAL

Posted by Simon Tume on April 6, 2008 at 2:00am
HELLO ALL. IF YOU'VE ALREADY TRAVELLED THE WORLD OR YOU PLAN TO IN THE FUTURE WHY NOT COME AND JOIN BACKPACKER PAL AND SHARE ALL YOUR TRAVEL EXPERIENCES AND MEMORIES. KEEP IN TOUCH WITH YOUR TRAVEL BUDDIES AND UPLOAD PHOTO'S TO SHOW EVERYONE YOUR FAVORITE DESTINATIONS. THE SITE IS IN ITS EARLY STAGES BUT GRADUALLY WE WILL ADD MORE AND MORE EXCITING STUFF LIKED THE "LOST FRIEND FINDER" WHERE YOU WILL BE ABLE TO SEARCH FOR FRIENDS YOU HAVE MET ON YOUR TRAVELS BUT HAVE LOST CONTACT WITH.TO JOIN BACKPACKER PAL CLICK ON MY NETWORK BY CLICKING ON YOUR OWN NAME AT THE TOP LEFT OF THE PAGE AND THEN MY PROFILE SHOULD TAKE YOU TO BACKPACKER PAL.PLEASE INVITE ALL YOUR TRAVEL BUDDIES!!!!
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