When I first heard about Jeff Deck’s traveling typo hunt this past spring, I never dreamed that his quest would lead him to a criminal record. But, as the AP reports , a rogue apostrophe on a vintage, hand-painted sign at Grand Canyon National Park was his undoing: Deck and an accomplice pleaded guilty to defacing the sign (to correct the error), and were given probation, along with a one-year ban from all national parks.
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What We Loved This Week: Sigur R?s’ Iceland, Mick Jagger’s Knee Pads and the Frugal TravelerFrom: worldhum.com
Post Date: 2008-07-18 12:35:05
World Hum contributors share a favorite travel-related experience from the past seven days.
Jim Benning
I loved the Sigur R?s documentary, Heima , which aired on Sundance Channel (and will air next week , too). Not only because I like the band’s distinctive, ethereal music, but because the film was shot in more than a dozen places around Iceland and really captures a sense of place. Check out this great trailer in a big-screen format, with its images of ice fields and...
more Hope for Pyongyang’s ‘Hotel of Doom’?From: worldhum.com
Post Date: 2008-07-18 12:42:24
The pyramid-shaped, 105-story Ryugyong Hotel in Pyongyang, North Korea, has been languishing—unfinished—for 16 years. But now Egyptian developers have begun refurbishing what was once dubbed “the worst building in the history of mankind,” Reuters reports . It’s estimated to cost $2 billion—about 10 percent of North Korea’s annual economic output—to finish the skyline-dominating eyesore.
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